EconomicCorner022

[richardmurray]

United States Postal Service 2025 

 

The United States Postal Service in the USA compared to other models
you can't compare denmark to canada. yes, denmark is getting rid of letter shipping. but postnord has a functional monopoly on the postal service in scandanavia denmark/sweden/finland and another. And by postnord's admission, they are ending letters, not mail. mail is letters+ packages. packages are on the rise. letters are on the decline, not mail though, and this is part of the argument in the usa or canada, that mail has risen, not in letters but in packages , and to be blunt, the post office should had been where the internet was designed through. the internet literally uses addresses but the people implementing it never though to go through the post office. Government officials biggest flaw is when they don't make functional laws that forsee problems. Lyndon B Johnson's speech on the immigration act is why in 2025 immigration is the issue it is.  I quote Lyndon B Johnson October 03, 1965 speaking on the just passed Immigration Act of 1965. 

"It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power. Yet it is still one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration. For it does repair a very deep and painful flaw in the fabric of American justice. It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation."
 

What? 
Allowing millions of hungry or fiscally poor people to enter any human populace under any government is going to affect the lives of everyone in said populace. It will reshape the lives of everyone in said populace. It will add, in white peoples case it did,  or diminish, in Black descended of enslaved's case it did, their fiscal wealth or power. In 2025 the immigrant populace herded into the usa has never corrected any wrongs in the usa, but has added more by their existence. Now, in 2025, who has the answers to all the various desires in all the various races in the usa? 
Immigration Act speech 
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2785&type=status
Kerner Commission 
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2685&type=status

The Post office should never had competition. 
I quote the brookings report, for it mirrors what I have said time and again.

"First, we highlight how market forces and the postal service’s obligation to provide quality nationwide mail service at uniform rates contribute to the financial challenges faced by the postal service."
 

Read the primary mission statement of the United States postal service

"The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. (39 U.S. Code, Section 101)"
 

The problem with postal services is that they are at heart, socialist or communist entities. That mission statement says nothing about financial profit. It is all about having a federal system that can cut through any boundaries to reach any and all peoples in the usa.  The idea is, everyone who has a home can get mail: letters+packages+ other. It is a equal system. The problem is , fiscally wealthy people, usually whites, have always wanted to take the profitable sector of the postal industry. And that imbalance is the heart of the problem. 

"FedEx reported $35 billion in debt in 2024.  USPS also already faces considerable competition from private companies, such as am*zon, FedEx, and UPS, in delivery of its competitive—and profitable—products, such as parcels."
 

But it started with UPS. UPS was started as a specialty delivery service in 1907. Not faster but more secure than the postal service.
FedEx was started in  1971 for urgent shipping. Way faster for businesses. 
UPS and FedEx have never been about sending mail to a town of ten people. It has never been about letters to santa claus from fiscally poor children. 
support
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8jllq283o
support
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/return-to-sender-what-privatization-might-mean-for-the-future-of-the-usps/
in amendment
potentially, the tragedy of post offices is they serve an important function, they allow populaces under any government the ability to community absent electricity. This is why nearly every country with a certain level of wealth has a post office. The problem is, government officials in most governments in humanity whether elected or not, don't make functional laws. They make philosophical or fiscally lobbied laws. Both of which do one thing, kick problems down the road. When the road ends, all that is left is some form of chaos because the decades or centuries to actually do something that is financially or organizationally feasible has passed. 
referral
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1238654689097289828/1425878435011629066

 

Prior Edition

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11653-economiccorner021/

 

[ProfD]

There is always competition under a system of capitalism. 

 

It is hard to predict new and emerging technologies and how it affects the way we do things.

 

The pony express was replaced by faster forms of transportation.  Trains and other vehicles worked out great for the postal service.  The postal service employed millions of people directly and indirectly too.

 

As mentioned above, the United Parcel Service (UPS) was started over 100 years ago as a delivery service.   That business took off especially as gross consumerism ramped up. 

 

While the postal service could handle billions of pieces of mail and parcels annually, larger packages and faster delivery times required something different.  A demand and convenience private companies were more than wiling to fulfill under a system of capitalism.

 

IMO, long before the internet and mail, personal computers should have been viewed as the technology that would drastically alter the way we collect and store information (data) but also how we communicate. 

 

Email was invented back in the mid-1980s.  Same goes for desktop publishing and digital storage.  

 

The analog world i.e. everything that required pen and paper; envelopes, stamps and book-binding would be changed a few short years later. 

 

I believe postal services will always be around.  Just like other jobs with AI impending, the demand will shrink. 

 

Therein lies the blessing and curse of technology especially under a system of capitalism.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD

I have questions to you

 

By your studying,  when did the "system of capitalism" begin in humanity? I noticed in past dialogs you use that to refer it as a power over the government of the usa, maybe over humanity? am I wrong that you referred as i said? 

 

In your assessment, do other systems besides fiscal capitalism have competition? and what are the other systems?

[ProfD]

@richardmurray, I read your event response to my post above.

 

If you feel that my perspective is a lie or wrong or misguided, you're entitled to feel that way.

 

As I've mentioned before, I'm not here to debate or recruit anyone to my point of view. I type my 2 cents in a given topic and keep it moving.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

that is why I didn't place the thoughts you refer to in this stream. I didn't place it to generate debate or regale. But I like in my calendar having extended thoughts, that reach beyond the thinking in the dialog of the forum.