I say postal service, but this is really a war against the postal workers' union, much like MAGA attacks on education are geared at destroying teachers' unions.
Trump's latest salvo is the announcement that he's going to appoint a Board member from FedEx, David Steiner, to take over the Postal Service from the atrocious current postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. On top of that, Trump is in the process of remolding the Postal Service Board of Governors, as there are currently 4 vacancies on the Board and one individual who is only serving in a temporary role.
This is a huge step towards privatizing the Postal Service. While some MAGA voters applaud the idea of that, they have no idea what they are asking for. If privatized, the Postal Service will simply end all service as we know it, and it will likely eventually cease to be an option for 90% of the country.
No private company will spend the money required to deliver mail in rural America. Not a chance. What will happen is a consolidation of mail services to a local hub. That local hub won't be in every town. That hub will likely be in the largest town, an hour away from most rural residences and businesses. You'll have to pay a monthly fee to have a post office box at this one hour away from your house regional postal hub. If you get a bill in the mail, take it home and put it in the return envelope, you'll likely have to drive the hour back to the regional postal hub to mail it, which will likely cost two to three times more than it does today. And if you need to have mail in your new for-profit postal box on a daily basis, that will be a more expensive postal box option.
Metro areas will weather this a bit better, as their regional hubs will be closer to the population, but you will also have to pay for a P.O. box there. Wealthier, more condensed neighborhoods will give those communities the option of home deliveries, but at a premium price.
And the days of "If it fits, it ships" will be numbered as the cost to ship a package will skyrocket, making it cost-ineffective to send anything but Amazon.
If you want to see the future, look at the Irish postal service. Fewer services, lost packages, and massive downsizing of staff are all too common there. We will long for the days of the US Postal Service of today, which runs pretty darn good, thanks to the postal workers.
And Trump will kill that.
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