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Exclusive: Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract, sources say
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The existing fleet is past aging out, they are often held together with patch welds and duct tape in my area. Is the plan ride it until the wheels literally fall off, with no replacements in pipeline?
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can make money on it. Failure is the goal.
"Failure is the goal" needs to be the subtitle of every news story for the foreseeable future.
Yeah but even if that's the play - could private business even fill the gap? USPS stretches the final miles deep into places not profitable to deliver to. Businesses, doing business stuff, use it to economically have their products available to the rural communities that voted these policies in.. it's all so confusing.
Is mailing a letter automated space communism? Sheesh.
And ironically, it’s the flyover deep red parts of the country that are the most rural, and therefore the most unprofitable legs of these delivery services. As with so many other GOP policies, it would mostly impact their supporters.
The worse it gets, the more they'll blame the libs
Well that's what happens when you create a TV station to gaslight people 24/7 unimpeded for decades.
They don't care if there's gaps, those people just won't get mail service. They're only interested in extracting as much money as they can from the rotting husk of the US economy. They've just hollowed out so much of the middle class now that they're scraping the bottom of the barrel and need to start squeezing the last dregs out of the barely profitable things like the USPS.
People have this idea that they will just up and dissolve or sell off USPS one day, that won't happen. It will just slowly fall.
Private companies want access to mailboxes, that's all this is about.
That simple thing will kill USPS, but they don't care. It immediately kills the sanctity of mail, because now you don't know if something was tampered with after it arrives in the box, before you get to check it.
So all congress has to do is allow mailbox access to private companies and refuse to issue any loans or funding and they will be crippled. Slowly having to sell off post office real estate and cutting staff, until the budget is balanced and mail services are abysmal.
Oh and as an added bonus, it will hamper USPS OIG ability to do any mail fraud type investigations. So that means you can bet there will be scams galore... Imagine if you get like 3 different bills from your power company, they all kind of look legit. You call the number and all 3 say you need to pay them.
No. Not only can it not fill the gap there isn't an intent to.
It's just, sell off a chunk of the government so someone can make money on a service.
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can ~~make money on it~~ further exploit the working class. Failure is the goal.
Although you're right, I like to call out what it will do to everyone so it's more explicit and will hopefully click in people's minds.
Why is that a question? How else do you plan to privatize one of the most ubiquitous federal services?
The plan is to make it so ineffective it can justifiably be privatized entirely and their friends make millions by jacking up rates on a product that by design and necessity has no direct competitors.
It's like having an enemy agent in the big chair leads to terrible decisions for basic needs...
No, they will just redirect to gas. They are buying something either way, the money has already been committed. Right now it's 50/50 ev and gas plan, while slowing increasing the EV percentage as they roll out the chargers.
Now it sounds like they want to scrap it all, which is unfortunate considering chargers are in process of being built.