I just don't see either Greenland or Canada ever becoming part of the US.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I just don't see either Greenland or Canada ever becoming part of the US.

And neither does Trump

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Originally posted by Black92LX:

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Originally posted by 12131:
I just don't see either Greenland or Canada ever becoming part of the US.

And neither does Trump

Exactly…art of the deal 101.

Trump wants no part of Canada but I do think he is looking pretty hard at Greenland as another US Territory.

It make sense to me.

USPS signs agreement with DOGE, agrees to cut 10,000 workers: ‘Broken business model’
The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early-retirement program

By Bradford Betz | Fox News
Published March 14, 2025 4:10am EDT

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy informed members of Congress on Thursday he has signed an agreement with the General Services Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.

In a letter to Congress, DeJoy lamented that the Postal Service has a "broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and core change."

"Fixing a broken organization that had experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion, without a bankruptcy proceeding, is a daunting task," DeJoy wrote. "Fixing a heavily legislated and overly regulated organization as massive, important, cherished, misunderstood and debated as the United States Postal Service, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult."

DOGE will assist USPS with addressing "big problems" at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement aims to help the Postal Service identify and achieve "further efficiencies."

USPS listed such issues as mismanagement of the agency's retirement assets and Workers' Compensation Program, as well as an array of regulatory requirements that the letter described as "restricting normal business practice."

"This is an effort aligned with our efforts, as while we have accomplished a great deal, there is much more to be done," DeJoy wrote.

Critics of the agreement fear negative effects of the cuts will be felt across America. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerald Connolly, of Virginia, who was sent the letter, said turning over the Postal Service to DOGE would result in it being undermined and privatized.

"The only thing worse for the Postal Service than DeJoy’s ‘Delivering for America’ plan is turning the service over to Elon Musk and DOGE so they can undermine it, privatize it, and then profit off Americans’ loss," Connolly said in a statement.

He added: "This capitulation will have catastrophic consequences for all Americans – especially those in rural and hard to reach areas – who rely on the Postal Service every day to deliver mail, medications, ballots, and more. Reliable mail delivery can’t just be reserved for MAGA supporters and Tesla owners."

The National Association of Letter Carriers President Brian L. Renfroe said in a statement in response to Thursday's letter that they welcome anyone's help with addressing some of the agency's biggest problems but stood firmly against any move to privatize the Postal Service.

"Common-sense solutions are what the Postal Service needs, not privatization efforts that will threaten 640,000 postal employees' jobs, 7.9 million jobs tied to our work, and the universal service every American relies on daily," he said.

USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers tasked with making deliveries, from inner cities to rural areas and even far-flung islands.

The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early-retirement program, according to the letter.

The agency previously announced plans to cut its operating costs by more than $3.5 billion annually. And this isn't the first time thousands of employees have been cut. In 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.

As the service, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970, has struggled to balance the books with the decline of first-class mail, it has fought calls from President Donald Trump and others that it be privatized.

Last month, Trump said he may put USPS under the control of the Department of Commerce in what would be an executive branch takeover.

I hope that includes the sorry excuse for a "mail carrier" who saw the flag up on my mailbox, saw the outgoing mail inside it, and simply placed incoming mail on top of it without taking the outgoing mail.



"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from sleeping in the mail truck"

USPS definitely needs an enema

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I hope that includes the sorry excuse for a "mail carrier" who saw the flag up on my mailbox, saw the outgoing mail inside it, and simply placed incoming mail on top of it without taking the outgoing mail.

Mine's done that before, did he at least put the flag back down?

I've had USPS experiences similar to Para's, more than once and with different carriers. And I've had weird experiences with folks at their offices too, to the point where I call our local one the land of misfit toys.

Didn't touch the flag, no. That would require effort.

I hope it includes the useless POS USPS employee who sent me a letter, threatening to refer me to ATF for shipping a gun without and FFL when all I did was mail a barrel to a SF member that USPS lost and for which they denied my insurance claim.

I had a package that was out for delivery every day from Thursday 2/26 through Wednesday 3/5. I ran my mail carrier down on the Monday halfway into that cycle and she said it wasn't on her truck. Initiated an investigation on it and got a call from a post office that they had it and were holding it for me Thursday 3/6. My wife foist an Amazon return upon me as I was heading out the door and I told her that she hadn't packaged it up properly, they weren't going to take it. She argued. I got my package with no explanation as to what the hell was going on with it and tried to do her return. The guy behind the counter looked at me just as if I had handed him a fresh turd instead of a padded mailer that just needed to be taped shut.

Yet another government program that needs the firehose enema treatment.

I don't know if it's my location or what but I cannot remember the last time I have had ANY delivery issue with any of the services. My mailman never misses a pick up, UPS guy leaves everything right by the front door and even puts it in a plastic bag if it even looks like rain. Fed Ex guy the same.

Believe me I get a ton of packages. There have been days all three of them are here.

Same here, the PO is pretty good. I have had a couple of problems in the past, and the postmaster got right on it. One worker at the small PO only a few blocks away twice stole outgoing mail that I had brought into the PO.

One was a package that was being returned to a business. I lost $77 on it. The worker was fired or transferred within a few weeks of my complaint.

Our local po is closed from 1-2pm. Which is a real shitty deal. I honestly do not know how they get away with it.

DOGE shut down the USPS over a month ago, but no one employed by the USPS, received their letter...

Postal delivery is pretty good around here. The parcels going through the distribution centers....not so much.

On another note, if you can't wrap a package properly to mail out at the Post Office....well, I don't know what to say. Maybe you could have a postal employee come to your home and wrap it for you and then take it to the Post Office for mailing.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I hope that includes the sorry excuse for a "mail carrier" who saw the flag up on my mailbox, saw the outgoing mail inside it, and simply placed incoming mail on top of it without taking the outgoing mail.

The same thing happened to me several times with a new substitute. I had to drive all the away across the city to complain in person because the Post Office would never answer the phone. After the complaint this never happened again.

In my area we have contract mailmen. Not USPS employees, they use their own vehicles and family members. No real complaints.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
USPS definitely needs an enema

It needs to be disbanded and privatized imho.