The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]
The amount of narcissism these people (the Koch&#x27;s, for example) have is just astounding. If you&#x27;re a billionaire, what could possibly be a reasonable explanation for why you even care about the post office? Why are these people so hell bent on hurting people to feed their own narcissism?<p>The USPS could be improved but struggles primarily due to active efforts to kill it off. But it&#x27;s a wonderful idea of a service that definitely should exist and be improved. What&#x27;s next to kill off? Libraries? Public schools? The USPS, libraries, public schools provide basically guaranteed service to anyone, anywhere. They&#x27;re wonderful institutions. Are they perfect? No. But very few institutions are, and these provide a helpful service to people. We should focus on improving them instead of spending so much money to kill them.<p>I&#x27;ve learned that the USPS has free package pickup since someone is basically guaranteed to be in your neighborhood every day, which has been a wonderful service during this viral breakout. By having USPS pickup my small packages, it keeps me out of their stores away from other people and employees. I simply purchase a label online and schedule the free pickup, next day if it&#x27;s a weekday. It&#x27;s a minimum of $11 for UPS to come pickup your package at a residential address, even if they&#x27;re already coming to your address for another delivery that same day.