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tclambert

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1. The Postal Service would get fixed in a minute if Democrats controlled Congress.

Wed May 29, 2013, 09:59 PM

May 2013

For some reason, Republicans want to destroy the Postal Service. Two reasons, really: 1) They can't stand that any part of the government actually works (USPS has for 238 years), and 2) They want to privatize it, so some enterprising Republican business execs can take it over and extort profits from any American who wants to mail anything. (Rates would likely double while service declines.)

Democrats in Congress would take one look, say, "Your costs per piece of mail has gone up, and your postage rates are way lower than in other countries. Okay, you can go up to 50 cents for a stamp. Oh, and here's all that retirement money back that you overpaid." In Canada, a first class stamp costs about 63 cents and hasn't crushed their economy, so it's likely we could survive a 50 cent stamp. In Germany, Britain, and Japan, it's even higher.

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