The U.S. Postal Service is at it again. They can’t manage their finances, but they sure know how to squeeze more money out of everyday Americans. Now they want to jack up the price of a simple first-class stamp to almost a dollar. That’s right—mailing a birthday card or a bill could soon cost 95 cents, all because of years of waste and mismanagement.
This is what big government looks like when it runs out of other people’s money. Instead of fixing broken systems or firing useless bureaucrats, the swamp’s answer is always the same—make hardworking families pay more. Liberals love to promise bigger government serving everyone, but the results are always the same: higher costs, fewer results, zero accountability. The Postal Service has collected bailouts, “reform” plans, and endless funding, but it still can’t figure out how to deliver mail without crying poor.
Who pays the price? Not the consultants, not the upper management, not the union bosses. It’s Grandma sending Christmas cards and small business owners trying to keep their doors open. Regular Americans get punished for the failures of the elite—again. Meanwhile, left-wing politicians find plenty of cash for climate schemes and foreign handouts, but when the Post Office runs out of money, average folks get the bill.
And let’s not forget: These rising prices drive Americans further away from mail and into the greedy arms of Big Tech and globalist shipping giants. Maybe that’s the plan all along. The more expensive the Postal Service gets, the easier it is for the left to push people onto private, Silicon Valley-run platforms. It’s another step toward a cashless, paperless, surveillance-heavy society run by elites who don’t care about American traditions or small-town values.
This is liberal incompetence on full display. Only a government monopoly could turn something as simple as delivering mail into a money pit, then punish citizens when it fails. Why should Americans have to bail out bureaucrats—again? Maybe it’s time for Congress to demand real reform, not just another hand in our wallets. Or is the American stamp destined to become just another casualty of liberal “progress”?
Source: Washington Times
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