USPS Crisis: Postmaster General slowing mail & in contact with Republican Party officials!

[Suge Knight]

I used to be a mail carrier and I use to ask them EVERY sunday and I repeat every sunday, why we gotta do Amazon packages. I know as a carrier 90% of our stuff was packages, people rarely got any mail unless you worked in a upscale area. Rich people get so much shyt in the mail vs working in the hood.

Back to my point, the post office barely made any profit on those sunday's doing sunday deliveries. I was getting crazy overtime and actually made more money than the post office did on the route I did for the day. If you factor in my pay, my insurance, gas they had to pay to fill the truck up and putting miles on those LLV'S that are like 40 years old.

The post office wastes crazy money, its like something crazy they pay for the academy you go to before you even touch mail. Just to hear someone talk and look at slide shows..

Huge plus sides, if you're a vet you got a job almost instantly, if you don't have a college degree etc not a bad job, I left because management was garbage and it would have took me like 5 years before I became regular. Which the turnover rate is insane because of all of that, instead of them trying to keep people, they'd rather work you to death.

 

[Sassy]

It seems like people are buying stamps to help the usps. Not sure if this was posted in this thread yet.

#SaveUSPS Goes Viral After Trump Reportedly Blocks US Postal Service Coronavirus Funding

 

[Miggs]

Of course hes gonna defund the USPS,his gameplan is to make the mail privatized so there wont be mail balloting this year...This part of his plan to suppress minority voting.

 

[DEAD7]

It's deeper than your surface level "government programs are inefficient" analysis because the government as a whole isn't to blame. The GOP constantly goes out of its way to shyt on government programs that are proven to help people in favor of propping up corporations and the rich.

Democrats are the Party of Fiscal Responsibility

The GOP been messing up the money for decades.

So because the Republicans are bad at governing, don't be better, just privatize it?

Purposely bad. They govern badly to provide a reason for privatization. The USPS itself is not causing its problems.

Masters of self-sabotage and creating problems to later pat themselves on the back for fixing. Trump tax cuts, sole purpose is to later come back and justify the reduction of Medicaid and Medicare because they couldn't get it done through normal means.

Unless you have a plan that removes half of govt.(the republicans) i dont see your point.
Saying half of govt. is/will screw it up isnt an argument for it remaining under govt control, its an argument against...


Explain why delivery to rural areas should be left open to govt fukkery, instead of contracted to private carriers?

 

[DEAD7]

... and there is no party of fiscal responsibility

 

[DEAD7]

I used to be a mail carrier and I use to ask them EVERY sunday and I repeat every sunday, why we gotta do Amazon packages. I know as a carrier 90% of our stuff was packages, people rarely got any mail unless you worked in a upscale area. Rich people get so much shyt in the mail vs working in the hood.

Back to my point, the post office barely made any profit on those sunday's doing sunday deliveries. I was getting crazy overtime and actually made more money than the post office did on the route I did for the day. If you factor in my pay, my insurance, gas they had to pay to fill the truck up and putting miles on those LLV'S that are like 40 years old.

The post office wastes crazy money, its like something crazy they pay for the academy you go to before you even touch mail. Just to hear someone talk and look at slide shows..

Huge plus sides, if you're a vet you got a job almost instantly, if you don't have a college degree etc not a bad job, I left because management was garbage and it would have took me like 5 years before I became regular. Which the turnover rate is insane because of all of that, instead of them trying to keep people, they'd rather work you to death.

 

[MoneyTron]

Unless you have a plan that removes half of govt.(the republicans) i dont see your point.
Saying half of govt. is/will screw it up isnt an argument for it remaining under govt control, its an argument against...


Explain why delivery to rural areas should be left open to govt fukkery, instead of contracted to private carriers?

There nothing inherently wrong with the service the USPS provides. The fukkery at a high level doesn't impact their level of service.

And they are mandated to provide that mail service.

No one is accountable in a private mail service. They could just as easily not serve rural customers at all if they didn't find it profitable. What then?

 

[MoneyTron]

Just for the record.

 

[DEAD7]

The rural argument needs to die
For 4 billion a year any carrier will deliver there... hell ill set delivery service for a few billionthese sweeping progressive proposals got everyone's valuations off. Do you not realize how much 4 billion a year is? Rural areas? gtfoh

 

[DEAD7]

There nothing inherently wrong with the service the USPS provides. The fukkery at a high level doesn't impact their level of service.

And they are mandated to provide that mail service.

Theres nothing inherently wrong, its govt. intervention thats fukking it! Please, go on!

No one is accountable in a private mail service. They could just as easily not serve rural customers at all if they didn't find it profitable. What then?

They'd be contracted to and accountable by law. This argument needs to die... rural areas/the poor would be serviced.

 

[DEAD7]

Retiree Health Benefits Prefunding

Not a word about the declining losses that prompted the concern and ultimately the mandate to fund pensions and not leave tax payers on the hook... nor the annual losses before that. Just a sole focus on the mandate... interesting.

If you believe USPS was in great shape before, there really isnt getting through to you.
This data is from USPS

 

[MoneyTron]

Theres nothing inherently wrong, its govt. intervention thats fukking it! Please, go on!



They'd be contracted to and accountable by law. This argument needs to die... rural areas/the poor would be serviced.

They’d need to be contracted and accounted by law which is created by the government.

 

[Novembruh]

USPS going down means it'll be a lot harder for people filing for unemployment to get their shyt on time and with consistency.
Which means the unemployment number goes down either due to frustration at not getting the promised money, or people miss filing entirely for a period because of delays, so there isn't that albatross of huge amounts of unemployment due to mishandling of this pandemic hanging around his neck sparkling as brightly.

There's levels, here.

I'm not saying he's smart of conniving enough to have sussed out these backchannel ways to help himself, but I am saying it's not necessarily coincidental. His idiocy can be used by people more nefarious and more intelligent than him to get things done that can be handwaved away by claiming there's no way the president was planning that because he's an idiot.

And it wouldn't be the first time that was done in the last 3 years, either

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Typical GOP, pander to vets for their votes but let them hang out to dry.

And of course @DEAD7 is a vet

And it still works every time

 

[Joe Sixpack]

What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. Postal Service?

What Would It Mean If Amazon Acquired The USPS?
Life would get more expensive. The U.S. Postal Service is still, by far, the cheapest option for shipping. The heavier the packages get, the closer rates become. But for most packages, the USPS can charge as little as a third of what competitors like FedEx and UPS charge.

How is that possible? Because they’re a service. They’re not built for profit, as they’ve clearly shown. But if a money-hungry tyc00n like Jeff Bezos were at the helm, he would surely find a way to increase profit margins. In many cases, he could double the rates still be cheaper than the competition.


Who knows how much more it would cost to send a letter if Amazon owned the USPS. Maybe the only sensible move for most Americans would be to sign up for Amazon Prime, which would increase Bezos’ net worth to entirely new heights, and spread his monopoly even further.

An Amazon Acquisition Would Be Bad News For Over Half A Million Postal Workers
Postal workers have long worked under strenuous conditions to keep our country’s communication humming. If the USPS collapses, then most workers will lose their pensions.

But with Jeff Bezos at the helm, don’t be surprised if he treats them as poorly as all other Amazon employees.

Bezos was quick to cut employee benefits once he took over Whole Foods. The treatment of Amazon employees has been well-documented. How would he take advantage of the 600,00+ postal workers who already feel like they’re getting the short end of the stick?

Bezos has to be stopped