Posted on 10/08/2022 11:57:32 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
It’s actually a two-tiered system. The actual USPS employees have a fat union contract which grants them benefits that even normal federal employees don’t have access to. They basically can’t be fired, even for not working. This is offset by hourly contractors who do most of the actual work, about as well as you would expect based on how little they are paid.
There is no hope of reforming the USPS until their union is busted. You can’t get rid of them without amending the Constitution. Fortunately, no one really needs them anymore.
“This gooberment is FAILED. It is time for it to disappar because almost anything that replaces it can be better.”
The government hasn’t failed. It has been filled with people that failed it. And them getting in there is the mistakes of the voters because they are too stupid or lazy to do their research and protect themselves and the nation. And shortly they will be replace by more of the same as both sides of the aisle are just as dishonest and stupid as the voters allow them to be. So, replace it with what that won’t be more of the same or worse? All cats are gray in the dark.
wy69
Load up on forever stamps before January.
USPS is going the way of the pony express…can’t charge ever increasing prices for delivery of ever decreasing volumes…mail boxes will be found as curios in antique shops in 20 years…
They already increased my box rent this summer, along with rate hikes. IIRC, another rate hike is due in time to affect Christmas mailings.
Too much is never enough!
I literally ooen my box and throw everything away.
Years ago it would take a week to get a letter or a card sent to Japan from NY . Now takes a month ! And it is not the Japanese P.O. fault .
On Green Acres Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) was at the post office in Hooterville and tried to pick up a small package under the wooden table leg.
“Don’t take that, Mr. Douglas. Leave it.”
“But this hasn’t been delivered all these months.”
“That particular package is holding up the postal table and is just the right height for balancing out the wobbly tilt. Leave it under there, please.”
Not a good idea to insult and rile up us older FReepers (I was born in 1946). Just sayin'.
I used to collect stamps when I wasn't running my Lionel trains or putting together models of the Snark and the B-58 Hustler.
What years were 2 cent stamps used? When World War I ended at the end of 1918, the rate was lowered to its pre-War level of one cent. Postage was raised briefly from 1 cent to 2 cents in 1917-1919 and in 1925-1928; the conclusive raise to 2 cents was in 1951.
You're "right on" with that statement.
The problem is that NOTHING is being done, or even TALKED about in terms of REMOVING and REPLACING this MONEY-EATING Behemoth.
Last time I checked the USPS was LOSING 5 PLUS BILLION dollars per year of taxpayer money.
Let private industry deal with it.
UPS
Amazon
Fed Ex
The pension savings would easily cover the costs.
The chart I saw said that the postage for the first ounce of a first-class letter was three cents from 1932 to 1958. Two-cent postage was a *long* time back.
Usually on any thread about postage-rate increases, you’ll get old-timers commenting about how cheap postage used to be. (I’m old enough to remember 4-cent first-class postage myself.)
Never got into stamp collecting myself, though I put together quite a few models. Cars, planes, ships, all kinds.
What inflation?
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I think I remember six cent stamps in 1973?
Six cents was 1968-1971. Of course, back then you always had leftover stamps from before the last rate increase, and you’d use one- and two-cent stamps as needed to get the right postage. Best thing the USPS ever did was to go to the forever stamps.
I was wrong... rates from 1863 till now: https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/domestic-letter-rates-since-1863.htm
I have an elderly friend who is unable to get out much. She lives in town. Her mail is delivered to the mailbox on her porch. Too many times, the deliverer failed to pick up her paid bills just because she didn’t have any mail for him to deliver. The paid bills often sit in the box for days.
The Post Office, a ‘government’ corporation was destined to fall from it’s inception.
In before the I-remember-two-cent-stamps crowd.
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I’m so old, I remember Pony Express.
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