Posted on 05/28/2011 6:47:53 PM PDT by 4buttons
He is struck by how many USPS executives started out as letter carriers or clerks. He finds them so consumed with delivering mail that they have been slow to grasp how swiftly the service's financial condition is deteriorating. "We said, 'What's your 10-year plan?' " Herr recalls. "They didn't have one."
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Good point!!!!
All in all, it’s still the best postal service in the world. And despite management faults and the occasional bad apple, most people who work there care about their work and give a good effort.
FedEx DOES deliver US mail. They have a contract to do long haul air freight of USPS priority and next day letters and packages.
The USPS is tanking depsite FedEx helping them with their most time-sensitive packages.
It also says that they have to provide a currency, but they have a Private Corporation print and issue its’ Money. They call it the FED.
Since when has the constitution ever constrained the government?
Fine, and that’s something everyone understands, no long explanation necessary. But a customer wants to have a letter delivered, that’s all, and doesn’t care if FedEx owns airplanes. How many times I have had FedEx and UPS packages and large envelope letters delivered to my doorstep and left there when no one was home, and even when there was someone home, and the sender, perhaps a junk mail sender, as started happening recently, paid a good price for this kind of “service”.
And what about undeliverables that require a signature? With USPS I can pick them up the next day at my local post office. With those other guys, I have to drive 12 miles out of town that same evening where the pick up times are between 8:30 @ 9PM (I kid you not), or else wait again the next day when they show up at whatever hour.
Nothing requires a postal monopoly on first class mail. Only the unions would be upset if others could deliver first class mail.
What does that say about your church and the Bible study?
They are not allowed to by Federal law, nor can they put anything in your mailbox or slot.
USPS has a legal monopoly on all ‘letter’ traffic.
The postal inspection service that doesn’t do anything? I’ve reported stolen parcels repeatedly and never hear back. And per the paper, even if they do find the party, all they do is suspend them because they’re in the union and cannot immediately be fired? That postal inspection service?
They lost an Express Mail package and the postmaster told me I had to wait 30 days before they’d even try to trace it. The competition will try to trace it while you’re standing there.
When UPS went out on strike in 1997, the USPS had an avalanche of mail for a period of months. If UPS or FedEx go out on strike or stop business for any reason, without a federal mail service, things will grind to a halt.
It makes one wonder who makes the decision at USPS. Just today, while waiting in line I looked around at all the crappy mercandise they have hanging on the walls and on racks that nobody ever buys; from gift wrap to “green” non-disposable cloth shopping bags. Since nobody ever buys any of it, and since new stuff keeps popping up, I must assume that after a while they just trash the stuff, or let the employees take it home, and then they write it off as a loss.......and then bring ANOTHER truckload of similar junk!
If you’ll check, I think you’ll find the Constitution states “The Congress shall have the power to........establish post offices and post roads.” It doesn’t say they are required to do so, just that they have the power to do it. I haven’t seen anything there that forbids anyone else to carry letters or written communications, it’s just that we came to rely on the Post Office for so long that it became established as the only one allowed. It may be, but not by the Constitution, as far as I can see.
Sure they will, just put them inside a Fed Ex envelope. I send first class mail all the time by Fed Ex. It costs more but its the true cost of delivery not some subsidized government bull...!
Deliving mail is not rocket science, any more than fast food or convenience stores, and entrepreneurs both established (bus companies, trains, airlines, etc.) and new would move in quickly. Heck, I'd do it if no else wanted to (at least across town). Wouldn't you?
Not to mention that most companies do most communications via email or electronic means just to avoid such issues.
Personally, I keep waiting for someone to invent an automobile that runs on junk mail. Then we could look forward to getting the stuff! And instead of trying to get off mailing lists, we would all be trying to get on them. Win-win for us and the advertisers.
As my buddy found out, companies don’t count costs when they have to notify an employee via a $30 FeedEX Letter that he has been accused of the crime of the century, “sexual harassment”. Accused.
I live in a rural area. I know a very qualified man who took the test - twice, at different times, when the PO advertised that they needed rural route carriers. The second time he passed the test, he made it to the second (or was it third?) interivew. The interview apoligized and said he was the most qualified person, but the director (or some similar word) in Portland wanted more women carriers.
So what do have now? A total dingbat mental case who recently had to take 2 months off for illness (had to be mental) and constantly misdelivers mail including little things like debit cards and pin numbers. We had to get a PO box in another town 8 miles away to avoid this fiend nutcase.
Our neighborhood put together a petition about this nutcase carrier. I myself screamed at the post mistress about 5 times because of it. I said “Why the H don’t you drug test this freaking idiot???” She told me that the postal workers union requires a 30 day warning before doing any drug testing. And that it’s almost impossible to fire anyone.
I hate the USPS.
No whites working at the post offices where I live.
I had a money order stolen from the DC mail system.
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