What in the holy Hell is this??!!

I'm looking forward to the adults being back in charge after Jan 20th.

Unelected bureacrats believe they're untouchable. We need to have a reckoning. These people have shown time and again they've forgotten who they work for.

Musk & Ramaswamy need to boot bunches of these bitches out into the street.

Hahaha. My kids and grandkids would do that when they were about three.

I know Congress likes to skewer guests for the cameras and things may be taken out of context, but this example appears to be a bureaucrat who doesn't want to deal with reality and wants to protect their meal ticket.

Let's hope Musk and Ramaswamy cut 20% of the Fed workforce in the first 90 days.

Have him get bitten by a rattlesnake and tell him that his antivenom is at 30268.

Palmetto, Ga. is so slow, the snake will also be dead (from old age) before the antivenom gets there.

Or better yet it gets delivered to an abandoned mine in Idaho

When my kids were four years old, they used to do that when being scolded.

Autistic ,kids do that as well as preschool children.

I don't know if it was this specific hearing. But I was listening to a hearing of the U.S. Postal Inspector this past Saturday on CSpan.

It seems to me that Congress wants to have its cake and eat it to. Mail volume has dropped significantly and many of the lucrative mail like bills have moved to electronic interfaces. Yet Congress still wants to put the same mandates on the USPS AND still expects the USPS to fund itself.

Saturday delivery is the perfect example of this. You can design routes when someone works the same route five days a week for 40 hours. But when you move to six days a week you now need "floaters" who will not be as efficient as someone who covers a route every day.

From an efficiency standpoint, you would say lets cut down home delivery to five days week. But the USPS tries to do that and Congress screams bloody murder.

Want Saturday delivery? Fine, then it should be paid for by Congress, not the USPS. Want to put regulations on hiring and firing? Fine, but Congress should pay for it.

Mr. DeJoy implemented a plan certain rural post offices wouldn't have mail picked up every day, but every other day. The reason was that there was a lot of trucks that were running nearly empty. This costs fuel and labor. The Senators in the rural states were skewering for it.

If the business sense isn't there for it, then the USPS shouldn't do it. If Congress still wants it done then Congress should subsidize it with taxpayer dollars.

Clear contempt and disrespect for any and all oversight. Not at all unlike Wray, Garland, and many other entrenched bureaucrats we've seen the past few years. Shitcan the lot of them, and toss most of them in jail.

Straight from a retired postal worker's mouth:
The average pay rate for a postal worker is $30 per hour. That was four years ago. How can any organization function with an operating cost like that? And we're not even talking about retirement costs! Postal workers union should be eliminated!

anybody that pulls out "I went to Medical School", is probably an ass

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Have him get bitten by a rattlesnake and tell him that his antivenom is at 30268.

Palmetto, Ga. is so slow, the snake will also be dead (from old age) before the antivenom gets there.

Amen Brother, I live in GA and used to use the USPS daily years ago, still go in once a week to mail a package or two but have pretty much switched to FEDEX just to get around Palmetto. I know the clerks really well and commented how they have a lot less packages and that was their reply too most all of their small business customers have left because of Palmetto.

Our old postal carrier retired and the ones they have now you will see them come around 2-3 times in one day because they don't organize their mail. Thanks to tracking I have more than once run them down and said you have something for me. Response, Oh Yeah here you go. Inefficiency at its finest. Will really be glad when I see GA in my rear view for the last time.

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Originally posted by fischtown7:

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Have him get bitten by a rattlesnake and tell him that his antivenom is at 30268.

Palmetto, Ga. is so slow, the snake will also be dead (from old age) before the antivenom gets there.

Amen Brother, I live in GA and used to use the USPS daily years ago, still go in once a week to mail a package or two but have pretty much switched to FEDEX just to get around Palmetto. I know the clerks really well and commented how they have a lot less packages and that was their reply too most all of their small business customers have left because of Palmetto.

Our old postal carrier retired and the ones they have now you will see them come around 2-3 times in one day because they don't organize their mail. Thanks to tracking I have more than once run them down and said you have something for me. Response, Oh Yeah here you go. Inefficiency at its finest. Will really be glad when I see GA in my rear view for the last time.

Georgia was one of the states that Mr. DeJoy identified as a problem area during the hearing. Apparently they opened up a new processing facility and are experiencing teething pains.

Also, it takes the USPS an extraordinary amount of time to sign a lease for new space due to the regulations they have to abide by.

Again, let them run it like a real business and decide what is profitable and what isn't. If congress wants to do anything beyond that, then Congress needs to pony up the money to do it.

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Originally posted by Broadside:

Saturday delivery is the perfect example of this. You can design routes when someone works the same route five days a week for 40 hours. But when you move to six days a week you now need "floaters" who will not be as efficient as someone who covers a route every day.

From an efficiency standpoint, you would say lets cut down home delivery to five days week.

5 days is fine but not missing 2 days consecutive, I would suggest off Sunday and either Wednesday or Thursday.

The biggest costs crushing the USPS is the sweetheart defined benefit/pension plan that the USPS workers enjoy. The rest of the world has moved away from those types of obligations because they’re too expensive. Pension liability is about 12% of the revenue generated. Unlike other agencies it has to be payed from revenue and cannot be funded with appropriations from Congress.

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Originally posted by 556dawg:
Postal workers union should be eliminated!

ALL unions should be eliminated.

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Originally posted by alreadydead:
anybody that pulls out "I went to Medical School", is probably an ass

I think in the circumstance it was used in this case you can remove the “probably.” I don’t disagree with what the guy was saying, and the Postmaster General was clearly in the wrong as well, but when he threw that line out there it made him sound like a pompous ass.

Two of the most eye opening inefficient things I've seen with the post office came from my time in Alaska:

Remote villages that are not connected by road have their mail flown in. Most only get 1 or 2 flights per week, but the post office is open 5 days a week.

A stamp cost the same for me to mail something from the Houston suburbs to downtown Houston as it does to mail something from the Houston suburbs to one of the remote villages in Alaska.

For efficiency, DOGE should look to some of the things Canada implemented:

They hardly have any post offices. Instead, the majority are located in drug stores as a kiosk/desk (i.e. mostly replaced the old photo center in drug stores).

They only deliver Monday to Friday.

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