I have an idea that might just work on Mother's Day.......
Agreed. At this point the USPS is an anachronism. Let private firms handle first class mail...whatever there is of it.
Yabutt, how will ballots be generated?
Nope. To perpetuate Beltway influence on elections, the post office is a critical black hole in any vote tabulation scam investigation the bureaucrats are running interference for.
I’m surprised when I get my mail the same day as my notification.
It’s in the constitution. There is that.
Also, if the Federal Pension system lost the Postal retirement inflows, it would go broke. It floats all of the other Federal Pensions.
And…as far as privatization goes, what do you think Fed Ex and UPS does?
So….getting rid of it isn’t going to happen.
....”..yes, there were citizen complaints about delivery delays and mail theft....”
you better believe it....one of my offsprings met with a local USPS supervisor about not receiving numerous Christmas cards and he basically blew it off....yeah, we have a lot of mail, but....backlogs, you see....so sorry....maybe better next year.....maybe those cards will show up....eventually....
The horse and buggy would still be here if it were a gummit agency.
It's already been privatized. That's the problem.
It's one of the few Constitutional functions of the Federal government that they actually should be performing. With exceptions, of course. It's not 1789 any more.
I delivered mail for five years 1969-1973 as a summer temp to pay for school. I wore the pony under USPOD and switched before I finished to the stylized eagle of USPS.
Certain functions, like first class mail to every mail stop in the US should be returned to the Post Office Department. Yes, I watched the stupid Kevin Costner movie. Also yes, it made a good point.
As far as the taxpayers subsidizing the last ten miles for Bezos? Screw that. Bezos should pay for his deliveries, AND if he wants to mail them under proper mail rules they need to wait for the First Class mail to go out. If not, let him buy all the trucks, drones, and drivers he needs to afford that yacht.
Flats (catalogs, magazines, Nikki Haley ads) can be privatized for all I care.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
“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.”