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"If you fail to deliver the mail on time, your existence will be denied, your actions disavowed. Good luck, agent."
The CIA gets all the glamour and the fame but turns out the USPS isn't so far removed.
This needs to happen if we want to bring back sustainable lending and healthy, well functioning markets. It worked for the ancient Hebrews.
That's how they're going to do it, supress the vote during the second wave of coronavirus.
Except they never actually did it, just talked about how they should...
Prior to being forced to fund retirements in its their entirety bc of GOP they were completely self sufficient and wild regularly post a surplus
I mean i get that. I just don't understand why this wasn't tackled under obama. Hopefully if we get another dem control they can fix this.
That's one hell of a colossal fuck up if the USPS shutters. Even for a month. Various businesses still use USPS to deliver packages so it's not like they were useless before the virus crippled economic activity.
Didn't Obama have to deal with Republican control of the senate?
My dad just got hired by the USPS a couple of months ago after years of being employed when his factory shut down. They're really trying to do it to him.
My experience with USPS workers is that they are some of the nicest people you will ever meet, which is especially impressive given the thankless job they work. No wonder Republicans hate them so much.
Kramer gets it. I wasn't expecting my facetious comment to be taken so seriously. Of course the USPS is needed. That doesn't mean I'm not fed up with 95% of my delivered mail going straight into the trash.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted on this forum. Get some fucking perspective.
There are rules to it. Basically if you are a private shipper you need to go to the hub or distribution center (no PostNet, UPS Store, Going Postal, etc) and it can only be done within the lower 48.
i dont know the inner workings of the USPS but i believe this statement is opposite of how things work. There are service options (SmartPost/SurePost) where the backbone of parcel delivery is performed by FedEx/UPS and only the last leg of the journey (from local post office to final destination) is handled by USPS. Here is an example of one of those kinds of labels. The top half is from the shipper to the postal facility and the bottom half from the post office to the final address.
And if the Post Office goes away prices at FedEx/UPS are going to shoot sky high if the past is any indication. Prices have gone up in line with the vaolume of Amazon shipments. On top of everything being clogged with Amazon shipping its my suspicion that catering to Amazon has led to a sizable decline in quality and speed. My reasoning is if a driver needs to choose between upsetting a private shipper that ships xmas toys once a year vs displeasing Amazon, they are going to choose the option that benefits their largest customer, Amazon.
She can deploy the Postmaster Army. Unfortunately, the little white trucks are unarmored and the postmen/women are taught basic, sound-activated self-defense techniques only. Their killing phrase is "that's a federal offense".
like most everything obama era congress paved pipebombs over every "agenda". even the first two years (dem majority) most dems were "vulnerable" thus too chickenshit
He used most of his political capital getting Obamacare through. And voters punished him severely for it and rewarded the Tea Party, the same doofuses that are gutting the postal service, so I can't really blame him for not even trying.
Also we had the Great Recession which took up almost the entire first year of his presidency.
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That were deliberately added by successive GOP administrations and congresses to kill it on purpose.
A private one with serfs outside. Literally.
I have a feeling this is the reason why they aren't giving them any support. Seriously.
As a state employee, this is the way most people are receiving their EBT cards right now. A lot of homeless people also make use of General Delivery Service at their local post offices or have PO Boxes. There are so many more ways in which this could hurt poor people. No surprise given who is in charge.
So..... All that mail will get handled by who? FedEx and UPS? Amazon? I want to see THAT happen.
Not that I want the USPS to fail, since I do think they are an essential service, but they treat their employees like absolute shit. When I worked there, I worked 6 to 7 days a week, but it was mostly 7 days a week....without ANY BENEFITS. I had one day off the first 30 days I worked there. The only way to be considered a career employee and get benefits is if another career employee retires and you are next line. I knew a guy who worked like eight years there before he was allowed to become a "career" employee and get benefits. If you weren't a career employee and got hurt or sick, you would get fired. I worked with a woman who injured herself while delivering phone books. When she got out of the hospital, they fired her. It was legit probably the worst job I have ever worked and I have worked some shitty jobs before.
The United States Postal Service could not compete with the American Letter Mail Company started by Lysander Spooner in 1844. His service did it cheaper and faster. The only reason the USPS survived is because Congress eventually forced Lysander to cease operations in 1851 by legislating a US monopoly on Mail. Without their guaranteed monopoly, the USPS would have had to shutter decades ago.
Remember History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
Remember History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
Yeah but it''s 2020 and the alternatives aren't better or cheaper overall
Yeah, FedEx is basically freight forwarders of postal bags, but FedEx does not deliver mail.
They deliver it most of the way, and then use the Postal Service to deliver it the rest of the way. It's very slow.
The probably used the Postal Clause of the Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
The USPS is only suffering because of this legislation passed by Republicans to destroy the postal service. The fact they have even survived this long under the law shows how strong they truly are.
Congress, Not Amazon, Messed Up the Post Office
Legislators passed a law that made the USPS less competitive with the private sector.
www.bloomberg.com
You ever buy anything on the internet? Chances are your package was delivered by the USPS.
Everything I ordered last year was delivered by them.