Is the postal slowdown affecting you?

[Maxify55]

USPS is for junk mail.
I deleted the rest of the hateful things I really wanted to say.

Suffice it to say, our Gov't is broke & needs to do a severe belt tightening {re-budgeting}.
Start with this dinosaur!!

 

[Mat4644]

The machines can sort 35,000 pieces an hour but it still takes manual labor for moving and loading. When a package gets scanned 4 times multi days at the same facility and the computer tracking indicates each time it's going out something's not being loaded and just being recycled.

It's amazing they allow real-time computer tracking because it's highlighting issues.

 

[Doofy]

I would imagine that the Post Office could survive if Amazon paid a fair cost per piece and if it were run like a business instead of a outdated government dinosaur. We actually depend on USPS and life would be tough without them.

 

[tallyho8]

If you search for "name the best postal services in the world" you will find that in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the USA was rated the best postal service. Now it is no longer in the top ten and is rated #13.

 

[grsthegreat]

The USPS operates at a profit. Its the pensions and retirement burden thats sinking it.

 

[oldballs]

I don't know anything about the politics and operation of the USPS, but their service to me has been and still is just fine. I receive my incoming mail just fine. And I put my bills etc. in the mailbox for outgoing mail in my semi-rural location. That's working just fine also. As for voting, I like to go in person....but still have to have my ID...i.e. driver license with picture.....even for people that work the election that I've know for years.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[rswyan]

The USPS operates at a profit. Its the pensions and retirement burden thats sinking it.

No - it’s how Congress decided those costs should be funded that’s sinking it:

How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis — And How to Fix it - Institute for Policy Studies

 

[oosik]

I'm VERY rural. The postal carrier puts my mail in my mailbox and picks up anything I leave there - daily. If not the USPS - then who.....??? This service has been exceptionally good for 38+ years out here.

 

[dragoneggs]

The distance from CA. to MS. is ~2000 miles. Average walking speed for adult human is ~4 MPH. So 2000/4 = 500 hours. So 500/24 = 20 days. Therefore, you are correct, your knee brace IS walking. :rotfl:

newberry, I'm thinking you should have ponied up for the bionic option.

 

[CalG]

USPS is a private business (it was forced) but it is still a great deal for sending a letter!.

It has it's "burdens". I know of a fellow who worked at the local post office that took "disability" over his emotional state due to his divorce from his wife.

He has has a couple of "gals" since, so it's not that bad, but he still gets his check mailed to him every month.