Forum Post: Don't Shrink/Sell the Post Office!!
Posted 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2013, 10:56 a.m. EST by shoozTroll
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How many "private" organizations could have survived the onslaught that's been perped against the USPS?
My guess would be none.
It's resilience should be proof enough of it's efficacy.
It should be the envy of every corporation.
Instead?
They would prefer to destroy it.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18737-dont-shrink-the-us-post-office-expand-it
It costs a lot more to send stuff via UPS and FedEx. They are just trying to rip off the American people yet again. Go USPS!
Corporations destroy everything they touch. Save USPS.
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They're all in on it. Ship USPS whenever possible.
Guess who else is heavily involved?
ALEC!!
http://www.workers.org/articles/2013/08/11/whos-pushing-post-office-privatization/
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2012/03/25/opeds-aleckoch-cabal-pushing-privatization-of-the-us-postal-service-for-ups-and-fedex/
http://socialistworker.org/2013/08/06/alec-wants-to-privatize-it-all
http://vltp.net/aleckoch-cabal-pursuing-privatization-postal-service-ups-fedex/
Not to mention of course those curmudgeonly libe(R)tarians, the Koch's.
Everywhere Democracy is being destroyed, you will find them.
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Me too!!
Sell Koch Industries to Snoop Dog/Lion!!
But that would be too much like doing the right thing.
I'm in.
Boycott the politicians that take their money, they're an ALEC board member.
pat pat pat
Thats about the trollish response I was expecting
Campaigns against UPS may want to include exposing the money in politics from them.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000081
No point in boycotting their products if you support their workers in government.
Darlin'? You aren't worthy of a response.Now, shush, the adults are talking.
It looks like FedEx is lobbying Congress even more than UPS these days.
Between the two of them, thats a lot of money being thrown around.
I thought the any weight shipping promo by USPS was a good one.
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"I've heard a rumor that the United Parcel Service is behind a very carefully crafted campaign to destroy the USPS and privatize every aspect of mail delivery."
You want to ruin UPS and all the poor employees who need their jobs based on the voices in your head but you are demanding links to credible sources from someone else?
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I'm only gonna use my thumb. My right thumb. Left one's much too powerful for you.
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/9Dka54jH9po/hqdefault.jpg
In addition, the Postal Service, because it is public, has a mandate to serve all of the public no matter where they are. Unlike private corporations that operate only in areas where they can turn a profit, the Postal Service serves everyone. In some rural and low-income urban areas, the post office is the only institution that connects those communities to services and to the rest of the world.
That is exactly how it works out for every aspect of the public: education, IRS, post office etc. Every single one of them. Once it goes private, it's a half ass job and done for profit. These nimrods have a problem with all.
Hell, locally you can check out how many more minutes a privatized ambulance service has to respond. Insane. Not only can they not pay their people..........they can't even show up in the same time frame. Nice job lil' libertopian thugs.
It's the libe(R)topian way.
If you can't compete?
Destroy your competitions ability to bring their service.
One of the aims of Microsoft's purchase of Nokia, is to force Android to charge more for their services.
Consumers be damned.
Exactly. They can scratch that whole more efficiency shit.
Yep, and that's the end result of Bush's forcing idiotic retirement payments on them.
That's money they can't use to improve services, thus harming their ability to continue to out-compete those industries shackled by Wallstreet's vig demands .
all public utilities should be public
employment at such facilities functions to place money into the hands of the people
so entrepreneurs can work for that money
"all public utilities should be public"
Yes, they all should be, not just the USPS, but try and tell that to the libe(R)tarians.
They're still buying up the commons all over the country.
Also - were you aware that UPS uses the USPS for some of it's package delivery? Whats up with that? I mean if the USPS is so bad - why would UPS use them?
I just ordered something online and did not realize that it was being delivered by UPS. That pissed me off. Tricky, ya? Then they sent me a track the package email through USPS. But, all it told me was when it left. I made the assumption that when it said 6-9 day standard shipping-it was USPS.
I ordered two books from two different book stores (used) at the same time. I received an email and they left at the same time. Now, first of all I was not aware that one bookstore was using UPS. Had I known, I would never have ordered from there. One went through the USPS and arrived 3 days ago. The one from UPS arrived today.
Now, I am going to give feed back to this store and let them know that I will not order from them again because they use UPS. It's called the one-woman-fuck-UPS campaign.
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How cute! The village idiot is mimicking me.
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One of my Hot buttons - IS - Cancer Charities Research treatment - Why? - Because they do not lobby to get known carcinogens removed from products. I have lately in the last couple of years begun to pester them about this fact and I have not - not yet - gone after the AMA - but I think I will soon.
The AMA should be pestered. :D
The World Health Organization as well.
Big time along with the pretty much useless Surgeon General. Just think of the people dying each year from shit that should have been removed from products YEARS AGO. Damn it pisses me off - IS THAT OR IS THAT NOT ACCESSORY TO MURDER OR EVEN MURDER THROUGH DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE ???
Yep.
I wrote a post a while ago - concerning some of this - I think it is long past time that I should put out another post - but also continue with making contacts with these places - and try to get some response from them.
I think it's a great idea. I'd be interested in their responses.
I think that along with contacting them and asking for a response - I should also ask em a question = Do you think society will start to shun you for your not doing immediately what can be done to stop millions of cases of cancer from happening - and that by the simple expedient of removing known carcinogens from our markets our produce our cleaning products our shampoos and soaps etc etc etc
Should there be a shaming campaign?
If I was contacting them, I would want to check the integrity of their response and I would initially just be straight forward and polite. People are more apt to communicate with you better if they are not automatically put on defense mode and afraid of a gotcha moment where no matter what they say is going to be wrong. You can usually figure out by the tone and information provided of what their stance is. Too, you may contact someone that feels like you do and will say, "Hey, I agree with you but I am limited here, here and here and in order for me to even go there then this, this and this needs to be in place and I have zero authority over in that".
But, you can't tell until you try.
One more warm-up tweet for now
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
To Die of cancer because of something you eat or drink? A matter of free choice? I don't think so - Or All Drugs Would Be Legal as well.
Warm-up TWEET
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
Query - Why haven't all of the identified/known carcinogens been removed from the food we eat & other products we use? ask the AMA???
Do you think perhaps I should ask - With the incidence of contracting one form or another of cancer on a increasingly fast rise - even for what used to be rare cancers - well how do you - the people you know at work - your family - your friends - how do you all feel about the possibility that you will have one or more cancers in your lifetime?
I should be able to walk into a public access building and get a check up
Well.............you may not want to do that at the library.
if they have the equipment , I'm fine with that
those buildings are providing internet these days
Well Hell - try your luck at the DMV when you get tabs for your car - save making unnecessary trips.
Oh, shit........that was fun.
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Absolutely - 1st polite questions - like - Hey do you think it would be possible for you to get together the medical community to lobby for the removal of all known carcinogens from our food and other products on the shelves in our stores?
I lied - one more TWEET for tonight
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
Can carcinogens be removed from tobacco?
Can carcinogens be removed from our food and other products?
Remove them wherever possible?
Glyphosate (roundup) is being bred into the food.
Known carcinogen. Get monsanto out of govt agencies, supreme courts, presidents pockets.
Yes a good addition/example - GE/GMO - there are plenty that can be done.
Good for You - this is what everyone needs to do. There is something you do not like about a business ? Tell em about it - then tell em that it is next to impossible to reclaim customers they lose due to poor business practices. {:-])
I'm not aware of that, but it certainly doesn't surprise me.
There are also things the USPS will deliver that UPS won't.
I was not aware of that.
But yeah UPS has now dumped off my package delivery to the USPS a couple of times now.
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Who wants to destroy it?
FedEx liked Mitt: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000089
UPS liked Obama: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000081
LOL
You always miss the libe(R)topian connection.
You always skip over ALEC.
You always skip over the SPN.
You LOVE those curmudgeonly Kochs
And you just FAIL every time you try and follow the money in N. Carolina.
Mostly you just lie and FAIL.
But then, what else can be said of a guy who calls the 99% asses.
http://vltp.net/aleckoch-cabal-pursuing-privatization-postal-service-ups-fedex/
He also always shirks. Don't forget that
That may be, but you're still lost in that paper bag you're in.
The good new is that Gov Cuomo just made shirking illegal, so you must be thrilled.
Wait.....oh. Sorry, I read that wrong. He made bath salts illegal. Bath salts, not shirking. My bad.
There's no hope for you.
That bag is much too complicated.
Give up.
Saw a headline today that said Britain is going to privatize their postal service
As I've said many times before, libe(R)topia has gone World Wide.
On the plus side, I suppose this means you're moving to London so you can be a part of it?