dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 4 months agoPostmaster general: USPS will run out of money in 12 monthswww.upi.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up188
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minus-squareCPMSP@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoRaise the rate. The only reason this is challenging is because they are making it that way intentionally so they can offer the USPS as a sacrifice to the false gods of the free market.
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoNot raise the rate, get rid of pre funding 75 years of pensions.
minus-squareCPMSP@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoYou’re absolutely right they should eliminate that ridiculous provision! Absolutely bonkers. I don’t know the math and I don’t see it listed in the article, but would that alone right the ship? Whatever can be done to salvage the service - it’s a true public good. It’s like the Internet before it got mostly enshittified.
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThis goes more in depth but does say it would be making a profit if not for that mandate that no other agency is made to. https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
Raise the rate.
The only reason this is challenging is because they are making it that way intentionally so they can offer the USPS as a sacrifice to the false gods of the free market.
Not raise the rate, get rid of pre funding 75 years of pensions.
You’re absolutely right they should eliminate that ridiculous provision! Absolutely bonkers.
I don’t know the math and I don’t see it listed in the article, but would that alone right the ship?
Whatever can be done to salvage the service - it’s a true public good. It’s like the Internet before it got mostly enshittified.
This goes more in depth but does say it would be making a profit if not for that mandate that no other agency is made to. https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/