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 Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/11/24 07:57 PM
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At one time, if something shipped UPS, FedEx, or some other carrier, I had some confidence I would get it on time or close to on times. Now, UPS and others go dump packages at the post office for local delivery…which may or may not happen. The other day, I was notified by UPS that my package had been delivered when, in fact, they had dumped it off at the Post Office black hole. It was delivered two days later.
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/11/24 08:34 PM
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I order a set of Bob Machine Shop setback plates off of Amazon (wife has Prime) last week... They've been sitting at the local Post Office per the USPS tracking since Saturday... Their tracking kept saying moving to next USPS facility... Then I get a text this morning at 6:14a saying they were out for delivery... We'll see... Dan
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/11/24 08:49 PM
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I have had the same mail man for 7-8 yrs, You cant tell it by the way he walks but he has a prosthetic leg. Saw it one day one summer that he was wearing shorts. I have talked to him a few times and he is a veteran of the few last places we decided to police. He shows up everyday about the same time. Them end guys can't deliver what don't make it to them. 
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/11/24 09:36 PM
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lot of theft here here,can't have ooutside drop boxes at post office,have to park,get out of car and go inside to mail a letter....lot of checks stolen in mail, reportedly a lot of inside theft going on....
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: HasBen]
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12/11/24 09:40 PM
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At one time, if something shipped UPS, FedEx, or some other carrier, I had some confidence I would get it on time or close to on times. Now, UPS and others go dump packages at the post office for local delivery…which may or may not happen. The other day, I was notified by UPS that my package had been delivered when, in fact, they had dumped it off at the Post Office black hole. It was delivered two days later. Our PO said they had a 2 day backlog on getting packages out. Next day means the next day after the next day
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: beartrap]
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12/11/24 10:08 PM
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lot of theft here here,can't have ooutside drop boxes at post office,have to park,get out of car and go inside to mail a letter....lot of checks stolen in mail, reportedly a lot of inside theft going on.... They recently removed the drop boxes here in Wylie.
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/11/24 10:47 PM
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Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: patriot07]
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12/12/24 03:21 AM
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Both my parents worked for the post office. I imagine they've got plenty of folks who are useless but I don't remember my dad taking a sick day my entire childhood. Only time my mom took sick days were to stay with one of us kids when we were sick, or if she had one of her debilitating migraines. Dad, even as a postmaster, would go out on Christmas day, sometimes in ice or rain or whatever, to delivery stuff he thought was presents. Our current carrier is a sweetheart named Janet who shows up every day without fail.
I'm sure mgmt sucks but don't blame the carriers and postmasters and clerks for that. I work at a fortune 100 company and our mgmt sucks too, but the worker bees like me are doing everything we can to push good products out to our customers as quickly and affordably and high-quality as possible. My wife is the Postmaster in our town, she works her tail off and has a good office. The system is flawed but not anymore than most other businesses. It is still run as a service and not meant to be a profit center, people will not like the cost to deliver goods if the USPS goes away. Those other companies rely heavily on the USPS and their nationwide system.
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 Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/12/24 12:05 PM
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The USPS is one of the greatest examples of government bureaucratic inefficiency in the history of the world..... and I have REALLY liked several of our postal delivery workers.... can't say the same about the postal workers at the post office.... If "business" operated like the USPS the USA would be Angola.... Here's their "results" for the last 2 fiscal years..... ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2024/12/full-109935-251989-screenshot_20241212_055807_duckduckgo.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2024/12/full-109935-251990-screenshot_20241212_055931_duckduckgo.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2024/12/full-109935-251991-screenshot_20241212_060003_duckduckgo.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2024/12/full-109935-251992-screenshot_20241212_061116_duckduckgo.jpg) /\HE/\ IS responsible for an entity that LOST almost 50% MORE money year over year....and that pic pretty much summarizes this "general" and bureaucrats as a whole... .. The United States is 35 TRILLION in debt....that we acknowledge... If you printed 100 US dollars per SECOND it would take 310 YEARS to print ONE trillion dollars.... That's 10,850 YEARS to print 35 trillion dollars.... To put it another way, if a generation is calculated at one every 25 years 434 generations of US citizens would come and go before they had a 35 trillion dollar pile of US currency printed up... THINK about that.... Let's hope there are some adults about to arrive in DC and actually get something accomplished....
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: Slicefixer]
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12/12/24 12:58 PM
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The USPS is one of the greatest examples of government bureaucratic inefficiency in the history of the world..... and I have REALLY liked several of our postal delivery workers.... can't say the same about the postal workers at the post office.... If "business" operated like the USPS the USA would be Angola.... Here's their "results" for the last 2 fiscal years..... /\HE/\ IS responsible for an entity that LOST almost 50% MORE money year over year....and that pic pretty much summarizes this "general" and bureaucrats as a whole... .. The United States is 35 TRILLION in debt.... If you printed 100 US dollars per SECOND it would take 310 YEARS to print ONE trillion dollars.... That's 10,850 YEARS to print 35 trillion dollars.... Think about that.... Let's hope there are some adults about to arrive in DC and actually get something accomplished.... Fair points on the debt. I was super frustrated that nothing was done about the debt from 2016 to 2020. If UPS or Fedex had the same congress making their laws and controlling how they did business, it wouldn't look any different from the post office. The problem is government, not USPS. Look at NASA vs Spacex. If you charged NASA with making a reusable rocket, it might not happen in any of our lifetimes. Spacex did it in 10-15 years.
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: patriot07]
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12/12/24 01:07 PM
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The USPS is one of the greatest examples of government bureaucratic inefficiency in the history of the world..... and I have REALLY liked several of our postal delivery workers.... can't say the same about the postal workers at the post office.... If "business" operated like the USPS the USA would be Angola.... Here's their "results" for the last 2 fiscal years..... /\HE/\ IS responsible for an entity that LOST almost 50% MORE money year over year....and that pic pretty much summarizes this "general" and bureaucrats as a whole... .. The United States is 35 TRILLION in debt.... If you printed 100 US dollars per SECOND it would take 310 YEARS to print ONE trillion dollars.... That's 10,850 YEARS to print 35 trillion dollars.... Think about that.... Let's hope there are some adults about to arrive in DC and actually get something accomplished.... Fair points on the debt. I was super frustrated that nothing was done about the debt from 2016 to 2020. If UPS or Fedex had the same congress making their laws and controlling how they did business, it wouldn't look any different from the post office. The problem is government, not USPS. Look at NASA vs Spacex. If you charged NASA with making a reusable rocket, it might not happen in any of our lifetimes. Spacex did it in 10-15 years. 2016 to 2020 isn't exactly a fair comparison.... COVID printing... Otherwise, I TOTALLY agree... 💯 %... 👍😉 I just took the opportunity to use the incredible inefficiency of the USPS to make a point about our federal government as a whole.... The real problem is this IMOP, under the concept of Federalism the US centralized government was designed to be limited... it isn't... I'll tell a Lil story.... When I was about 6 or 8 years old I was driving with my father to the golf course. The government had done something that didn't make any sense at all to me and I was terribly confused, so I asked my dad why they did it?? His answer was as follows... "Son, government is a huge bureaucracy.... Do you know what that is?" Me: "no sir" "well, in this instance it's an organization created by the boys in DC and they're charged with solving a problem.... and here's the problem".... "If they solve the problem they've solved themselves right out of a job".... "therefore they'll NEVER solve the problem" Point made and I've never forgotten it.... He taught me one other thing... "found money, gambling money, has no home".... DC "finds" money by the milli-second....
Gj
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
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12/12/24 01:07 PM
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The USPS is one of the greatest examples of government bureaucratic inefficiency in the history of the world..... and I have REALLY liked several of our postal delivery workers.... can't say the same about the postal workers at the post office.... If "business" operated like the USPS the USA would be Angola.... Here's their "results" for the last 2 fiscal years..... /\HE/\ IS responsible for an entity that LOST almost 50% MORE money year over year....and that pic pretty much summarizes this "general" and bureaucrats as a whole... .. The United States is 35 TRILLION in debt.... If you printed 100 US dollars per SECOND it would take 310 YEARS to print ONE trillion dollars.... That's 10,850 YEARS to print 35 trillion dollars.... Think about that.... Let's hope there are some adults about to arrive in DC and actually get something accomplished.... Fair points on the debt. I was super frustrated that nothing was done about the debt from 2016 to 2020. If UPS or Fedex had the same congress making their laws and controlling how they did business, it wouldn't look any different from the post office. The problem is government, not USPS. Look at NASA vs Spacex. If you charged NASA with making a reusable rocket, it might not happen in any of our lifetimes. Spacex did it in 10-15 years. nothing has ever been done about the debt.
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
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12/12/24 01:33 PM
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The USPS is one of the greatest examples of government bureaucratic inefficiency in the history of the world..... and I have REALLY liked several of our postal delivery workers.... can't say the same about the postal workers at the post office.... If "business" operated like the USPS the USA would be Angola.... Here's their "results" for the last 2 fiscal years..... /\HE/\ IS responsible for an entity that LOST almost 50% MORE money year over year....and that pic pretty much summarizes this "general" and bureaucrats as a whole... .. The United States is 35 TRILLION in debt.... If you printed 100 US dollars per SECOND it would take 310 YEARS to print ONE trillion dollars.... That's 10,850 YEARS to print 35 trillion dollars.... Think about that.... Let's hope there are some adults about to arrive in DC and actually get something accomplished.... Fair points on the debt. I was super frustrated that nothing was done about the debt from 2016 to 2020. If UPS or Fedex had the same congress making their laws and controlling how they did business, it wouldn't look any different from the post office. The problem is government, not USPS. Look at NASA vs Spacex. If you charged NASA with making a reusable rocket, it might not happen in any of our lifetimes. Spacex did it in 10-15 years. nothing has ever been done about the debt. Nope.... BUT, maybe, just MAYBE, something is about to get done about that... It's a TALL order to take a bunch of drunks and sober em up... sure ain't going to happen overnight.... Jury IS certainly out... and, as for me, "I'm from Missouri"... 😉
Gj
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: grandbassslayer]
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12/12/24 01:42 PM
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Hell after looking at how much time off they get i should go to work there when I retire. It will still be like being retired
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Re: The postal service in a nutshell
[Re: WAWI]
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12/12/24 01:44 PM
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Slicefixer
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Hell after looking at how much time off they get i should go to work there when I retire. It will still be like being retired Yep....apparently, in some instances, "work" from home IS like being retired...and on a helluva' pension... My prediction is this, responsible folks are going to be horrified at the stuff that is about to be revealed about DC....
Gj
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