[Swizec]

> Just this week I had a package that was supposed to be delivered by Monday that lost tracking and didn't show up until Wednesday.

This is the sort of problem you solve with more funding not privatization.

Here’s how these privatizations work:

1. Cut funding for public service

2. Service becomes bad

3. Cut more funding because service is bad and unused

4. Service becomes worse

5. Privatize

6. Strip the service for parts, a bunch of people get rich, classic PE stuff but worse

7. Start extracting rents, you have a nice monopoly

8. Public has no or worse service for higher cost

[msandford]

1. They do a really bad job because you can't get fired

2. My package is delivered late yet again

3. I don't bother calling because the other 8 times I did I wasted an hour, nobody did anything (because nobody can get fired) and I didn't get any money back

4. Look how great we're doing! Complaints are down

5. Give us more funding because we're doing such a good job

This is just as likely of a spiral if we keep it publicly owned. It's also not good. How do you get good outcomes with.no accountability?

[8note]

accountability is contacting your member of congress, no?

and getting them to be properly funded for providing an essential service rather than setting your quality of service by how profitable your area is

public systems have accountability through democratic means. make sure you vote for people that care about the postal service working well, rather than focusing on trans kids, and youll have a working post office