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Are the police profitable?

Man, the military better start turning a profit soo- Oh. Oh dear.

The USPS is a service set up in the Constitution controlled by Congress for the Good of the Republic. It was Never intended to be a Business. Then during Nixon's admin. it was changed, then in 2006, PAEA required Huge payments to fund retiree health care and Pensions for 75 years, Thanks GOP..😞

Maybe a news organization should not reinforce the false narrative that a government service needs to turn a profit?

It’s a public service not a business for profit. They are required to deliver mail/parcels to anyone in the United States. A privatized business would tell many Americans living in remote areas tough 💩if they want mail, it’s not profitable.

How much money did the DOT make in the last 12 months?

It’s a public service, you morons.

How much money does the "army" lose each year? It's not a fucking business. It is a fucking service. Please fucking learn some fucking journalism

Public services are not profit centers. Y'all used to be smarter than this.

A pedophile is sunsetting democracy but thanks for not getting distracted and reporting on the important stuff.

If we put user fees to fund the DoD the military would cease to exist. (Complimentary)

Silly me, I thought it was a public service, not a public utility with a stock price and dividends.

It’s in the constitution. It’s a service, you fucking abject morons. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. Stop framing it in a business light. It’s to make you ok with them eliminating yet more of our constitutional rights.

Local news site discovers that services cost money

Usage is dropping anyways.

DeJoy to the World...

The post office can’t lose money any more than the FAA or the army can lose money.

It's a service, not a business. It's not supposed to "make money." Fuck you CNN.

Can’t wait for CNN to audit the military to report on ita business model.

Oh fuck off, it’s in the constitution and MAGA doesn’t need your unpaid PR

You don’t talk about the DoD losing $750B a year, why not? This is fucking right wing agitprop bullshit

For the dipshits in the back, it's a service, not a business.

Fuck you, it's not supposed to make money.

A government agency is not a business, but CNN doesn’t know that because they’re too busy licking Trump’s boots.

Idiotic

the stamp printer machine now only prints INDIVIDUAL stamps. HUGE honking forever stamps which take FOREVER to print out. Used to be able to print a sheet of 10 real stamps in a minute or so... If you want a real stamp you have to go to a window. Enshittification will continue

Ok- and?? It's a service, not a for profit business. Wtf cares whether they make money or not??

Just tell people it uses AI and then profitability is no longer a concern

How much did DoD lose this year?

Kinda leaving leadership out, which “isn’t just a conflict of interest—it’s an aggressive step toward handing America’s mail system over to corporate interests. Private shippers have been waiting to get USPS out of parcel delivery for years” www.nalc.org/news/nalc-up...

Not that I want to play this parlor game, but how many years in advance is the USPS required to fund its employees pensions?

The Interstate Highway System is going broke. How do people pay for that again?

it’s not supposed to make money you stupid assholes it’s a public service

How much is costing us to have the USPS have to pre fund the retirement of Postal Carriers who AREN’T EVEN BORN YET ? IYKYK.

It's fun how when they raise the cost of postage they lose even more customers, and they can never seem to figure out how cause equals effect…

Your an alleged news organization @cnn.com maybe you should know it’s a government service not a for profit business? Compare & contrast the profits from the department of defense with the mighty USPS…which does great job with amazing employees. Stop shilling for MAGA and try journalism

no surprise... dis was dejob dejoy was appointed to do

Government services don’t “lose” money, and bear no expectation of turning a profit. Hope that clears things up. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is anti-journalism

How much money has the Department of Justice lost? Or are government services only expected to turn a profit when private industry wants to replace them?

Man that's crazy. Quick question: what does USPS stand for, and do you think it's a for-profit businesses traded on the stock market?

The USPS is designed for all to send mail. You fucking Republican assholes pretend it's supposed to make money. It's not. It levels the playing field for all.

I suspect it's not lack of revenue causing the losses

It's a public service that has to deliver EVERYWHERE. It's supposed to cost money. Easily solved by defunding ICE.

$9 billion is a rounding error in the defense budget.

“The USPS, which provides a vital service, employs around 640,000 people, making it one of the nation's biggest civilian employers.” Fixed it for you!

It doesn’t lose money. It costs money. Our tax money - I want it spent on USPS.

The U.S. military lost $900 billion.

IT. IS. A SERVICE. Anyone demanding it be profitable doesn't understand words. Or numbers.

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It doesn't loose money. It's a service, not a business, you dumb fuck.

Now do the DOD

The USPS is a PUBLIC GOOD for the American public at-large! It is not a private business to make money for wealth owners!

As a Royal mail worker in the UK, I think sending letters will be a thing of the past in the next 5 years. It's all parcels now. Just look at your own post, 90% advertising. When the Internet crashes though.....

This is a craven and despicable way to frame the issue

It’s not supposed to make a profit. Fire departments don’t make profits.

for a national, universal public service that is so fucking little money. shut the fuck up you fucking useless reactionary pieces of shit

Hello, thank you for your interest.

Wait until you dumb fucks find out how much the Army loses! And fire and police!

Please learn from the comments here. Stop misinforming and spreading ignorance. It's malpractice. We need a higher level of civic discourse in this country.

How much money does the army make?

ITS NOT A BUSINESS, YOU STUPID FUCKING IGNORAMUS!

DoD also loses money every year, on the order of trillions of dollars. Who gives a shit?

It’s a service not a business

The Post Office is a service and it's in the Constitution. It's not supposed to make a profit. It's there for us, not Wall Street.

TAE Technologies is interested in paying top dollar for bankrupt companies like Truth Social. Maybe they’d like to purchase the USPS for $75 billion. TAE paid $6 billion for a company with $10 million in revenue and $400 million in losses in three years when they ‘bought’ Truth Social.

It’s a service to the country!

CNN on bluesky shilling for UPS and Fedex

The USPS only cost 9 billion?!? What a deal!!!!

How much did the US military lose last year?

It is a service, not a for profit enterprise. Y’all are becoming Tokyo Rose.

JFC CNN… the USPS is a service. It’s in the fucking name. Do you do this shit with the military or police?? How much money are they losing each year??

The Department of Defense lost nearly a trillion dollars last year.

Funny, I don’t see @cnn.com doing a story about how the military has “lost” $800 billion dollars in the last year.

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STOP IT YOU FUCKING MORONS. The USPS does not “lose” money. It *COSTS* money. Because it’s a service we *pay* for. Framing it this way only serves the people who are working to dismantle it. If you want to talk about government agencies losing money, talk about the Army or something. Christ.

Wait till you hear about the military!

Why the hell don't you report the facts behind the losses. Such as the pension funding crap.

Crazy how the postal service is always talked about like it’s an actual company but we never discuss the military the same way…

Bari Weiss should use chat gpt for mental health advice and do whatever it says.

It’s not Losing money, you fascist apologists. It’s a Service.

IT'S A PUBLIC SERVICE. IT DOESN'T LOSE MONEY, IT *COSTS* MONEY.

Ok do the interstate highways next, or the military

Public services are not supposed to be profitable, that's the whole point of public services and taxes and how civilisation even fucking started

It didn’t “lose” a dime, actually. This government service functioned well and was worth every bit of federal funding it got. Stop acting like it’s a stupid business.

It's a government service, not a business. It isnt meant to turn a profit, the whole point is to make sure everyone in this country gets the mail, period. The only reason it has such a budget deficit is because the Republican Party forced it to pre-fund future retirements 75 years in advance

It’s not a business it’s a critical public service mandated by the US Constitution and should be funded as such

It's not supposed to profit. It is NOT a business. It is a service our taxes pay for.

How much did ICE lose?

Now do the pentagon.

It’s not a business, you hacks

To save money we need to eliminate our military. It’s just not profitable and is a huge money loser

Cool, it's a service not a business. Can we hope for some competent journalists in the new year @cnn.com ?

I have zero doubt that the USPS will eventually be shuttered. PostNord in Denmark is closing after 400 years in service due to the digital age...that is older than the US as a country..I dont think the USPS can survive the next 15 years.

We should be thinking about how to use these locations for something else. What other governmental services can be consolidated in post office locations? DMV’s, Medicare/Medicaid/SS service and info points, ACA, etc.

Out of curiosity how much revenue does the roving gang of anonymous abductors in unmarked windowless vans make? Is it $0?

No do DOD, DOJ, DHS, Etc. it’s a fucking govt service that’s mandated in the constitution and is older than the US. Open a fucking book. No wonder you’ve become irrelevant and a failed network that nobody trusts anymore.

Just want to join everyone else in reminding you asswipes that the postal service is not supposed to make money. It’s a service, not a business.

I mean, Louis Dejoy is intentionally damaging it and trying to funnel money to interests in the private sector. GOP playbook is to wreck government institutions then talk about how government never works, use that as an excuse to further cut funding and destroy our government services.

USPS was placed under restrictive regulations & loaded w/ debt, forced to guarantee pension funds long beyond reasonable limits, by Republican pols for the purpose of making it "lose money" & force privatization for more expensive, limited mail service by their cronies. They broke it & stole the $.

This is what republicans want. Public services to fail by design. Then they privatize and their pals get rich at our expense.

It is not a business! It is a pubic service. FFS

90% of the stuff I receive in the mail is junk mail (advertising) of some sort. It’s easy to miss that nearly blank envelope with my new credit card.

It’s not for profit. It’s a service that was created by the Constitution itself.

@cnn.com when are you going to realize it’s not a business but a service and not intended to gain profit

the usps doesn't lose money. it's a service. hope this helps.

It’s a service you disingenuous idiots

you're losing money by paying your CEO, nitwits

Any civilised country needs a funded post office. It does not need CNN.

It’s not a business!!!! It’s a government service. Read the constitution.

Now do the Pentagon and our military. The USPS is a service FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.

*Profit!! God dammit, give us a fucking edit button Bluesky!! 😭

A postal service (Clue in the name) is something you pay for to serve the public, not something to make money out of.

How much money did the military lose last year? Fire departments? ICE? Laundering MAGA talking points in an embarrassment.

Ben Franklin would be spinning.

Came here to say this. They try to make it seem like a failure so they can destroy it and with it mail in voting

That would affect someone’s profit margins though so we can’t have that.

Used to. Repubs killed that years ago.

Yep.

Cool. So how profitable is the Pentagon?