The War on the Post Office
March 20, 2018
ELLEN BROWNÂ disputes the common view that the U.S. Postal Service is failing because of the Internet. The post office, she says, has been deliberately targeted by powerful commercial forces:
Bankers continue to fear that postal banks could replace them with a public option — one that is safer, more efficient, more stable, and more trusted than the private financial institutions that have repeatedly triggered panics and bank failures, with more predicted on the horizon.
Sad, how tawdry the post office has become, selling all kinds of junk to stay afloat. I once ordered some stamps and the postal clerk said, “Would you like fries with that?”
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