Recommendations could raise costs for Amazon and other major businesses that are currently using the Postal Service to supplement their delivery operations.
Source: Horn News
A task force created by President Donald Trump to evaluate ways to stem billions of dollars in losses at the U.S. Postal Service suggested a range of options Tuesday, including proposals that could significantly boost the cost of sending non-essential mail.
The report recommended that the Postal Service develop a new pricing model that would remove current price caps and charge market-based prices for mail and packages that were not deemed to be “essential postal services.”
That recommendation could raise costs for Amazon and other major businesses that are currently using the Postal Service to supplement their delivery operations.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the report “contains achievable recommendations.”
“The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path which poses significant financial risk to American taxpayers,” Mnuchin said in a statement.
He said the task force review ordered by Trump last April had produced recommendations that would “fulfill…
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This is a particularly stupid article because, the post office is quite profitable. People in the USA, that order things off the internet do not like UPS or Federal express. They know that too many times, it will go to the wrong address, that it will be delayed, that they may have to go 10 or 20 miles to pickup the item at a UPS or FedEx distribution center.
The USPS always gets it right.
You can also buy stamps, send certified letters, more cheaply overnight things and buy money orders there.
What’s up with the stupid propaganda shit in this article?
I do not work for the post office, by the way. UPS sucks. So does Fedex
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I agree with you Gloria. As I understand, the day-to-day business of the post office is profitable and their so-called financial loss is purely one of accounting – all owing to a Congressional mandate that they pre-fund retiree health benefits for all their employees. With skyrocketing health care costs, no other business in the US prepays health benefits – but a devious law passed by a Republican Congress (which wanted to “bankrupt” the post office) forces them to do so: https://savethepostoffice.com/how-prefunding-retiree-health-benefits-impacts-postal-services-bottom-line-how-brookings-got-it-wrong/
The pro-Wall Street politicians who want to privatize Social Security make the same claim about Social Security being about to go bankrupt.
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