Trump says he's wants to privatize USPS because it's "unprofitable". Reminder that the Post Office isn't a for-profit enterprise: it's a public service that guarantees everyone in America reliable, affordable, and universal mail service. - ThreadSky

rbreich.bsky.social • 68 days ago

Trump says he's wants to privatize USPS because it's "unprofitable".

Reminder that the Post Office isn't a for-profit enterprise: it's a public service that guarantees everyone in America reliable, affordable, and universal mail service.

Reposted from More Perfect Union

BREAKING: Trump says his team is looking into the privatization of the Postal Service.

Comments

b-mcconnaughey.bsky.social•67 days ago

Yeah, because it worked so well in the UK😡

lisadjbn.bsky.social•68 days ago

EVERYTHING is about money for him.

undercoverpirate.bsky.social•68 days ago

😂😬

stephsmedbron.bsky.social•68 days ago

Fuck no! The reason it’s having trouble is that they think it should be profitable. It was doing better before that idiot Dejoice

smassa.bsky.social•68 days ago

He doesn’t even understand the basics of how government works!

goldencoyote.bsky.social•68 days ago

Don't need to understand something when your only goal is to destroy it.

bigbeersnob.bsky.social•68 days ago

Or casinos!

connor4justice.bsky.social•67 days ago

Translation: Trump and the billionaires will essentially loot the post office for billions of dollars and at the end of the day blame the inevitable disaster on Biden.

shawnm00.bsky.social•68 days ago

No! No no no no No!

rain-singer.bsky.social•67 days ago

brianeyescienceguy.bsky.social•67 days ago

When raping felonious morons are elected to office

kevinflaco73.bsky.social•68 days ago

I have rural family that voted for this 🤦‍♂️

trishmelbourne.bsky.social•68 days ago

Pavements are in trouble!

jslocum.bsky.social•68 days ago

And it's in the Constitution!

adothutchinson.bsky.social•68 days ago

If it’s not making money now, privatizing it won’t do any good unless they raise prices AGAIN. 2025 be the year I start driving my letters and packages to their destinations because it’ll be cheaper.

jolthy.bsky.social•67 days ago

seattledad55.bsky.social•68 days ago

TRUCK FUMP!

indigolree.bsky.social•67 days ago

What a complete ass

bossman-don.bsky.social•68 days ago

What a PoS

svakhshoori.bsky.social•68 days ago

What’s gonna happen to the postal workers?

kayjayra13.bsky.social•67 days ago

DeJoy isn’t even doing a good job. Since 2021 rates have risen 6 times - faster than inflation, while service has slowed. When asked how long he would stay in the job, DeJoy told lawmakers: "A long time. Get used to me." He is another Trump donor who has proven to be just another disgrace.

rasputinous.bsky.social•68 days ago

What I want to know if the Forever stamps I just bought will actually be forever.

33bee.bsky.social•68 days ago

The postal service, like all gov't offices, is meant to be a public service and not a profit center. Every time the US government decided to privatize something, it went to hell. The postal service was already semi-privatized and its service has been in steady decline while becoming more expensive.

creatively-me.bsky.social•68 days ago

To be clear they put someone in charge of it to make it slow and not efficient.

eximious.bsky.social•68 days ago

That's often the first step in attempting to privatize something. Under-fund and under-resource a public service for a decade or so and then you can point at how "bad and inefficient it is" and make the argument that it should be privatized or at least that we should welcome/fund private options.

mcconn318.bsky.social•68 days ago

So rich and get richer and he can control mail in ballots

jenno1066.bsky.social•68 days ago

That's been the plan all along. Appoint an idiot to run an agency into the ground, listen to people complain about why it doesn't work, and then claim privatization is the key. Like a bunch of Mr. Potters, they hate what they can't own.

awatayama.bsky.social•68 days ago

It was the merchants of New York and Philadelphia that lobbied Congress to CREATE the Postal Service.

hyperion4001.bsky.social•68 days ago

We privatised the Royal Mail a few years back. It's been an unmitigated disaster. Postage costs have skyrocketed, deliveries have become less frequent and less reliable. Save yourselves!

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yes, and the UK is just a tiny island.
We're talking about an entire convenient's mail service becoming a catastrophe.

hyperion4001.bsky.social•68 days ago

I think my point is that our postal service was world-class before privatisation, inexpensive, reliable and efficient. Now it's none of those things. The size of our country is irrelevant, regardless of our smaller population, the impact on us is huge.

mikemorton.bsky.social•68 days ago

Everything must be profitable for Trump. He will find a way to make money out of destroying the Postal Service.

ilovefacts.bsky.social•68 days ago

Wonder what all those originalists on the SCOTUS are going to do with the word "service" in the description in the Constitution.

mechanicalbear.bsky.social•68 days ago

And isn’t it mandated in your founding documents?

jograz8.bsky.social•68 days ago

So will my "forever" stamps have any value? I know Trump lies have no value but...

detroitmike.bsky.social•67 days ago

His lead-trap mind long ago decided that everything has to produce a profit for him or at least for someone like him.

srothschild.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump and other rich people for years have hated USPS because it pays decent wages for blue collar work and it has decent benefits and retirement plan. They don't won't the working man or woman who belongs to a union to succeed.

digginsdweller.bsky.social•68 days ago

And never mind that Congress (Republicans) saddled it with debt in order to cause this

patrickdiplock.bsky.social•68 days ago

Privatize everything, and sooner or later, human lives will be nothing more than monetary value, to be bought and sold according to ever changing market conditions. Sound familiar?

sinapps.bsky.social•67 days ago

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads." The Post Office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes..

kemperedwards.bsky.social•68 days ago

Shock. A lot of postal workers supported Trump. You get what you vote for. Say goodbye to your pensions and okay-ish healthcare. These are the seeds that were sewn.

amapola85.bsky.social•68 days ago

STFU FAT FRIGGEN TRAITOR TRUMP!
Dementia where are you????

rosannan.bsky.social•66 days ago

Isn't trump the one who put DeJoy into his position? Hasn't DeJoy been trying to make the USPS fail? Now trump is moving to privatize the USPS? This is all part of trump/MAGA/R support of business over serving the American people.

f451deg.bsky.social•68 days ago

And astoundingly this guy is still the postmaster general.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy

dylanar0ha.bsky.social•67 days ago

Ah, so that’s why Bezos wants to buddy up to him. If Amazon bought the USPS their delivery would be completely integrated & they could profit off of every other delivery (assuming any other company is able to deliver anything). The synergies, man!

hesterpricevo.bsky.social•67 days ago

It's also entirely self-supporting when it's run correctly. It even turns a small profit.

neptuniandemocracy.bsky.social•67 days ago

He’s been trying to privatize USPS since 2016 ~ he’s despicable

joanstarr.bsky.social•68 days ago

When one doesn't read, it's a challenge to grasp basic concepts.

rudeboy99.bsky.social•68 days ago

DeJoy's previous gig was with a private logistics contractor as CEO...he's ALL about privatization...why he was nominated originally...

didi9876.bsky.social•68 days ago

Here in the U.K. the price of a first class stamp has doubled since privatisation 10 years ago. It’s been a disaster (except for Conservative shareholders).

el-lobo-negron.bsky.social•68 days ago

How do we stop him?!?

oakstave.bsky.social•68 days ago

These sick traitors are dismantling the nation before our eyes.

retrievermom.bsky.social•68 days ago

They’ve been wanting to do this for years

mom2jacknsam.bsky.social•68 days ago

Sounds like a good way to cheat in an election.

tangentman.bsky.social•68 days ago

It's perfectly ok if no one individual or group of shareholders isn't making billions of dollars off of it! That's literally why it's cheap. It employs over 600k people! It's in the freaking Constitution! FFS, leave it alone! Now let's do health care using the same model.

kaiprice.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump hates America.

pnwejm.bsky.social•68 days ago

Privatize the USPS? So yet another American institution can be run by a billionaire oligarch?

jedmeister.bsky.social•68 days ago

It’s the POSTAL INSPECTORS he wants gone. Don’t believe me? Look it up !

jssw.bsky.social•68 days ago

🤬🤬🤬

rolaurel63.bsky.social•68 days ago

More grift.

the-chieftan.bsky.social•68 days ago

I wonder, who does he have in mind to profit from it being privatized. In fact, with all the fed agencies they want to privatize what would that look like. Would they have a board of investors/shareholders, stocks they could buy up and reap the awards off high prices, fees charged to the public.

michelle-cat.bsky.social•65 days ago

The Post Office is required by the constitution

annie74strong.bsky.social•67 days ago

No, no, no!

majorbeemay.bsky.social•68 days ago

privatization was the endgame all along.. just like with public schools and healthcare.. 😭

blueuncleruss.bsky.social•68 days ago

Isn’t the Postal Service also in the constitution?

rebelbrie.bsky.social•68 days ago

Did we forget that DeJoy was installed as PMG for the very reason to dismantle the post office and make it as ineffective as possible so Trump can have the argument to privatize and make Oligarchs richer.
Here is DeJoy's Mansion.
https://images.app.goo.gl/F1gK65EodBY9Gz5t5

gregcarrhope.bsky.social•68 days ago

Here in Canada the govt owned post office was just ordered back to work they got a 5% wage increase retroactive to the collective bargaining agreement expiring way less than the 22% they demanded when they hit the picket line. Problems at the post office are way worse than it was 6 years ago.

bombswarmearth.bsky.social•68 days ago

The military is profitable

doll53.bsky.social•66 days ago

Billionaires running the country, what could possibly go wrong?

jwingnut.bsky.social•68 days ago

He's not the most informed. He doesn't read. He's an imbecile.

twidget58.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yes, this another VERY BAD idea.

colodude.bsky.social•67 days ago

🤮

tannerdog.bsky.social•68 days ago

Well, he does know a lot about unprofitable businesses…

jmil4000.bsky.social•68 days ago

True. 😝

sgilley02.bsky.social•56 days ago

It’s also Constitutionally protected

einnob.bsky.social•67 days ago

There were 525,469 career employees in 2023. The number of non-career employees was 115,000

einnob.bsky.social•68 days ago

The US post Office is not a business . It is part of the federal govt.

andreagillespie.bsky.social•67 days ago

Also, most of the losses can be attributed to rural areas. If the USPS is privatized, those communities will suffer the most.

einnob.bsky.social•68 days ago

The US Postal Service history it began with the 2nd Continental Congress &BenFranklin 1775 continued when the U.S. Constitution empowered Congress to establish Post Offices &post roads in 1787
Congress passed thePost Office Act of 1792 &made postal services a permanent fixture of federal government.

busillis.bsky.social•68 days ago

"It's unprofitable, therefore someone who wants profit will do it."

lostvegas44.bsky.social•68 days ago

HIS TEAM CONSISTS OF HIMSELF and Waldo.

civilm.bsky.social•68 days ago

The military doesn't make a profit either. We should probably just disband it and hire mercenaries on an as needed basis, I guess.

elisemae.bsky.social•68 days ago

100% unsurprising, coming from the man who called the USPS (the largest employer of US armed forces veterans) “a joke.” If he decides to junk the Postal Service and sell it off for scrap, the fact that it’s referenced in our nation’s founding documents as essential won’t be enough to stop him.

chiefskitty.bsky.social•68 days ago

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chiefskitty.bsky.social•68 days ago

this is a swiftie joke, just clarifying...completely agree with you

elainejennings1.bsky.social•68 days ago

Alarm bells ringing, look at ours

mals.bsky.social•67 days ago

I have not seen one case where privatisation of government services has a positive outcome for the populace. But a lot of politicians cronies got rich. It is just another form of blatant corruption.

juglore.bsky.social•68 days ago

USPS used to be profitable until bank made congess pass a law that the usps could not be your bank. They were the bank for poor people.

heathcliff3.bsky.social•68 days ago

End Stage Capitalism kids. Which is how this Fascism has grown. This is the last grasp at powers by a desperate class of people who know that the chippity chop is coming. We outnumber them, this is a North American issue, he is a threat to everyone.

marzenkaart.bsky.social•68 days ago

I was just censored on Instagram for talking about Citizens United. I used no fouls language just said it was the problem with money in politics so I’m off until Dec 23. No free speech. Foul speech is okay but not free

zyo117.bsky.social•68 days ago

Too bad we forgot that here in Canada.

thereverended.bsky.social•68 days ago

He'll sell it to Bezos for $1 (because it loses money) Bezos gets all the established infrastructure (that he is already using for deliveries) and makes another pile of cash when stamps go to $5.

attymason.bsky.social•68 days ago

Who benefits when the postal service is profitable? Likely not people sending or receiving mail.

daintist.bsky.social•68 days ago

It's almost as if he doesn't really care about the working class or something 🤔

444sooz.bsky.social•68 days ago

The post office is in the Constitution you can't just burn the Constitution because you're Donald Trump unless of course the Republican minions are going to get down on their hands and knees and lick his shoes which they're doing now

crookedbridge.bsky.social•68 days ago

He has the mentality that the federal government should be a profitable business, showing he has no idea what it or what his role is.

hazdaz.bsky.social•68 days ago

STARVE THE BEAST!

Reagan's master plan is coming to fruition.

Cut funding to essential programs to unsustainable level.
Let program flounder.
Claim it isn't doing it's job.
Then cut or privatize program.
Claim victory as prices go up & services & wages go down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

shenyu666.bsky.social•68 days ago

According to this logic, is the next step to privatize highways? Pay by card before driving on the road, after all, "free passage" is not cost-effective👍👍👍

shenyu666.bsky.social•68 days ago

Following this idea again, should we privatize the atmosphere next time? Pay a subscription fee before breathing the air. After all, 'breathing for free' is not profitable🤔

mildkingdom.bsky.social•68 days ago

stoiccpt.bsky.social•68 days ago

You know Congress could mandate in any sale that coverage be maintained & eatable set prices, just because he served you a poison pill doesn’t mean it has to horrible .. make Congress do there job

llp26.bsky.social•68 days ago

What Trump doesn’t understand about the federal government is, well, just about everything.

idioticmeatbag.bsky.social•68 days ago

None of the government is there to make a profit

lucylu11.bsky.social•68 days ago

They have no idea what governing is!

dune54.bsky.social•68 days ago

1924 a stamp for 2 cents. 100 years later stamp 73 cents. Privatize USPS 2025 stamp cost? How much will the ceo & board members want in bonuses each year?

caesarrodney2025.bsky.social•68 days ago

The USPS is a service, not a for profit company. Good luck finding a private company who will guarantee delivery to every podunk town and whistle stop in the country, like the USPS, for a reasonable fee. That's why my business only ships USPS. UPS/Fedex can't compete.

bobsmacbox.bsky.social•67 days ago

And it’s a constitutional mandated service

bobsmacbox.bsky.social•68 days ago

Congress hasn’t proven to be very profitable either

superg05.bsky.social•68 days ago

Corperate rule
The Corporate Congress
Greed Over People #Gop

We are headed for a Continuum future

pickles-mom.bsky.social•67 days ago

Wouldn’t surprise me if he sees this as a way to end the option to vote by mail.

gtbtr.bsky.social•68 days ago

He wants to be able to control mail-in ballots to keep Congress red during the midterms.

klsadler.bsky.social•68 days ago

He will ruin it for everyone...

corniet.bsky.social•68 days ago

Does the cluelessness ever stop?

shittyjohnny.com•68 days ago

The fact that DeJoy lasted thru the Biden admin shows that the Dems are fools and underestimate just how dangerous this next admin is.

squireknut.bsky.social•68 days ago

DeJoy is driving it into the ground purposefully. If they did the Vote by Mail like in Oregon (who has the least problematic voting with the highest voter turnout)they could make it more valuable and ensure the integrity of the election process, but the republicans don’t want that, they want failure

shittyjohnny.com•68 days ago

DeJoy actually tried to mess with Oregon's voting during the 2024 primary by delaying the delivery of thousands of ballots because the payment for the pre-paid postage hadn't cleared by voting day.

lazymailman.bsky.social•68 days ago

There is a board of directors that has to let DeJoy go. Biden couldn't just fire him.

richbitner.bsky.social•68 days ago

I firmly believe now the Dems cripple themselves so they can run on the idea of we are not them. They both campaign on fear.

davidgilmourfan.bsky.social•67 days ago

We already have that. What do you call FED Ex and UPS? They deliver more than packages.

mombity.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bezos & Trump have discussed this I am sure. There’s a wrinkle however and it’s in the CONSTITUTION: Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause.

soundbyte.bsky.social•67 days ago

Who owns the new parcel service?

cherteapet.bsky.social•68 days ago

DeJoy knew all he had to do was wait it out.

timburrr.bsky.social•68 days ago

He has bankrupted with less.

4patrick.bsky.social•68 days ago

kittycatsrule.bsky.social•68 days ago

Looks like he wants to sell the people's assets to his billionaire buddies for cheap. I wonder if it will be a gift to DeJoy?

antmanmusic.bsky.social•68 days ago

If it isn’t letting some billionaire drink from everyone else’s milkshake, to the orange potato and his friends, then they need to try and make it so, because they see everything in the US as their fiefdom.

burkelinne.bsky.social•68 days ago

Government should be run efficiently but not as a business, EVER. No government service should be privatized. EVER.

gary-eddings4157.bsky.social•67 days ago

IMHO, he wants to "privatize", aka steal it, so Louis DeJoy can make more millions...and maybe "kick back" a little(?)

davidgilmourfan.bsky.social•67 days ago

I have a feeling that if Trump could get away with it, he'd just hand the postal service to DeJoy to be folded into XPO. Just wait for it......

roquefang.bsky.social•68 days ago

I just want someone... ANYONE to just scream out at one of these things...

'IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PROFITABLE YOU FUCKIN' DIPSHIT!'

See if the sheer concept of something that doesn't generate imaginary numbers doesn't strike him dead on the spot.

lyryn.bsky.social•68 days ago

Prior to 2006 and the passage of a postal act, the post office was profitable. Congress fixed that.

paganoutlaw.bsky.social•68 days ago

brain dead moron wants what?

dvcondreay.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yeah, if they were concerned about this perhaps they shouldn't have campaigned so hard against Kamala Harris.

They got the election outcome they wanted and I have no time for their phony concerns.

cailloucide.bsky.social•68 days ago

Privatizing ANYTHING is a dumb move

forfooksake.bsky.social•68 days ago

akgrrrl.bsky.social•68 days ago

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social: "USPS says 'it will continue to mail abortion pills ‘so long as’ the Justice Dept's interpretation of the Comstock Act remains the same, sugg the agency is leaving the door open for the guidance to change under the Trump administration'.”

https://www.notus.org/trump-transition/comstock-abortion-pills-usps

vicstar64.bsky.social•68 days ago

Want an A-hole he doesn’t understand public service

4bigdemocracy.bsky.social•68 days ago

REPUBLICAN LEADER'S ALREADY PA
POISONED IT DO THEY COUKD PRIVATIZE IT FIR BILLIONAIRES TO STEEL FROM UOU & ME QE THE PEOPLE DOBT YOUL ALL GET IT YET

whyisthisok.bsky.social•68 days ago

No common sense

1wag.bsky.social•68 days ago

Government entities aren't supposed to be profitable.

debbielough.bsky.social•67 days ago

Not any more they don't...

*Waves from the land of privatised post.*

kathrinluddecke.bsky.social•67 days ago

£2.80 for a simple letter to Europe 🤯

bake1958.bsky.social•68 days ago

resist77.bsky.social•68 days ago

He wants to privatize the Post Office so he can make hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots disappear.

Basically he wants to corrupt it.

pranadog.bsky.social•68 days ago

He is trying to privatize everything! Including the VA

davesim.bsky.social•67 days ago

Odd how Americans may fight hard for reliable, affordable and universal post, but a large portion of the population don't feel the same about reliable, affordable and universal healthcare 😳

p-a-s.bsky.social•67 days ago

I think people might feel stronger about something they already have and use as opposed to something they’ve never seen or even considered as possible.

liveonmbc.bsky.social•68 days ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeff Bezos giving money to Trump would mean Amazon gets to take over our postal services—at much more expensive prices.

politicaljunkie.bsky.social•66 days ago

And it’s in the constitution!

thomasjoadjr.bsky.social•68 days ago

I hate it here.

sefarad.bsky.social•68 days ago

bad idea, very bad idea

youngpilots.bsky.social•68 days ago

And don't forget the guy who wants to make it profitable has declared bankruptcy six times.

alchealthplans.bsky.social•68 days ago

He just doesn’t get it and he is not the successful businessman given all the bankruptcies. ‘Not for profits’ have a mission. Look at inefficiencies to improve processes without privatizing. We have private delivery services already.

creyna.bsky.social•68 days ago

Lust for profits does not survive.

joseph870.bsky.social•68 days ago

virginiastorey.bsky.social•68 days ago

DeJoy’s mission was to make the post office as shitty as possible. His billionaire buddies can now swoop in, desolve this public service, and make a shit ton of money overcharging people.

2b-r-c.bsky.social•68 days ago

Why did Biden keep him on?

moderatelyangry.bsky.social•68 days ago

Can’t fire him

virginiastorey.bsky.social•68 days ago

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/04/28/why-president-biden-cant-fire-the-postmaster-general-of-u-s-postal/73443709007/

thesocialgadfly.bsky.social•68 days ago

Biden can’t fire the Postmaster General; only the Board of Governors of the Postal Service can do that.

2b-r-c.bsky.social•68 days ago

Thanks. Always wondered, never looked.

lizardrath.bsky.social•68 days ago

He just likes to hear the sound of his own voice…all babble.

shelleycaro.bsky.social•68 days ago

He is just an idiot -

cognitum.bsky.social•68 days ago

I have a concept of rubbing my nuts across 🍊's upper lip.

bigbeersnob.bsky.social•68 days ago

I like where your head's at, but personally I don't want putin's herpes.

okiest.bsky.social•68 days ago

No one asks when the fire department is going to turn a profit.

sweetpeas8.bsky.social•68 days ago

Just wait, that’s coming!

alchealthplans.bsky.social•68 days ago

Exactly. Some entities are for the public good. There is a difference between the public and private sectors.

creampieordie.bsky.social•68 days ago

The amount of Magats that get through their thick skulls on Twitter is legit insane...

okiest.bsky.social•68 days ago

Normal people too. I had a neighbor who is a local judge and the people in charge of his budget started talking about him not making profit. I'm really surprised he didn't have this one in the chamber ready to go.

christinaackerman.bsky.social•68 days ago

Everyone used to pay directly to their local fire squad and those who didn't have a fire plaque on their house were left to deal with the fire themselves. We might say that using extortion like that is a step backwards for society, right? Like thinking that the postal service isn't a public good.

mightiestpen.bsky.social•68 days ago

Communism! 👻

okiest.bsky.social•68 days ago

The Post Office is the one right that you were guaranteed in the original constitution. It's the reason why the Postal Union is so toothless because legally they're not allowed to strike and deny someone their mail rights. Private delivery companies are only profitable if they can dump customers.

snorider.bsky.social•67 days ago

The Board that runs the post office get $120,000 to $130,000 a year and meet on average 50 times a year, so not quite every 2 weeks. Postal workers have to fight for a livable wage and decent pension. How did this overpaid Board fail to make Canada Post pay for itself?

squireknut.bsky.social•68 days ago

It was meant to give universal service and rural free delivery (not initially but later on, now rural delivery will be a premium) and it was meant to bind the nation. If they gave it the freedom legislatively it could easily turn a profit & provide more services & benefits especially to rural areas

snorider.bsky.social•67 days ago

Those running this Crown Corporation have failed to do their job. The workers are suffering as a result. This is so wrong.

paulavitaris.bsky.social•68 days ago

As if the private companies would do better. https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/waiting-for-christmas-packages-metro-atlanta-delays-have-shoppers-worried/VY4Z6ZCIAFHSZFNLYQLBAX3SUY/

knorris48.bsky.social•68 days ago

Fucking clown

richjvann.bsky.social•68 days ago

De Joy and Trump will make the postal service run very poorly so they can claim it needs to be privatized so that the ruling class has one more way to hold us hostage in their sociopathic campaign to amass all wealth and power.

alantperry.bsky.social•68 days ago

It worked out so well in the UK.

playasharon.bsky.social•68 days ago

NOOOOOOO ...no more privatizing our government

jhfhockey.bsky.social•68 days ago

We should get rid of the Department of Defense then. It hasn't turned a profit in forever.

imchuckmiller.bsky.social•68 days ago

This guys a cartoon. He lost money owning casinos, so yeah, logistics should be his strong suit instead

sharontt23.bsky.social•68 days ago

He appointed DeJoy for that.

blackbelt010.bsky.social•68 days ago

I seen the 67 yr old Postmaster General Louis Dejoy with a net worth of over 100 million putting his hands over his ears, like a kindergarten child. Louis, it took my small pkg 15 days to go 150 miles. Because louis own stocks in other shipping companies.

rjdownard.bsky.social•68 days ago

To be fair, business fraud Trump is experienced in money-losing ventures.

kathiemarie.bsky.social•68 days ago

peanutbuttercookie.bsky.social•68 days ago

just wait until it costs fifty dollars to mail a letter to Alaska.

peanutbuttercookie.bsky.social•68 days ago

I think the operant verb here should be “was”.

nonoxynol.bsky.social•68 days ago

Can we get someone with BETTER AIM next time? please? ffs in a Nation full of gun nuts not one person can hit their target. Maybe we should dress him up as a black child and call the cops on him?

lifeisamazing.bsky.social•68 days ago

If there's anything uk privatisation has proven, it's that profit for the new business owners means a worse service for customers.

druiddaddy.bsky.social•68 days ago

Not just that. USPS is completely self funded and used to bring in more funds when they could serve banking functions for more rural areas until that got shut down so they couldn't cut into private banks. They've been getting gutted for years.

ggw-35.bsky.social•68 days ago

If he can make money for his greedy pocket, bye bye USPS.

sushgirl.bsky.social•68 days ago

Remember the cartoons with the animals with dollar bills in their eyes? That's Trump.

tonezib.bsky.social•68 days ago

Isn't he a trump appointee. Oh that's right he was a major fundraiser for trump.

tonezib.bsky.social•68 days ago

Our country is not a corporation to maximize profits and about bottom lines. It's meant to serve we the people. I feel like many have forgotten that.

ctlaltdel.bsky.social•67 days ago

When all you value is money then this is what you do.

akroca.bsky.social•68 days ago

He doesn't understand public service. It's a foreign concept to him. Everything is transactional and needs "fixing" if he doesn't profit from it.

morabeets.bsky.social•68 days ago

"Good luck with that," said the UK.

krizzypower.bsky.social•67 days ago

Going down the road of royal mail … these clowns are insufferable. God please sending lightning let rain where they stand

ridem24.bsky.social•67 days ago

Put banks back in the post office.

midwestopa.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yep. Royal Mail has worked out so well for the UK.

thatsmisselli.bsky.social•67 days ago

It’s not profitable because DeJoy was planted to make it so. We saw this coming. And honestly, orangey has done this before…

thesocialgadfly.bsky.social•68 days ago

“The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States.”

- 39 U.S. Code § 101(a)

Also, our founders saw the utility for an entity like USPS (Article I, Section 8, United States Constitution)

acasualobserver.bsky.social•68 days ago

Does Trump keep stupid stuff like this in the queue when he had nothing else to ramble about?

babayaga52.bsky.social•68 days ago

Privatizing equals profitizing. That's how a businessman, not a president, thinks.

birdland-53.bsky.social•67 days ago

Now a stamp I bought for .03 cents in 1961 will cost 3.00 in 2025.

rational-ideas.bsky.social•68 days ago

Every thing Trump has touched failed.

peggyfrompa.bsky.social•68 days ago

Basic ignorance of government is going to destroy all of our institutions!

lawyered-up.bsky.social•68 days ago

It’s not ignorance - it’s a hostile takeover by greedy billionaire businessmen. They want to loot out government’s assets.

embeessem.bsky.social•68 days ago

They’ve been cutting #Education ‘s funding for decades to help achieve the takeover

oglizlemon.bsky.social•68 days ago

He knows nothing but greed.

funcubng.bsky.social•68 days ago

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

funcubng.bsky.social•68 days ago

Was it 2007 that Congress mandated funding future employees’ retirement for the next 75 years? To ensure USPS could never be profitable. The conservatives love to cripple our public services and blame the innocent for their subterfuge.

funcubng.bsky.social•68 days ago

It was 2006. https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

jaysinwade.bsky.social•68 days ago

The conservative governance game plan is to get hired as a chef, shit in the soup, then go on and on about how bad the restaurant is.

squireknut.bsky.social•68 days ago

Exactly!! It can easily be fixed but they want to dismantle the profitable parts and sell off the assets and expensive areas. If it was allowed to make money and given the freedom to operate in a manner to be economically viable it would be fine. If they used it properly it could thrive easily

linmuwho.bsky.social•68 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/chromeguardsman.bsky.social/post/3ldid5ht7m22m

sailorsuitedpilot.bsky.social•68 days ago

Also it is a mandatory service prescribed in the Constitution. But he wouldn't know anything about service or reading.

gonzalo1301.bsky.social•68 days ago

What’s the obsession with making everything “for profit”. People pay taxes in return for essential services. Are they going to privatise local roads, fire brigades and the water supply too?

coyoty.bsky.social•68 days ago

They'll try.

gonzalo1301.bsky.social•68 days ago

What do people like Trump suppose tax dollars are for?

gonzalo1301.bsky.social•68 days ago

Ah wait- socialising private sector debts via bailouts maybe.

resistnonsense.bsky.social•68 days ago

If Felon45 figured he’d be first in line for the kickbacks, then yes. 🤷‍♀️

magnetowasright125.bsky.social•68 days ago

Can high cholesterol and chemical poisoning (from excessive cheap make up use) take him out already? Someone send him a large order of Big Macs.

jlhudson.bsky.social•67 days ago

If USPS is unprofitable how does privatizing (adding profit) work as a business model? Call it what it is: pay to play, which donor do you think will get the contract? We pay taxes for services not so the donors of politicians become billionaires.

chinakat.bsky.social•68 days ago

Every November it suddenly takes as long as THREE WEEKS for mail to go FIVE miles from PA across the Delaware to NJ. I could walk there faster. Ever since DeJoy. 🤨

michelledombro8.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump wants to privatize the USPS bc that’s a way for him to do criminal business. #fact

jonid.bsky.social•67 days ago

More evidence that he doesn’t have a clue how government works.

jenfriesarts.bsky.social•68 days ago

But-but-but - if it's not profitable, how is he going to steal money from it?

markosilberhand.bsky.social•68 days ago

.
Trump and his gang will destroy everything . . .

... EVERYTHING !

💠 😔 💠

davidnice.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yes. Can we agree, though, to keep his face off here in photos and video?

lifeisamazing.bsky.social•68 days ago

Fair comment. I do look at these Trump posts from time to time because they tend to draw out trolls, whom I can then block. There are few on this thread. Must be tough for trolls when everyone knows their game and noone engages.

davidnice.bsky.social•68 days ago

Right. I've not encountered one yet.

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

Lets see how postal privatization worked out?
Shall we? And keep in mind, the UK is tiny island not a continent like the US is.
2013 prediction:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/royal-mail-privatisation-business-investment

astrophic.bsky.social•68 days ago

Why anyone thinks a public service funded by taxes and run not for profit will be better funded privately and run for the benefit of shareholders is beyond me. Obviously the government knew it wouldn't be better, they just wanted to giftwrap it for their mates

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

By 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/01/royal-mail-privatisation-taxpayer-loser

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

By 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/royal-mail-collapse-cant-even-deliver-christmas-present

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

by 2024 the parasite equity firms laden Royal Mail with enormous debts.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/debt-laden-royal-mail-killing-050000266.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAvD3BnmxUMpP12G2DfgZSc-UzbTKbm-B4FBS-oFM0RutmNiTNhVJaEa7U1eg0xvb5gS0j2dkrj9Xs9d2lZld_7-0cmIcpMdb4lFO6Sd9wCtrzDMJrGvWApyklHZvLCDCVqT-FIaVCMkjh4_sLsDX8KR3DsSZgpJAAikWSJ6lEsM

perpelxity.bsky.social•68 days ago

The 500 history of Royal Mail is sold-off to highest bidder.
A complete catastrophe.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/16/royal-mail-sold-czech-billionaire-500-years-british-owner/

trippybigfoot.bsky.social•68 days ago

God damn, thanks for sharing

montyreborn.bsky.social•67 days ago

The Postmaster is appointed by the Board of Governors who are appointed by the President; do I have that right? And is there a reason President Biden didn’t replace the Board of Governors to remove DeJoy? I guess TFG could just come in and replace the board again? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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