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The story is our US Post Office is loosing tons of money - the reasons are a bit complex but suffice to say they have been running in the red for quite some time and something has to give. A recent bill H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 -- was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently. This bill basically removes at home delivery and creates a centralized delivery mailbox (outdoors or indoors) where people will need to travel to pick up their daily mail, USPS packages, etc. The saving is estimated (yeah right - sorry but government identifying savings is like NASA stumbling on a "faster than the speed of light warp drive") to be $2 Billion per year.
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The story is our US Post Office is loosing tons of money - the reasons are a bit complex but suffice to say they have been running in the red for quite some time and something has to give. A recent bill H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 -- was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently. This bill basically removes at home delivery and creates a centralized delivery mailbox (outdoors or indoors) where people will need to travel to pick up their daily mail, USPS packages, etc. The saving is estimated (yeah right - sorry but government identifying savings is like NASA stumbling on a "faster than the speed of light warp drive") to be $2 Billion per year.
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The story is our US Post Office is loosing tons of money - the reasons are a bit complex but suffice to say they have been running in the red for quite some time and something has to give. A recent bill H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 -- was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently. This bill basically removes at home delivery and creates a centralized delivery mailbox (outdoors or indoors) where people will need to travel to pick up their daily mail, USPS packages, etc. The saving is estimated (yeah right - sorry but government identifying savings is like NASA stumbling on a "faster than the speed of light warp drive") to be $2 Billion per year.
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OH REALLY???Post is of the past.
It only servers the purpose of sending packages and that useless junkmail.
Private companies would certainly be better at doing that.
So I am all for privatising nationaly owned post offices as the UK is doing right now.
I love that plan. It only makes sense. They're already doing it all over Illinois in attached-housing subdivisions. The idea that, in this day and age, a mail person will walk down a block and walk up and down the steps to every porch to put mail in a mailbox is ridiculous.
OH REALLY???
I can put a 46 cent stamp on a letter and put it in a local mailbox here in Colorado. About three days later my sister in New Hampshire has it delivered to her door ...
UPS or Fed X can give me the same service for about $16.00.
Tell me how that is better?
OH REALLY???
I can put a 46 cent stamp on a letter and put it in a local mailbox here in Colorado. About three days later my sister in New Hampshire has it delivered to her door ...
UPS or Fed X can give me the same service for about $16.00.
Tell me how that is better?
This is done now in my rural area; we have 12 mailboxes in one place serving about 1/4 mile of houses.
I agree with Ttwtt.....they could have done this just like they do with City services. Another thing.....some Older people don't drive and definitely never in any bad weather. Seniors, who the only person they see out of a day is the Mailman or woman. Have known theirs for years to. Same deal for the Mail people knowing their customers. Especially if like vehicles are around and no one had picked up things for a few days.
So I don't know how that works with those rurally. Mail for them is put in their Box by the end of the road. Mailman doesn't even get out. They have driving routes.
I don't like it.....every now and then we get mail lady and she even gets to wear shorts.
The story is our US Post Office is loosing tons of money - the reasons are a bit complex but suffice to say they have been running in the red for quite some time and something has to give. A recent bill H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 -- was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently. This bill basically removes at home delivery and creates a centralized delivery mailbox (outdoors or indoors) where people will need to travel to pick up their daily mail, USPS packages, etc. The saving is estimated (yeah right - sorry but government identifying savings is like NASA stumbling on a "faster than the speed of light warp drive") to be $2 Billion per year.
Like that plan? Hate that plan? or Don't care... choose one and don't forget to give a blurb reply about your answer.
The USPS is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.First of all you've got your price WAY off:
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Second of all, the only reason the USPS can charge $.46 is because they're subsidized, hence the LOSSES.
Stop ALL deliveries on solicitations and advertising. Make those use the private carriers. USPS mail should be solely letter and package deliveries. Just because the USPS can't manage their business properly, people have to stop receiving the same service? Fix the problem of too much junk mail or quit subsidizing it at least. Charge them way more to spam mailboxes with bank solicitations and lawn care ads.
Also, fix the problem of incorrect addressees. I get junk mail for 3 people that don't live at my house. Its piss poor management to blame for the USPS downfall, plain and simple. Become more efficient. That is a lost cause though because it is gov't. ran. Innovation and ingenuity aren't terms often used to describe gov't. ran businesses.
Anyone who can't walk 1/4 mile to get their mail probably shouldn't be living alone.
The exercise would be good for just about everyone.
The USPS is funded solely by postage fees. None of your taxes ever pay for mail delivery.
In 2009, the Postal Service began borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury Department to deal with its troubles. Some news accounts report the service reached its borrowing limit of $15 billion in September 2012.
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The Postal Service wrote in a November 2012 press release that it had a record fiscal year deficit of nearly $16 billion.
WRONG:The prices you showed were ground and may take over a week... three day rates are twice as much. US mail goes over 2000 miles in three days.
Still waiting for you to tell how FedX is better.
Stop ALL deliveries on solicitations and advertising. Make those use the private carriers. USPS mail should be solely letter and package deliveries. Just because the USPS can't manage their business properly, people have to stop receiving the same service? Fix the problem of too much junk mail or quit subsidizing it at least. Charge them way more to spam mailboxes with bank solicitations and lawn care ads.
Also, fix the problem of incorrect addressees. I get junk mail for 3 people that don't live at my house. Its piss poor management to blame for the USPS downfall, plain and simple. Become more efficient. That is a lost cause though because it is gov't. ran. Innovation and ingenuity aren't terms often used to describe gov't. ran businesses.
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