re: New Orleans Postal Workers Joined a Nationwide Day of Protest This Week

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Every postal employee needs to lose their job

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I’d get banned if I say what I want to say to you. I take pride in my job and have regular customers that come from 3 neighboring towns because they know I will give them excellent service. We have experienced delays ever since Trump appointed PMG DeJoy who started fricking with our logistics network.

I’ve had a package in BR since Monday morning! Still waiting on delivery in BR.

Meanwhile FedEx can deliver a package from NJ to my house in two days.

Talk about a useless organization. It’s Fed Ex or UPS for me. Walking into a Post Office and seeing the employees, it’s really amazing that more than 25% of the mail gets where it’s supposed to go on time. No thanks.

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This has been my experience. Given that USPS does about half the work that Fed Ex and UPS gets paid for the USPS is either responsible for at least half the good customer service at Fed Ex and UPS or half the bad service....because neither has ever existed and its questionable if they ever could in the absence of the USPS.

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You keep hammering this idea that Fedex & UPS are reliant on USPS.

Do you always sound so confident when you're wrong?

As of this year, UPS no longer uses the USPS to deliver SurePost packages, which was a very small part of their offering to begin with. a random source


FedEx stopped using USPS to deliver SmartPost packages (now called Ground Economy as a result) several years ago. They will still allow Economy deliveries via USPS to PO Boxes and military addresses (because USPS are the only ones allowed to deliver those). There may be a very small percentage of extremely rural Ground Economy packages still handed off to the USPS, because there is no money to be made servicing those locales.

Historically, UPS and FedEx were using USPS for their low value packages because it was cheaper to hand off the delivery for the last mile to somebody who was already going to every address every day. The USPS was pricing it under cost. In my experience, it's almost always a different USPS carrier delivering the packages than the mail. They have not taken advantage of their economies of scale and have lost hundreds of billions as a result.

FedEx and UPS are vastly more efficient -- that's why they handled 90% of the transportation and then handed these packages to the USPS at the delivery centers. They could do this and still price it below USPS rates AND beat their transit times. This is also why Amazon has used them for last mile delivery. The USPS pricing is wrong, and smart corporations were abusing the system.

Since the explosion of e-commerce post-Covid, this made less sense for FedEx / UPS...and they have changed as a result. I'm sure the horrible delivery performance of USPS also had a big impact. If your customer service costs tripled because you saved 5% on freight, would you continue?

The millions of Temu & Shein packages the USPS are forced to deliver every day at below-cost are also not helping. I could go on for days, but please do some research.... our major carriers will be just fine without the USPS. Amazon profits might go down if they lose access to the artificially low prices they're getting from the USPS, but that's about it.

New Orleans Postal Workers Joined a Day of Protest This Week

--THIS week? What about the other 51 weeks?