Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

What’s Up with the Post Office?
New American Prophet ^ | June 3, 2025 | Rob Pue

Posted on 06/03/2025 5:53:02 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani

I realize there are many more pressing problems in our nation and world today than what I’m about to discuss, but these issues are already being addressed very well right now by others. What’s not getting much attention — and I feel needs to — are the ongoing failures within the US Postal Service.

The USPS has been in a nosedive, downward spiral for years and it’s only getting worse. While this agency continues to raise prices and continues to operate as an unsustainable, failing business, the service has gotten so bad now I feel we must address the situation head on.

(Excerpt) Read more at new.americanprophet.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; dei; goingpostal; incompetence; postoffice; spying; usps
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

1 posted on 06/03/2025 5:53:02 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

The US Post Office has a VERY DIVERSE workforce.


2 posted on 06/03/2025 5:54:04 AM PDT by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

Our newest mail carrier has taken to putting my bills and such inside the folded junk mail. It is infuriating! Now I have to actually look through that garbage just to make sure I am not throwing out a bill. Forget putting something in your mailbox and expecting it to arrive at its destination. It certainly isn’t performing at the level is was even a few years ago.


3 posted on 06/03/2025 5:59:25 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

Boy are you right! My Dr. Ordered a new drug for me and it shipped on the 20th of May and I am still waiting. It has bounced all over Florida and Georgia. It has gone through Jacksonville FL 3 times and sitting there right now for 3 days! Ridiculous!!!


4 posted on 06/03/2025 6:01:11 AM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!cper)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

Typical Government employee arrogance. Each and every USPS employee no matter level of position has some idea THEY run the whole Enchilada. The service and customer respect is about as bad as going to the Motor Vehicle Dept. The civilian public are treated like unclean Peons...


5 posted on 06/03/2025 6:03:59 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Openurmind

You bring up a good idea. Privatize local post offices as franchises. They did it for the DMV in NJ and they became better overnight. Still full of illegal trash but the staff are friendly and helpful for rhe most part.


6 posted on 06/03/2025 6:09:14 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: bk1000

You are actually GETTING mail??

Luck you

My daughter has been waiting on a birthday card for 14 days…


7 posted on 06/03/2025 6:11:09 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

The person writing this doesn’t seem to understand how the system works. Bulk mail is not something you use for time sensitive mailings. Ever.

It still costs about a dollar to mail something to the other side of the country.

That is a bargain.

The reasons for the annual deficits are well known, but to generally understood by the masses.

The increased automation and efficiency in the Postal Service is amazing. Buildings that used to be filled with people handling each piece a couple of times have been replaced by scanners and sorters that move millions of piece of mail every day.

Bitching about the postal service is an age old trope. It is based on ignorance.


8 posted on 06/03/2025 6:11:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani
Any government agency or pseudo agency lives a very limited lifespan of any efficacy, if it ever had any. The nature of government is always to grow itself, do as little as possible, and build massive walls of bureaucracy to obscure its activities and condition.

You are seeing the twilight of the great government agencies that once existed. USPS, NASA, FAA, NOAA, FBI, CIA, and so on. All being crushed under their own dysfunctional weight.

9 posted on 06/03/2025 6:11:32 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

USPS is horrible. I just sent a package to Washington DC, it arrived in DC, but, a couple of days later, it showed up in Boise ID. Now it is headed, hopefully, back to DC.


10 posted on 06/03/2025 6:14:58 AM PDT by Ez2BRepub (Democrats Suck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani
Revenues are down, service is spotty, the employees still think they are working in the 70's and with all of the competition from UPS, Fedex etc. the growth days of the Postal Service are long over.

Most people in the USA no longer send written letters or Birthday Cards, it's mainly electronic communication.

I have never received a written letter from any of my grandkids {all are in their 20's} they email, tweet, twit and twat and once in a while actually call and talk on the phone.

I don't know if any of them has ever written an actual letter.

I know that none has ever hand written a letter because the chicken scratch that they call writing looks like the Greek Alphabet.

The Post Office is the VCR of communications.

11 posted on 06/03/2025 6:15:19 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

My Pillow orders are routed around the country.


12 posted on 06/03/2025 6:15:27 AM PDT by Recompennation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

The USPS is a bad combination of private responsibility (on paper) and government control.

It has always been a popular location for minority hires, especially back in the ‘60s when it was a fully subsidized government operation and there was twice a day delivery.

Even recently, I received a Christmas Card that was mailed to Arizona with a Missouri postmark of January 5, 2025. Bad.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 6:16:36 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: USS Alaska
The Post Office is the VCR of communications.

They live off the ad revenue for people who want to send paper to homes for marketing purposes.

14 posted on 06/03/2025 6:16:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

I was waiting for an important piece of mail that tracking showed was out for delivery. When it wasn’t delivered I tracked the tracking and it showed it arriving in a city in another state.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 6:22:48 AM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trumpette1954

That drives me crazy. I’ve had a number of Amazon purchases that were shipped U.S. mail and ended up doing a national tour. Geez. I had one originally shipped from Texas, where I live, and it ended up in Minnesota.


16 posted on 06/03/2025 6:26:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani
I have just about stopped using the USPS for anything. The local services here are a joke, the staff is rude, the buildings smell and are in dismal condition.

While I hate to do it I have transitioned to online bill payment for almost everything now, if I have to use a check I take the check to that person and place it in their hand personally.
17 posted on 06/03/2025 6:28:35 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rev M. Bresciani

I’m surprised Amazon, FedEx, UPS or whomever hasn’t started a competing, low-cost, letter delivery service.


18 posted on 06/03/2025 6:28:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Maskot

I sent a Christmas package to my daughter and son-in-law in Georgia (from NC) 3 weeks before Christmas. She got it in late March. And it was intact!


19 posted on 06/03/2025 6:30:50 AM PDT by Hatteras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: HYPOCRACY

“Privatize local post offices as franchises. They did it for the DMV in NJ and they became better overnight.”

And it would cost half as much. No government retirement plans to pay for. We did that in Az with our MVD also. They now allow private 3rd party services for a lot of the simpler straight forward transactions like Vehicle transfers and renewals if they do not need to also be inspected.


20 posted on 06/03/2025 6:31:59 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson