Free ‘Free the Mails’?
The free market has spoken! The Cato Institute book “Free the Mails”, which featured an essay by Bush appointed BOG Chairman James C. Miller III advocating the privatization of the US Postal Service, apparently didn’t exactly fly off the shelves when it was published in 1988. A check of the Cato Institute’s online bookstore shows that there are still copies gathering dust there nineteen years later, even though the price has been slashed to just three bucks! And if you think that’s still too much to pay, you can pick up a copy on Amazon for just sixty three cents. It appears that in the marketplace of ideas, postal privatization has been judged practically worthless…
The idea may have proven worthless but the man is now the head of the BOG and he, along with other Bush appointees, are slowly chipping away at the postal service so that the end result may be the same as an outright privatization. Follow the money.
Brian,
Look at the budget numbers for USPS. I think you have even reported about the new dps flat sorter contract with Northrup Grumman. This seems to indicate they will spare no expense to squeeze labor. Miller is evil and he seems to be in charge.