[Hersbird]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I've been 'lobbying' (lol) my local post office about banking services for some time, and now I find this:

inthesetimes.com/article/postal-banking-post-office-apwu


A new profit center? Banks make out Okay.

The post office could do haircuts, and mammograms too, or any number of things. But why? Those services are already provided well by the free market. Why not just let the government run the banks, the grocery stores, the trucking, the housing, etc? It's been tried many times before in many different places always with the same failed outcome in the end.

And about the 3 trucks coming to you house, that's competition. Without it it may be more efficient but it will cost more. Why not just have one company make all the cars and trucks of the world. One small, one medium, one big. Super efficient way to provide vehicles. No competition would make them crap. Workers would have no incentive to build them well or quickly. Again it's been tried and it leads to terrible products and service.