The sense of delusion needed for any right winger to accuse someone of parroting a talking point is too much.
Conservatives and their constant projection
USPS Crisis: Postmaster General slowing mail & in contact with Republican Party officials!
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That trajectory doesn’t seem clear to me seeing as they estimated a $3 billion bounce back without the funding requirement.The trajectory was clear and many dems have already conceded that without reforms it was/is doomed. In fact the entire postal banking conversation centers around its service being dated.
Dont tell me you think mail volume was going to bounce back?
Or are you simply suggesting we should have waited till it was in the red?
My point is that it’s a valued public service and we should take steps to protect it. Not everything is about making a buck, but most of your people don’t value public services, hence the issue.
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eastside313
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My mail is finally back to normal after going down to 1-2 days a week a few months ago.
“We had no choice. We had to get moving. We lost $10 billion last year,” he says. “Our service standards were eroding and would continue to erode as mail volume came down.” Ron Bloom, chairman of the USPS’s board, agrees. “Over my career, I’ve been involved with a lot of companies who’ve died slowly,” he says. “And, bluntly, that’s what the Postal Service was doing.”
It’s the same killer that got Blockbuster : the internet. Since 2006 total mail volume is down 39%. There’s less mail than in 1984. Yet the number of delivery points rises by more than a million a year. Put differently, the USPS says in 2006 there were 5.6 daily pieces of mail per delivery point. Last year: three. By 2030 the estimate is 1.7. The USPS is meant to be self-sufficient, but its losses since 2007 run to $87 billion, with $160 billion more projected this decade.
The question for the USPS is on what terms this will come to a stop. For now Congress has mandated six-day delivery. Universal service is also sacrosanct, so the USPS still runs mules to a village at the base of the Grand Canyon. Trying to make the Postal Service solvent, while coloring inside the lines drawn by Congress, is no easy feat.
It’s the same killer that got Blockbuster : the internet. Since 2006 total mail volume is down 39%. There’s less mail than in 1984. Yet the number of delivery points rises by more than a million a year. Put differently, the USPS says in 2006 there were 5.6 daily pieces of mail per delivery point. Last year: three. By 2030 the estimate is 1.7. The USPS is meant to be self-sufficient, but its losses since 2007 run to $87 billion, with $160 billion more projected this decade.
The question for the USPS is on what terms this will come to a stop. For now Congress has mandated six-day delivery. Universal service is also sacrosanct, so the USPS still runs mules to a village at the base of the Grand Canyon. Trying to make the Postal Service solvent, while coloring inside the lines drawn by Congress, is no easy feat.
you can't treat them like they are some private business and have congress dictate how and what services they provide. try to privatize it and FedEx and UPS or even Amazon will just want the most profitable and desirable routes. i'm sure they'll take the mule train. i could see amazon dedicating expensive resources to drone deliveries to the Havasupai people.
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I pray USPS isn't on some bullshyt this year Q4, it was hell for anyone trying to do e-commerce and send stuff. The stress they caused me probably took time off my life.
Oh it will, but not quite as bad. There will be fewer people out on Covid leave, and they are hiring out the ass. 2020 was a perfect storm for USPS. Understaffed due to sick people, and unprecedented parcel volume due to lockdowns forcing more people to buy online.
That combined with USPS (especially my local ones) already being suspect. You're right it was the perfect disaster.
My local branch was not scanning packages at all, so the tracking wouldn't update, and it was taking up to a month for a 2-3 day priority package to arrive. Complete hell when you're sending 100s of packages and customers start asking where their xmas gifts are.
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A month? Where are you located?
And here I was complaining that my niece's Xmas card took over 2 weeks from Virginia to New Hampshire was bad!
And here I was complaining that my niece's Xmas card took over 2 weeks from Virginia to New Hampshire was bad!
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Disgusting shyt he is still in office and not in prison