This may not apply if you don't live in the US, and you may disagree, fine - go away ;).
I rely on the post office because I sell a lot on EBay. I'm familiar with the move by the right wing in the government to make it look like the post office would be better run by private companies. They passed legislation putting an economic burden on the post office no private company is required to do, that is to send millions in profits every year to the US treasury under the premise this is needed to guarantee pensions. By doing so the legislation put an undue burden on the post office and they've had financial trouble since.
The goal of this legislation is like a lot of the goals of the right wing, privatize everything and I'm sure there is plenty of lobbying by Fed Ex, UPS, and now Staples to force the post office out of business because they want that market share.
The trouble is, once privatized, there is nothing to keep costs down (competition is a farce, these companies divide up the market share instead of competing for it, and they also increase profits by underpaying workers) and, there's no guarantee they won't just start lopping off unprofitable rural residents from their service area.
But the assault on public services is relentless and now Staples smelled blood and is moving in for the kill. They've bid to replace post offices. It's a bad deal.
There will be a day of action coming up on Apr 24th. Take a minute to look at the issues, feel free to debate them in this thread. :)
Consider joining in the day of action.
http://stopstaples.com/
I rely on the post office because I sell a lot on EBay. I'm familiar with the move by the right wing in the government to make it look like the post office would be better run by private companies. They passed legislation putting an economic burden on the post office no private company is required to do, that is to send millions in profits every year to the US treasury under the premise this is needed to guarantee pensions. By doing so the legislation put an undue burden on the post office and they've had financial trouble since.
The goal of this legislation is like a lot of the goals of the right wing, privatize everything and I'm sure there is plenty of lobbying by Fed Ex, UPS, and now Staples to force the post office out of business because they want that market share.
The trouble is, once privatized, there is nothing to keep costs down (competition is a farce, these companies divide up the market share instead of competing for it, and they also increase profits by underpaying workers) and, there's no guarantee they won't just start lopping off unprofitable rural residents from their service area.
But the assault on public services is relentless and now Staples smelled blood and is moving in for the kill. They've bid to replace post offices. It's a bad deal.
There will be a day of action coming up on Apr 24th. Take a minute to look at the issues, feel free to debate them in this thread. :)
Consider joining in the day of action.
http://stopstaples.com/
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