Posted on 10/04/2018 10:33:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
NO sympathy from me. None. The USPS has been a parasite for ages. If there is any justice it will go away somehow and I don’t care how it happens. Any agency that claims it is a business that simply handles mail, packages the same thing a lowly paid courier does and pays their people the way the USPS does deserves to die.
Today a GS-13 is compensated at a base between $75K and $98K a year. The thing is, there is a locale based wage adjustment of up to 30% and the minimum is +15%. That can be a very good living in lots of the United States especially small town America where the average household income is like $30K a year.
Would you believe that a postmaster / postmistress in small town USA is graded as a GS-13? Pretty damn rediculous if you ask me. USPS deserves to go out of “business”. No sympathy here from me.
Explain to me why we need delivery six days a week when we are just an email away from sending someone all the information they need? Why five days a week? Why any?
The game should be over for USPS.
Who is going to bail out the rest of us who take care of our own retirement? NOBODY. Why should be bail out anyone else? WE should not.
I figure the same. They have a big enough lobby to get attention.
now they buy United States Treasury zero-coupon bonds. like but not quite the same.
http://www.illinoislottery.com/en-us/Financial_Information.html
http://www.illinoislottery.com/content/dam/ill/documents/Illinois_Lottery_Investments_2018-08-31.pdf
Aren’t their retirees eligible for Medicare? What is the problem?
I can understand why people are bitching about USPS. I know they suck but I have dozens of friends who sell on Amazon and Ebay as their livelihood.
WITHOUT first class mail and the cheap ass Priority Mail (where can you find Priority Mail letter envelope at $6.35 delivery where you can stick an “allowed” 70 lbs?), I seriously doubt anyone can survive using Fedex and UPS delivery. It’s simply too expensive for a simple less than 16 ounce delivery and buyers will simply pay more for delivery...not with cheapskate Ebay and online buyers around.
I didn’t know the technicalities of selling online before I witnessed the operation firsthand but delivery cost is essential. Fedex, UPS are just not feasible. It only may work for the fabric industry where I have close friends who have their own ecommerce business but my bud who sells online apparel and small light stuff using UPS? Not worth it.
Also, I have a relative who is in prison and the only way for him to get or send mail is.... through the real mail. Cannot just whip off a text message or email whenever he wants to.
All congress- critters get FREE franked mail.
Non-Profits get cheap rates, determined by the Rate Commission
USPS, across a several year cycle, has to break even, not make a profit.
Unions create workplace rules that make it impossible to run in a businesslike manner
None of this lends itself to running in true business-like manner.
Maybe our President will set them free from some of the more onerous constraints, and they can make enough to pay for all their commitments.
I purchase tons of stuff online, sellers including Amazon use everything from UPS to the USPS, FedEx, and even Amazon’s own service, and services you have never heard ago.
USPS is just as good if not better than all the rest. Anyone who says different doesn’t get a lot of mail outside bills and junkmail :-)
When people say this I always wonder what does that have to do with the postal service itself? They didn’t send the bulk mail. If you are saying they should up the prices to send bulk mail why not just say that?
Bulk mail exists because it is effective.
Actually the post office is doing fine, who do you think delivers most of those interweb packages? The sweet heart money losing deal for Amazon needs to end...
The biggest problem with the post office financially has been the mandates by congress to OVERCONTRIBUTE to its pension funds by BILLIONS of dollars...
Revenues have actually been going up for a good while now even with lower volumes.. But when your boss tells you PUT 5 BILLION or whatever it is more cash into your pension than you were previously required to.. that leaves a mark.
That’s exactly true. No other enterprise is forced to plow that much cash into it’s pension fund. The USPS is plenty solvent they are just required to fund their pensions much further out than any other business PERIOD.
My postal crowd can’t deliver a package to the right zip code about a third of the time but that useless junk mail never fails.
Give me UPS and Fedex.
There were so many times USPS DELIVERS PRIORITY MAIL ON SUNDAYS, I kid you not.
Last time was Sunday 3 weeks ago when we were shooting an episode, I parked my car 3 blocks out and noticed one USPS guy delivering mail and they were ALL Priority Mail. From what i understand, it will STATE “2 DAYS DELIVERY” on the shipping label and they HAVE to do it as stated on the label.
Everyone has always known that you could get more out of a job at the post office than you put in. It is government, it is union, it takes zero intelligence or work ethic. You get an easy job, keep it for 20 years, retire, and start another career to double dip. I’ve known a half dozen people who have don exactly that, none of whom I like — they are all lazy, arrogant scum.
A pox on them all.
And why in he!! don’t my packages get scanned?
They’ll still have Obamacare! I’m sure their union backed it 100%
My local USPS manager can’t assign a permanent carrier to our route because the assigned carrier is heading in to retirement and is meanwhile using all of his personal leave while temp carriers cover his route. She can only replace him once he officially “retires.”
— we’re into the SECOND year of this now. Insane.
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