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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by Hildur:

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Originally posted by Calif Phil:
If I mail a letter to my next door neighbor, it has to leave our post office, travel 120 miles by truck to Wichita, truck it back 120 miles to our post office to be delivered to my neighbor 3 days later, same for a PO BOX they can not cancel the postage and stuff it in the next PO Box. Common sense and USPS are not used in the same sentence.

When I lived in the states my local post office had a special mailbox for "in town" mail. I assume it's to bypass the lack of common sense you're describing.

They did away with those several years ago. Now all mail has to go to regional sorting facilities. Makes no sense.

Ever since the Anthrax attacks in 2001 that killed 5 and sickened 17, all mail must be scanned for Anthrax. This is done at the regional processing centers. Local mail is no longer excepted from these screenings.

They're not slowing the mail delivery starting today, they're merely documenting the fact that it's too slow and has been for years.

Nothing will change.

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Originally posted by konata88:
They mentioned utilizing more ground transportation over air transportation. Do they get discounted rates for gas? Are higher gas prices influencing the shift to ground from air? Or is this one of the many shitty impacts of the Biden petro policies?

None of the above.

Even since the advent of the Scaredemic passenger air travel has been greatly reduced. Turns out USPS piggy-backed on passenger air travel.

Five'll get you ten that they're switching as much mail transportation over to railroads as possible.

I used to work in the mailing and shipping room of a major paper. It printed the Christian Science Monitor for the entire Southeast. The papers were bundled and sorted then tossed into canvas bags to be taken to the rail station. It was not efficient and had room for plenty of mistakes.

I got slammed with a late charge because a bill that I paid arrived sixteen days late.

I dropped the check at my local Post Office, it was going to a business in the same zip code, less than two miles from the Post Office.

I hand carried a replacement check. Once the original one finally arrived and the manager of the business saw the postmark date on the envelope, she credited me back with the late charge and used some words that would make a Navy Chief blush, to describe the USPS.

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Did USPS charge a storage fee?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Five'll get you ten that they're switching as much mail transportation over to railroads as possible.

Hello Mr. Warren Buffett. Chu-CHING!!!

"Five'll get you ten...". Heheheheh...my mom says that all the time.

I’ll take reasons we need earlier voting for $500 Alex.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by Hildur:

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Originally posted by Calif Phil:
If I mail a letter to my next door neighbor, it has to leave our post office, travel 120 miles by truck to Wichita, truck it back 120 miles to our post office to be delivered to my neighbor 3 days later, same for a PO BOX they can not cancel the postage and stuff it in the next PO Box. Common sense and USPS are not used in the same sentence.

When I lived in the states my local post office had a special mailbox for "in town" mail. I assume it's to bypass the lack of common sense you're describing.

They did away with those several years ago. Now all mail has to go to regional sorting facilities. Makes no sense.

Ever since the Anthrax attacks in 2001 that killed 5 and sickened 17, all mail must be scanned for Anthrax. This is done at the regional processing centers. Local mail is no longer excepted from these screenings.

Hmmm. Never connected the dots on that. I’ve heard they scan/image every piece of mail as well and I’m sure that data is only used for wholesome purposes.

I will say, my local PO has been decent but they have no control over what comes in on the trucks. I’m sure this will help…

I'm with the shut it down or privatize it group.

While I rarely get my neighbor's mail, they consistently get mine. I had to buy a PO Box for business payments because the neighbors are often away for long periods and the postman can't match the big numbers on the house to the little numbers on the envelopes. I'm trying to move all my customers to credit payments even though it costs money to process them.

My last dealing with the new postman was hilarious. We get Informed Delivery emails that tell us what's in the mail for that day. One day we got one letter for a similar address (we consistently get mail for someone at OurStreet Point while my address is OurStreet Ave) so I met the postman at the door and told him, "that's not our mail". He looked at it, looked at me, looked at the letter and said "OK" and stuck it in my mailbox. Before I could unlock the mailbox and retrieve it and give it back to him, he runs off to the next house. I didn't feel like chasing him down so I stuck it outside of the mailbox marked ANK and then I found it in my mailbox again the next day. :shrug: