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Could/will USPS ever be shut down?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:33 pm
My last two packages over the past week have been marked as delivered and were not actually delivered. I called one of the companies and asked them to resend it via ups or fedex. And it should be here next week the other was a package from amazon and I know amazon is starting their own delivery company. Anyone see usps not being around 20 years from now? I don’t see how it’s possible with so many people employed
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Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:36 pm to Wooly
Lately amazon has been zero help with delayed or missing packages in transit via usps...they just dial up usps and transfer you
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:37 pm to Wooly
USPS will be here but they could save a ton of money by eliminating Saturday delivery.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:40 pm to Wooly
quote:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
Will be hard to give up an enumerated power.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:43 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Well, shite.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 2:49 pm to Wooly
We have a hard enough time eliminating made up rights and duties from the Constitution, the possibility of getting rid of a specifically enumerated problem with union representation? Less than none.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 3:28 pm to Wooly
We use to have a mail man who worked for USPS for many years. Every day he would arrive in the neighborhood within the 4PM - 5Pm hour, park his mail truck in the same place, get out and do the whole neighborhood by foot. If there were packages he could put in his mailbag, once he was finished, he would go drop each package off.
It was the last neighborhood on his route. No matter what, you knew you were getting your mail. I never had a package arrive later than the expected delivery day. Everyone took it for granted just because of how reliable he was (the only time he would wait was if it was raining too hard. He would sit in his truck for however long until it slacked off and then delivered. On foot, it took him 20-30 mins to knock out the whole neighborhood (85-90 homes). He retired and I am not exaggerating when I say it was as if it all went to shite.
For awhile I don't really know when they came, I wasn't home yet. If I was, it was always someone different. Then it got to the point where they were delivering mail to the right addresses, but they would frick up a package delivery. They would drop them off at other houses. I noticed that none of them got out on foot, they would stay in mail truck, get out, deliver, go back on truck, pull up a good 5 yards then same thing. It took them probably twice as long to do it that way.
Then I started having more problems with packages. A few times it would show that it was in port allain and would be delivered the next day (or that day), then the it would end up not being in the mail. I'd check status and it showed that it went to Memphis from Port Allain. One time specifically, it was at P.A., went to Memphis, then somewhere in Mississippi, to Baton Rouge then on route to be delivered to my house and it would be 3 days after it was supposed to be delivered. I never say an organization go from running like clock work one day to turning into a shite show the next. With that said, they would have to make a lot of changes, if the whole thing runs like it does just in my neighborhood, in order for it to never shut down.
It was the last neighborhood on his route. No matter what, you knew you were getting your mail. I never had a package arrive later than the expected delivery day. Everyone took it for granted just because of how reliable he was (the only time he would wait was if it was raining too hard. He would sit in his truck for however long until it slacked off and then delivered. On foot, it took him 20-30 mins to knock out the whole neighborhood (85-90 homes). He retired and I am not exaggerating when I say it was as if it all went to shite.
For awhile I don't really know when they came, I wasn't home yet. If I was, it was always someone different. Then it got to the point where they were delivering mail to the right addresses, but they would frick up a package delivery. They would drop them off at other houses. I noticed that none of them got out on foot, they would stay in mail truck, get out, deliver, go back on truck, pull up a good 5 yards then same thing. It took them probably twice as long to do it that way.
Then I started having more problems with packages. A few times it would show that it was in port allain and would be delivered the next day (or that day), then the it would end up not being in the mail. I'd check status and it showed that it went to Memphis from Port Allain. One time specifically, it was at P.A., went to Memphis, then somewhere in Mississippi, to Baton Rouge then on route to be delivered to my house and it would be 3 days after it was supposed to be delivered. I never say an organization go from running like clock work one day to turning into a shite show the next. With that said, they would have to make a lot of changes, if the whole thing runs like it does just in my neighborhood, in order for it to never shut down.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 3:30 pm to OweO
5 fricking paragraphs?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 3:33 pm to ForeverLSU02
You don't understand. That was a really good postman.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 3:43 pm to Tiguar
quote:
You don't understand. That was a really good postman.
ISWYDT
This post was edited on 9/29/18 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 9/29/18 at 3:46 pm to Notro
Remember late 90’s - early 2000’s when people said the post office would be no longer around in 10-15 years? Well, they seem to be doing well and growing.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 4:04 pm to Wooly
This has been happening to me, but it’s a new delivery person filling in for my regular post lady.
What city are you?
What city are you?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 4:11 pm to Wooly
Posted on 9/29/18 at 4:20 pm to Martini
quote:
USPS will be here but they could save a ton of money by eliminating Saturday delivery.
Maybe for letter delivery, but the Saturday and Sunday delivery are their only growing business thanks to the likes of Amazon.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 4:29 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
They now deliver on Sundays
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:18 pm to Morty
My wife works for the Post Office and she has to work some Sundays delivering Amazon packages.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 8:47 pm to Wooly
Posted on 9/29/18 at 8:51 pm to OweO
Holy essay Batman!
Could’ve shortened it up to something like this: “My old mailman was reliable. Then he retired and the new mailman sucks. The end”
Could’ve shortened it up to something like this: “My old mailman was reliable. Then he retired and the new mailman sucks. The end”
Posted on 9/29/18 at 8:58 pm to Tarps99
quote:
thanks to the likes of Amazon.
who is fricking them (and us) over
Posted on 9/29/18 at 10:24 pm to Tiger Prawn
quote:
Could’ve shortened it up
He could have, but it worked. He did a good job explaining why his postman was awesome and the new one was worthless.
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