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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
    hard no.

    gift article


    Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
    Today at 7:00 a.m. ET
    By Jacob Bogage, Jacqueline Alemany and Jeff Stein
    President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.
    Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.
    Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations.
    Trump’s specific plans for overhauling the Postal Service were not immediately clear. But he feuded with the nation’s mail carrier as president in 2019, trying to force it to hand over key functions — including rate-setting, personnel decisions, labor relations and managing relationships with its largest clients — to the Treasury Department.

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    mickeyrat said:
    hard no.

    gift article


    Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
    Today at 7:00 a.m. ET
    By Jacob Bogage, Jacqueline Alemany and Jeff Stein
    President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.
    Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.
    Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations.
    Trump’s specific plans for overhauling the Postal Service were not immediately clear. But he feuded with the nation’s mail carrier as president in 2019, trying to force it to hand over key functions — including rate-setting, personnel decisions, labor relations and managing relationships with its largest clients — to the Treasury Department.

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    Yet more proof that his only aim is to tear down.  Not rebuild, not improve, just tear down.  You can't "overhaul" anything on a golf course.  A raging adult infant whose whole life is just one long tantrum.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
    received a xmas card TODAY that was mailed on the 16th. From NC. They could have driven it here in about 8 hours.....

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218

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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    mickeyrat said:


    Yikes... but who will replace him?


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 40,827
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:


    Yikes... but who will replace him?


    Don’t need it or them. Big money saver for DOGE. Who gets mail, anyway?
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    edited February 19
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:


    Yikes... but who will replace him?


    Don’t need it or them. Big money saver for DOGE. Who gets mail, anyway?

    Right!  Records, books, bills, cards and letters and, of course, babies!  All brought to your doorstep by The Great Stork!

    1930s NORTHAMPTON PA STORK DELIVERING BABY AIR MAIL POSTCARD 46-223  eBay

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
    And now we have the answer on why Louis DeJoy abruptly resigned as Postmaster General. Trump intends to take over the Post Office. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-is-planning-to-take-control-of-the-postal-service-officials-say-e9188e7c
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    mickeyrat said:
    And now we have the answer on why Louis DeJoy abruptly resigned as Postmaster General. Trump intends to take over the Post Office. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-is-planning-to-take-control-of-the-postal-service-officials-say-e9188e7c

    Time to learn how to train carrier pigeon because you know his m.o.:  "Try to fuck it up best you can."
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  • cutzcutz Posts: 12,077
    mickeyrat said:
    And now we have the answer on why Louis DeJoy abruptly resigned as Postmaster General. Trump intends to take over the Post Office. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-is-planning-to-take-control-of-the-postal-service-officials-say-e9188e7c
    As long as he runs it like he did his Casinos in Atlantic City, we'll be alright.  :s
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    Here's my latest idea for lowering shipping cost through USPS:

    Phone calls from most phones to pretty much everywhere in the world all cost the same (at least on that phone). So what USPS needs to do is this:

    At a flat rate, for media mail and bulk rates, set up a scanning device in the post post office. Scan the item being sent and have a computer put it into code and send the code via satellite to where the person receiving the code feeds it into a 3D printer and... voila, there you go.

    Original items could be shipped at flat-rate Priority Rate by using a more complex process (thus the higher price), using lasers to break down the item itself down to the atomic level. Next, broadcast the atoms on light beams using a special satellite dish and receiver to send and capture the atom, and run them through a processor that reconfigures them to the original item (something like that "beam me up Scotty" thing). Shipping pets or livestock this way is not advised.

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
    brianlux said:
    Here's my latest idea for lowering shipping cost through USPS:

    Phone calls from most phones to pretty much everywhere in the world all cost the same (at least on that phone). So what USPS needs to do is this:

    At a flat rate, for media mail and bulk rates, set up a scanning device in the post post office. Scan the item being sent and have a computer put it into code and send the code via satellite to where the person receiving the code feeds it into a 3D printer and... voila, there you go.

    Original items could be shipped at flat-rate Priority Rate by using a more complex process (thus the higher price), using lasers to break down the item itself down to the atomic level. Next, broadcast the atoms on light beams using a special satellite dish and receiver to send and capture the atom, and run them through a processor that reconfigures them to the original item (something like that "beam me up Scotty" thing). Shipping pets or livestock this way is not advised.


    sooo Willy Wonka this shit, eh?
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Here's my latest idea for lowering shipping cost through USPS:

    Phone calls from most phones to pretty much everywhere in the world all cost the same (at least on that phone). So what USPS needs to do is this:

    At a flat rate, for media mail and bulk rates, set up a scanning device in the post post office. Scan the item being sent and have a computer put it into code and send the code via satellite to where the person receiving the code feeds it into a 3D printer and... voila, there you go.

    Original items could be shipped at flat-rate Priority Rate by using a more complex process (thus the higher price), using lasers to break down the item itself down to the atomic level. Next, broadcast the atoms on light beams using a special satellite dish and receiver to send and capture the atom, and run them through a processor that reconfigures them to the original item (something like that "beam me up Scotty" thing). Shipping pets or livestock this way is not advised.


    sooo Willy Wonka this shit, eh?

    Wait, are you saying my ideas are Wonky?  :lol: 
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    -Roberto Benigni











  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,218
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Here's my latest idea for lowering shipping cost through USPS:

    Phone calls from most phones to pretty much everywhere in the world all cost the same (at least on that phone). So what USPS needs to do is this:

    At a flat rate, for media mail and bulk rates, set up a scanning device in the post post office. Scan the item being sent and have a computer put it into code and send the code via satellite to where the person receiving the code feeds it into a 3D printer and... voila, there you go.

    Original items could be shipped at flat-rate Priority Rate by using a more complex process (thus the higher price), using lasers to break down the item itself down to the atomic level. Next, broadcast the atoms on light beams using a special satellite dish and receiver to send and capture the atom, and run them through a processor that reconfigures them to the original item (something like that "beam me up Scotty" thing). Shipping pets or livestock this way is not advised.


    sooo Willy Wonka this shit, eh?

    Wait, are you saying my ideas are Wonky?  :lol: 

    What you described was wonkavision.  or it was like the beaming used in star trek.

    I never took you for a trekkie.

    huh, learn something new everyday
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,122
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Here's my latest idea for lowering shipping cost through USPS:

    Phone calls from most phones to pretty much everywhere in the world all cost the same (at least on that phone). So what USPS needs to do is this:

    At a flat rate, for media mail and bulk rates, set up a scanning device in the post post office. Scan the item being sent and have a computer put it into code and send the code via satellite to where the person receiving the code feeds it into a 3D printer and... voila, there you go.

    Original items could be shipped at flat-rate Priority Rate by using a more complex process (thus the higher price), using lasers to break down the item itself down to the atomic level. Next, broadcast the atoms on light beams using a special satellite dish and receiver to send and capture the atom, and run them through a processor that reconfigures them to the original item (something like that "beam me up Scotty" thing). Shipping pets or livestock this way is not advised.


    sooo Willy Wonka this shit, eh?

    Wait, are you saying my ideas are Wonky?  :lol: 

    What you described was wonkavision.  or it was like the beaming used in star trek.

    I never took you for a trekkie.

    huh, learn something new everyday

    Long time fan, for sure!  We have all the the original cast movies (not the TV shows) as well as all of Star Trek Next Gen, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine on DVD.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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