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June 2020 and all the lefties started screeching. Not even a couple months into office... He's a drumpkin! He's going to shut down the postal service! He's having systems taken offline! He's already privatizing the postal system! He's a trumptard! He's going to rig the election! He's shutting sorting systems down to help trump win! He's going to be the cause of biden loosing! etc, etc, etc.

Turns out Biden "won" by the greatest margin in history and DeJoy is just another incompetent executive that's going to leave his employer worse than he found it.

June 2020 and all the lefties started screeching. Not even a couple months into office... He's a drumpkin! He's going to shut down the postal service! He's having systems taken offline! He's already privatizing the postal system! He's a trumptard! He's going to rig the election! He's shutting sorting systems down to help trump win! He's going to be the cause of biden loosing! etc, etc, etc. Turns out Biden "won" by the greatest margin in history and DeJoy is just another incompetent executive that's going to leave his employer worse than he found it.
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Koch Industries is trying to get the real estate that the USPS has

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Exactly what happened with the sell off of Royal Mail in the UK; just shut everything down and make a massive profit selling off the real estate.

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I been half-expecting Bezos/Amazon to buy USPS or at least be the "contractor" to run USPS.

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Mail is a low profit business, I'm not sure he'd be interested. Lot of work for nothing.

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Might be low profit, but very stable.

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Perhaps. The package portion, certainly, but other mail has fallen by quite a bit. That was one of the points brought up in the congressional hearing - volume has dropped 80% but the headcount hasn't changed.

The fact that USPS has to serve every person in the USA is the reason UPS and FedEx use them for last-mile delivery. Why run that many routes when someone else can do it for you and lose their money doing it. The post office is full of sunk costs - carriers have to run the route no matter the volume, and as volume drops the routes don't pay.

The constitution give government the power to establish a postal service, but it says nothing about letting someone else take it over. I suppose a broad reading says establish could also mean "appoint a carrier to do it, as long as that carrier has some federal oversight."

IANAL, YMMV, batteries not included, I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV, etc.

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Why? He uses USPS for the high cost last mile delivery and doesn't have to worry about the headache of owning or running it.