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Opinion: Please don’t privatize the U.S. Postal Service

Editorial Board Published January 11, 2025
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This month, Donald Trump will develop into our forty seventh president. Amongst quite a lot of priorities about which the soon-to-be president has mused publicly — going after undocumented employees, going after Liz Cheney, going after the Panama Canal — one which issues me, as a result of he would possibly really do it, goes after the publish workplace.

On Dec. 14, the Washington Publish reported that in latest weeks Trump “has expressed a keen interest in privatizing” the U.S. Postal Service. The identical reporting famous that folks linked to the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are casting an eye fixed on the P.O. as a chance to chop authorities waste and inefficiency.

It’s a tempting goal. For the fiscal yr ending on Sept. 30, the USPS reported a internet lack of $9.5 billion. It’s straightforward to see how entrepreneurs corresponding to Musk and Ramaswamy may think about that privatization, together with extra environment friendly administration and a revenue motive, may flip the publish workplace round.

And it’s straightforward to see why a politician corresponding to Trump is interested in his celebration’s default place — privatization — on almost every thing.

Hate is simply too sturdy a phrase, so let’s simply say that Republicans reflexively detest authorities, working on the belief that it’s at all times inept, inefficient, bloated and inferior to personal enterprise.

It’s not simply that authorities is ineffective; it often does extra hurt than good. This angle is mirrored in Ronald Reagan’s oft-repeated simplistic dismissal: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

In some way this angle manages to persist amongst Republicans even if there are some issues that solely the federal government can do: Win World Battle II, for instance, or land on the moon, construct and preserve the world’s best navy, construct an interstate freeway system, desegregate public colleges, and develop a Social Safety system that retains hundreds of thousands of aged residents out of the poverty they skilled in pre-Social Safety days.

Nearer to residence: If your own home catches on hearth, your tax-supported authorities will come and put it out for you. Why? As a result of we acknowledge that your burning home is dangerous, not only for you, however for everybody.

Again to the publish workplace: Sure, $9.5 billion is a big shortfall. Alternatively, for perspective, in line with a number of sources Individuals spent $12 billion on Halloween in 2023, $147 billion on pets and round $1 trillion on Christmas.

Maybe sure efficiencies might be carried out at the USA Postal Service, however it’s price remembering the “service” a part of its title. The publish workplace, established in 1775 with Benjamin Franklin as the primary postmaster common, was by no means supposed to be a revenue middle. The Founders acknowledged {that a} extra excellent union requires connections amongst all of its residents and the environment friendly distribution of knowledge, even when they require public cash to keep up.

Additional, whether or not by design or in impact, the Postal Service has at all times embodied a vital democratic precept: Similar to the hearth division, the P.O. treats everybody the identical. About the one factor that you simply, I and Elon Musk have in widespread is that all of us get the identical reliable service for the value of a 73 cent stamp. And the P.O. is charged with delivering to each American citizen, whether or not he resides in a Manhattan luxurious condominium or on the finish of a distant nation highway in Utah.

It’s arduous to think about profit-seeking personal enterprise embracing this egalitarian precept. There’s simply no cash to be made in delivering to each deal with in America. Privatize the Postal Service and one thing very useful will probably be misplaced.

What’s the other of privatize? Socialize? Possibly that’s the issue. One in every of our main political events is loath to concede that authorities can and does carry out very useful capabilities in our lives. The Postal Service has put that capability on show for almost 250 years, and its continued success threatens Republicans’ efforts to denationalise, for instance, public colleges and Social Safety.

Do we actually need to flip these public companies into revenue facilities? Who is aware of? The fireplace division is likely to be subsequent.

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