If you think that USPS can be replaced by a free market company that would do the same thing all that means to me is that you’ve never lived in or visited rural America.

My family - who lives in rural Texas - would be very surprised not to be able to vote for Trump in the mail as they did in 2016.

Essentially the way that ANY mail arrives to the property I own in east Texas is through the USPS. Order it on Amazon? They might ship it through UPS, and then UPS passes it off. Fedex. DHL. They do not serve rural communities.

The Founders created USPS to "bind" America together. Eliminating it would not "unbind" urban and suburban communities. It would absolutely unbind rural communities.

All of these same arguments are true for public radio, but that's a thread for another day.

The USPS was never intended to function as a business. It is a service. The government *manufactured* a financial crisis at the USPS by making them prefund retirement benefits — something no free market shipper does. If you want it to behave like the free market, unburden it.

The free market does not ensure equal access. See: rural broadband. It is the year 2020, and if I want internet on my property I have to use a satellite.

It is (understandably so!) not efficient for people to deliver to rural areas. It is also not efficient for them to run high speed internet, or even provide garbage disposal. The free market cannot fix this problem.

Like, I'm sorry. If I have to burn my own trash because I'm too far out for the county garbage services, then UPS isn't going to deliver me a ballot.