this is right on the money. china still gets the "developing nation" discount, which makes it significantly cheaper for them to ship smaller items to the us than it is for me to ship from the us to someone else in the us, let alone for me to ship internationally. so, i'm paying more to ship something, so that chinks can compete with me for less. we're funding our own demise. however, ending this loophole/"discount" is the answer, not abolishing the entire usps   > how the fuck can fedex, ups, and amazon deliver packages at a profit but usps can't? maybe you've never noticed, but a lot of your amazon and ebay orders may be shipped through ups or fedex...but, end up getting final delivery to your mailbox or po box by the usps. this is because ups and fedex both refuse to deliver to certain areas (rural esp. mountainous, "inconvenient" areas) and amazon has recently made the news because they don't want their trucks going into nigger neighborhoods and getting jacked. law will probably force amazon to get nigger-raped because muh raycism, but if usps is abolished or privatized, ups and fedex won't take over the rural/remote delivery...you just won't be able to get deliveries in such locations.   usps can't raise their rates without gov approval. if ups or fedex couldn't raise their postage rates without someone else letting them, they'd be bleeding massive losses, too. source: life-time mailorder shipper, short-time postmaster
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