Exposing Corruption At US Postal Service

Black Star News ^ | 5-30-2010 | Eric L. Wattree

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The time has come for postal employees to start flexing their political muscle.

The record is clear. The United States Postal Service has been abusing, bullying, and robbing their employees blind --through forced unpaid labor-- all over the country for years now, and with complete impunity. So it's time for both Postmaster General John E. Potter and Inspector General David C. Williams to go.

By overlooking the blatant corruption that has been clearly evidenced on their watch, they could both easily be charged with malfeasance at the very least.

The U.S. Postal Service is, literally, running a modern day plantation under Potter...

[headsonpikes]

The problem with the USPS is that it is run by imbeciles.

Who in the heck authorized the “if it fits, it ships” stupidity?

In business terms, it makes absolutely no sense to charge a flat rate for a service that has varying costs.

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Your problem, prole, is that you fail to grasp the essential ethos of socialism - equality in all things.

In my experience, the left-wing imbeciles who administer The System each fancy themselves as a stalwart truth-bearing Prometheus, but in reality they are each and every one a false Procrustes, bearing only the instruments of pain and death.

[Mobties]

In my town, it seems the Post Office is run more for the benefit of the employees than the customers — e.g. employees take all the best parking places. No self respecting private business would last a month with that sort of attitude. Now we hear that upper management is a mess.

That tears it for me. Close it down. With FedEx. UPS, and the Internet already providing more efficient cost efficient competition, there seems to be little doubt that private entrepreneurs will fill what voids in service as might emerge from a dissolution of the postal service.

[PA-RIVER]

My wife sent her nephew a “musical card” with 30 dollars in it last week. The card was “kicked out” for being too thick and sent back to our house with a red stamp indicating it was too thick.

Someone at the post office cut the letter open and removed the 30 dollars and then taped it shut. Apparently it was still too thick, but they forgot to put the money back inside. I wonder if they enjoyed reading the card and listening to it?

[Gorzaloon]

Who in the heck authorized the “if it fits, it ships” stupidity?

In business terms, it makes absolutely no sense to charge a flat rate for a service that has varying costs.

Yes, it is insane. But my small business relies on it, because it is an incredible deal. 2 days, anywhere in the US, maybe 3, at less than UPS Ground's 5-7 days. It's a no-brainer, as long as it lasts.

It does get abused, though. I once ordered a machine part..Cast iron, about 40#, that arrived in a Flat Rate box. There were probably interesting converstations at the post offices it went through.

[Gone_Postal]

bump for later

[Colonel Kangaroo]

That’s a shame and inexcusable. Obviously that guy didn’t take pride in his work like most of my coworkers did. But crooks are everywhere in every walk of life.

[Gone_Postal]

just to say unless you live in a really small town....ALL post office employees park in the back of the building ..usually fenced in and designated for employees

The front is for customers

Just saying

[mdmathis6]

Unlike other non constitutionallly authorized government programs that could be cut, the postal services are mandated by the constitution and there is still a need for them even in this “internet age”!

[ebshumidors]

Most of FEDEX’s day sort is for Priority Mail. That’s why Priority Mail is so reliable and fast.

[mdmathis6]

And that is a good thing...but business’s fail and if fedex left the scene the postal service would have to take up the slack as per the constituion...or some other service would rise in it’s place.

[rlmorel]

Over the course of my life, I have had one letter that I know of delayed for a long period of time. I got a letter returned to me five years after I sent it. It was mangled and taped up.

Other than that, I have always been impressed at the reliability.

Which is why I question the US Census operations. I, and many other people I know (If I include freepers as “people I know”) had my census form “lost” requiring multiple phone calls and visits from the census.

I don’t think the issue is in the mail: If I had to select a reliable method to disseminate and return these forms, it would be the mail.

So I assume the Census is “losing” things on purpose.

[dljordan]

” have been turning a blind eye to unconscionable crimes against middle-class and minority workers”

So ‘middle-class’ is a code word for White people?

[Oceander]

One might make a case that the work is overpaid, but I think that the extremely physical nature of most post office tasks qualify as a real job. Those tons of letters and parcels do not move on their own.

But that's precisely the nature of the problem when government distorts a market - in this case, the market for postal services - there is no way to know if the service or good is being overpaid for or underpaid for - because the government's interference means that the price information is unreliable. The only way to know if mail workers are overpaid or underpaid is to terminate the government's monopoly on all remaining postal services, and to repeal all laws that give the union more power than it would otherwise have if it were just another garden-variety services provider, like any other temp agency.

[GatorGirl]

And “workers” is socialist code.

What ever happened to the term “employee”? Too capitalist?

[mad_as_he$$]

Many years ago I owned and serviced equipment in the “Employee Area” of about 50 postal facilities. Cannot speak for carriers but what goes on in the back rooms is nothing short of criminal. One facility had 10 phones (a GMF for those in the know) I rarely saw anyone working at what I would consider a fair pace for private industry.

Fast forward to today. I am very customer oriented in my life. I cannot STAND to go to the post office, the service sucks worse than a Wells Fargo Bank. 14 people in line and someone decides to go to break. Now I understand that in some facilities there may be a constant stream of customers but in most I see surges and poor manpower planning.

On the other side there is one of the old private contract PO’s in town. 18 miles from me. In and out slam bam done. I drive there to do my postal business.

[Crazy Jim]

Good way to ship lead shot too?!?

[Fresh Wind]

Around here, the USPS provides excellent service. Mis-directed and damaged mail is very, very rare, and the people at the counter are always friendly and competent. I even had a letter carrier knock at my door to tell me that the UPS idiot had left a package at a side door that I rarely use, and it was sitting out there in the pouring rain.

If you have to ship anything out of the country, the USPS is the ONLY reasonably priced option.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

“...but in reality they are each and every one [flying] a false [flag], [a true] Procrustes, bearing only the instruments of pain and death.”

I think that’s what you meant.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Many years ago I owned and serviced equipment in the “Employee Area” of about 50 postal facilities. Cannot speak for carriers but what goes on in the back rooms is nothing short of criminal. One facility had 10 phones (a GMF for those in the know) I rarely saw anyone working at what I would consider a fair pace for private industry.

What time of day would be there? A GMF is a slow place during the day. If you came in during the day, you didn't see the real work of the post office. The hectic work starts early evening and ends around 7 AM. Some days just going at a fair pace for private industry wouldn't get the work done in time.

[kalee]

ping