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No...congress requested pre-funding of medical benefits for retired postal workers. That is mainly what was hurting the good Ol Post Office! USPS~FedEx~Ups~On Track~DHL actually work together. USPS doesn't own a fleet of airships. We receive daily drops of parcels from these other companies. Remember not to long ago, USPS spoke publicly of discontinuing Saturday delivery? Never going to happen. Mail is still being delivered. In fact, USPS delivers Amazon parcels on Sunday. Some employees work 8-10 hours delivering on Sunday. The PMG has made some very real time up to date changes. Bringing the postal service into the current century. Carriers enjoy seeing the smiles on our patrons when we show up with their "prize" in our hands!

He merely wants to privatize so big business can take it over and make a profit. As always follow the money.And it’s not just Trump, some Republicans have had this on their agenda for a long time.From Institute for Policy Studies. “In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.”Take special note of that last line. Perhaps Congress should level the playing field by requiring all private delivery services (UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, etc) to fund the cost of post-retirement health care benefits for their employees?Fair is fair, right?

I have worked with several employees of rocket startups, met many ‘founders’ of rocket companies and recently spoke with a board member of a rocket business.Rocket Internet is one of Europe's most fascinating companies. As an American, having lived and worked in VC in Germany, I feel I am in a unique position to answer the question.From an investor's perspective:Rocket Internet is by far the largest player in internet investing in Germany. They are invested in 6/7 billion dollar startups in Germany, and have 4x the capital of the 2nd largest player.Rocket Internet has €1.7b cash and cash equivalents on its balance sheet, €420m that it manages as part of its ECP fund and another €650 in Global Founders Capital. Together the Samwer brothers control €2.8b.Rocket internet has participated in 16/20, or 80% of funding rounds over €50m. This is partly because they participate in more capital intensive businesses.The valuation of rocket companies is 3x what a normal company is raising at in Germany. (anecdotal) You could argue that this is justified because of the fundraising support, marketing support, tech and sales support they receive.Rocket is extremely dilution sensitive. They start out owning 90% of their businesses, and only sell small pieces at high valuations to outside investors.Rocket is mainly an eCommerce player. When you have over a billion dollars of capital to deploy, you can use that to your advantage in eCommerce. For example, if you were starting a messaging service, you simply wouldn’t need that much cash.Most of Rockets startups are in Asia and Africa. They have 6200 employees in Europe, 4300 in Russia & CIS, 5700 in Africa & Middle East, and 13,800 in Asia Pacific.Most of their growth comes from food related businesses. Delivery Hero, Food Panda and Hello Fresh are their most successful.Rocket management teams receive about 10% of the company's equity. A Rocket CEO can have a €100k+ base salary at an early stage.Rocket Internet is publicly traded and you can find most of this information on their investor relations website. Investors | Rocket InternetA lot of this rubs people the wrong way. 1) High salaries 2) de-risking 3) high valuations 4) hard driving culture 5) market dominance 6) copying business models and 7) high valuations 8) low innovation. One major US VC investor recently described this to me as “…they [Rocket] have polluted the waters”It is, however, remarkable what Rocket Internet has done. I know of no other company in the world that has achieved this level of dominance in a diverse number of industries and product categories.My hope is that Rocket can build infrastructure in emerging markets (that would not happen otherwise) and that people will benefit from its products and services in that way. For example in Africa/India- there is no DHL, UPS or FedEx. Having a well capitalized, experienced player building a business there can be transformative for a local economy.Hope this helps!