Summary
Donald Trump plans to take control of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) by firing its governing board and placing it under the Commerce Department, led by Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Experts warn the move likely violates federal law, as USPS was established as an independent entity under the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act.
The Postal Board, in an emergency meeting, has hired legal counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president removed board members or altered the agency’s independent status.
Trump has long criticized the USPS and has floated privatization, sparking backlash over concerns of political interference and mail disruptions.
The USPS has hundreds of billions worth of prime real estate that trump wants to steal
Well, mail was nice while it lasted.
Not just mail.
Most (all?) of the package delivery services rely heavily on USPS for last mile deliveries. So expect UPS and Amazon to be sending people to the golf course to scream at fuckface
They don’t give a fuck about the last mile deliveries. Without USPS keeping prices low, they will be able to rank up what they charge. It’s a dream for them.
Last mile is what let’s them sell. If people can’t buy online they go back to brick and mortar and start questioning if that shoe horn is really worth a twenty minutes drive.
Assuming the market can bear it, that is. And goods are expensive enough as it is, even without import tariffs.
Amazon needs shipping prices to stay low. If they go up, Amazon either needs to reduce their margins to pay for it or they will be less competitive against physical shops. Either way their profits will take a hit.
amazon is drooling at the opportunity to privatise all of american mail
There isn’t money in physical mail and cranking that up will just push people even farther into digital correspondence.
Amazon has spent years (well over a decade now?) trying to cut out the USPS. The reality is that they can’t. Their gig delivery driver model works for some regions but not for “rural america”. And there is a lot of money in being the only lifeline many households have while being able to offload the high cost low frequency deliveries to a different company (USPS).
Five or ten years ago? Yeah, amazon wanted that. Now? It is actively not in their interest and would hurt their business model for the USPS to die.
Destroying the USPS has almost nothing to do with “good business” or even privatizing it. It is all about controlling information. It kills vote by mail almost instantly but it also removes the ability for informational mailers to be sent out. And an isolated populace is a stupid populace and a stupid populace is a republican populace.
Its the same reason social media was so compromised. Because then all the useful idiots tell people to “just unplug and enjoy your day to day life” and then they never hear about protests or human rights violations or…
amazon does a lot of their own now. even to my little shit town. nearest fulfillment center is in another state, 2 1/2 hrs away.
They are terrible at it, compared to my mailman or UPS.
Not with UPS anymore. That agreement ended recently.
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Their pensions! Omg you are right.
Serves anybody right who voted for this jackass, but I’m sorry for all of the rest of us.
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How long until “un-patriotic” mail from progressive institutions is no longer delivered? Democratic mail in ballots? Oopsies, right in the trash.
Biden after hearing this news:
Nice! Now my mailbox won’t be flooded with those pesky medical bills!
Way to go DeJoy. Nice work you absolute twat waffle.
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Hey. Fuck Amazon. That’s is all.
That makes me wonder about Amtrak.
Hmm.
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The Project 2025 stuff seems to mostly align with what’s on the Heritage Foundation website. Looking at said website, they are not happy about Amtrak.
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Apparently Trump tried eliminating federal subsidies for long-distance Amtrak routes at the start of his first term and failed.
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I’m guessing he didn’t get a Valentine’s Day Card from Musk, he blamed it being ‘lost in the post’ (even through he didn’t send one because the love is all one-sided in that relationship) and The Grand High Orange One is destroying the post office out of spite.
Take control= scuttling isn’t it?
Reminder that the Post Office is only losing money because of a 2006 law that forces them to fund their retirement plan for 75 years in advance, which is an insane burden that no nother agency or private corporation undertakes. Also, even if it does lose money, it doesn’t matter because the USPS isn’t a business. It’s a government service provided for the public good.
