• pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    Just think. In Article 1 of the US Constitution, the same article that creates Congress, also creates a federal post office system. Remote communication was so important that’s where it was described using the latest technology of the time.

    There are so many systems today that need similar treatment. Internet. Medical. Education. Job Training.

    And no, I don’t mean fed government enforced monopoly. I mean, UPS exists and competes with the USPS. But there is a minimum level of service in operation.

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      5 months ago

      Just think. In Article 1 of the US Constitution, the same article that creates Congress, also creates a federal post office system.

      We’ve spent the last 40 years trying to privatize the function of the Post Office and dismantle it as a federal agency.

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        5 months ago

        there’s a pretty good fucking argument that mail - paper mail, not packages - should simply be all email or at the worst, scanned and transmitted electronically.

        LOL @ the downvotes - you think they can’t look at your mail already?

        HOW FUCKING DUMB ARE YOU CHILDREN? bwhahahaah

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            5 months ago

            you don’t think they’re able to peep into your mail if they want to already?

            and that the slight level of ‘security’ the service provides isn’t outweighed by the enormous savings in fuel burned as the silly truck visits every house every weekday simply to deliver a flyer from the grocery?

            pffft