So, Donald JT wants to privatize the Post Office. I wonder what Ben Franklin would think of this idea. What would this even mean? Would we have one post office, or an unlimited group of post offices? What if no private post office could survive financially? What would happen to current post office employees? Who would carry mail from the federal government or state government? Etc. Etc. And there are too many et ceteras to even think about.
That is “on the one hand”. On the other hand, since most packages now come through pruivate services, and most “mail” comes electronically, do we need a post office.
Yesterday, I went down the street to our cluster box and picked up four days of mail
Our box was jammed.
Here are the groups that are looking for year-end contributions. And remember, this is only four days worth:
- Anne’s Place
- American Jewish Committee
- Camp Ramah of New England
- Alzheimer’s Association
- So Others Must Eat
- Friendship Place (2)
- WAMU
- World Wildlife Fund
- Harvard Alumni for Ashoka
- Fresh Air Fund
- Compass Hospice
- Doctors Without Borders (2)
- Magen David Adom
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- Capital Jewish Museum
- Central Scholarship Bureau
- HIAS
- National Community Church
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research
- Toys for Children
- ADL
- JSSA
- Food and Friends
- USCJ
- Habitat for Humanity
- Ronald McDonald
- Salvation Army
- Harvard
- Amnesty International
- Planned Parenthood
- DC Public Library Foundation
- Greater Chicago Food Depository?
In addition, we got about a dozen random advertisements, three magazines, four catalogs, one new set of credit cards, and one (1!) personal happy holidays card.
Do all of those things we don’t need waste federal resources, or do they stimulate the economy and allow these charitable organizations to pay their staff and do good work? And because on line book businesses like ours can use media mail and save $10:to $20 per delivery, what will happen to us?
And by the way……if there is an attempt to privatize the post office, who could afford to run it on that basis? Maybe Jeff Bezos, but more likely Elon Musk, who only real goals, I am sure , are to become the first trillionslaire and to run the world single handedly.
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