dudeThe USPS is nearing a financial breaking point, postmaster general warns: 'We were thrown an anchor'
Dr. WeskerThe USPS is an archaic spam delivery and doxxing enablement system. I definitely would have rather seen it overhauled and modernized, but I’m not particularly upset. I just don’t like that the only alternatives Americans have are corporate.
I would be fine if they stopped delivering and just held it all at the post office and just notified me when something other than spam arrives, which is maybe 2 tikes per year.
But I suppose that creates a new issue as they would have to have a play to store everobes mail…maybe a bad idea.
all they got to do is jack up the advertising rates
you can blanket a city of 1m with an advo hand-delivered to every door for less money than a local billboard charges to put an ad up over the highway for a week
When you perform an address change in the US, the USPS site actually tries to trick you into signing up for predatory company offers, I’m assuming because they get some sort of kickback. Not a great look.
EDIT: 7 downvotes so far, but not a single person willing to tell me I’m actually wrong. Because it’s true.
You can have your mail sent to a mail service, they’ll filter out anything not specifically addressed to you. For anything still showing up at your house sign up for DMAchoice, it’s a few bucks, but worth it.
My mailbox has cobwebs and a dead hornet that’s been there for almost a year. The only time I see USPS is when they’re dropping off packages.
infinitevalenceIt’s often the only way to get things in rural America when the requirements of corporate profits prevent competitive deliver.
Need meds for an aging parent, there’s a solid chance they go through the USPS in lots of America.
TacoButtPlugNot sure where you got downvoted. You are right.
Every time I’ve griped about USPS on here, it’s gotten well down voted. My assumption is that it’s because:
- The current American administration has also been critical of the USPS, and any type of opinion crossover is somehow triggering
- There aren’t currently any better solutions, and any type of criticism of the only current option is somehow triggering
- Lemmy has a notable population of American postal workers, who are feeling like their jobs are on life support, and the criticism is (more understandably) triggering
It’s difficult to discern, because they aren’t willing to have dialogue. They’re not even willing the make weak accusations, as is the Lemmy way.
FRYDThe postal service is run by morons. The entire system runs on hierarchy where everyone lies to the person immediately above them because their expectations are unrealistic or impossible. Then every interaction between hierarchy levels is inherently hostile and some jobs in the service exist solely to write up the paperwork to get someone in trouble because the postal service only ever uses sticks and never carrots.
There’s a staggering amount of do-nothing jobs that exist just to make things harder for other workers. For example the postal service hires nurses. For quick, in house medical service? No. So someone with a medical background can arbitrarily decide if a signed doctor’s note, from a doctor, on their letterhead, is valid or not. There’s the safety crew too. What do they do? Oh it’s their job to make sure everyone is wearing USPS approved shoes, wearing seatbelts, and parking correctly. That almost makes sense except most of the time they just sit in their cars all day and only occasionally decide to hide in random places and write up employees for small infractions.
The postal service needs congress to get rid of its insane law forcing the organization to fund pensions 75 years in advance and then it needs to get rid of the thousands of useless middle management jobs.
My ethos? I’m not sure what you mean. The postal service is messed up from the inside pretty bad. I think I explain my view on that part.
Do you mean my opinion on the supposed imminent doom of the organization? That’s just hype if you ask me. You cut the service, people will die. The postal service delivers medicine and supplies people in rough areas who need it. I doubt even the cronies in government now would let that happen, not to mention the economic calamity that would come from it happening. The postal service is like the 2nd or 3rd largest employer in the country.
People worry about privatization, but the postal service is in the constitution. Even if the current administration has no respect for the ancient toilet paper, it would be risky for any outside party to invest in taking it over when they could be booted by whatever administration that follows.
_lilithThat’s pretty informative, thank you. I also was told by a post-service worker that they can’t get rid of employees that steal mail because of some archaic anti-firing or union law. I don’t really know exactly what they were telling me, but they said they can’t fire them.