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robbobmur posted...

How many things that we used to need the postal service for , are now done electronically?

The various forms of the phone and the computer has made postal delivered written correspondence obsolete for over 80% of Americans.

We no longer need 6 day a week delivery.

Now ,I agree that we shouldn't be closing branches except in midsized and large cities with multiple facilities that are losing population.

State governments have closed many physical structures with the changes in technology , we can adapt to reductions in postal service.

This take kind of shits on people in remote rural areas, who tend to be supporters of the Republican Party.

Its like when people say things should be all digital because everyone has fast internet these days. There are large pockets of the US where the best internet people can get is satellite or sometimes theyre still on dial-up.

If we had the infrastructure and systems in place to allow EVERYONE to do vital things online then sure scale back the post office but were not there yet. Even FedEx and UPS route a lot of their stuff through the post office to service more remote areas in a timely fashion. So if you get rid of that it also means those people now have unreliable or no service at all for package delivery too.

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