Posted on 04/08/2016 5:30:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
How many of those federal bureaucracies are constitutional in the first place? The executive branch was never authorized in the Constitution to hold such power to micromanage or to be so large.
And at the same time they screwed people out of money on forever stamps, they made it so the post office folks are gonna hate postal customers b/c they’re losing a supposed 2 billion in revenue.
Cool. I’m at the end of a roll or Forever stamps.
I guess with all the US government debt China has bought, the PRC is calling the shots. :)
Well, if a temporary tax is what was passed, why are the pissed or surprised?
So my “forever” stamps are now worth less? Thanks again, PO.
Due to budget cuts, it looks like the U.S. Post Office won’t be sponsoring the Olympics this year. /s
Forty-six percent sounds accurate. The Canadian FedGov pension is based on 2% for each year of service, multiplied by the average of an employee's best 5 years. I believe it is capped at 35 years of service. So, the Canadian equivalent of the one described on the link, would be a 50% pension after 25 years of service. Of course, there is a built in COLA every year.
On paper, a government pension certainly sounds better than a private sector pension, especially since most are now 'defined contribution' pension plans. The thing is, many 'swivel servants', at least in Canada, only retire in their mid-60s, due to partial loss of their CPP benefits, if they retire early. Many also often die soon after their retirement. Apparently, retired Canadian civil servants die much younger than the Canadian average, so they don't really benefit from the 'gold plated' pension. (Canada Pension Plan is the government pension plan for all Canadian.)
Don't know how it is in the US, but ex-military often get government jobs after they leave the Canadian Forces, so they get both a DND and a PS pension.
End the US post office. Its a welfare program for government employees and an anachronism.
Well, if the service it purports to provide were anachronistic, then companies like FedEx and UPS would be out of business. I suspect that they could do something successful with first class mail if they availed of the business.
So much was wrong with the Postal Reorganization Act too. The notion of an “independent agency” insured the continuity of unaccountability, and government was expanded via the creation of the Postal Regulatory Commission.
Stupid move. They should increase the cost so they can break even. To be able to send a letter for 49 cents is ridiculously cheap.
Would cutting back on a lot of commemorative stamps and extraneous services like money orders help?
You just gave me an idea. Last Fall, I spend several hundred bucks for firewood.
If a person had a specially built unit, you could heat your house with junk-mail. You could spend a couple days subscribing to every free publication and get on the mailing list of companies that sent out pulp-based flyers.
Set up a special "1st Class" mailbox, and a huge "junk-mail" mailbox.
All you'd have to is haul the feedstock to the hopper and stoke up the furnace...Take out the ashes once a week.
And the same with every other State and Municipal bureaucRAT.
Great idea. One man’s junk mail is another man’s fuel. If you live in an area that prohibits burning your fireplace on occasion, you could just tell them that you are not burning anything, you are just recycling.
A properly designed combustion chamber and fuel grate would provide high temperatures and no smoke. You'd just need to have a ceramic crucible and forced draft with a constant feed, and a way to transfer the heat.
A Russian fireplace would work (very large and lots of brick)....or a water cooled panel with a storage tank.
I'll bet the latter could be fabbed up easily and could reside in the backyard with underground pipes into the basement.
Un-#ing real.
USPS generates revenue strictly through counter sales — not by taxation. It’s been struggling. It makes a profit, and then is forced go back into the red by another arm of government that depends on taxation.
Our postal service is horrible - both delivery and the office itself. I get plenty of mail for my family, yet can predictably receive no mail at all in crappy weather. The office itself is entitled slugs working at a snails pace, completely indifferent to demands on customers’ time.
It is dying a slow death (staved off temporarily by junk mail; why don’t environmentalists shut this down?); good riddance.
You’re absolutely right; any upstanding person I know who started a career there left after a couple of years because of issues with entitled (often “preferred minority”) co-”workers”.
I was there recently and the clerk, unable to help me, kept asking another employee (more familiar with it) to help. The competent worker, right in front of us, punched out for lunch (in the morning) so he wouldn’t be bothered; what should have been a half hour visit turned into two hours.
They are loathsome...
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