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Print whatever you want.
Again presumptuous.
Print whatever you want.
Again presumptuous.
How so?
Store anything you want on a flash drive and print it at the library if and when you want it.
So you think a copy of a bill will hold any weight in a legal case?
If mail is stopped how would people receive their bills and pay them afterwards?
The best solution, IMHO, would be to keep raising user fees (postage rates) to cover the actual cost of service. The nonsense that using general revenue to subsidize the USPS is OK because it transfers the burden of payment to "the rich" is foolish. The best way to reduce costs is to reduce service days to 3 days per week and have fewer carriers which serve alternating routes. For example a single carrier could serve delivery area A on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and sere area delivery area B on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday - just as garbage/recycle collection services do now.
Home delivery should remain. Post office doesn't need to turn a profit, it needs to exist.
True it can be argued it is important to national interest for it to remain and doesn't need to turn a profit. That being said they should try their best to limit the finical lost of the tax payers.
What is the national interest for it to remain? (not referring to the profit part)
Well that is great for you but it is presumptuous to think everybody in the country does the same thing.
I want a hard copy of the bill and payment. I don't trust electronic files as they are easily lost.
Mail?
I think I have posted one letter in the last 12 months or so.
This isn't 1990...mail is dead.
Electronic mail and private couriers are all the mail almost anyone should need in America.
I guarantee you that most Americans get far more junk mail then important mail these days.
I see mentioned a lot in this thread that people need to keep up with the times that electronic services should replace the current mail system. This sounds great but may not work for all people. In my case for example it would make things much more difficult. I live on a very very limited budget and the utilities here charge a surcharge of $3-5 if you pay your bill electronically, add that up among my utilities and it would cost as much as one of my cheaper utilities. Some people such as myself could not afford that.
What is the national interest for it to remain? (not referring to the profit part)
I see mentioned a lot in this thread that people need to keep up with the times that electronic services should replace the current mail system. This sounds great but may not work for all people. In my case for example it would make things much more difficult. I live on a very very limited budget and the utilities here charge a surcharge of $3-5 if you pay your bill electronically, add that up among my utilities and it would cost as much as one of my cheaper utilities. Some people such as myself could not afford that.
You can't have a genuine (representational) democracy without the ability to send and receive voter information booklets, absentee ballots, books, newspapers, magazines, and campaign material to everyone, even people living in (unprofitable for private delivery services) rural areas.
.....USPS is historically the biggest employer of veterans. USPS applicants take civil service aptitude tests, and veterans get five points added to their test scores. Disabled veterans get 10 points. Over 108,000 former service men and women are current USPS employees, about a fifth of the workforce. But the average USPS employee is now over 53 years of age, and workers aren't being replaced as they retire......USPS hiring freeze hurts veterans, postal workers say » peoplesworld
You can get return receipts on e-mail.
E-mail goes everywhere.
Too many people still don't have a computer, know how to use it, or even want one. Also, few people like to read long documents off a computer screen.