After all the chatter, and fake negotiation.....you sit there and wonder....if the 25-billion dollars does pass all the way through and is given to the Post Office folks....what does it really mean?
If you went out to buy a F-22 aircraft.....they run around 330-million EACH. So the post office could go and buy 75 F-22 fighters, just as a comparison.
Their profit per year? The post office typically makes in the range of $75-billion year.....so this is about one-third of what they'd take in.
New paint for every single building?
New battery-powered jeeps for delivery?
Special training seminars in Hawaii every month for the top 500 managers?
This is the part of the story which you wonder about. The $25-billion may mean absolutely nothing.
Your letter may still take 3 days to reach some town about 32 miles away. As you drop it in the box.....some marginally capable guy will come and pick up the contents....driving it to a central office in the county, and then get loaded onto the 'state-truck' which takes it all the way from Florence, Alabama.....to Birmingham (116 miles) where thirty-two folks run a processing line to determine the next step for your letter, and route to another 'state-truck' to bring it back to Florence, but deliver it across the river to Red Bay.
You could have given the letter to 'Timmy' on his horse, and had it personally delivered to Red Bay with a 8-hour ride by horse.
If I sound skeptical of this whole thing, it just seems to be people eager to part with money, and having no real plan on how 25-billion really improves much of anything in the end. It'd be like me trying to convince the wife to let me spend $12-thousand on a customized brewery system for the garage, and never mentioning that I'd only be brewing thirty gallons a year of beer, or that the beer would be marginally two-star in quality.
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