OT: Temporary Postal Rate Increase

[Exhibitman]

I didn't call you ignorant, Trent. If I want to call you ignorant believe me, you will know it. The facts are the facts, though, and the law is what it is. The USPS isn't trying to make a profit, it is trying to cover the cost of operations, which includes fulfilling a legal mandate that requires it to maintain money-losing rural routes and small town post offices without charging the people on those routes and in those towns the true cost of service. You may not like that fact because it does not match your belief that there is some nefarious cabal intent on price-gouging you, but it does not change the law or the results: if the USPS could dump rural deliveries and close small post offices it would save a ton of money, but it cannot. Another thing I forgot to mention about the 2006 bill was that it prohibited the USPS from offering additional services--like banking and ATMs--in post offices under its own brand. That is why Chase is negotiating to install for-profit ATMs in post offices rather than the USPS simply doing it directly. As for the length of my post, most of what I posted is statutory language, which I quoted verbatim rather than summarize precisely because without seeing a direct quote people like you will just claim it is fake or politics or whatever else it is one says to avoid acknowledging facts that don't do what you want them to.

Now, I don't see any productive reasons to continue this debate so I will wish you good health and a good weekend, and leave it there.