re: USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees

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USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail


Source?

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I guess we could ask Senator Rand Paul where he got his information?

DOGE their arse!

I haven’t seen a white person working the counter at the PO in a decade or so.

There's much less mail because so much is digital nowadays but are there more addresses to deliver to now? Even if there's less mail, the drivers are still stopping at the same number of places just about every day, all other items held constant. Im not saying there's not waste at the USPS, just saying the metric presented isn't great by itself.

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I just thought his Christmas bonus is right around the corner...

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If Musk gets his way, that dude will get the jelly of the month club as a bonus this Christmas.

I'd need to see the numbers showing this 80% decline in volume.

Letters are probably down quite a lot but packages are way up. At least they are in my area. (No Amazon delivery here)

90% of the mail I get goes right to the trash can.

I can't believe it took 6 posts before someone made that comment!

But, yep, me too.

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Definitely mismanaged. USPS picked up the contract to deliver Amazon and it’s hammered our small PO. And they’ve even told some of the drivers their hours are too long.

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Ding ding! We have a winner.

Letter mail volume has decreased but parcel volume has gone way, way up. The contract with Amazon was touted as a great money maker for the USPS but it’s anything but that. Amazon will do their own deliver but the crap they deliver is small. All the big shite and heavy shite gets dumped on the post office. Christmas trees, mattresses, dog food, a toilet, a kitchen sink, book shelves, tool box for a pickup truck….those are just a few of the things I delivered in the past week. The Amazon folks are delivering SD cards, watches, drink coasters, etc.

Mail routes are counted based on actual mail volume and that’s what determines the length of the route. So if mail volume goes down the routes get “longer” but packages are just sort of an add on that isn’t really factored into a route. A true “8 hour” route now has dozens upon dozens of stops where you have to drop off that bigger shite. This takes extra time and often requires multiple trips back to the PO because it won’t all fit in a mail truck. Now you’re going over 8 hours, supervisors get surly when you do, and there isn’t any help to give extra work to. “Part time” carriers are hired to do this but they get beaten into the ground working 65-70 hours a week without benefits making less than what they could make at a gas station. Retention is very bad all over for those who apply when they do apply. We finally have help in oir office out after 20 months of posting multiple positions. We might not be working 6 days a week. Since we are now in “peak” season everyone has been working 7 days a week.

I’m lucky. I’m in a lower cost of living area and I’m in a good office. This job is much more satisfying and enjoyable than when I was a grant writer at a public university. I took a pay cut but it was worth it. Not having to deal with the crap that’s going on in higher Ed is a godsend.

The postal unions are arse. No one in my office is a member of any of them. Everyone in my office voted Trump. Many postal union members I know also voted Trump. Other union members I know are completely brain dead and oblivious to how crappy the unions are and voted accordingly.

That staffer is hot, but she is seriously zoned out.