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I completely disagree. Funding a government mandated monopoly is a terrible idea.

I would vote so hard against Post Office handling banking. It is incalculable that this kind of stuff gets upvoted by the intellectual diaspora of HN.

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I'm equally agog at your take, for whatever it's worth. The Post Office is wonderful, and it boils my blood to see legislation that aims to destroy it. I would love to see the Post Office handle banking.

I'm also fascinated when can this sentiment expressed when there are so many posts along the lines of {Apple,Amazon,Facebook} deleted my account with no warning or explanation, and I can't help wondering if the folks saying this is why you're an idiot if you don't run your own email server are the same as the ones saying you're an idiot if you don't trust Amazon to be your sole postal provider.

Amazon isn’t a postal provider and they aren’t a monopoly. WTF are you talking about?

Funny enough almost every single person who has actually worked at the post office thinks postal banking is a ludicrous idea.

This is obviously not universally true. Do you really want to have privately owned roads? Privately owned courts?

Let's ban all bakeries, should bread be federalized?

No because then everyone would just…loaf.

Agreed. I thought that was meant as sarcasm at first, but apparently not. I'm shocked that is the top comment.

two words: visit Switzerland

Also, absolutely agree with anyone suggesting that we eliminate “bulk rate”—unsolicited mail should cost as much as first class—both to avoid real world spam, and to save trees.

I pay extra for my carrier to block spam calls—I world gladly pay the post office to do the same—like PaperKarma.com but last mile…

If you expect USPS to turn into Swiss-like government agency, sure. But it is not. And it can never be. The culture inside government agencies in USA is rotten.

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