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Is that what brought this up? Silly.
:lol: Just like clockwork - Trump complains about the USPS, and now all his minions have to complain about it, too.
The corporate state seeks to privatize everything, including our endless wars of empire and economic colonization. Eric Prince took a run at that and he'll be back. What Bezos is, is pretty clear. Buys up the WaPo. Then enters into a deal with the CIA worth 3 times what he paid for the paper. Then puts a CIA operative on the WaPo's editorial board to push more war. America is on an unsustainable path. Watch.
I'm not a Trump guy, but I prefer UPS over the post office.
The post office is chock full of lazy assholes, and incompetence, and I know this from first hand experience.
Oh I 100% agree with you, there. I hate the USPS. Their package tracking is laughable and their reliability is mediocre at best.
I prefer FedEx over anyone. They seem to be the most reliable - at least to me.
In what world is the United States Postal Service part of "free markets"? Its a freaking government entity. Your post is comically stupid.
Oh goodie!
The OP is complaining about Amazon.com and how the post office is losing money thanks to them. If you want to say something is stupid context helps before you chime in on it.
The USPS gets no Federal Funding. Yet it is required to maintain post offices where there is almost no demand, make deliveries on Saturdays, and suffers price controls, and subsidized by the USPS governmental and political mailings.
The major source of USPS revenues has been second, third and 4th class bulk mailings. All three have diminished. (could have fooled me considering how much junk mail I receive) Mostly replaced by parcel delivery services. Most of USPS deficits lie in unfunded pension liabilities. After a decade of losses, the past three years prior to 2016 saw major increases in both revenues and profits, with extremely high returns on the sale of US Postal Money Orders and collectible stamps. 2015 saw US Postal Money Orders outpace Welles Fargo for immigrants and green card holders sending home money. The USPS is less expensive than Welles Fargo. Turns out most of losses were caused by equipment upgrades and the self development of computer software which is now paying off, big time. OCR and scanning for Post Office needs was not available in the open markets, and now automatic sorting has diminished workforce needs dramatically. The "Amazon" problem will diminish as Amazon shifts from its own delivery software to the USPS software. Lack of synchronization has created the losses. Should be completed within the next 18 months.
In any conversation in which the USPS is involved free markets should not be part of the argument, because they aren't a part of the free market, they are exactly the opposite of the free market.
I can only infer that my point escaped you. You stated that you thought FedEx and UPS drivers were well paid. I posted that the UPS drivers that I was familiar with were members of the Teamsters Union, well paid, I think. Happy New Year, grog in moderation!
Nothing is worse than FedEx Home. Nothing. Run separately from the rest of FedEx, delivering on the cheap, and it shows.
Oh I 100% agree with you, there. I hate the USPS. Their package tracking is laughable and their reliability is mediocre at best.
I prefer FedEx over anyone. They seem to be the most reliable - at least to me.
Well I'm not going to pretend like I know the difference between FedEx and FedEx Home. I just know that FedEx delivers to me like clockwork. From the moment the package is tendered to FedEx until the moment it's in my hand, I know where it is, and what time it will be here. It's never late, it's never lost and it's never damaged. Never. And I order a ton of **** online, and have done so for years.
Be thankful. FedEx Home, never on time, loses packages daily, tracking never works right, damaged packages de riguer. No reflection on regular FedEx.
Then take it up with the writer of the article who is clearly complaining that the USPS is doing bad because of the free market (amazon). Hence you are complaining about the free market.
Is it similar to SmartPost?
I prefer shipping services like FedEx and UPS to have my package from bow to stern. I don't want any random **** ups along the way. Any time a package gets tendered to the USPS, like SmartPost, there's going to be drama. When I have a package delivered, I verify that it's not shipped from any point with USPS, or I will pay more for expedited shipping, to keep the USPS's grubby little mediocre paws off of it.
I have never gotten an amazon package from the postal service
Hey who said if you can get around the system, then that's smart?
Once again you dismiss a basic element. The USPS is not a free market player or they would be charging all the traffic would bear, which would cut Amazon's profits fairly hard.
You folks? The post office could die tomorrow and I wouldn't give a ****.
Fedex and UPS delivery drivers make pretty good money.
Are you having a problem with opioids?
White america is, rural america is, this society is. Are you american in any way?
Is what? Tell me, what color am I? I'd say you're pathetic, but that gives you more respect than you've earned.
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