You Should Be OUTRAGED by What Is Being Done to Our POSTAL SERVICE

[Egalitarian Thug]

41. There would be unimaginable profits. One of the reasons they only charge as much as they do

is the very existence of the USPS restrains them somewhat.

First of all, these parasites would get to buy USPS assets for pennies on the dollar, this would be done because none of them have enough of anything to take over the job that the USPS does. As private companies they would not be under any obligation to provide universal service, so everybody that lives in inconvenient locations would not have any service at all (a fact that I'm sure the "real Americans" living in rural communities have not considered). You live in a farming community of only a few hundred spread out over hundreds of square miles? You can drive to the nearest larger community to pick up your stuff. Live in Alaska? Forget it.

Since there are only two major corporations in the field, we would see the same thing we have seen in every other industry that has been allowed to consolidate, constantly degrading service and skyrocketing prices. Collusion is much more profitable than competition. So while FedEx currently charges about $8 to take a letter across the country, that price can be expected to at least double in a few months.

The list profit of opportunities without a USPS goes on and on. Worse still would be the far-reaching and devastating effects it would have on other industries from online merchants to small businesses.

The Post Office is in a very real sense, the circulatory system for the nation. To lose it will be disaster.