Rant on - No more post office

[MTboatguy]

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I use USPS all the time, due to the difficult nature that UPS and FedEx have delivering to my physical address, we have no home delivery for USPS, and the majority of the time, I do receive the notifications from USPS when Items have been shipped and am able to follow it along its way.

 

[slag]

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my experiences mirror BruceB's. USPS tracking is inconsistent and worthless and often times is not updated until days after the package was delivered. With UPS and FEDEX, you know when it reached your local hub, when it is out on the truck for delivery, etc. I never see that with USPS.

 

[MTboatguy]

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my experiences mirror BruceB's. USPS tracking is inconsistent and worthless and often times is not updated until days after the package was delivered. With UPS and FEDEX, you know when it reached your local hub, when it is out on the truck for delivery, etc. I never see that with USPS.

Ok, it seems as if we have different experiences, perhaps it is because I live in a small town and know all of the people that work at the post office..

 

[Rocky_Road]

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The crux of this is simple:

"Labor represents 80 percent of the agency?s expenses, compared with 53 percent at United Parcel Service and 32 percent at FedEx, its two biggest private competitors."

There is no way that a legitimate business can operate with an 80% labor (read: salaries and benefits) expense from operating capital. My defunct business was pressured when this reached 30%. It is not possible...period.

The USPS is union driven, and the above will not be reverted within our lifetime. There can only be a band-aid massive reduction in service...but this will not relieve the labor cost, so we are not going to get anywhere. The only solution is a major bailout, accompanied with a major price increase, and that will be the grist of the politicians and the will of the taxpayers. This could get quite ugly....

We have taken the federal employee feeding trough to it's limit within the USPS, and someone will have to suffer. My guess is that it will (as always) be the taxpayer.

Happy boating!

 

[F_R]

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Would it be out of line for me to say I think the Post Office does a terrific job? No, I'm not connected to it in any way, except I ship a few packages by Priority Mail. Have never had a problem. Can't say the same for the other carriers, Smash and Crush.

 

[bruceb58]

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Would it be out of line for me to say I think the Post Office does a terrific job?

They should...they have plenty of people working there!

Of course except all of the ones that seem to end up on jury duty.

 

[Yacht Dr.]

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The crux of this is simple:

"Labor represents 80 percent of the agency?s expenses, compared with 53 percent at United Parcel Service and 32 percent at FedEx, its two biggest private competitors."

There is no way that a legitimate business can operate with an 80% labor (read: salaries and benefits) expense from operating capital. My defunct business was pressured when this reached 30%. It is not possible...period.

The USPS is union driven, and the above will not be reverted within our lifetime. There can only be a band-aid massive reduction in service...but this will not relieve the labor cost, so we are not going to get anywhere. The only solution is a major bailout, accompanied with a major price increase, and that will be the grist of the politicians and the will of the taxpayers. This could get quite ugly....

We have taken the federal employee feeding trough to it's limit within the USPS, and someone will have to suffer. My guess is that it will (as always) be the taxpayer.

Happy boating!

Spot on m8.. spot on ..

We do understand that We pay for what We want or need eh ??

We the taxpayers do the job well enough atm .. but ..

Postal service will go belly up soon come because of the Inet and Email and instants. We will not have any Hard copies is all .

YD.

 

[mnypitboat]

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I didnt read through all the posts, but this is a problem. The Government will not let anyone compete in first class mail, so if the USPS decides to not deliver to you, I guess you are stuck.

Not trying to be political, just stating a fact. If FEDEX or UPS or even DHL were allowed to compete in first class mail, the USPS would have been out of business years ago. Sadly, they are not, so we are stuck with a broken system.

 

[mnypitboat]

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Actually, USPS does have tracking. See link.

http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do

Their tracking shows that it was dropped off at the Post office until 3 days after it is delivered. Completely worthless. Not only that, UPS and FEDEX and DHL promise a deliver date and time. USPS gives no such gaurantee. Their next day actually says there is no gaurantee of when it will arrive. Like I said, if UPS and FEDEX could compete in first class mail, the USPS would be gone within a year, if not sooner.

 

[MTboatguy]

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Like I said, if UPS and FEDEX could compete in first class mail, the USPS would be gone within a year, if not sooner.

Actually, somewhat I agree with what you say, not that USPS would be gone if they could compete in First Class, I think that USPS, would actually become competitive in First Class and give a darn about what they are doing..

 

[mnypitboat]

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Actually, somewhat I agree with what you say, not that USPS would be gone if they could compete in First Class, I think that USPS, would actually become competitive in First Class and give a darn about what they are doing..

Not as long as they can just get more money from taxpayers. If they had to truley compete, then I would agree, and if they didnt compete, they would then be gone.

 

[jimbo_jwc]

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Having worked there and Father as a retired Vet. with his 5 points for his service on test to get this job most armchair quaterbacks , sideline coaches lack skills to get high enough score to be considered ! Watched him learn/memorize 2 beer cases full of cards the size of a buisness card with address range and street x2 to be able to bid on job for automated LSM /letter sorting machine to route to carrier . Years later they had to implement paid training for this job as the could not get qualified apps. Now with electronic readers and cancellers the can't get people to write legable enough to work . Hows automation working for you now ?
Way less workers now . When you cant use private letter /public docks /goverment Intranet /Public TV / you are controlled ,anyalized ,mind controlled , Owned by private sector and look at by them as dollar sign ! These chimers want everything for free and now as they are too bugeted to their income to to do anything more other than be green with envy as to what others have accomplished in their lives through work .PS after working for 4yrs as a 89day wonder for holidays and thinking I could better my score since I took it my senior year of high school I learned I only grew wiser not smarter for working two fulltime jobs 3 months a year when they paid twice my Electrical apparatus starting wage . Sort 5' of mail every hour and have it checked for accuracy constanly for every town within 60 miles of sec center and it will have you looking for trays of bills in order of towns or going Postal .

 

[bruceb58]

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^^^^^Anybody else have any idea of what he is talkng about?

EDIT: Beer was mentioned once. Maybe that explains it.

 

[ezmobee]

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^^^^^Anybody else have any idea of what he is talkng about?

Nope.


My wife just called me to complain that she couldn't drop off the packages I needed her to drop off today because our local PO was closed for an hour and a half for lunch. :facepalm:

 

[bruceb58]

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My wife just called me to complain that she couldn't drop off the packages I needed her to drop off today because our local PO was closed for an hour and a half for lunch. :facepalm:

Ridiculous! Can't they work, look at iBoats and eat lunch at the same time like I do?

 

[ezmobee]

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Ridiculous! Can't they work, look at iBoats and eat lunch at the same time like I do?

Preachin' to the choir here bruce!

 

[GA_Boater]

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^^^^^Anybody else have any idea of what he is talkng about?

EDIT: Beer was mentioned once. Maybe that explains it.

Going postal????

My little PO closes for 1.5 hours also. And they always have two or more clerks. I guess it's hard to schedule staggered lunch hours (or is it lunch 1.5 hours?) to keep the windows manned. Unfortunately PO mgt. has forgotten the word service. I'll toss in union mgt. as well because I don't think it is a worker problem.

 

[Bamaman1]

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Just because you lost your post office doesn't mean that your rural route carrier won't be delivering mail to your house--working out of another post office location.

Get yourself a scale, and put the postage on your package/item to be sent. Leave it on your mail box, and the carrier will take it to town for you. You can even print out labels and postage on your computer.

If you send boxes, call UPS or FedEx for a pickup. Their carriers spend half their day picking up boxes and envelopes.

 

[Tim Frank]

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Ridiculous! Can't they work, look at iBoats and eat lunch at the same time like I do?

With beer?...