If you ever get a chance go to a big USPS BMC (mail center). The employees are ACORN refugees or recent immigrants who cannot speak English due to preferences. I recall being at a bulk mail center when 3rd class (junk mail) had much bigger volumes. And yes “junk mail” helped the post office cover fixed expenses.
Well when the were busy you could stanbd there for an hour while one employee was calling in his horse bets. It is is a unionized work force in most cases.
Wonder why the financial system of America is sinking? Same people are running Fannie and Freddie and the govt thugs tell banks to make loans to anyone or go to JAIL.
Another real problem is we are in a Pelosi (2006 Congress) and Obama Depression if you have not noticed. People with money/brains and businesses do not spend moeny when a marxist is in the White Hut.
Oh to finish the story. I went back a few years later in maybe 2007. The place was a ghost town and the service was better because they had no customers. Junk mail kept rates lower. It is like early bird dinner discounts. Helps cover the fixed costs and downtime and lowers the USPS deleivery cost per unit.
The only "preference" anyone gets for a USPS job is "veterans' preference" and there are several categories. 10 pointers can pretty well cruise right in provided they meet minimum requirements, and 5 pointers (like me) are right behind them.
I once hired over 100,000 returning Viet Nam War vetrans ~ many of them straight out of the boonies ~ gave 'em the test right in the field dodging bullets and mortars.
Well, enough on that. USPS has a pretty open hiring system. You take the test. You wait. The test is no big thing ~ just to demonstrate you can read and aren't going to walk out there in a modern industrial environment and lose limbs on the first day.
Back in the ‘80s, I took the exam for mail carrier. Before we even started the test, minorities were credited with free exam points because they weren’t white. Right off the bat, they had an advantage over whitey. After that, I understood why our mailman couldn’t speak English, and apparently couldn’t read it, either, as there was always some kind of mix-up with our deliveries.