Democrats Panic over President Trump’s Talk of Reforming USPS
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House Oversight Committee Democrats are panicking over comments President Donald Trump made about reforming the U.S. Postal Service.
  • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Trump has not established a specific plan

    Democrats panic over guy with no plan saying we should magically make a thing different.

    We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money

    Even though the controllable loss was reduced by over $400m in just 2024, and the only increased uncontrolled losses were from things like pensions, y’know, the thing that people need to retire after doing work that serves the whole country, I guess we can always make it profitable by jacking up the cost of every single package delivery! Cuts for the working class!

    And it will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.

    Merger! Business words! We’ve fixed the system! If it remains the same Postal Service, but undergoes a merger, then that just implies the US government buying another entity to merge it into USPS. And if that’s not what he meant, then we get privatization with private shareholders demanding costs must rise to pay them profits on top of the existing cost to provide the service. Cost cutting!

    Following his remarks, Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Trump urging him to abandon any plans to reform USPS (emphasis added)

    “Your reported efforts to dismantle the Postal Service as an independent agency would directly undermine the affordability and reliability of the U.S. postal system”

    “We urge you to abandon immediately any plans that would either privatize the Postal Service or undermine the independence of the Postal Service.”

    “Don’t reform this thing” is the same as “don’t dismantle, privatize, or undermine the independence of this agency” now? What a conflation.

    Seriously, this entire article is just “Trump says he wants to do things to take an existing system that already works and either privatize or cut funding for it” and Democrats going “don’t do that we all still need to get our mail at a reasonable rate”

    Don’t forget, private companies are under no obligation to provide service to any area deemed unprofitable, whereas the USPS is required to do so. And what areas are the most likely to be unprofitable for delivery companies? Rural areas. Which areas have the highest population of conservatives? Rural areas. If Trump manages to successfully implement his plan, don’t be surprised and come out with the whole “I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face” argument.