My local Sinclair affiliates are reporting that the USPS "fiasco" (my word, not theirs)

[Ferrets are Cool]

is nothing less than a HEROIC effort by this administration to cut expenses and stop the hemorrhaging of money caused by an inefficient company. It's making me to hear this shit on our local news.

[Sherman A1]

1. Sad

but no surprise.

[Thekaspervote]

2. BOYCOTT them and their advertisers

[beachbumbob]

3. no surprise

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I'm in for a boycott of Sinclair and their advertisers

I’m unfortunate in that Sinclair owns both the local ABC and FOX affiliates.

[nolabear]

13. Here too. I refuse to watch either news. Peter Doocey, ffs!!

And some woman who (yes I know it’s a tad misogynistic but it’s so true) has the worst resting bitch face I’ve ever seen.

You’re not in Seattle are you?

[Cirque du So-What]

14. No. Columbus, OH

[Boomerproud]

18. I want to go to WSYX and Fox 28's FB page and

rant, but I don't want to put myself in harm's way because of the crazies.

[Cirque du So-What]

19. Do they allow anonymous logins?

It's reprehensible that some websites require a Facebook account to make comments.

[roamer65]

5. Sinclair is poison.

They need to be run out of the media business.

[nuxvomica]

6. The USPS actually was until just recently a paradigm of efficiency

No large private corporation even came close to it.

[octoberlib]

7. The USPS isn't a company. It's a service.

[CrispyQ]

8. Spread this far & wide in an effort to educate the right wingers you know.

[CrispyQ]

11. Are they going to share their profit with us?

The USPS is a vital national service that benefits both individual citizens and business. That's why we fund it.

[Hekate]

28. Hey, Fed Ex! Here's a letter and 42 cents! Please transport it 3,000 miles asap!

[CrispyQ]

31. Labor is a cost of business, not a result of earning profit.

They had to expend the money for labor before they could earn a profit. UPS is not in business to create jobs for Americans, they are in business to return profit for their shareholders. If they create good paying jobs along the way, well that's good PR & good for the community, but that's not their agenda.

The USPS is not a business, it's an essential service for the nation. That's why we get a say in who manages it and how it's run, whereas shareholders make those decisions for UPS.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. How So?

They obviously believed there was a business niche they could fill.
They found their niche, developed a successful company, and all while USPS existed, for 180 years.
Where's the unfairness?
Your post is not logical!

[Hekate]

29. I wonder if RFD aka Rural Free Delivery is still a thing? Wouldn't imagine there's much profit in it

[Captain Zero]

34. Exactly and that is why UPS and FedEX do not deliver to Strawtown and Modoc and Gnaw Bone.

Thanky You

[Trueblue Texan]

15. But Ups doesn't have to operate...

In all the service areas USPS does, increasing expenses. In fact those private services often use USPS to deliver those remote areas

[DBoon]

17. and Uber and Lyft must make a profit while public transit doesn't

one is essential infrastructure. The other isn't

[yardwork]

20. UPS doesn't deliver everywhere. And they don't deliver mail.

[Hekate]

26. The USPS in not, and never was intended to be, a business. The name says SERVICE. It is in the...

...US Constitution. It was always ALWAYS self-supporting, right up until the GOPers decided it had to be destroyed, and Step 1 was forcing them to fund their retirement system upfront for the next 75 years.

That doesn’t seem fair to me.

[Captain Zero]

33. UPS and FEDEX cherry pick the biggest and best customers from the USPS - Is that fair?

Is that fair ?
A fair assessment/comparison would be if UPS and FEDEX delivered to every address in the US.

Just watch though, if the day ever comes where say FEDEX is the contractor for the mail service, all of it, they will come begging for a subsidy to deliver it to rural and other unprofitable areas of the service area.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. IT'S NOT A COMPANY!!! It's a public service. The USPS shouldn't have

to turn a profit anymore than the US military. And if someone wants to stop hemorrhaging money, start with the Pentagon!

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. Agree 100%

[SiliconValley_Dem]

16. fascist need effective propagandists to consolidate power

i do believe this is the end. we and our kids will not see a democratic open society in the US.

[mnhtnbb]

21. Time for a LTTE of your local paper

Be sure to ask just how destroying letter sorting equipment that is more efficient than manual sorting contributes to increased efficiency.

[Hekate]

24. I wanted to see how Tracy L was going to cover it, since she mentioned it was coming up...

Before I proceed, let me point out that Patterson Ave is a very busy place. Very.

Okay, so the intro was pretty much blahblablah, then the nice news-lady said that as a cost-saving measure, some of those blue post boxes were being removed from low traffic areas, for instance, Patterson Ave.

Sorry for whatever brief inconvenience you experience, nothing to see here, move along.

And yes, this local station is now owned by Sinclair.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. Yeah, they all get the same script to read

from their corporate masters.

[Luciferous]

25. They aren't a company!!!

[Liberal In Texas]

32. +10000 US Postal SERVICE

If they'd stop the ridiculous 75 year advanced pension funding they'd probably be really flush.

And they should be allowed to electrify the delivery fleet.