USPS Changes Begin This Week: How Mail Could Be Affected

I look forward to the improvements.

Also need to cut these tiny post offices you see everywhere. If your town can't support a gas station or even a DG, you don't need a Post Office

If the USPS would simply charge the full rate for direct marketing adverts and bulk mail, the problem would be solved overnight and you could probably lay-off 50+% of USPS employees. IDK about anyone else, but I receive possibly 5(?) legitimate pieces of mail each week. The rest is garbage.

I put up with the junk mail. I just throw it away without opening it and dont give it a second thought.

But the junk mail advertisers are keeping the US Postal Service afloat financially, so I’m grateful for that.

I’m not gonna weigh in on what the price point should be for the different classes of mail, or on where the postal offices should be located. Those economic and logistical questions are more complicated than I can calculate with practically no essential knowledge on the topic.

I can weigh in from a theoretical and humanistic standpoint point, however. The postal service seemed to have been a model of inflexible, non-market responding, calcified, mini-socialistic, Democrat Party controlled employment program for mid-wits with an attitude problem and a management class that had no answers. The frustration led to a toxic organization that became known for “going postal”.

The changes that we have already seen in the Post Office since the 80’s - 00’s have been an improvement, but more fundamental changes need to be made.

There’s just no getting around the fact that institutions must go through periods of renewal, which are usually painful, or else they’ll die. As a government institution, its near impossible to make those changes gradually and in a responsive way to the marketplace.

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Shut them down or privatize. There latest line of BS is just BS

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What about the senior citizens who live in rural areas and get their prescriptions in the mail? What are they supposed to do if you shut it down?

a department run by a trump lackey is in bed with the dems.

Is "it will be on time" one of them

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Why It Matters

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if you have to explain why it matters, it probably doesn't

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Millions of Americans use USPS every year, especially in the country's rural areas, where the service is still crucial.

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as one who lives in a rural area, I can tell you with certainty that rural post offices are as poorly and apathetically run as any urban post office. Our rural carrier delivers when he/she feels like it. Sometimes around noon. Sometimes at night (literally). Often, not at all. And if you go in person to the little post office, make sure you go 5-10 minutes before close or 5-10 minutes after the official "open" time. Cause they neither open nor close pursuant to official hours of operation. They decide when its appropriate. Customer be damned. Privatization is long overdue for this govenment relic.

Most mismanaged govt agency. The only real solution shut it down and privatization

USPS delivery already sucks. I doubt I will notice any changes.