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Great news: Berkeley has a plan to save the postal service

Mar. 8, 2013 2:05pm Meredith Jessup

A “solution” that could only come from Berkeley, Calif. (emphasis mine):

Council members said they plan to investigate how the post office in Berkeley could increase its revenue stream, perhaps through leasing unused parts of the downtown building to local businesses. They also suggested taking a closer look at postage rates or even “a very tiny tax” on email as possible policy changes that could make a difference.

The council also resolved to reach out to more than 50 other cities nationally that are in similar positions, with pending historic post office buildings potentially on the chopping block, to try to form a coalition to attack the problem together.

Berkeley city councilman Gordon Wozniak suggested the “tiny tax” on emailed communications, in addition to internet data usage:

“There should be something like a bit tax. I mean a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollars a year… And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email,” perhaps one-hundredth of a cent. He said this would discourage spam and not have much impact on the typical Internet user. Wozniak went on to suggest a sales tax on internet transactions that could help, in part, fund “vital functions that the post office serves.”

Why stop there? I say we tax all forms of communication so we can bring back the old Pony Express. Only people who hate ponies would oppose my plan – How could you hate ponies?

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Comments (4)

Paul -Indiana
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:34pm
A few years ago I heard that the Postal Service admitted that first class mail more than covered its own cost and was used to subsidize the other classes of mail. If that’s true, then why doesn’t the Postal Service simply charge the proper cost for every class of service?

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steelpanther
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 5:22pm
If the services the Postal service provide don’t cover the costs of running it, they either need to figure out how to provide more services that make money(step into competition with Fedex and UPS?), figure out how to cheapen what they provide so that it’s cost effective, or do away with it. Which I would hate to see, as it costs over a hundred bucks though UPS to ship a box less then one pound over to the UK where I cost me twenty though the USPS. But really, is it a hard concept that you don’t tax something completely unrelated to keep something failing in business?

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RDavis49
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 8:39am
My wife just said it…. where else would you hear such an ignorant suggestion to tax emails other than from California? The TAX the people till they bleed capital of the United States of America… if it moves… TAX IT, regulate it, give the politicians a raise and give the rest of the money to the illegal aliens, ILLEGALLY THERE. Yep, that’s what we come to expect out of California.

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65Mustang
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:01pm
WTF, only in California.

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