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.
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.
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?
Marking...
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?
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!
Privatize it along with Amtrak they will never make a profit Amtrak haven’t seen a profit in 40 years both are rat holes.
postal workers near me move at a snails pace and don’t care how long the line is waiting. they take breaks at the busiest times and other unpopular times i’ve been in they have 2-3 workers at the counter spots with nothing to do. VERY mismanaged.
I actually worked for the postal service less than a week in 1990(ish). they had me sorting mail in back room and I took it seriously until a certain time came and they told me to just pile it all back in the big rolling bin and it would get sorted a automated mail facility. They had me do the same the next day, I wanted a job that actually was part of accomplishing some thing so I found work elsewhere.
Of course FedEx and UPS options are a non starter. No idea how they have any international business with their rates.