Maybe we can convince some repugs they can snoop on us. Then they'd fund it, huh.

But no kidding, that is a great idea. I used to work with a woman with a Masters in Math and CS, who was hired to work with the postal services years as a programmer.

I'm still thinking too many people take the post office for granted, that it will just be there without any effort on our parts. The GOP is determined to destroy what Sanders called the last socialist service.

This is why privatization is called economic apartheid. Those who will be able to afford to use the more expensive, unregulated private services will use them. The rest will be left in the dust.

There is a reason for using the word 'universal' in government work, it's about equality. There are so many diverse sitautions for the people of this country, we need the commons so that we can keep on meeting there and exchange goods with each other.

Also do photo ID's so we wouldn't have to drive to the local DMV. The post office has better hours and there's one or more in almost every town. Why can't the federal government issue photo ID's that would be recognized in every state.

Most forms of ID are state issued.

It's done all the time between the states and feds.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Several municipalities have tried to provide free wireless connectivity over large areas (typically the downtown business district) and they are promptly sued and restrained by the monopolists with the help of the USAG's office.

The real welfare queens have the game locked up.

which is cheaper then cable.

Besides why spend the money on building the infrastructure to support rural cable?

Even 3rd world countries stopped building hard line infrastructure because of the cost.

Wireless is easier and cheaper to install.

What really chaps my ass is that for the brief time the Dems had control they could have repealed the USPS prefunded pension plan requirement that is bankrupting the USPS yet they did not, nor did they even attempt to get rid of the prefunded pension.

that will be around a while like the REA and TVA. Personally I think wireless is too limited and is too invasive and may not be healthy.

and techs capable of repairing fiber and a whole bunch of other people even before you sign up 1 customer.

Parts of this country have houses 6 miles apart, think about the cost just to hook up 50 homes that are 6 miles apart.

approval. If you worry about product widgets nothing ever gets done.

Lots of jobs for tech support, network engineers, guys who can climb poles, data center, etc. A real boost for the economy.

They have the advantage of knowing how to set poles, string or plow cable, and connect equipment.

USPS is clueless about communications. In the '90s they tried to fancy themselves as in the communications business, took their eye off their basic business of transporting small objects, and FedEx and UPS ate their lunch.

Truck delivery is ok.

Some of their fat in positions that do not handle parcels is due to having taken over other companies.

Then again libraries are getting cut back so the PO could take up the slack.

I'm so sad about losing our historic Post Office. It's a drop in the bucket
but the heart of our town.

With low fee Internet services?!
And low fee banking services?
Sounds about right.
They would lose billions per quarter in those as well.

Their eventual goal is its destruction / cannibalization and privatization/sell-off to greedy corporates, which will result in the end of universal service obligations and low prices. Profit, not a public service is their motto.

Their methods have been brutally efficient: pass absurd laws crippling USPS, underfund it, hobble it, enable its competition. When losses occur (why wouldn't they when USPS is required to pre-pay healthcare benefits till 2075 by mid-decade), blame its (public) "lazy", "overpaid" workers and their "entitlements" and call for further measures to weaken USPS. It is death by a thousand cuts and it makes me sick.

The USPS would be a perfect way to deliver the next generation of internet bandwidth to homes and businesses.