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The DoD loses more than $9 billion every year. And when I say "loses" I really mean it, several billion just vanishes with no idea where it ended up. Just gone

Public services are not SUPPOSED to turn a profit. They are there to SERVE THE PUBLIC GOOD. (This is also true of education. It is not a business and should not be treated as one.)

I LOVE going to my local post office. The people are nice and helpful and supportive and I get what I need for a reasonable price. My neighborhood mail carrier is fantastic. In other words, they are part of the community. Amazon delivery people sub-par at best. FEDEX AND UPS are just OK and random.

My son was a postal carrier during the pandemic. He had to deliver Amazon packages. Amazon uses the USPS. I think Sunday was all Amazon deliveries.

a skeet of a tweet

It is becoming a shadow government and we are paying for services multiple ways. All for the honor of paying for a 55 million dollar wedding

Sheeeeet 9 billy a year are rookie numbers. Our military service just lost us that much in a little over week

Are we gonna pretend that Dump hasn't anyway promised Bezos that once he does this, he'll eliminate the USPS and contract it from him? That is next.

one of the only times I’ve rooted for walmart is to destroy Amazon -

The US posted a $93,090,000 loss in Senators and Congressmen last year too

Since 1981, the USPS has been required to fund its operations through the sales of stamps, products, and services rather than tax dollars. The Service’s financial struggles are not simply a result of declining mail volumes, they are also tied to congressional restrictions. tinyurl.com/4kn735xa

Fukken *good.* Being Amazon's errand boy has cost the USPS so much in terms of service overburden that this "lost revenue" can only really translate into "lower overhead" at this point. Next, tell me how clean drinking water is "unprofitable" until a data center vapourizes it all to make deepfakes.

not mine, but as someone on here once said: the postal service doesn't LOSE money, the postal service COSTS money. it is not SUPPOSED to be generating revenue

It says service right in the name.

Anyways, the day Amazon builds out a delivery network that matches the USPS is the day I’ll fly to the moon and eat the cheese it’s made from

Trump couldn't make a profit from literal casinos. MAGA can sit tf down

*should* public services post a profit? Should police departments post a profit? Fire departments? GTFO RWers

This guy is on this beat all the time, reporting about USPS losses because "by law they have to break even." I don't know, man, have a brain, even a little bit. Be an intelligent human being, not just a D.C. politics nerd obsessed with "scoops."

They want to pull the hubs back even farther. Complete bluff. No carrier wants to do last mile delivery that USPS covers. Esp with 2 day delivery commitments. USPS should be revamped into a world class system with all this latest tech that’s being wasted elsewhere in the government. It’s a service

I got MY mail. I don't feel like I lost anything.

I mean congress, and in particular the Rs, have been hobbling the postal service for years. Guess it’s strutting to bear fruit. :(

yes - for defense contractor shareholders

It's ok to talk about things through multiple lenses. USPS doesn't need to deliver 6 days a week (probably could get away with 4 for non-meds). Many areas could adapt where to put mailboxes so they don't have to drive 2x distance. You can say it's a vital service that needs reform.

Is USPS still requiring that pensions are fully funded for 75 years? If so, that's waste. Fuck the ballroom, fuck ICE, fuck reducing safety regulations to build new nuclear plants for the benefit of AI & private tech, fuck the hooptie Quatar plane they unloaded on Trump, fuck buying interment camps.

DeJoy and our now Postmaster General destroyed the postal service with privatization as their goal. They should be arrested for tampering with and deliberately sabotaging the USPS.

The military just had a $200billion overrun in Q1.

Key word elected elites. Our government can't pass amendments anymore because the electorate are apathetic idiots.

I'm an old man, so what do I know!? But I do know that I would like to live in a real democracy where these kinds of issues are dealt with by the people I send to Congress to represent my interests. I see the "problem" of the USPS as one part of the rot at the heart of the US federal government.

Sometimes things created by men go the way of the dodo, and maybe that's the way it should be. I don't think I want to live in a world where the institutions of the Holy Roman Empire or what became called "The Inquisition" still exist.

Exactly man This guy works for Amazon, he's not exactly a neutral party Don't engage, just block