I think I've mentioned before that a US government efficiency study came up with some stat like "1/3 of managers are incompetent" and our family friend running Amfac (grown out of one of the Hawaiian big 5 companies) said he would think he'd gone and died to heaven if he thought that 2/3 of his managers were competent. (1970s? Mabye 1980s)

So, if you don't mind dropping some addresses from delivery in the US, just let the USPS not deliver everywhere. Or if they don't have to carry letters? Fine. But to pretend that private enterprise has some magic ability to do things that the government can't is class D, low-grade bullshit.

It's blown my mind since Reagan (I was in high school and college) that anybody falls for that privatization crap. Privatization just means someone will try to extract profits from whatever it is. Given the same resources, the same constraints, and the same desired outputs/services, how is extracting profits going to help? Why is extracting profits going to help? Really, WHO is extracting profits going to help.

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I am an industrial physicist with about a decade each (overlapping) in medical device, laser applications, and instrumentation. Now building development tools for lithium battery engineers.

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