What package deliveries? I usually have to go to the post office to pick up my packages because the carrier won’t bring them to the house or drop them at the gate when they don’t fit in the mailbox.
I check my mail about once every 2 weeks. Then I come inside and toss 98% of it in the trash can.
Because it’s back being close to what it was under the Biden admin?
A lot of people don’t realize that USPS doesn’t deliver to tens of millions of homes in America, either you have to go to the post office for your daily mail or at best, the outdoor central post box structure somewhere close to your home or trailer.
When gas gets back to a buck a gallon, that surcharge disappears, no?
So Forever aint Forever ?
Don’t like it, but if they get the increase, they should reduce rates once fuel cost go down. No one ever does but its time to make sure there is a return to previous pricing when the reason for the increase is no longer
The USPS is an anachronism and should be eliminated. Just because the Constitution authorizes it doesn’t mean the Constitution mandates it.
The USPS will be gone within a year. This is just putting off the inevitable, and another way to flush money down the toilet.
Old numbers, but here they are.
“according to Census Bureau data from 2018, the most recent year available. About six-in-ten of the agency’s employees – including mail carriers, postal clerks, and mail sorters and processors – are non-Hispanic white (57%), compared with 78% of the overall U.S. workforce. Around a quarter (23%) of Postal Service workers are black, 11% are Hispanic and 7% are Asian. In contrast, black Americans make up 13% of the national workforce, Hispanics 17% and Asian Americans 6%.”
If you live in D.C. then at least 74% of your mail people are female.
Maybe use mail trucks to return soda bottles to Ohio or something.
100% of all packages from the USPS are delivered 1 to 2 weeks late.
Need to rethink their business model. They should go to an odd or even day delivery system to increase efficiency. With how things are today no one would even notice.
The USPS’s main goal now seems to be to aid democrats in stealing elections.
Porch pirates not effected.
A temporary surcharge? Is that like the Spanish-American War surcharge for phone service?
I heard a senior postal official say that if the Post Office didn’t have direct mail advertising to deliver it would be out of business... so, problem solved.
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.
If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.
In its December 2018 report, President Trump’s Task Force on the United States Postal Service reaffirmed current rules related to postal retiree health benefits, calling it “part of a mandate for postal self-sustainability.” However, the Task Force also recognized that the aggressive and accelerated timetable for funding the mandate has proved unworkable. They call for past deficits to be “restructured with the payments re-amortized with new actuarial calculation based on the population of employees at or near retirement age.”
While this would have a modest positive effect by spreading payments over a longer period of time, it does little to address the underlying problem caused by USPS being burdened with a mandate that no other federal agency or private corporation faces.
I receive a lot of packages that were contracted through UPS, DHL and Amazon Prime where the final stage of delivery is actually completed by the Post Office.