The USPS is not essential. Free markets would solve that problem in less than an hour.
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No it could not. No private investment makes sense in something that has to go to some weird address, no matter what, even if just for one person. That’s the difference between public and private investment. Public investment is not for profit; it’s simply in service to society.
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Replying to @karookasw @ACTBrigitte
No. If all you’re after is making money-and in some aspects of the private sector that’s legitimate - you take a tiny rural place where only 3 people need their medicines off your route. It doesn’t make sense from a business perspective; that’s why it needs to be a public venture

Aug 15, 2020 · 5:50 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @karookasw @ACTBrigitte
You're being very rude to the cricket account from Indiana. If those people's medicines cost too much to deliver for a profit maybe they shouldn't be sick
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Replying to @marwilliamson @karookasw @ACTBrigitte
I spent 4 blessed years in a Vermont township & saw an America I didn’t know of as a Calif suburban kid. Nobody’s braver than the mail & schoolbus drivers way out on those rural routes in Vermont winters! Older folks, moms w babies etc can’t get into town in snow or mud season.
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