Posted on 12/24/2025 9:23:02 PM PST by Az Joe
How has the Postal Service escaped the eye of Trump for reform?
Trump already took care of it. It’s running very smooothly under Steiner.
It’s still losing billions. The unions have seen to that.
Amazon still doesn’t pay the going rate for packages, the regular customer has made up for that. They’re raising prices on first class maill and now the daily door to door advertising has taken over only costing pennies per piece. The post office is toast and I’m glad I’m finally retiring this year.
The postal service and armed forces should be the only thing the federal government should be in charge of.
The federal goverment has become a place for people to get their personal reparations for whatever way they feel the United States has slighted them. It is why we have a deep state.
I know of postal clerks helping the elderly in rural areas by reading them their letters and helping them write checks to pay their bills.
For the most part those elderly are conservative and vote.
Like hell.
I ordered an item 27 November that was unfortunately shipped USPS - and it still isn't here. It's getting bounced all around Texas.
I went to my local post office yesterday at 4 PM to pick up Christmas packages. Closed. In my rural neck of the woods, there are 5 post offices serving less than 5000 people. I’d say it needs serious work just to get to “quite inefficient”.
Once the wrong one gets sprayed onto a letter or package, it becomes a tourist. Will visit many cities and States for the low, low cost of just $29.99.
It will also bear the many attempts to "fix" the problem. Examples: pen handwritten correction attempts, black marker cross outs everywhere and everybody's favorite, the yellow sticker tape parade.
For communication, I trust the USPS more than our leftist tech lords, who censor in secret.
I was hoping someone would do it for me. Thx
Around here USPS trucks run on Sunday delivering packages for Amazon. Any company may apply to Amazon to deliver packages.
I’m not sure what the pay rate is.
I assume that anything the USPS gets from Amazon to deliver packages (from Amazon to the customer) would be over and above what they get to deliver from supplier to Amazon.
We have absolutely NO Amazon delivery in Sullivan, Coos, or Grafton county, here in NH. It’s all done by the post office . Also counties in Vermont are covered only by the usps. We are also now picking up returns instead of going to a UPS store. As far as Concord and Manchester, they are the only ones who have Prime delivery. Im assuming unless Amazon has a very high populated county, it’s not profitable to have their own trucks there. So, give it to the USPS at the lower price.
Nothing ever came of that.
The USPS has become a semi-reliable partner at best for our direct mail business. Repeated changes to postage rates, shipping methods, delivery standards, and time-in-transit have made their services unpredictable and increasingly cost-prohibitive for our business mailing clients.
Compounding the problem, accountability and meaningful support are effectively nonexistent. Issues go unresolved, responsibility is diffuse, and assistance—when available—offers little practical value.
Today, the financial reality is stark: approximately 70% of our average invoice is postage, while only 30% reflects printing and mailing services. This imbalance underscores how USPS pricing and instability now dominate both cost structure and client risk.
I receive my mail.
uNiOn sTR0nG! And when the latest contract occurred, the same oldfarts who make all that much more got a NEW pay raise the second tier didn’t get. And got MORE in the COLA raise than the second tier.
Actually, I think we should privatize the postal service. But it is required under the Constitution. So...
Use those postage free business reply envelopes, stuff all the junk mail crap that fits into them and drop them in a collection box.
The sender of the BRM envelope pays the postage.
I like that
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