1w ago

Protests break out across US over plans to change Postal Service

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Summary

Nationwide protests erupted as postal workers opposed plans to privatize the USPS and cut 10,000 jobs.

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) organized rallies in over 200 cities, condemning the proposed merger with the Commerce Department and collaboration with Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Lawmakers like Senators Dick Durbin and Tina Smith joined demonstrations, calling the changes unconstitutional.

USPS employees fear losing jobs and essential public services, especially in rural areas. Trump and Musk defend privatization as efficient, but critics argue it endangers vital community functions.

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1w ago

Protests break out across US over plans to change Postal Service

www.newsweek.com /protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

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1w ago

Protests break out across US over plans to change Postal Service

www.newsweek.com /protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

48 comments

If it's a private company, expect that they will charge you more to send it back.
- It costs me nothing to toss it into their collection boxes.
  
  You assume that those would remain...
  
  They will
  
  There would be no reason for them to keep a free service like that when they could charge the consumer for it instead.
  No company in position to purchase the USPS would have any conviction to show goodwill towards their users. Only quarterly profits matter.
  
  It’s their business model. UPS and FedEx already have collection boxes and they’ve always been private.
  
  Because their current competition, the USPS does so as a service that's paid for by your tax dollars.
  Once that goes away, or is sold off, none of them have the incentive to continue to do so.
  And in the end they will all eventually collude on raising the process for all of their services, just like every other 'not a monopoly' corporate collective.