The 630,000 U.S. postal employees are the
world’s highest-paid semi-skilled workers. Privatization would save a bundle.
The price of a one-ounce, first-class
letter is 55 cents whether it’s sent across the street or 7,894 miles from Concord,
NH to Guam. This is nuts! Prices should be set according to costs.
With privatization, I’m guessing that a
letter from New York City to Washington, DC, would cost a dime. From a little
town in New Hampshire to a little town in Montana, more like two dollars.
The four senators from New Hampshire and
Montana would say, “That discriminates against the residents of our towns!”
Nonsense! Prices everywhere should be set
according to costs.
You, senators, are the discriminators. You
force postal costs unnaturally high probably to receive campaign money from the
postal-service union. If your time in office were limited to a single six-year
term, you wouldn’t need to grovel for campaign contributions while in office. The
job would be more fun. We want you to be happy in your work. But after six
years, go home.
Technology is rendering postal services
obsolescent. Never mind 55-cent stamps; we can send emails for free. Postal
deficits are growing. Covering them with taxes or piling them onto the federal
deficit is outrageous.
The U.S. postal service should be
privatized.
