[SuperScout]

“Hate” is too strong of a word; I don’t hate people, the USPS, or my neighbor. I do hate the human manifestations of bigotry, stupidity, arrogance, and/or treason. The mental midget who sent back my IRS refund check also sent back some business checks that I had ordered from my bank, which meant yet another trip into town to visit with the Post Master who is a bout as sharp as a beach ball.

The VA still mailing checks? Social Security system still mailing checks? By now, all check-mailing/creating agencies should be required to use EFT; it’s quicker, safer, more reliable and cheaper than the USPS. When I retired from the Army, I was required to have a checking account to which the check from DFAS could be deposited. Same-same Social Security system. Same-same my private pension checks. Any person who relies on the USPS to deliver these checks to their home is taking big risks with non-delivery, check theft, identity theft, and frostbite just walking out to the mailbox (for you Yankees!).

I suspect that given a chance and the same tax perks that the USPS has, FedEx and UPS would compete very effectively for the 1^st class mail service. The private carriers are tightly regulated by both the FCC and the FAA, so their being an unregulated industry is nothing more than a transparent ‘red herring’ thrown out by our resident socialist.