IntelligentCicada363 t1_jc7qobv wrote on March 14, 2023 at 5:32 PM

Reply to comment by ClarkFable in Results of municipal broadband feasibility study: City-owned Internet has big pluses and price tag by b00gerbear

The USPS is required by the Constitution and avails itself from longstanding cultural understanding that the founding fathers thought it important and that a well run postal service is a matter of national pride.

Of late the libertarians in this country have decided even that shouldn't be, although the Constitution limits most acts of sabotage against it.

ClarkFable t1_jc7rcoy wrote on March 14, 2023 at 5:36 PM

>Of late the libertarians in this country have decided even that shouldn't be, although the Constitution limits most acts of sabotage against it.

Yah, conservatives have done their best to try and destroy it for the past two decades, and thank god their options for interference are somewhat limited. In any event, when you cut through the bullshit, the USPS basically costs almost nothing (on a net operating basis), and still provides all the valuable services that the framers intended (and several more).