Or other companies.

Yes, but they are getting ready “just in case”.

The USPS is aware and doesn’t give a crap. When they were centralizing sorting and cancellation and gathered public comment, a lot of people said that’s going to cause problems because a lot of laws verify a legal deadline with a postmark date. The USPS said everyone is using postmark wrong and the solution is they need to educate us better. (That was their official response.)

When asked about concerns about mail in ballots, administrators in Washington were told that they were too small a percentage of USPS business to really worry about and that the USPS was going to look out for the needs of the USPS.

It’s nice the public is finally catching up, but government workers who routinely work with the USPS have seen this coming for years. It isn’t about maintaining a trusted partnership anymore, that era has already ended. The only question now is when our cross purposes become completely incompatible.

The company has it’s value reassessed each year by an accounting firm that specializes in these evaluations. That determines stock price.

You don’t get to take the stock when you go, you get cash value in a retirement account and the company reclaims the stock for future accrual by employees.

I’m so sick of this patronizing head-pat “everything else is just as bad, we tried” response.

The fact of the matter is that the easiest way to do this under our system is making companies employee owned.

I worked for one for several years, and yes it was subject to many of the same administrative issues as every other company, but every single employee earned stock every month that kept increasing in value. A guy who had worked there for about 30 years as a worker -not a manager- was retiring with a stock portfolio worth millions. They also had the normal crappy 401k and social security they could have earned anywhere else, but because it was employee owned, they had all that company stock too.

So we have shown it can work to have the workers own the means of production. Is convenient to present government ownership as the same thing so it can be easily criticized, but it isn’t really.