I too am really concerned about what's going on with the US Postal service, and those who aren't apparently have nothing to lose like we do ourselves. I guess its easy for people who have no lives to sit here and tell you not to worry about the possibility of losing your livelihood. Those same people definitely aren't speaking for you or me.
As for others claims to just use a different shipping service, that's not even remotely possible, as there's no way consumers are going to pay $10 to ship a movie or a game. I would be out of business for sure, so would ebay as a whole.
As for Trump's insistence USPS raise rates, he better tread lightly, otherwise the economy will collapse worse than it did after the garbage tax bill he enacted when he first took office.
On the other hand, Trump, the republicans, and democrats collectively, did the right thing with the recent stimulus measures that are already enacted. As long as we stay the course our economy should be perfectly fine.
Let's just hope Trump, along with the new post master general, as well as congress, have enough common sense to realize any disruption to our postal service would have a huge negative impact on the livelihoods all all Americans.
The consequences of raising USPS rates even one penny for the average consumer or e-commerce merchants would result in instant inflation. Raising rates for Amazon makes sense, they got a free ride for too long and should be paying the same rates as the rest of us.
