I have had multiple bad experiences with the post office.Mostly them delivering packages and other mail to the wrong address blocks away multiple times. First time it happened I thought maybe the mail carrier just made an accidental mistake.But it happened many more times with different mailmen. When I was living at an apartment complex many of my packages and possibly other mail was going to a completely different apartment complex a couple streets over. I would call the post office to file a complaint, they would put me hold while they pretended to get a manager and eventually hang up.So I would have to go there in person. The person at the post office would name off the apartment complex it was delivered to and tell me thats where their GPS shows it being delivered to. I would point out that apartment complex they showed it being delivered to is on 9th street, the address on my shipping receipt says 7th street. So I would have to call the 1-800 number to file a complaint. It was never explained how the mail man can mistake a one street for the other and how it kept repeatedly happening. So far now my mail and packages haven't been going to the wrong address and that's because I ****ing moved. So if given the option of using USPS,Fed-Ex or UPS when ordering something online I will use Fed-ex or UPS.
Well - then the US Post Service is even worse than I thought!
What a stupid post.I see - so far the majority here in the thread are optimists who think that everything that is American is great - and that Trump will make it even greater!
I see - so far the majority here in the thread are optimists who think that everything that is American is great - and that Trump will make it even greater!
It has now come to light that the US postal service is underfinanced and that the Republican Party under D. Trump planned do weaken it still further.
Do you still think that the US postal service is the best in the world - like all US things are always the best things in the world?
It has now come to light that the US postal service is underfinanced and that the Republican Party under D. Trump planned do weaken it still further.
Do you still think that the US postal service is the best in the world - like all US things are always the best things in the world?
I see - so far the majority here in the thread are optimists who think that everything that is American is great - and that Trump will make it even greater!
In my experience the American Post Service is rotten - and a disgrace for a great nation.
But if Trump says that it is great - then you think it is great?
In my experience the American Post Service is rotten - and a disgrace for a great nation.
But if Trump says that it is great - then you think it is great?
The post office is constitutionally mandated.
I realize you don't have much use for the constitution, but there it is.
It seems I have thrown the cat among the pigeons - or set the fox among the chickens.
I voted that it is good. There is room for improvement. I would like to see it improved to automate "Return to sender" requests after so many are made for the same person. We receive 4-5 pieces of junk mail and even important mail that is misdelivered here for the previous resident. We should not have to continue to write on the letters that the person does not live here.
I also may be biased toward the positive with USPS since we had family friends working there for years, so our mail needs were always met by going to see them and knowing we would always be efficiently helped.
You should stick to other foolish topics, politics isn’t for you, imo.
Wine or pastry or Christmas............
Your poll didn't say anything about Trump. So your conclusion is completely false.
The USPS is very popular with most Americans and has survived a lot worse than Trump...and it will still be here after he is long gone and forgotten.
1. I doubt that it is the best in the world.
2. It is certainly better than that of many other countries (where, I hear, you may need to bribe the postal carrier to get your mail).
3. Maybe it's my imagination, but since the post office has lost so much business because of email, some employees now realize that their secure government jobs (with great pensions) are on the line, so some (many?) employees now have a better attitude.
4. And, I think, the quality of the service depends on the part of the city where one lives. I can understand, for example, that the morale of carriers may be pretty low in areas where irresponsible residents let dangerous dogs run loose and where some people steal mail out of the mailboxes.
5. I think that the post office should stop Saturday deliveries in order to save money and to provide good service at least 5 days a week.
6. Everything is changing in this country (what an understatement!), so the post office has no choice but to change, too. The new Dem administration will be loath to fire postal workers since most of them are presumably Democrats, so perhaps attrition is the most probable way to downsize the post office.
Taxpayers are paying them salary and benefits for delivering junk mail that no one wants in the first place.
The USPS is funded almost entirely by postage.
Here is something to ponder based on your unfounded comment:
If the GOP had not used "big government" to interfere with the USPS operations as W did during his administration...taking an organization that turned itself around and created billions if profit revenue and forcing it to use that money and any future profits to secure pensions for the next 75 years of people who haven't even started working for the USPS and thereby bankrupting it (wait, isn't that an example of socialism?)...and then to have a Trump goon do more harm to the organization for the sake of winning an election for Trump....
Then there is a reasonable chance that we would have had a fully functional, independent government agency mandated by the Constitution that might even have been profitable, or at the very least, not nearly as much of a suck on taxpayers as other agencies are.
But noooooo....the GOP and Trump had to screw this up as well.....
I know a lot about it - and I know a lot about other postal services. So I can compare.:2wave:
You clearly need to get out of your leftist bubble. Once you get outside of the major cities the USPS is less than useless. We pay for services that are not being provided, except to those who live in the big cities.Then there is a reasonable chance that we would have had a fully functional, independent government agency mandated by the Constitution that might even have been profitable, or at the very least, not nearly as much of a suck on taxpayers as other agencies are.
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