USPS

[belshawelk]

Postal workers are generally paid by postage, not taxes. Subtle but significant difference. One of the few gov services you don't pay for if you don't use it. And not everyone that pays postage is always a taxpayer. Single mom with two kids that makes under 50k doesn't pay federal taxes because of credits. But she does pay a postal worker when she mails something.

Congress has infused money into USPS at times, but they've also passed ridiculous legislation that hurt the organization badly. Like for a long time having to pre fund retirement benefits 75 years into the future for future employees that dont even exist yet. Having to serve every address in America for a flat rate no matter if it's across the street or across the country (i think this is a great feauture, but its challenging to the organization). Not keeping postage up with what it should be. And not being able to turn away any mail so that UPS, FedEx, and Amazon can make money on the profitable portion of their packages journey and then pay USPS to do the part of the journey that is not profitable. That's a big problem.

Where I really disagree with your idea is that a lot of the true talent within the organization ain't coming back if you try to fire and rehire. I can make more in the private sector, if you take away my tenure, me and a lot of highly trained people ain't coming back. A lot of the talent is already leaving because of all this BS. I know I'm starting to get serious about leaving. Try to hire a bunch of entry level folks with no experience to backfill the good people and itll be a challenge to say the least. You can come into my job with all the electrical, mechanical, and networking experience in the world and still fall flat on your face because there's so much postal knowledge you need to know to do your job. On the processing end I work with people you can tell them any obscure address in a town of 60000 and surrounding area and they can tell you exactly which route out of 60 plus in an instant. They can scan ten packages and throw in the time someone using the new fancy technology takes to do 3 because they have to scan, look at a screen, find the hamper, throw, scan, look at the screen...

Nixon was convinced you didn't need to be highly trained to be a postal worker and that he could use the military to process the mail during the wildcat strike during his admin. Didn't work out so good.

Fair on the funding, BUT it is mismanaged. Clearly your not my mail guy, or the one before that. Without ANY exaggeration, my mail will be in neighbors and visa versa at least once or twice a week. Our mail is not bundled. We are in county. Its either an inability to read, or a lack of giving a shit. We get a daily email with all the mail arriving that day. Rarely if ever does it match what we get. Could be days off.

Plus the good old days when you had odd size mailing you could have mail hand sorted. now they just return it.

This Christmas all my wife's cards came back with a note saying haw much extra postage they needed, So we added it. they all came back saying original postage was not good and used. So we added the original postage, again. Up to like a dollar now. Then they came back and said more postage needed. We took all the cards and shipped them from our other home in another state. They all went with the new envelope with the original postage. Meanwhile we are out over $50 in postage.

This is not the exception. One of the most hated government services. It all needs to be cleaned up.

 

[Elkmagnet]

Hah! I've paid my dues.

Carefull your statements may come off as the parasite class throwing stones at hard working Americans. Roll up your sleeves and show them how it's done.

 

[bullbugle]

Fair on the funding, BUT it is mismanaged. Clearly your not my mail guy, or the one before that. Without ANY exaggeration, my mail will be in neighbors and visa versa at least once or twice a week. Our mail is not bundled. We are in county. Its either an inability to read, or a lack of giving a shit. We get a daily email with all the mail arriving that day. Rarely if ever does it match what we get. Could be days off.

Plus the good old days when you had odd size mailing you could have mail hand sorted. now they just return it.

This Christmas all my wife's cards came back with a note saying haw much extra postage they needed, So we added it. they all came back saying original postage was not good and used. So we added the original postage, again. Up to like a dollar now. Then they came back and said more postage needed. We took all the cards and shipped them from our other home in another state. They all went with the new envelope with the original postage. Meanwhile we are out over $50 in postage.

This is not the exception. One of the most hated government services. It all needs to be cleaned up.

I'm not gonna say I don't work with some shitheads. I indicated on the first page I've personally seen instances of several private contract carriers that were arrested by the Inspection Service for stealing mail. There's shitheads in every organization I've ever worked for. Sounds like you needed to call the inspection service a LONG time ago.

Not sure at all where your getting the idea that USPS is one of the most hated govt services. We've been the 2nd most popular, behind the NPS, even through Dejoys disastrous tenure. Before Dejoy, we were often times number 1. Pew has tracked this stuff for a while

 

[bullbugle]

Also agree that we've been mismanaged pretty badly over the last 5 years.

 

[Redmt]

Also agree that we've been mismanaged pretty badly over the last 5 years.

It's not the sheep it's the shepherd. Well maybe a few sheep.

 

[Dave N]

Mailed a package today. Late afternoon from central Illinois to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gal said it would get there Monday. We'll see.

 

[Redmt]

Mailed a package today. Late afternoon from central Illinois to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gal said it would get there Monday. We'll see.

Did she say what month?

 

[belshawelk]

I'm not gonna say I don't work with some shitheads. I indicated on the first page I've personally seen instances of several private contract carriers that were arrested by the Inspection Service for stealing mail. There's shitheads in every organization I've ever worked for. Sounds like you needed to call the inspection service a LONG time ago.

Not sure at all where your getting the idea that USPS is one of the most hated govt services. We've been the 2nd most popular, behind the NPS, even through Dejoys disastrous tenure. Before Dejoy, we were often times number 1. Pew has tracked this stuff for a while

I agree I paint with a broad brush. Fair. But dammit we need to clean some stuff up. I am picking on USPS because of post. Honestly the least of my concerns. Just being vocal....... But easy fix for all the "jobs not going to be filled by illegals we are shipping back, and all the useless people government that don't even show up to work and are collecting a paycheck for doing nothing.

Next welfare check, unemployment check ( to those serial abusers and able bodied people), put a note thats its the check and go get a job. Mow lawns, clean out stalls, flip burgers, whatever you have to do but don't but live off me.

Life has become to easy for too many.

Rant over

 

[bullbugle]

I agree I paint with a broad brush. Fair. But dammit we need to clean some stuff up. I am picking on USPS because of post. Honestly the least of my concerns. Just being vocal....... But easy fix for all the "jobs not going to be filled by illegals we are shipping back, and all the useless people government that don't even show up to work and are collecting a paycheck for doing nothing.

Next welfare check, unemployment check ( to those serial abusers and able bodied people), put a note thats its the check and go get a job. Mow lawns, clean out stalls, flip burgers, whatever you have to do but don't but live off me.

Life has become to easy for too many.

Rant over

Having grown up with a bunch of aunts and uncles on my mom's side that were straight up welfare queens (most of them still are), I don't disagree with you at all there. Able bodied and able minded people need to work to get any handouts. I'm guess I'm not sure how able minded they are though. Every single one of them just supported the candidate most likely to end their gravy train and I doubt it ever crossed their mind.

It's a mad, mad world.