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7speterlast Thursday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

Any program created by the US government can be captured and handicapped, like has been done to the USPS.

Also, the Postmaster General was on Capitol Hill today saying how this time next year the service won’t be able to afford delivering to all addresses in the US.


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OneDeuxTriSeiGolast Thursday at 11:23 PM

> Any program created by the US government can be captured and handicapped, like has been done to the USPS.

Agreed but even despite that they generally are a net positive.

> Also, the Postmaster General was on Capitol Hill today saying how this time next year the service won’t be able to afford delivering to all addresses in the US.

The same postmaster general who is a longstanding board member at FedEx.

And the US Post was still an extremely effective agency for well over 150 years, only truly beginning to become shackled when Nixon transformed it into the USPS in the 70s, and even then it retained most of its efficacy until the 2000s and 2010s when it truly began to fall onto its last legs.

But also despite being shackled the way it currently is, it's not exactly nontrivial to reform it provided there was any political momentum towards doing so. So it may get its legs back in the days following this administration.