Trump Administration Plan to Privatize the Postal Service

[Omaha Steve]

[sandensea]

1. Ben Franklin must be turning in his grave.

We can ask Argentina how that turned out: It was a disaster for everyone involved.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110854632

From the government, who was never fully paid by the buyer; to the public itself, which saw Argentina's once respected state postal service (Encotel) quickly degenerate into a Three Stooges-style mail-it-and-cross-your-fingers racket (woo-woos optional).

A loss for everyone, that is, except the buyers: the Macri family, which embezzeled millions in order to shore up their other business interests (but in vain).

Now president, Mauricio Macri has been using his office to welch on the $230 million+ debt to the state dating from their 1997 purchase.

The then-bankrupt Correo Argentino was renationalized by the Kirchners in 2003 (hence Macri's vendetta against them).

Thanks for posting, Steve. If Cheeto gets his way, our beloved USPS will probably suffer a similar fate - but of course on a much larger scale.

[raging moderate]

2. That would violate the US Constitution.

Hey, they had better keep their fingers off OUR US Constitutionally guaranteed United States Post Office!

[sandensea]

3. Absolutely - which makes it all that much more likely Cheeto and Bitchy Mitchy will try it.

If there's one thing those two enjoy more than illicit enrichment, it's pooping all over the Constitution.

"Will someone get this piece of Constitution off my goddamned shoe!"