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.
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The US Post Office has a VERY DIVERSE workforce.
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.
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!!!
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...
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.
You are actually GETTING mail??
Luck you
My daughter has been waiting on a birthday card for 14 days…
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 Buildings that used to be filled with people handling each piece a couple of times have been replaced by scanners and sorters that move millions of piece of mail every day.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.
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.
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.
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.
My Pillow orders are routed around the country.
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.
They live off the ad revenue for people who want to send paper to homes for marketing purposes.
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.
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.
I’m surprised Amazon, FedEx, UPS or whomever hasn’t started a competing, low-cost, letter delivery service.
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!
“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.
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