Republicans Seek to End the U.S. Postal Service

[johnlucas]

30. More & more I hate the word "Privatization"

While advances in technology has cut into the Post Office's breadth (first e-mail, then Facebook/Twitter/etc., & the fazing-out of paper for digital), the Post Office is of supreme importance.
It is NOT a business.
It is a government service.

I HATE to hear bad news concerning the future of the Post Office.
How can we sit by & let the Post Office fade away?
Privatization will NOT be an improvement because business only serves its investors/chiefs.
The existence of the Post Office keeps Fed Ex & UPS in check because they know how central the Post Office is.
If the Post Office disappears they will have no more restraints & won't have to keep up the level of service they have now.
Prices will go up, services will go down & you can't do nothing about it because there's no alternative.

Take out pizza? Yeah let that be a business. Video game shops? Yeah let that be a business.
Hair salons? Yeah let that be a business. Cell phone shops? Yeah let that be a business.

But Post Office? THAT is a Government Service.
We need to respect our Government Services.
Other things are not as important so let them be businesses but the Post Office is too important to our society to leave in the hands of privatization.

We don't want privatization of the Fire Department, do we?
You should already know how privatization of Military goes. Mercenaries are historically disloyal.
Privatizing Social Security would have left it to the casinos of Wall Street.

Some things are too important to leave to a bottom line business mentality.
Some things are for the greater good of society & must be upheld.

We may have complained every time the cost of stamps rose in cents over the years but really what other place do you know that will send messages for under 50¢ a piece?
What other place do you know delivers messages to your box everyday without charging you for it?
What other place do you know sorts through all those packages & messages without charging you for it?

We don't appreciate the Post Office ENOUGH.
Yeah junk mail is annoying but I'll deal with junk mail all day long if it means keeping that service intact.
We lose the Post Office, we lose out period.

What if the internet breaks down? How will you communicate then?
Preserve Post Office pensions, preserve Post Office unions, preserve the Post Office. PERIOD.
John Lucas