| >You beg the question by beginning by comparing the USPS to other carriers. I at no point made a comparison between the USPS and any other carrier. >It's one of the few public institutions required by the constitution! No. Article I merely authorizes the federal government to establish post offices. >Even the Defense Department doesn't get that privilege On the contrary, the same Article I repeatedly discusses the federal government's warmaking powers on land and sea. >and it loses hundreds of billions a year and doesn't have the same requirement to fund pensions for employees who haven't been born yet. How do you define "losing money" for the Department of Defense? Obviously it is not a money-making enterprise. That is, there is no way to measure its success or failure on a financial basis. Such a thing is possible with the USPS. I didn't say that the USPS has to make money. But it is possible to measure its financial performance in a way that isn't possible with most other government agencies, including DoD. >Lastly, delaying flats and prioritizing packages during a situation when many, perhaps most people will vote by mail due to a public health crisis is if not malicious, dangerously ignorant of the societal implications. Nice speech; too bad I said nothing of the sort. As I said, there is a lot of slack in non-package processing capability because of the massive COVID19-related decline in non-package volume. The USPS trying to rearrange logistics and personnel accordingly, while avoiding overtime because of the money-losing issue, is what caused the nonsense the past few weeks (which, thankfully, seems to be dying down as people look into the issue and realize said nonsense). |