Oh noes. Some dullard on a sports message board with predictable opinions said I ain't man enough. How will I ever manage in life? Glad you're sorry, though.
OT: Post Office
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I was more so referring to the choice pricing China received for years(decades?) under UPU Agreements.
But yeah, the fact that USPS cant freely adjust rates to meet their costs and instead has to receive approval from an outside board, which inevitably means rate increases are lower than needed thru compromise, puts USPS in a tough situation to win.
paywall free version of the WSJ article
BTW, I will be dependent on the govt because, thanks to a Republican father-in-law, I was able to double-dip and now I'll get two pensions (state and federal) when I retire. We also invested well so that's gonna work out. My wife is dependent on bad Gubment cause her clinic accepts Medicare and Medicaid. Private Equity is looking to buy and get some of that Gubment bad money involved in healthcare. My farmer cousins in the Delta are multi-millionaires who accepted Gubment bad subsidies and thus aren't real men either cause they aren't taking care of themselves without some government support. They'll be disappointed to hear that when I tell them.
I mean i wouldn't care if they lost money (assuming your info is 100% correct; I don't believe their current system forces them to lose money) if they ran an efficient business. They don't and many of their problems aren't due to lack of funding.
The head of a smaller post office makes quite a bit more than many restaurant managers with much better benefits and work life balance. they are also managing less employees who make more than restaurant workers.
Dont give me your whiny @SS BS about how they suck at their job b/c of money.
IRS says no more checks by mail. I imagine businesses need to do the same.
Also, many of those workers are either high or exhausted. Or both.
I have been getting calls from clients saying they never received mail we sent out back in April or May. Stuff is getting lost at the Jackson PO wayyyy too often.
We have also gotten several packages returned as undeliverable. We call the recipient back and they are like yep, that’s my address. It has gotten so out of hand that we are just going to go all electronic and do away with the post office altogether.
We have also gotten several packages returned as undeliverable. We call the recipient back and they are like yep, that’s my address. It has gotten so out of hand that we are just going to go all electronic and do away with the post office altogether.
At one time, every town, no matter how small, had its own postmark. They did away with that some years ago and now there are only postmarks for the town where a mail distribution center is. For example, mail a letter from Huntsville and it gets a Birmingham post mark. About 15 years ago, the distribution center in Huntsville was closed, allegedly to save money. Since then, mail a letter to my next door neighbor and it's trucked to Birmingham, receives a Birmingham post mark, and is returned to Huntsville and gets delivered. The process, even when working as designed, takes 3-4 days. When there was a distribution center here, it would have been delivered the next day. Not to mention, the more handling, the greater the chance of getting lost.
I'm sure it's worse in Jackson/Memphis but it's even bad here in fancy-pants northwest Austin.
My wife gets screenshots of mail that is going to be delivered that day (cool service she signed up for). Last friday, she saw a jury summons in the screenshot, so we kept an eye out for it. It was supposed to be delivered that day (Friday) and hasn't shown up yet, despite other mail from that pic showing up that day. So she gets some id # that luckily was visible on the screenshot of the jury summons letter, plugs it into our local court web site, and sure enough she has a summons in 3 weeks. Likely the postal worker put it in the wrong box, but it happens pretty often (neighbors bring mail to us that's in their box, or vice versa).
I wonder what would happen if we never got that screenshot?
My wife gets screenshots of mail that is going to be delivered that day (cool service she signed up for). Last friday, she saw a jury summons in the screenshot, so we kept an eye out for it. It was supposed to be delivered that day (Friday) and hasn't shown up yet, despite other mail from that pic showing up that day. So she gets some id # that luckily was visible on the screenshot of the jury summons letter, plugs it into our local court web site, and sure enough she has a summons in 3 weeks. Likely the postal worker put it in the wrong box, but it happens pretty often (neighbors bring mail to us that's in their box, or vice versa).
I wonder what would happen if we never got that screenshot?