I feel terrible for the USPS.
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I feel terrible for the USPS. The service is just terrible these days. I don't believe it's a problem of the people, but of bad leadership from both parties.
They want us to hate the USPS and its poor service so it can be privatized and those decent jobs -many of which are union- can be eliminated or converted to minimum wage.
How else would you take a failing public service and make a profit from it?
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I feel terrible for the USPS. The service is just terrible these days. I don't believe it's a problem of the people, but of bad leadership from both parties.
They want us to hate the USPS and its poor service so it can be privatized and those decent jobs -many of which are union- can be eliminated or converted to minimum wage.
How else would you take a failing public service and make a profit from it?
@User47 Eroding it, just like Public education to then claim how terrible of a "service" it is and why it should be privatized
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I feel terrible for the USPS. The service is just terrible these days. I don't believe it's a problem of the people, but of bad leadership from both parties.
They want us to hate the USPS and its poor service so it can be privatized and those decent jobs -many of which are union- can be eliminated or converted to minimum wage.
How else would you take a failing public service and make a profit from it?
@User47 You're not wrong...but they're honestly pretty awesome around here still. I used to rank them second only to UPS but lately they've taken the lead for me.
My gf works the overnight shift so she does a lot of her shopping online and there are times when USPS will stop at our house three times in one day. If your package is five minutes late getting to the UPS depot you aren't getting it until 7pm the next day, but with USPS I think they'll just stick it on the next truck that will be headed your way in a couple hours.
And it ain't even worth comparing to FedEx (probably 'cause they're non-union), those fuckers will let a box fall off the back of a truck and call it a successful delivery. And half the shit that they DO manage to deliver is already ripped open...I have literally stopped buying some of my favorite shit purely because they'd only ship FedEx...unfortunately most places don't tell you who the carrier is until you get the tracking number. I remember when instead of selecting shipping from "standard / two day / overnight" the options were always "USPS priority / UPS ground / FedEx ground / UPS two day / FedEx two day / etc..." and you could decide for yourself if the extra cost was worth it...
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@User47 You're not wrong...but they're honestly pretty awesome around here still. I used to rank them second only to UPS but lately they've taken the lead for me.
My gf works the overnight shift so she does a lot of her shopping online and there are times when USPS will stop at our house three times in one day. If your package is five minutes late getting to the UPS depot you aren't getting it until 7pm the next day, but with USPS I think they'll just stick it on the next truck that will be headed your way in a couple hours.
And it ain't even worth comparing to FedEx (probably 'cause they're non-union), those fuckers will let a box fall off the back of a truck and call it a successful delivery. And half the shit that they DO manage to deliver is already ripped open...I have literally stopped buying some of my favorite shit purely because they'd only ship FedEx...unfortunately most places don't tell you who the carrier is until you get the tracking number. I remember when instead of selecting shipping from "standard / two day / overnight" the options were always "USPS priority / UPS ground / FedEx ground / UPS two day / FedEx two day / etc..." and you could decide for yourself if the extra cost was worth it...
@admin I wish we had your experience. Our packages are constantly delayed and, fun anecdote, Europeans hate getting US matches on @postcrossing because delivery to us is now frequently beyond the 60 day registration/timeout threshold 🫤
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@admin I wish we had your experience. Our packages are constantly delayed and, fun anecdote, Europeans hate getting US matches on @postcrossing because delivery to us is now frequently beyond the 60 day registration/timeout threshold 🫤
@postcrossing @User47 ahhh, gotcha...but isn't *anything* coming into the US pretty fucked right now, not just via USPS?
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I feel terrible for the USPS. The service is just terrible these days. I don't believe it's a problem of the people, but of bad leadership from both parties.
They want us to hate the USPS and its poor service so it can be privatized and those decent jobs -many of which are union- can be eliminated or converted to minimum wage.
How else would you take a failing public service and make a profit from it?
@User47 Exactly right. I believe that’s the plan.
