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walkitoutA lot of the people I _want_ to agree with, who are opposed to service reductions by USPS, argue that poor people and/or people in rural areas will suffer disproportionately as a result. Which is true, and I'm sympathetic to social justice issues.
However, I don't necessarily accept the idea that just because we've always provided a certain service in a certain way means we have to keep doing it that way just because some people are Real Reluctant to Change. If there are obstacles to change, well, we should deal with the obstacles: under, over, around or through, type of thing.
I think this is fantastic:
http://www.broadband.gov/plan/6-infrastructure/#r6
Now, I particularly like that, because it's a bunch of Real, Technical, How To Do It that I find compelling. But the whole thing is excellent as well.
http://www.broadband.gov/
The need for package delivery won't go away, of course -- and that isn't even suffering from service reductions and for that matter, USPS will deliver that package on a Sunday if you give them enough money (which, honestly, isn't even that nuts, all things considered). But we could definitely move all the advertising and a lot of the transaction (bills and payments) stuff online, if everyone had broadband.
We're all very used to the idea that most packages have to be dropped off at the post office. If we could eliminate standard/first class letter service, and get used to dropping all our packages off at the post office, there would be no more of this Must Drive to Every Mailbox in the Country, however many days of service we settle on. That _has_ to save some money, right?
However, I don't necessarily accept the idea that just because we've always provided a certain service in a certain way means we have to keep doing it that way just because some people are Real Reluctant to Change. If there are obstacles to change, well, we should deal with the obstacles: under, over, around or through, type of thing.
I think this is fantastic:
http://www.broadband.gov/plan/6-infrastructure/#r6
Now, I particularly like that, because it's a bunch of Real, Technical, How To Do It that I find compelling. But the whole thing is excellent as well.
http://www.broadband.gov/
The need for package delivery won't go away, of course -- and that isn't even suffering from service reductions and for that matter, USPS will deliver that package on a Sunday if you give them enough money (which, honestly, isn't even that nuts, all things considered). But we could definitely move all the advertising and a lot of the transaction (bills and payments) stuff online, if everyone had broadband.
We're all very used to the idea that most packages have to be dropped off at the post office. If we could eliminate standard/first class letter service, and get used to dropping all our packages off at the post office, there would be no more of this Must Drive to Every Mailbox in the Country, however many days of service we settle on. That _has_ to save some money, right?