So how do we mail in votes if there is no USPS?

[leftyladyfrommo]

What does Captain Clusterfuck have against the USPS?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Use our new, semi-convenient PRIVATE service... For you? $10 per envelope!

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. He wants to go to a private company?

[LiberalArkie]

7. Probably Fed-X. as they have had envelope service for ever.

Intelllicast wanted US Weather Service to not provide forecasts to the public, only data for the others to sell.

[underpants]

3. The cons have been trying get rid of it for a few decades

Government that works and it was unionized.

[0rganism]

4. we don't, which is a sweet deal for certain Republicans

or we use whatever substitute private sector system they put in place and hope they're honest. another sweet Republican deal.

[Srkdqltr]

5. The Republicans have been moving toward that for years.

[In It to Win It]

6. I fucked up

...and had the USPS argument with a group of Trump humpers.

I read in an article that Trump said he won't sign if there's money allocated to USPS because USPS is unprofitable. My reaction to that was "so what? It's not designed to be profitable. It's a public service. It's just supposed to operate."

I tried to paint a picture or plot some dots in hopes they would connect them.

1) Do you believe you are entitled to receive your letters and packages that come in the mail?
2) If yes, you'd be shit outta luck if UPS and FedEx won't deliver anything to you if they believe delivering to your area is unprofitable. The post office will deliver to you regardless. The postal service will deliver to the most remote parts of the country if that means the people get their mail.

The GOP has done a great job with convincing people that the postal service isn't a public good but rather a for-profit entity, which I'm sure is apart of the larger scheme of discrediting mail-in voting.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Curious, given the amount of stuff that USPS delivers to rural areas for FEDEX and UPS...

[npk]

9. Like he cares

Republicans would like to eliminate voting if they could.

[CousinIT]

10. We don't. And that's just what Republicans want. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

11. That's exactly the point.

Voting by mail is the one thing they want to prevent because they know they would lose.

[samnsara]

12. exactly my first thought...but every where has a drop off box..just dont hand them over..

..to someone coming to your door to collect them

[shanti]

13. Bingo

And what does he have against veterans, who work for the PO?

[LizBeth]

14. Republicans have been wanting to privatize mail delivery forever.

[dawg]

15. And how do we mail in those tax payments that are due July 15th?

[Beaverhausen]

16. You answered your own question

[stopwastingmymoney]

17. We vote absentee in California

Because my husband is blind. We never mail our ballots though, we drop them at the local school on voting day

Curbside drop off would be fairly easy to set up in an organized state

[LisaL]

18. How do you get the ballot?

If you have to go somewhere to pick up your ballot, you might as well just go and vote in person.

[stopwastingmymoney]

19. Good point

Local county offices maybe

I actually don’t see the USPS shutting down, reduced service days maybe. We’re getting very little mail right now as it is. Twice a week might be a good step to take.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. I never mail my mail-in votes.

I drive (or cycle, weather permitting) to city hall and hand them to the city clerk staff. They have a drop box if weather's too lousy to get out of the car.

Without the USPS, I won't get advertising and requests for money from the Republican party.

I don't think the USPS will actually be shut down for any length of time. (I hope)