Well Kudos to the USPS. Bravo that their productivity is up massively.
That doesn’t explain why you are going to the ends of the earth to defend the other federal agencies.
As to why people drop the USPS from the total is that it’s not exactly a federal agency. It is an independent agency which doesn’t work off of tax dollars. As such it has appreciably more incentive to live within its means and increase productivity than actual federal agencies. Those places can just whine for more tax dollars when they need something.
The main thing the USPS gets from the feds is the exclusive rights to carry first class mail. Of course that’s not quite worth what it once was.
In general kids are simply not hired and by the time they're an average age of 35 they've already demonstrated whether or not they're going to be the sort of folks who get convicted of felonies.
BTW, I would suggest that any professor at San Francisco State is probably a loser who will say anything for money. Wouldn't trust those guys to lead me across the street to get a beer .
LOL, at my PO they've instituted what must be the most insanely inefficient customer service strategy I've ever seen: they used to have a worker poll the interminable lines to see if anyone had business that didn't require a terminal, such as picking up held mail, buying stamps, etc.
Now, they have an employee going through the line asking what people need and writing it down on a slip of paper to bring to the person at the counter.
Today, there was no line, and as I walked to the open counter space, a woman intercepted me and asked what I needed, for which I replied that I was sending a package priority mail and needed delivery confirmation and insurance, and stated that no, there was nothing explosive, liquid, perishable, whatever.
Mind you, she did this walking by my side all the way to the counter. I actually had to finish talking to her as the counter guy waited.
She then handed him the slip with all of the info I just told her.
Only a US government agency would think that having two employees doing the job of one, only more slowly, is an improvement in productivity.
A fews times when there has been a line, it was painfully obvious to everyone that sticking the guy with the note pad behind one of the empty spaces behind the counter would be far more efficient.
I can barely contain my laughter when I see it in action.