good news, the only constitutional function of government that I'm fine letting private sector take over.

Well, maybe yours knows what they're doing. My band of idiots are never early, you can count on it being late half the time, and be ready to check with your neighbors to see if they got it

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Bingo Bango Bongo said:

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Our mail service sucks so bad. I cringe when I order a product and realize it's going to end up being delivered by USPS.

Blow it all up

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I'm the opposite. I love when I get packages through USPS, consistently 1-2 days ahead of scheduled delivery. UPS on the other hand I get it 1-2 days after the supposed delivery estimate.

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usps consistently delivers to my apartment office instead of my door, even though they know the office doesn't want deliveries there. They also mark all of my packages as delivered to resident but never knock on the door.

UPS has been even worse as they'll mark packages as undeliverable even though our gates have been open for all but 3 months of the 5 years I've lived in these apartments.

FedEx and Amazon shipping have been nails though.

Our postman "Phil" is awesome. Does USPS need to be overhauled or given to the private sector? YES!

We like our mailman though.

TxSquarebody said:

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Dismantle the whole damn thing and rebuild without unions. Anything else is a band-aid at best.

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Unions are definitely part of the problem but they aren't the only part. Management is terrible of course but they also have an issue with compartmentalization. Decisions are being made that are wasteful but there are only repercussions if it affects the department making the decision. If the cost gets passed on to another department then it's fine and there are no repercussions. There are very few incentives to be efficient.

But probably the biggest issue is that the USPS is heavily regulated by the government even though it is not federally funded. To make almost any major change to the USPS literally takes an act of Congress. Best thing that could happen would be to privatize it and eliminate most if not all of the federal restrictions on it.

One side cannot unilaterally change how we do elections months before the election. Unless there's a landslide this election will be illegitimate.

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Heaven forbid someone try and curtail spending at the USPS.

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Yes, but they also have a revenue problem too due to the decline in First-Class Mail volume over the years.

Spending can be reduced (without hurting services like the Postmaster General is doing now) by addressing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and its ridiculous requirement to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees. (No other business does this.) If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements," the Postal Service would've reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018. (See chart)

Eliminating the strict price cap tied on First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals would allow the USPS to generate more revenue.

https://about.usps.com/news/delivers-facts/usps-delivers-the-facts.pdf

Our mail service had been deteriorating of late. Things like skipping days delivered, receiving neighbors mail, grocery ads a week late, etc. Happened to be outside and saw our mail carrier across the street. Actually heard someone talking and looked to see who it was. She was a morbidly obese black woman who either had a pronounced limp or a significant wobble in her gait. I could see/hear that she was huffing & puffing from the demands of walking a couple of blocks. The animated bluetooth headphone conversation she was having rounded out the stereotype. I'm not saying that this woman doesn't deserve a job, but could there be any other reason that they would have hired a person in such poor physical condition to carry mail besides "diversity"?

ETA - they just delivered our Saturday mail 6:05 PM. Can you say overtime?

Carolin_Gallego said:

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BigRobSA said:

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Heaven forbid someone try and curtail spending at the USPS.

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Yes, but they also have a revenue problem too due to the decline in First-Class Mail volume over the years.

Spending can be reduced (without hurting services like the Postmaster General is doing now) by addressing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and its ridiculous requirement to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees. (No other business does this.) If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements," the Postal Service would've reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018. (See chart)

Eliminating the strict price cap tied on First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals would allow the USPS to generate more revenue.

https://about.usps.com/news/delivers-facts/usps-delivers-the-facts.pdf

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Preaching to the choir.

I'm for privatizing the whole thing. Just like education, not something the govt should (still) be doing.

I'm waiting on two packages, one I sent on Jul. 23rd and another sent to me on the 25th. In tracking them both show their initial scans then another update about 3 days later that just says " In transit. Will arrive late", then no updates since then. I don't remember this ever happening before and now twice in the same week.

I suspect there's a lot of disgruntled postal employees slowing things down.

Carolin_Gallego said:

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Spending can be reduced (without hurting services like the Postmaster General is doing now) by addressing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and its ridiculous requirement to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees. (No other business does this.) If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements," the Postal Service would've reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018.

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Why would their liabilities be removed from their financial statement? That's dumb.

You could call the money they owe "income," and on paper they would show profitably, too. It would be a lie, but that doesn't matter, right?

I Am A Critic said:

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Trump knows he can't win a fair fight. Just another tactic to try and help him start in office.

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Since when have Democrats ever been in favor of a fair fight? Are we even sure they've quit spying on him?

Carolin_Gallego said:

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BigRobSA said:

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Heaven forbid someone try and curtail spending at the USPS.

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Yes, but they also have a revenue problem too due to the decline in First-Class Mail volume over the years.

Spending can be reduced (without hurting services like the Postmaster General is doing now) by addressing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and its ridiculous requirement to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees. (No other business does this.) If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements," the Postal Service would've reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018. (See chart)

Eliminating the strict price cap tied on First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals would allow the USPS to generate more revenue.

https://about.usps.com/news/delivers-facts/usps-delivers-the-facts.pdf

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That's a lie that libs keep spouting. They have negative cash flow. This is not an accounting loss.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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Carolin_Gallego said:

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Spending can be reduced (without hurting services like the Postmaster General is doing now) by addressing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and its ridiculous requirement to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees. (No other business does this.) If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements," the Postal Service would've reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018.

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Why would their liabilities be removed from their financial statement? That's dumb.

You could call the money they owe "income," and on paper they would show profitably, too. It would be a lie, but that doesn't matter, right?

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No other public or private entity pre-funds 50 years of retiree health benefits. That's dumb. Other federal agencies and private sector companies use a "pay-as-you-go" system, by which the entity pays premiums as they are billed.

That's false

Many companies have pension liabilities on their books.

While some have switched, saying this is unique to the post office is bovine scat

jefe95 said:

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That's false

Many companies have pension liabilities on their books.

While some have switched, saying this is unique to the post office is bovine scat

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It's True. This GAO report can provide specifics.

Never meant to imply that some companies don't have some pension liabilities on their books, but they definitely don't have 50 years worth on their books. That bovine scat is solely the USPS' Congressionally mandated liability.