Rant on shipping

[bunchgrass]

The problem is when somebody is hired as a permanent full time USPS employee they have to at that point put aside money to pay for their retirement if they stay for their entire career.

Aaron Z

Yep --- a clear attempt to make the USPS insolvent. We do enough damage to our own country by destroying or failing to maintain the infrastructure that our predecessors built that China can just wait us out.

 

[bunchgrass]

Good point, and I'm in one of those "one horse towns". The PO once was a room in the general store but they decided to make it a stand alone place. Now the general store is gone and they keep talking about closing the post office. The same place serves 6 towns, totaling about 700 people.

Our Post Office is now in an old taco truck because some idiot bitched about potential asbestos in the floor tiles and demanded the building owner remove and replace the tiles. He told the USPS to get the hell out of his building. So now we have a taco truck parked under the city's equipment shed for our PO going on year 3. Now our ultraconservative community is demanding the feds build us a brand new post office facility. Population - 550.

 

[goeduck]

Our Post Office is now in an old taco truck because some idiot bitched about potential asbestos in the floor tiles and demanded the building owner remove and replace the tiles. He told the USPS to get the hell out of his building. So now we have a taco truck parked under the city's equipment shed for our PO going on year 3. Now our ultraconservative community is demanding the feds build us a brand new post office facility. Population - 550.

amazing !

 

[dragoneggs]

Our Post Office is now in an old taco truck because some idiot bitched about potential asbestos in the floor tiles and demanded the building owner remove and replace the tiles. He told the USPS to get the hell out of his building. So now we have a taco truck parked under the city's equipment shed for our PO going on year 3. Now our ultraconservative community is demanding the feds build us a brand new post office facility. Population - 550.

I would love to comment on your post and learn more... but will bite my tongue and steer clear.

 

[Frankenkubota]

You say there is more fat to cut. Can you be more specific and what facts are you basing that on?

Here's a little fat.

My buddy goes to korea as a contractor, 30 years ago, meets a local gal, marries her, brings her and many family members back over the years. Both go to work for uncle sam, usps!

He's a friend but also a self admitted alcoholic, hard hard core! He's on disability and lives at the dr office. His korean wife came down with emotional issues. She's either at the docs office or in the psyc. hospital constantly. Funny though. Her doc suggested she not have any emotional breakdowns during the virus.....so she hasn't. Turns it on and off like a switch.

Both a combined 150 lbs overweight, eat out 10 times a week, nice cars and house.......and both on 100% govt. disability.

FAT? But that's probably an isolated incident........?

I read govt. employees most likely to go on disability, police and fire fighters first in line.

 

[fried1765]

I doubt the USPS and the Canadian postal service share the same tracking software

I doubt the USPS and the Canadian postal service share the same tracking software

From my experience living in Canada, Canada Poste uses the PEx (Pony Express) shipping system.
It is absolutely horrible, but USPS is working hard to replicate the Canada Poste system!

 

[Oaktree]

I read govt. employees most likely to go on disability, police and fire fighters first in line.

I don't know where you got this "statistic" ("I read it on line so it's gotta be true"), but that's news to me.
As far as police and firefighters go...both are occupations that require you to be in pretty good shape, it would take a much smaller injury to sideline someone than, say some office job.

 

[RjCorazza]

I don't know where you got this "statistic" ("I read it on line so it's gotta be true"), but that's news to me.
As far as police and firefighters go...both are occupations that require you to be in pretty good shape, it would take a much smaller injury to sideline someone than, say some office job.

I suspect public safety workers that run into burning buildings and get attacked or shot at are more prone to disabling injuries than many other professions.
My record over 30 years was 8 broken bone incidents, several non disabling burns, one concussion, and too many minor injuries to count. I made it to normal retirement 8 years ago.

 

[ultrarunner]

I don't know where you got this "statistic" ("I read it on line so it's gotta be true"), but that's news to me.
As far as police and firefighters go...both are occupations that require you to be in pretty good shape, it would take a much smaller injury to sideline someone than, say some office job.

They do find themselves in harm's way more often than many...

 

[two_bit_score]

They do find themselves in harm's way more often than many...

More disabilities and suicides brought on by depression, divorce and alcoholism.