What is up with the USPS???

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I have had about the same service from all of the carriers. They have been fairly good for the most part only screwing up every now and then. 

But I really hate it when FEDX sends my packagers to their large facility, within three miles of me, then takes them several hundred miles into Washington and hands them off to USPS for delivery. I get them several days later. It's a regular route thing just the way they do things and how they treat anything, coming from the east, which is pretty much everything, as I live on Oregon.
 
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So this got me thinking and what I find most interesting is that this topic made me think warm thoughts of my community, (not real small or big community). In the past years I have met 5 very nice, respectable people from town who received my packages by mistake and took the incentive to either find my number and call me or just drive to my house and hand deliver the package. Talk about old school will ya. USPS, UPS, and Fed-ex have all messed up deliveries to me at one point or another. However, for some reason, USPS is the only one where the packages never seem to look like they were run over by a truck. Shipping and receiving is not the same as the pre-Covid era. At least from what I have seen. I just plan for the worst to soften the blow when it happens and then be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't. And of course, this only my point of view and for me only.
 
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While the government does not support finnancially the USPS they do dictate the rules under which they operate!! 





Do you know where your tax dollars you pay the Feds go? Google it, we the people have givens BILLIONS to the USPS!!
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Yes we do to bail them out, not as an actual operating expense! Family member is a high up in the postal system! The govt dictates how they function, such as....when an employee retires the postal system must set aside so many years of their pension ahead of time. Can you imagine your company having to deposit 10 years of your pension in the bank each time an employee retires...where does this cash come from??? The postal system is not allowed to make continueing regular deposits to a savings account like most companies do. They have to make large deposits when the retirement takes place. The postal service is required to do that, this is where the bailout money comes from and this is just one reason the postal service cant get ahead. Just like the NFL, which the govt runs and controls, in the years to come they will also be running on a continueing deficet just like the postal system and the rest of the govt. Our leaders make rules we have to follow, but cant afford.. The postal system is not allowed to plan ahead for future expenses like most companies do, once again the govt has taken a good operating system and caused it to become a big hole in which we throw money into. If you go back in history the postal servive and the social security system were operating in the black.....until our own govt stepped in....then trashed them just like everything else they get their hands on!!!!
 
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Ordered a rifle and received on time via USPS, yesterday. Scope, rings and pellets arrived a day early. Outer carton looked like it was just pulled off the stock shelf, immaculate. Once in a while a package gets dejoy'ed, and by saying that is the reason why. And, yes, Flat Rate for pellets/lead rocks! Few vendors make that effort, so they get my business. I get RFD, but my neighbors get a free PO box up in the 'ville, a fifteen minute walk. There's no UPS/FEDEX store within a 15 minute walk, let alone a 15 mile drive.
 
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The USPS has been hampered by bad political interference for decades now. Most of it's financial woes began in 2006, when congress decided it must pre-fund it's pension system in a way that literally no other business has to. With one of the largest employee bases in the world, this pretty much immediately put an organization that had operated fully in the black for decades, deeply in the red.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-service-bailout-congress/

The last four years has been really hard on USPS with it's own appointed leaders actively working to disrupt it's efficacy, and dismantle operations from within. It should come as no surprise that it's becoming less effective.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/07/one-year-later-usps-restores-service-pre-dejoy-levels/183642/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/29/usps-workers-election-mail/

A functioning post office is one of the most basic requirements for a country to claim it has a functional government. It's one of the requirements for entry into true nationhood. Underdeveloped nations around the globe are proud of their own postal services. That the most powerful nation in the world is letting this be debatable... ?



...well I guess it's a sign of the times as so much else that once seemed perfectly obvious is now questioned.
 
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The USPS has been hampered by bad political interference for decades now. Most of it's financial woes began in 2006, when congress decided it must pre-fund it's pension system in a way that literally no other business has to. With one of the largest employee bases in the world, this pretty much immediately put an organization that had operated fully in the black for decades, deeply in the red.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-service-bailout-congress/

The last four years has been really hard on USPS with it's own appointed leaders actively working to disrupt it's efficacy, and dismantle operations from within. It should come as no surprise that it's becoming less effective.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/07/one-year-later-usps-restores-service-pre-dejoy-levels/183642/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/29/usps-workers-election-mail/

A functioning post office is one of the most basic requirements for a country to claim it has a functional government. It's one of the requirements for entry into true nationhood. Underdeveloped nations around the globe are proud of their own postal services. That the most powerful nation in the world is letting this be debatable... ?



...well I guess it's a sign of the times as so much else that once seemed perfectly obvious is now questioned.
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I agree on everything here!
 
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Not knowing the routing routine of the carrier I wouldn't prejudge them. They have worked their routing system over the years to fine tune how best to get packages delivered. It may seem odd to see packages almost come close to you and then wind up in another state just after that. I am going to give them credit for the time being. I like USPS myself.
 
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Not knowing the routing routine of the carrier I wouldn't prejudge them. They have worked their routing system over the years to fine tune how best to get packages delivered. It may seem odd to see packages almost come close to you and then wind up in another state just after that. I am going to give them credit for the time being. I like USPS myself.
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If I ever get busted for a crime, I want you for my Judge!!
 
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The USPS has been hampered by bad political interference for decades now. Most of it's financial woes began in 2006, when congress decided it must pre-fund it's pension system in a way that literally no other business has to. With one of the largest employee bases in the world, this pretty much immediately put an organization that had operated fully in the black for decades, deeply in the red.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-service-bailout-congress/

The last four years has been really hard on USPS with it's own appointed leaders actively working to disrupt it's efficacy, and dismantle operations from within. It should come as no surprise that it's becoming less effective.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/07/one-year-later-usps-restores-service-pre-dejoy-levels/183642/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/29/usps-workers-election-mail/

A functioning post office is one of the most basic requirements for a country to claim it has a functional government. It's one of the requirements for entry into true nationhood. Underdeveloped nations around the globe are proud of their own postal services. That the most powerful nation in the world is letting this be debatable... ?



...well I guess it's a sign of the times as so much else that once seemed perfectly obvious is now questioned.
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I’m glad to see that there are still people with common sense out there. It’s sad that politicians have been tampering with essential services like the post office with the intent to sabotage them so they can be privatized.

People love to crap on the government. Yeah, it’s not perfect by a LONG shot but it’s way better than most other systems around the world. Without government interference or support, rural people wouldn’t have reliable mail service for cheap, or electricity because those things weren’t profitable otherwise and the evil government stepped in.
 
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The USPS has been hampered by bad political interference for decades now. Most of it's financial woes began in 2006, when congress decided it must pre-fund it's pension system in a way that literally no other business has to. With one of the largest employee bases in the world, this pretty much immediately put an organization that had operated fully in the black for decades, deeply in the red.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-service-bailout-congress/

The last four years has been really hard on USPS with it's own appointed leaders actively working to disrupt it's efficacy, and dismantle operations from within. It should come as no surprise that it's becoming less effective.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/07/one-year-later-usps-restores-service-pre-dejoy-levels/183642/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/29/usps-workers-election-mail/

A functioning post office is one of the most basic requirements for a country to claim it has a functional government. It's one of the requirements for entry into true nationhood. Underdeveloped nations around the globe are proud of their own postal services. That the most powerful nation in the world is letting this be debatable... ?



...well I guess it's a sign of the times as so much else that once seemed perfectly obvious is now questioned.
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I’m glad to see that there are still people with common sense out there. It’s sad that politicians have been tampering with essential services like the post office with the intent to sabotage them so they can be privatized.

People love to crap on the government. Yeah, it’s not perfect by a LONG shot but it’s way better than most other systems around the world. Without government interference or support, rural people wouldn’t have reliable mail service for cheap, or electricity because those things weren’t profitable otherwise and the evil government stepped in.
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