Posted on 05/22/2014 4:32:16 AM PDT by Paul46360
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans would no longer get mail delivered to their door but would have to go to communal or curbside boxes instead under a proposal advancing through Congress.
The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on an 18-13 party-line vote, approved a bill Wednesday to direct the U.S. Postal Service to convert 15 million addresses over the next decade to the less costly, but also less convenient delivery method."
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I never did understand USPS advertising. Does anyone NOT know that there is a postal “service”?
I sat on a friend’s porch in town one day and watched them make deliveries. They parked at a corner and one guy walked around the block while the other guy sat in the truck. When thing 1 was done, thing 2 got out and walked around the block while thing 1 sat in the truck.
Another problem with the USPS is the fact that they aren’t allowed to raise their rates as needed. Plus the government has also mandated liabilities funding for the USPS that private companies don’t have to do.
The sad thing is that once the USPS is killed off, the feds will impose price controls on UPS and effectively turn them into the USPS.
Seems that while USPS is practically privatized (complete with monopoly & tax exempt status) the board of directors (government cronies) won’t approve rate increases anywhere close to what’s needed.
Think of the people who get welfare checks who will be put at increased risk by “out in the open delivery.” This is a raisis program!
The feral government spends less on performing its actual constitutional duties so it has more for the politicians and bureaucrats to steal, scam and feather their own nests.
Indeed, a purposeful hobbling by the privatize crowd. Personally, I hope they do privatize...oh the bitching and moaning as prices skyrocket.
I have a post office box at a medium-sized post office here in Maine.
I filled out a short form, and they allow me to use their street address in order to receive packages from UPS and FedEx at the post office.
For packages sent by UPS or FedEx, I would give them my first name and last name, the street address of the post office on Main Street, followed by either the pound sign #
or the word “Unit,” then my box number, then the city, state and zip code.
I wouldn’t like packages dropped on my doorstop, either. Besides, my residence is difficult for UPS to find anyway.
they WON’T bring a package to my house I have to sign for. I have to drive 19 miles to the post office and get it. it does not matter if I call and say “I will be home” they still won’t bring it.
But they stuff the box full of junk every day..
In Canada, they’ve had ‘community mailboxes’ in new subdivisions for 30 years. Effective before the end of next year, that will extend to ALL urban residential delivery. Businesses will still get regular delivery. All the fault of CUPW, the postie’s union.
My neighborhood has had communal mailboxes since it was built in 1987. I think there’s six or seven locked boxes to each unit. I walk across the street to get my mail. A few years ago they replaced the original ones with units that have two larger boxes on the bottom for packages. If you have something bigger they leave a key to the package box in your normal letter delivery box, which opens it but cannot be removed by residents. You leave the key in the lock and the letter carrier takes it out the next day.
I could see these being an issue in places with severe weather, and for handicapped or elderly people. Otherwise it’s no big deal.
Unless and until you fix the Union issue nothing will ever change in the US Postal Service, everything else is just like giving aspirin to a cancer patient.
Most trailer parks and newer subdivisions here have the community boxes as well. I’ve always thought they should do it in the cities.
We own a Goin’Postal franchise in N.J. If there is one near you try it.
Your health care under Obamacare will be run by some of the same people who oversee the US Postal Service.
Pretty sure that ‘welfare checks’ have long ago been replaced by EBT—Electronic Benefits Transfers-—and that money transfer is done electronically.
Where I live the community boxes have been broken into and mail stolen,Boxes and locks repaired.Again,break ins.
The post office no longer has home delivery ,you have a PO box at the post office.
Same here with PG&E. They run ads about how they are all from your town and working around the clock to get electricty to you. They must think it makes their mandatory outrageous bills more palatable.
Nobody gets welfare checks anymore. They all have EBT cards that are automatically loaded when the ‘check’ is due.
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