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Privatizing the Postal Service is not reform. It is a direct attack on Americans
This move from Trump threatens towns, small businesses, seniors, veterans, and more
Annually, the postal service makes 1.2 billion prescription deliveries, services 167 million addresses, and is the lifeline for 63 percent of microbusinesses
This is not about efficiency.
It is about erasing public good for private profit
It's also very very unconstitutional. Not that this concernes these men.
But the mail is in the constitution, one of a few explicitly mentioned functions of the federal government.
(I always thought a modern reading ought to imply free high speed wifi nation wide in addition to paper mail.)
@futurebird totally. It’s a constitutional mandate. Undermining it is a rejection of one of the few public goods our founders explicitly protected. If anything we need to expand to include digital infrastructure too.