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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Listen, the Postmaster could have been queried my Mister Ed. It still doesn't excuse a grown man, and someone in that position, to childishly put his hands over his ears. It's incredibly undignified. I've never seen such a thing in a Congressional setting. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I still don’t understand why we even have a government run Postal Service in the year 2024. All the USPS delivers to me is junk mail every single freaking day. That’s it. Amazon gets me my stuff in one or two days. Why can’t they do the mail? | |||
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Can’t say that I disagree with you one bit. It was almost surreal. Truly disgraceful behavior. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Local post office lobby for mail boxes and self service kiosk is open 24/7/365. Outside lights above the sidewalk and the doors are on during the day but off at night. Figure that out. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
Postal service is a national disgrace. It is sad that many elderly rely on it and all it does is charge unbelievable prices and delivers horrible service. Pathetic. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Yeah, maybe DOGE can evaluate the excess. I don’t need to get mail everyday, costs are high to drive all those routes. | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
As bad as that first video is, you really need to watch the one right after that. He's being questioned by Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (D) in a less theatrical but more substantive performance. Anyone that lives in our area and is "served" by the Palmetto postal facility he sold as a great improvement will have their blood boiling after listening. That guy could have done well as a bureaucrat in the old Soviet Union as an efficiency expert. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Agreed. The USPS should have been privatized or eliminated long ago. And no, you don’t need to change the US Constitution for this to happen. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yeah... keep it for those who have it but 401k going forward.
Good ideas. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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What unbelievable prices? This is often cited as a problem, but never defined. For 73 cents someone comes to my home or business, picks up an envelope, and then delivers the envelope anywhere in the United States. | |||
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I don't disagree. Heck, I'd cut it to four -- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday -- given how little non-junk mail people get nowadays. And frankly, I'd be very tempted to cut out Saturday. Heck, the vehicle-related savings (fuel, wear and tear, etc.) would be "yuge." God bless America. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
I don’t understand their logistics. I’m about an equal distance from four major cities in Michigan, Detroit to the east, Lansing to the west,Ann Arbor to the south and Flint to the north. 40-50 mile range each direction. Packages coming into here get routed to Detroit, then to Grand Rapids, about 75 miles west of Lansing. Then to the local P.O. unless the decide to route it to Pontiac, again fifty miles to the east then here. I had one I tracked once, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Lansing then here. Made no sense to me either. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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I agree that cutting back to just Monday to Friday deliveries for regular service is probably the best way. I rent a Box at the local facility as I’ve had 6 street boxes taken out in the past 30+ years. I live on a curved street and local traffic is hazardous at best; all my previous street boxes were installed per USPS instructions. Privatization might work best, but it’ll be more costly in the long term. A British First Class stamp is £1.65 (US $2.10). There’s currently a dust-up going on about the sale of the British Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire as a privatization measure. TACFOLEY could probably give better information about this issue. --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
I don't like his odds of being employed when the cherry blossoms bloom in DC. DOGE with extreme confidence.  | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
The best thing that USPS could do would be to stop wasting money and resources delivering reams of junk mail. I get probably 4-5 pieces of mail every day. It is no exaggeration to say that 99.5% of it is unsolicited junk mail that goes directly into the burn barrel. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
It's less about delivering envelopes and more about delivering packages. Speaking as someone who spent several years working in shipping as recently as two years ago, USPS is rarely the cheapest option. We did most of our business with UPS. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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DeJoy is, unfortunately from North Carolina (now). He's a carpetbagger from New York and is a self-important jerk. His wife was a cabinet secretary in NC under McCrory and was universally despised. He "bought" his appointment with political contributions. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Raising the price of handling junk mail would result in less junk mail and / or more income to USPS. Either outcome would be a winner. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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My Grandfather was a WWI Vet and delivered the mail on a foot route in east Dayton for 30+ years. Upon his retirement, the neighborhood threw a party for him and people cried to know they were losing him. Unfortunately for USPS and for us, those days are over. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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delicately calloused |
The USPS is evolving too slowly. That’s a management problem. It’s what we get for allowing bureaucrats to run it. It’s probably not too late to make an evolutionary jump to light speed but the window is closing. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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