Posted on 09/24/2009 10:19:21 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
Democrats moved Thursday to give special relief to the financially strapped Postal Service, which would be allowed to defer $4 billion in payments due at the end of this month to cover retirement benefits for its employees.
Republicans protested the bailout but made no significant effort to block the provision, which has now been attached to a stop-gap spending bill slated to come before the House and Senate in the next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I’m Okay with that as long as the check gets there 50 years late.
Get the deadwood off the payroll.
Gewt back into the black.
This was called ‘featherbedding’ on the railroad when I was kid.
Not a surprise.
no more
Experience Scenario:
2 Packages, same dimensions, same price received in Kentucky distribution centers same day/time going to the same address
1 - UPS, 1 - USPS
UPS package arrives less than 48 hours after receipt in UPS distribution center
UPSP package has not been received and is not expected to be delivered until 09/30/2009
My questions:
1. Why would anyone want to use USPS?
2. Why do we want the government running companies and services?
3. And USPS needs a 4 billion dollar bailout?!!
I figure the reason why it is going to take 7 days longer is that USPS is overstaffed and each person has to justify his/her job and “touch” the process thereby delaying delivery.
Every failing department of this miserable federal government just get in line to screw the taxpayer!....
one of my all time favorite bumper stickers (and an oldie-but-goodie...)
IF YOU LIKE THE POSTAL SERVICE, YOU’LL LOVE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
Forgot the final step: UPS package arrives squashed and mutilated.
Fedex it next time.
NO BAILOUT!
Just let it slip away peacefully—no aspirin!
Postal Ping
Actually, the US Postal Service uses UPS and FedEx for cross country mail shipments.
we will bankrupt the government and ouselves trying to fund these insane union pensions...
The $4 billion check’s in the mail...
I think we should bailout USPS...
I just love having barely-English speaking, rude postal clerks get in my face when I lined up for 40 minutes just to weigh a letter from california to Nevada which got there in 10 days..slower than my mail from California to BC, Canada (7 days).
No! I had just decided this year even to use email for holiday greetings. Snail mail doesn’t cut it any more.
Both companies use the mail.
Could they punish me if I screw my mail box door shut? I will refuse to accept mail; all my bills are paid on line anyway. I mail about two letters per month. I think the country could survive on 3 x per week mail delivery.
Privatize USPS!
I also mail around 3 letters per month (2 to family in Canada) and because I’m a young traditionalist, during Christmas I stick with mailing cards out for the personal touch, so that’s probably the only time I truly give these overpaid hacks my money.
If you think Congress made sense you'll understand this one. If you think Congress (a Dennis Hastert led Congress) was screwed up beyond belief when it did this, then you will be saying "just another bunch of BS trying to cover up mistakes made by their gay friends at OPM".
The Democrats forced this $4 billion burden on the Post Office as a big fat payout to their union interests, so reversing that isn’t really a bailout, it’s actually removing a government boot from the neck of the post office.
I concur. Late last January, it really burned me when I got a half-dozen of my Christmas cards back marked "undeliverable" - and the addresses were all 100% correct and perfectly legible.
Bail out newspapers, bail out the Post Office, bail out ...
It’s never ending and our tax liability and dollar inflation will be never ending as well. Time to kick the bums that have enabled this fraud out of their government offices.
And mangled.
Holy mother of God, have mercy on us.
Seriously what is next... little kids lemonaid stands?
The Clinton defense fund?
Bail out all girls with tramp stamps?
HOW BOUT BAILING OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS?
1. Why would anyone want to use USPS?
Because it'll arrive in one piece! Duh. The Post Office doesn't throw first and read "Fragile" stickers later.
In my neck of the woods there's really no difference in time. One thing that PISSES me off as a USPS person is a situation that came up a couple weeks ago:
One guy sends two identically sized large boxes, probably 1'x 3' x 2' roughly. One is sent priority, one is sent Express. Both made it in the same amount of time, but the Express needed a signature before delivery, the Priority didn't. The Priority package is left, the Express is taken back to the Post Office, notice left in mail box.
The Express cost $60-ish to ship, the Priority cost, oh, probably $15. Not sure. This is the kind of stuff that embarasses the USPS.
I figure the reason why it is going to take 7 days longer is that USPS is overstaffed and each person has to justify his/her job and “touch” the process thereby delaying delivery.
You most likely figure wrong. I'd bet it got shove onto the wrong truck and sent for a big ride. Stuff happens. That's not a consistent result of your test.
Maybe they shouldn’t keep giving out millions in bonuses.
I received a handmade Christmas card and envelope with a shoe print on the back one year.
bad use of time. next time weigh it yourself, add one stamp per oz. don’t need to use the postal disservice scale.
UPS is a trucking company with an airline, FedEx is an airline with a trucking company.
The FedEx fleet of airplanes is quite a bit larger, though the capitalization of FedEx is much smaller than UPS.
Be careful, it might wind up like this:
FedEx flunks a mail-delivery test 695 students not pleased their SAT exams were lost
Associated Press Published: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:00 a.m. MDT
TORRANCE, Calif. -- Federal Express is trying to figure out how to compensate 695 high school students after losing their college entrance exams.
But the teenagers say nothing the courier does will compensate them for the time they invested in preparing for the Scholastic Assessment Test."They really leave me no option," Jessica Fleming, a 17-year-old Torrance High School junior, said of having to retake the test. "Everybody has to have the SAT for colleges and stuff. I have to take it."
She and other students from schools in Torrance and neighboring Gardena took the test on June 5. But all the SATs disappeared between the Gardena High School test site and the New Jersey headquarters of the Educational Testing Service, which conducts and scores the tests nationwide.
Jessica's mother, Anita Fleming, said her daughter received mail this week from ETS and mistakenly believed it was her test scores.
"She read the letter, then read the letter again," Anita Fleming said. "She said, 'Mom, there's no score.' "
Carla Boyd, spokeswoman for Federal Express, said a test administrator brought in the package of SATs to a local depot "but that's the last anyone has seen of it."
ETS has scheduled July 24 and Aug. 7 for students to retake the test for free "I was to the point where I thought I was all done and it was taken care of. Now it's just thrown back in my face," Jessica said
There are good and bad employees at UPS, Fedex, and the USPS. There are horror stories and success stories from each. It seems like you only hear about the postal horror stories, but Fedex and UPS aren't perfect either.
I just throw the extra stamp on and put it in my mailbox with the flag up. The forty odd cents it costs, is not worth the gas to the post office, much less the 20 minutes in line............
Make them cut costs first. In many areas in my town, the carriers take mail to the door. Many of these homes are on half-acre or larger lots. It’s a tremendous misuse of resources having these routes walked. The P.O. should have gone to roadside boxes years ago.
It should embarrass the guy who spent four times as much as he had to on an Express Mail package in the same zone, and who didn't check the signature waiver box.
Should they delay the Priority Mail delivery just so Express Mail can arrive first?
You guys are correct. But because he did’t waive the signature, I couldn’t leave it.
I heard that there are rooms at the post offices where there are people who they don't have enough work for go for days, weeks months, years at a time and do nothing to collect their pay. I am friends with someone in the postal service and he says that there are even people in their 20s in those rooms. He says once they get through the first 90 day period, they are on the payroll. The government isn't about to lay anyone off - especially now where they are trying to create more jobs. But, ideally, the post office could shave off a lot of money if they tried. But, it is easier for the government to take the money from us.
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