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I wish the USPS would have been furloughed during the shutdown.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:17 am
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:17 am
Lazy sloths. Sometimes I walk in and there's a line of 50 people with only one worker, while two others are sitting around talking in Spanish about who knows what.
You can walk up and just need to send something in a flat rate box and they act like they are being sent to work in the quarries.
No way these people would last in the private sector.
With the way UPS and FedEx do things, USPS is essentially an over glorified job subsidizer. Article I gives the authority for Congress to maintain postal roads, but doesn't say that they have to.
Need to scale back and start downsizing and phase them out. Privatize the mail. Britain did already with the Royal Mail.
You can walk up and just need to send something in a flat rate box and they act like they are being sent to work in the quarries.
No way these people would last in the private sector.
With the way UPS and FedEx do things, USPS is essentially an over glorified job subsidizer. Article I gives the authority for Congress to maintain postal roads, but doesn't say that they have to.
Need to scale back and start downsizing and phase them out. Privatize the mail. Britain did already with the Royal Mail.
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Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:46 am to Parmen
Unless the privatized postal service kept prices very close to the current rates it would have a big impact on small e-commerce businesses. In the current market, the USPS provides the least expensive way to ship small to medium packages throughout the US in the 2-4 day transit time frame.
The issues don't stop there but that is likely the biggest one in terms of impact on the economy.
The issues don't stop there but that is likely the biggest one in terms of impact on the economy.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:54 am to Obtuse1
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Unless the privatized postal service kept prices very close to the current rates it would have a big impact on small e-commerce businesses. In the current market, the USPS provides the least expensive way to ship small to medium packages throughout the US in the 2-4 day transit time frame.
They’d have to adapt or close shop. Taxpayers don’t need to be subsidizing private industry.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:56 am to Parmen
They lose a billion dollars a month. Amazing.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:04 am to LuckyTiger
Unbelievable. In private industry, when you lose money, you adapt and make changes. USPS doubles down and keeps on doing the same thing.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:12 am to Parmen
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They’d have to adapt or close shop.
As a 30 year USPS retiree, I can assure you that I have more than my share of issues with them and much of their operation...but I always laugh when anyone produces this comic nugget.
Show me any company from any place or time that's forced by law to provide service to every person / address in the entire county...and that's had to "adapt" to being forced by Congress to pre--pay employee health benefits 75 years into the future...and to do so in a 10 year period. Let me get comfortable, you're going to be looking for a VERY long time.
This post was edited on 1/24/19 at 2:25 am
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:39 am to EastBankTiger
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forced by law to provide service to every person / address in the entire county
I think most of us would be fine with a scaled down public system that only services extreme zones while letting the private sector service everyone else; or some arraignment with private companies to serve said areas.
I’m sure there’s a more viable compromise to be had than our current overgrown and overlapping system.
Take every McDonalds in the country. Take every Starbucks in the country. Combine them... there’s still more US Post Offices.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:41 am to Parmen
Here in Abita I get other neighbors mail at least every other day, not even exaggerating. Pretty sad and pathetic. The post office is not too great either. Have been a couple of times and the lady acts like she is doing you a favor.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:46 am to Parmen
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They’d have to adapt or close shop. Taxpayers don’t need to be subsidizing private industry.
So can I assume from this you are against ITEP and similar programs.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 3:18 am to EastBankTiger
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forced by Congress to pre--pay employee health benefits 75 years into the future...and to do so in a 10 year period.
Ridiculous.
The PO is a product of the government. Therein lies the fault.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 3:43 am to Parmen
Had a package that wasn't dropped off today cause she say it was raining and couldn't find a dry spot to put it..
Didn't leave an address to pick it up or anything. I only assume it will be dropped off tomorrow.
Oh, and I have a carport and a big storage container right where she pulls up.
I think what she means to say was dat she didn't want to get her braids wet in dat rain.
Didn't leave an address to pick it up or anything. I only assume it will be dropped off tomorrow.
Oh, and I have a carport and a big storage container right where she pulls up.
I think what she means to say was dat she didn't want to get her braids wet in dat rain.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 4:02 am to Obtuse1
quote:ITEP is fairly different, IMO.
So can I assume from this you are against ITEP and similar programs.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:15 am to Obtuse1
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big impact on small e-commerce businesses.
FUKC the 'e-commerce' business - the USA was not constituted to defray the cost of 'e-commerce' doing business at the expense of taxpayers while they undercut local businesses who pay their taxes.
Let them pay the going rate for their transportation requirements - ESPECIALLY if they want to offer 'next day delivery' that taxpayers have to subsidize.
FUKC them
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:20 am to reo45
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I think what she means to say was dat she didn't want to get her braids wet in dat rain.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:20 am to EastBankTiger
Show me a private company that pays the retirement benefits to it's employees that the postal service does and I'll show you one that is teetering on bankruptcy. Ridiculous pensions along with healthcare after reduced years of service..and all this for the most unproductive unconcerned employees that can be found..affirmative action in hiring and no accountability have made the usps a joke
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:23 am to Parmen
Knew a guy that supported a drug habit by opening up boxes and taking any money in them and then would tape it back up and deliver it.
He said he would do it right by everyone where they get stuff for their route organized. A somewhat private space, but people could see what you were doing if they wanted to.
So this kind of led me to believe that it was a common practice in the branch, but never talked about.
He said he would do it right by everyone where they get stuff for their route organized. A somewhat private space, but people could see what you were doing if they wanted to.
So this kind of led me to believe that it was a common practice in the branch, but never talked about.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:29 am to Parmen
Our post office will have 20 in line w one worker. Then one will come out from the back and go to another station. You think “thank God”. But the original worker goes on break.
The worst is the administration insists they use handheld scanner to go out and service the customers in line. But they don’t do it.
They are mandated to have a certain number of transactions on it per day. If you go late in the day there is a good chance that after you wait in line you get to a clerk that they must stop everything and boot up their scanner to use it at the desk.
The worst is the administration insists they use handheld scanner to go out and service the customers in line. But they don’t do it.
They are mandated to have a certain number of transactions on it per day. If you go late in the day there is a good chance that after you wait in line you get to a clerk that they must stop everything and boot up their scanner to use it at the desk.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:32 am to tigerfoot
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Our post office will have 20 in line w one worker. Then one will come out from the back and go to another station. You think “thank God”. But the original worker goes on break.
Proof that they are not overstaffed.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:35 am to Parmen
With Amazon now licensing delivery routes the USPS may be in trouble.
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