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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 31, 2022 4:26:21 GMT -5
Probably something we can't talk about here, but it's been a concentrated effort by some for awhile to kill the USPS and make everything private shipping. Despite, the USPS always operating at a profit, till that stupid USPS must prefund retiree benefits years in advance law. Fortunately, they got rid of that stupid prefund thing recently.
But yeah, USPS hasn't been great lately, but a lot of people out in the boonies are boned if it goes away entirely. FedEx, UPS, etc. just don't have the infrastructure to service a lot of rural areas the way the postal system does.
My mother bought a house up in the mountains of TN. UPS put a new driver on the route who decided that the road was too dangerous. Not for the last guy. But he refused to deliver packages. When they got enough complaints he started dumping them at a general store at the bottom of the road. And yes dumping them. He left them outside without telling anyone in the store or the intended recipients. Still on the route when she moved because he had seniority and wanted that route. Just refused to do most of it. USPS delivered every day.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 31, 2022 10:08:36 GMT -5
Fortunately, they got rid of that stupid prefund thing recently.
But yeah, USPS hasn't been great lately, but a lot of people out in the boonies are boned if it goes away entirely. FedEx, UPS, etc. just don't have the infrastructure to service a lot of rural areas the way the postal system does.
My mother bought a house up in the mountains of TN. UPS put a new driver on the route who decided that the road was too dangerous. Not for the last guy. But he refused to deliver packages. When they got enough complaints he started dumping them at a general store at the bottom of the road. And yes dumping them. He left them outside without telling anyone in the store or the intended recipients. Still on the route when she moved because he had seniority and wanted that route. Just refused to do most of it. USPS delivered every day. Well, yes. That is one of the reasons that USPS is better. They are legally obligated to deliver, even to the sticks. No one else has those obligations. Couple that with significantly better rates and you understand why I want it to continue.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Oct 31, 2022 10:16:22 GMT -5
Delivery to my home is decent. Oddly since 2019ish if a package is coming to me and goes thru Memphis it will sit there at least 2 days,one time a package was tehre for 28 days. Post office in town is hit and miss. They only have two windows and it is usually packed. Got a regional office near me but their hours are like 3 hours each day. Never a line there. Fed Ex has that problem for me. They have a stop in Southaven, south of Memphis, and a package can get there and not leave for a week. Our Fedex delivery guys are the worst. They will drop off packages at the bottom of our apartment stairs. Or they open the door and toss them up the stairs. I bought a laptop for my wife a few years ago, they left it outside without a signature.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 31, 2022 10:22:36 GMT -5
My mother bought a house up in the mountains of TN. UPS put a new driver on the route who decided that the road was too dangerous. Not for the last guy. But he refused to deliver packages. When they got enough complaints he started dumping them at a general store at the bottom of the road. And yes dumping them. He left them outside without telling anyone in the store or the intended recipients. Still on the route when she moved because he had seniority and wanted that route. Just refused to do most of it. USPS delivered every day. Well, yes. That is one of the reasons that USPS is better. They are legally obligated to deliver, even to the sticks. No one else has those obligations. Couple that with significantly better rates and you understand why I want it to continue. Totally agree. Some people think their taxes will be lower without USPS. No way. That money will just get funneled into private companies for less and worse service than we get now. Did private prisons decrease the cost? Nope pretty much every one costs us more in some way.
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Post by schma on Oct 31, 2022 10:29:54 GMT -5
Fed Ex has that problem for me. They have a stop in Southaven, south of Memphis, and a package can get there and not leave for a week. Our Fedex delivery guys are the worst. They will drop off packages at the bottom of our apartment stairs. Or they open the door and toss them up the stairs. I bought a laptop for my wife a few years ago, they left it outside without a signature. UPS did the exact same thing to me when I bought a laptop.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 31, 2022 12:13:40 GMT -5
Our Fedex delivery guys are the worst. They will drop off packages at the bottom of our apartment stairs. Or they open the door and toss them up the stairs. I bought a laptop for my wife a few years ago, they left it outside without a signature. UPS did the exact same thing to me when I bought a laptop. They did worse to us by leaving it on our stoop, where it got destroyed by the rain that soaked it.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 31, 2022 13:22:11 GMT -5
Well, yes. That is one of the reasons that USPS is better. They are legally obligated to deliver, even to the sticks. No one else has those obligations. Couple that with significantly better rates and you understand why I want it to continue. Totally agree. Some people think their taxes will be lower without USPS. No way. That money will just get funneled into private companies for less and worse service than we get now. Did private prisons decrease the cost? Nope pretty much every one costs us more in some way. Even worse, anyone thinking that killing USPS will significantly lower their taxes don’t understand how it works. Yes, they are the largest domestic federal employer. Do you know how much your taxes would go down if they all lost their jobs? Not one bit. If anything, they’ll go up. How? Well, for starters they’re largely self funded. All those good paying USPS jobs? Your taxes don’t pay for them. Make those employees unemployed and they’ll struggle to make the same money, lowering the tax base and requiring a higher tax rate to get the same amount of revenue.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Oct 31, 2022 22:24:22 GMT -5
Well I have not gotten my Phone/Cable bill for the month yet.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Oct 31, 2022 22:43:21 GMT -5
Halloween has come and almost gone and still waiting on those Halloween cards.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Nov 3, 2022 15:13:09 GMT -5
Hell, Nov 3rd delivery has come and gone and cards still haven’t shown up. Back to the original problem…went to the post office today to mail another package back to the same company that caused the original problem. Waited until they scanned it in front of me this time instead of dropping it in the mail chute and risking it being scanned 13 days from now again.
Also their money order printer went on the fritz so the whole line shut down while the poor two people working the desk tried figuring it out.
There was also an old man who was disabled at the front of the line (and wouldn’t let anyone forget it) that did nothing but cry the entire time. While he’s 100% right they need a lower table for disabled people to write on…he kept declining other customers help and whining he couldn’t read His own handwriting and that they’d have to rewrite it for him…even though any other is would have just written it for him in the first place.
That frickin place is a dumpster fire.
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