Posted on 02/19/2017 7:22:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Elijah Cummings wants this...then I am positive I do not want this.
The postal system needs privatization. All it does is facilitate crap mail advertising that nobody I know actually wants delivered. STOP Saturdays. Allow compitition to use mail boxes!! NOW!!
Back quite a few decades, when the U.S. Post Office was a government body, it actually MADE A PROFIT. Yes, back when a first class letter would mail for 3 cents!!! And an air mail letter was 5 cents. The profit of the USPS would go into the general fund. As far as I know, this was the ONLY government agency that ever made a profit.
Tell that scumbag Cummings to chew on that.
I went to the Post Office last week.
I haven’t been to one in years.
The clerk was combative.
Screw the Post Office.
Deliver mail every other day. Most days when I walk out to get the mail I throw all of it in the garbage on the way back in.
Yep.
They don’t need to “discontinue Saturday delivery”.
They need to allocate every delivery route to “Group A” or “Group B”.
Group A routes get delivery Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
Group B routes get delivery Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.
Lay-off half of all employees at all levels of management involved in the delivery of mail; that cuts the payroll costs of that segment in half.
It also makes the existing fleet of delivery vehicles last twice as long.
The only exception to the every-other-day policy would be business customers that get enough mail that it would require an extra vehicle trip to deliver it.
First, get the postal employees to realize they are a in service business and not some when I get around to it job. I never use them when I can use fed-ex. Postal employees have the worst attitude of anyone I have ever met. Thank God they aren’t working in the veterans hospitals.
Yes, I can see the need for business deliveries everyday. If I got my home mail three times a week it would be plenty.
While they are at it, drop the expensive franking privileges for politicians. They no longer communicate during their terms by snail mail, inundate us at election time and have an unfair advantage over their challengers.
Empty the mailbox, toss contents in the trash. It’s become a time-wasting daily ritual.
I swear, the entire state of Utah, including pols associated with its church beyond the state’s borders, must be the most corrupt uniparty players in the country.
This “reform” is horrible!!!
Who’s looking out for the taxpayer?
Yeah, that was when they had a monopoly so no competitive products or pricing—and unions and corruption hadn’t so nearly done in its efficiency.
Marking...
If Elijah Cummings wants it, it does nothing to bust up the Postal Service Employees Union. They have blocked every attempt at real reform.
The USPS can not even deliver their so called Priority mail on time. Mailed a Priority 8x11 cardboard envelope on Feb. 3 from Colorado to INDIANAPOLIS, IN. It went to Houston and sat there until Feb 7. Finally got delivered on Feb. 9th.
Also, have you noticed there is no way to complain to them?
Especially with junk mail
One reader in Townhall.com suggested that the mail only be delivered 3 days a week.
Merge the post system into social media. Let everyone sign up for a secure @postoffice.com email box where they can get all their mail digitally sent. Then have post office centers for packages.
I am married to a rural USPS postal carrier in a small town. These people are salt of the earth types who go out of their way to ensure their customers are taken care of, they check on their elderly customers and do things above and beyond. My carrier has a sixty mile route and works 6 days a week, getting every other Monday off. Not all of the postal staff are idiots, rural carries have scanners that track their every move just like UPS. Most do not even take lunch and are on the road most of the day. I love my carrier!
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