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Posted on 01/09/2024 8:18:03 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The US Postal Service has more employees than the US Army has active duty soldiers. No joke, In 2023, when UPS, FedEx and Amazon (as well as DHL and others) can and do easily access over 99% of American addresses. It literally makes zero sense that we even still have a Postal Service, or if needed at all, it is more than a tiny outtit for specialized circumstances. It’s diffciult to take seriously any Republican congressman who speaks of cutting the deficit without talking about our half-a-millon strong Postal Service. Total joke.
“Nice Luger.”
The USPS has some 6 desk jockeys for every employee who actually sorts or delivers mail or works the counters. It is bloated beyond belief. 2/3s of it’s staff could be fired tomorrow and no one would ever notice.
I’d also point out something I read years ago in an article written by someone who had a long career in the U.S. State Department. He said that dysfunction and decline in a foreign country’s mail delivery system was seen by U.S. government officials as the first clear sign of that nation’s eventual collapse.
Then who will deliver threatening Certified letters for the IRS?
The USPS is almost a dinosaur. With so much being done on line now darn near everything is done that way rather than scribble pencil. Bills are paid online, bank transactions, buyable and free holiday cards are used. So most of the possible mail that was sent 50 years ago is accomplished in front of the keyboard and monitor in your pajamas. Email makes it an instant communication if the address is good, and that means only one person has to be correct to get it to the receiver. And hen there ae things for communication for a reason. FR is a perfect example.
There will come a time when all mail or business will be done this way and the USPS will go by the way of the dinosaur.
wy69
I remember when the feds suggested a tax on each email to “offset USPS losses.”
When I was a kid in the 50’s, living in Rochester, New York, during the Christmas season, the post office used to deliver twice a day for a certain number of days.
This year, for the first time, an envelope I sent the same son, was returned to me with a message "Address Doesn't Exist." My son has lived at the same address for at least 30 years, and I have always sent his mail with the same address on the envelope without problem. He lives in a three story brownstone, and there are three different mailboxes for each flat. His is the second floor, which I clearly mark as 2nd floor on the envelope. Dizty USPS delivery people.
Agree we have a government unionized postal system that picks our mail in ballots and does what with them.
OH WAIT 2020 dumpsters with ballots seen on fire.
“I remember when the feds suggested a tax on each email to ‘offset USPS losses.’”
I am seeing a whole lot of AI coming in at the present and I’m willing to bet in the future the computer will be a major part of it as it is already in everyone’s home and/or office. Problem I see is that there will come a time when you will tell Alexa to pay your bills at which time uncle sugar will know all about your acting finances to include your liquid assets. At that point they can put you on your knees with info you would never give them now. A sure sign now is that many companies or transactions can not be done with cash.
Hidden agenda by erasing the cost of USPS using the computer and having access to your soul. And you won’t be able to change it by doing it yourself or using cash to block them because Alexa is going to tell them everything you are, they will have you by the short ones.
wy69
What you wrote above is what I've heard from several relatives who were/have been postal workers for many years. They might not have a problem with privatization, but they have pointed to the Constitution. Many years ago, a post office job was considered a good job. But, nowadays, they mostly deliver packages because the USPS is competing with Amazon, UPS, FedEx. To say the mail carriers are not happy now would be an understatement. Instead of delivering letters, they're mostly delivering big, heavy boxes, and the letter delivery falls behind. They are overworked. Nevertheless, the older ones stay committed to the job. They always say they're hanging in there for the pension, but often they put off retirement. It's like they belong to a brotherhood they don't want to leave. They see their job as important and take their duties seriously. Actually, Clifford from Cheers wasn't far off. (lol) In fact, that actor was used in USPS training videos. I've never watched the Costner movie. I should check it out.
I really enjoyed the guys I worked with.
I had done factory work and hospital cleaning work before, and letter carriers (not the night mail clerks!) were a blue collar elite.
People joke about it all the time but handling huge sums of money, vital documents and registered/insured mail is a lot of responsibility and doing it well was (and should be) a source of pride in a way that humping Bezos’s crap around is not.
Well said. Agreed 100%.
“Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there’s never a let-up. It’s relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it’s Publishers Clearing House day.”
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