As Trump Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over

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There’s gonna be so much to unfuck after this presidency ends in 100 years.
- let's start by nationalizing Amazon.
  
  No, start by nationalizing SpaceX. Then we can deliver packages REALLY FAST.
  
  I'd rather have it be cut up into a bunch of little companies.
- It's absolutely gonna feel like a 100 years. FML....
- We'd be better off rebuilding it all from scratch with an economic system that actually works for the people this time.
Monopoly laws should prevent retarded shit like this.
- how? for more than half of the US fedex, ups, and for ~ two places dhl exist. vertical integration isn't prevented by anti-trust or monopoly laws.
  The USPS is important because of rural and remote places that would otherwise completely lack mail services for even just sending tax to the government.
  
  You just listed three companies. Mono-poly means one.
Those poor drivers are already overworked and underpaid. I can only imagine what hell they’d go through having to also deliver normal mail.
- Yup. And then there's this idiot shit:
  "but it doesn't make a profit!"
  /SLAP/ you dumbfucks it's A SERVICE, it's not supposed to make profits it's supposed to ensure the transit of information and packages.
this is just more indication of destroying the society. Where I want to live starts with a seat of government, followed by post, followed by libraries, followed by education.
So the plan is to replace all the union jobs with contractors that don't get benefits, are filmed on the job at all times, and to have the hiring organization control all power of negotiation.
Fucking great. Let's do it. Make america poor again. Time to go back to the 1800s guys.
Damn, sucks to be FedEx and UPS. Spending millions in lobbying for decades only to get the snub by Mango Mussolini.
Fuck Jeff Bezos.
What a treasure trove of data they’ll collect on us all. I hate this timeline
Stupid people news.
Man if it gets rid of the junk mail flyers I get maybe it's worth it.
- I come from the future!
  Now you need a subscription to get mail, including jury summons. The subscription will be $100/mo but that's actually not too bad after the 2026 inflation. Despite paying for your subscription, there will be even more ads. Also they'll wrap your jury summons in a random ad each time. Damaging the electronics in your reusable box will result in a fee.
  
  Jokes on you, they don't let people like me serve on juries. Just make a official government email and be done with it.
- Right?

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