• big_slap@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      yes! it is a SERVICE Americans already pay for in taxes, the need to make a profit on it makes no sense.

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            5 months ago

            Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.

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          5 months ago

          I’d be very fine with it being tax funded instead of being funded by stamps and parcel metering. We might have much less shit mail as a result. It was an actual part of this government, not a corporation like now, before 1970, when the Reorg Act went into effect. Look before 1970 then USPS workers were not allowed to collectively bargain but that still could have been achieved with the a different outcome in 1970.

          I would be very fine with tax funding because as a service the work they do facilitates other sectors’ viabilities. There might also be more accountability to help the workers.