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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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.

THIS makes a lot of sense to me!

At least he can say he ended his career stupidly.

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Originally posted by Broadside:
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....

This is a good perspective, Broadside. Thank you for posting it.


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Originally posted by onegeek:

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
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.

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.

You are kidding right. .73 for a stamp, yeah that is outrageous. Have you tried shipping anything. I mean anything. From a 1# package to a 50 # one. The price is criminal.

As far a the employee benefit deal. They should phase out those long time employees and hire in new ones under a severely revised system more in line with other hard working American workers that allow the postal service to do their job with in a budget and offer affordable pricing to the public they serve.

I retired from the postal service. The PMG was right about one thing. Congress robbed us blind. And still probably is.

Goddamn loooooooong overdue.

Do you know why he covered his ears?
Because he could.


What's going to happen to him?
ZERO, NADA, nothing....

What needs to happen to him?
Hold that fucker accountable! Him and those like him in Government!
DOGE hopefully will have arrest powers, because some of the shit that these .gov agencies are getting away with is criminal. USPS lost more than 100 Billion since 2007? Some people need to be arrested for criminal incompetence.

We joke about "Tar and Feathering" people, "taking them out back"... It needs to happen. An "adult", covering his ears in that manner during a oversight hearing needs to kave the shit kicked out of him AND put in jail.
At some point the word will get out that this sort of malfeasance and incompetence will not be tolerated.

The post office should be spun off as a private business. Zero government money. They either survive or fail.

They may just DOGE themselves because it’s obvious they can’t run themselves. They lost $10 BILLION last year delivering mostly junk mail.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
They lost $10 BILLION last year delivering mostly junk mail.

On my street alone (rural route with about 350 mailboxes), there are at least 4 days per week that my mail carrier has to deliver to each of every one of those mailboxes. Without the junk mail, he'd probably only have to stop at 20% of those boxes and I'm probably high on that account too. It's obscene.

A friend of mine shipped a package to me via USPS nearly 2 weeks ago. We have enjoyed watching it bounce between Chicago and Oshkosh for days now. Often it sits at one location or another for 2 days before it bounces.
There is no rational excuse or reason for this.

Do we NEED mail 6 days a week?

Cut delivery to Mon-Wed-Fri.

Boom, 50% savings.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Do we NEED mail 6 days a week?

Cut delivery to Mon-Wed-Fri.

Boom, 50% savings.

I wholeheartedly agree, but the full time employees would pitch a fit. Dropping them to part time is gonna cause a whole lot of vacancies, which can't get filled now. Half of the population is illiterate with no gumption to work and the other half can't pass a piss test to save their soul. Locally, they also require you to use your own vehicle to deliver mail, which in itself is another issue that involves more hassle than it's worth. My post office only has 2 mail vans and I wouldn't be surprised if the wheels fell off of either one.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Do we NEED mail 6 days a week?

Cut delivery to Mon-Wed-Fri.

Boom, 50% savings.

When it comes to inefficiency and incompetence, you'll save nothing, as long as you subsidize it. They'll find a way to squander it all. Privatize it and let it swim or sink based on its merit or lack of it.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
President-Elect Trump Eyes Privatizing the Failing U.S. Postal Service, Which Has Lost More Than $100 Billion Since 2007

I've had two customers ask me about this and they're shocked when I say I'd love to see the USPS becoming privatized. I have said to coworkers that the USPS is where common sense goes to die. Nothing is done with efficiency of time or cost in consideration. Yesterday, I bought a windshield wiper blade on my own and replaced one that has been needing replacement for a year. (I've only just done it because it's on a vehicle that isn't actually mine, but have used a couple times over the course of the year--mostly during the summer when I didn't need the wipers.)

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Do we NEED mail 6 days a week?

Cut delivery to Mon-Wed-Fri.

Boom, 50% savings.

When it comes to inefficiency and incompetence, you'll save nothing, as long as you subsidize it. They'll find a way to squander it all. Privatize it and let it swim or sink based on its merit or lack of it.

If I mail a letter to my next door neighbor, the letter will travel about 400 miles round trip to be “processed”. If you back into a mail truck in the parking lot and cause no damage, they have to send a truck and trailer 200 miles, haul the mail truck 200 miles to have it inspected, haul it back 200 miles after determining (no damage to begin with), and take the truck and empty trailer back 200 miles. I’ve worked many a “collision” where little or no damage occurred, (one occasion that sticks out in my mind is where a grain truck sideswiped a mail truck and only damage was it knocked off the rear view mirror)and this process has played out. Oh, and if you allow either vehicle to move prior to the “transportation supervisor” arriving, they pitch a fit.

Luckily, I get to tell them they can go fuck themselves and it may be their truck, but it’s my roadway.

I once sent a Priority package to AZ. It was delivered the next day. How's that for lightning fast efficiency? Only problem was, it was delivered to my mailbox.

Screw that guy, because of him I have to drive about a mile to the community mail box thing.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I once sent a Priority package to AZ. It was delivered the next day. How's that for lightning fast efficiency? Only problem was, it was delivered to my mailbox.

I was loading my truck this morning and found a package bound for Hawaii. I asked my supervisor how I was supposed to drive there.

I have a package jammed up in Fairburn for over a week now.

Was supposed to be DELIVERED on the 11th and now tracking has it as non-existent. As if they are making their problems just "go away".

Unions in government agencies should be 100% illegal.