Is his plan to grandstand, jump up and down, but never actually do anything? That would fit the pattern.
No to curbside too many damn crooks
What is curbside service? My mailman already delivers at a box on the curb.
I would love to not have any mail delivered to my house but our post office requires a physical location to deliver mail other than a PO box.
The Post Office’s “customers” are ~400 bulk mailers. They’re the only ones the USPS makes any money off of. You, the 1st-class postage mailer? You do nothing for them, possibly less than nothing. They couldn’t care less about the ordinary citizen’s mail needs.
—— centralized delivery-—
What is centralized delivery?
If you really need six day a week delivery, then rent a post office box.
And does every house really need curbside delivery? Walking will do you good. My wife picks up the newspapers and mail for an elderly neighbor who has trouble walking. During the winter, another neighbor and I take turns shoveling her walk. That's what people in decent communities do.
Do this, curb the damn postal union and encourage more partnerships like the USPS has with Staples and the problem is solved.
From the time by great-grandfather was a young father (circa 1880) until I was a young lad (circa 1970), the post office was super efficient. Postage rates ranged from two to six cents during that time. Railroads moved most of the mail. A letter mailed on the east coast would show up at a destination on the west coast in two or three days. Lines at post offices were minimal because your local Piggly Wiggly or whatever had a postal substation to sell stamps and mail pages. In fact, many little burgs didn't even have a separate post office at all because the local general store or hardware store or whatever would compete for the honor of hosting it. The precedent for a solvent postal system is already there.
Ending door to door delivery should be the first step. It is beyond stupid to have mailmen walking around to deliver mail.
Everyone should have a PO box, then you can lay-off about half of them.
Dump ‘Em !!!!!!!!!!
Dick.G: AMERICAN!
aka: Gunny G
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“You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers.” — US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to Outbox founder Evan Baehr
TOO many people running the organization.In addition to all the chiefs INSIDE the PO, there’s Congress....
IF they want the USPS to stand as a free enterprise, self funding, stand on it’s own business, they need to cut all strings to the Federal Government, and quit taking billions per year away from USPS to piss down the rat hole of government spending.
On the other hand, the Post Office is as much a Constitutionally proper function of the government as the military, and the military is never told to make a profit, or pre-fund future military members health care and retirements out to 75 years in the future.
So we need to do either one of two things. Put the PO back under full Government service and let it turn to total suck, or cut it completely away from the Gov and watch it figure out how to do it better than private companies it will then have to compete with.... I say all this as a mail carrier myself.
Saving the Post Office is a laudable idea but saving this damn country should be the first and foremost priority.
They Charge you to pick up your mail at their facility! They deliver it to your house for free!
This is absurd!
They try to charge money for what costs them nothing, and give away for free, what costs them plenty.
The best idea for the USPS is sell it.
Pre-funding retirement benefits is not a bad idea.
While the US must retain the USPS by international postal treaty, a treaty that would be impossible to create today, the USPS could be limited to just a few things.
1) International mail transfer.
2) Official government document transfer.
3) Registered, Certified, Bonded and Insured transfer.
4) Miscellaneous others.
Are they going to defend the sniper team?
“Everyone must empty their mailbox EVERYDAY! If there is ANY mail in your box when the next delivery is made - ALL MAIL WILL BE RETURNED!”
The notice wasn’t signed but it was, get this, laminated.
The next day I saw my next door neighbor coming out as I was coming in and the mail “person” had just left right in front of him. He looked at me and then at the mail “person” and said in his Irish brogue, “Well isn’t she a real fine piece of work”. Evidently he saw her and asked her to take a Netflix DVD and she said something like “I don’t pick up mail, I just deliver it” and not in a very nice tone, in fact he said she was very rude.
I just shook my head and told him this is why I do my bill paying on line and pretty much the only mail I get is junk mail so it wouldn’t bother me if she took it back as it would save me the trouble of putting it in the recycling bin. In fact it wouldn’t bother me at all if the USPS closed up tomorrow. Then asked him if she was the one who put up the notice and he said, “Yes, it would seem so”.
When I came home from work in Friday that sign was gone replace by another notice from the management. It said:
“We received many complaints regarding the previous notice and we want residents to know that we did not put up the previous notice and are working to remove them from all foyers. While it is true that if you mail box is too full, the postal carrier may not be able to deliver additional mail, we have however contacted and confirmed with the local USPS office that there is no requirement that your mailbox must be emptied on a daily basis nor will any mail already in your box be removed. We appreciate your concerns and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
It sounds like the management complained but I don’t expect that will have any effect. She’ll probably complain about the complaint to her union rep and we’ll be lucky to get our mail without it being torn and mangled, which a lot of it was already.
Curbside? Seriously? What is that supposed to mean? Easier access for criminals and identity thieves? I’d rather the post office were abolished.