The best thing about President's Day is the USPS is closed: it's wasting few of our taxpayer dollars today.

Can\'t waste our tax dollars on something that actually provides a service to the citizenry.

There are wars to be fought, bridges to nowhere to be built, a citizenry to be spied upon, a neocolonial project in the ME to be propped up.

usps wrote:

The best thing about President's Day is the USPS is closed: it's wasting few of our taxpayer dollars today. And that's a good thing.

The USPS doesn't receive tax dollar funding the other 364 days of the year either, so that must be a great thing.

Type www.usps.gov into your browser and see where that gets you.

Letter carriers,. clerks, mail handlers, and managers each receive 8 hours pay

for the Monday holiday.

Monkeys typing wrote:

usps wrote:

The best thing about President's Day is the USPS is closed: it's wasting few of our taxpayer dollars today. And that's a good thing.

The USPS doesn't receive tax dollar funding the other 364 days of the year either, so that must be a great thing.

The last few years USPS has gotten a boost from congress, but yes, in general, the USPS has operated for over 40 years without taxpayers money.

i was supposed to receive a delivery from Amazon yesterday, but instead received a Delivery Attempted e-mail instead. Checked the front door and the mailbox for a paper posting, but none was there. The LA-Z sob decided it was Sunday, it was cold and windy, and that was as far as the "attempt" was going to go.

The usps may not be a government organization, but try telling that to the postal workers. Any other business with such a low standard of service would have been driven out of business years ago.

Well that's not a true story because USPS doesn't deliver Sundays no matter the weather.

Letter Carrier since 1994 wrote:

Letter carriers,. clerks, mail handlers, and managers each receive 8 hours pay

for the Monday holiday.

Oh noes! This must end!! We've got to find a way to make life even more difficult for people with what's considered an ordinary job!!!

The ignorance displayed by these budget busters is legendary as the whole reason for the negative budget was #43 directing the postal service to advance fund their employee's retirement fund for some crazy high number like 25 years in a very compressed time frame.

Also, the ignorant utterly fail to understand how good the system is compared to other countries in the world.

No Way wrote:

Well that's not a true story because USPS doesn't deliver Sundays no matter the weather.

Yes they do.

And the same thing happened to me, though it wasn't a Sunday and I didn't associate it with the weather at the time.

I stand corrected

The worst thing about President's day is that the schools are closed, and all the dumb kids are wasting our time with stupid statements on LRC.

I'm just happy I don't have to walk to the mailbox to get my Expired Powertrain Warranty Notices and Valu-Pak coupon things. Saves me 40 cold seconds.

When the drafters of the Constitution gave Congress the authority to establish the Post Office, they had no idea that electronic mail would eventually arise and make the Post Office less and less relevant.

Rather than bitching about the Founding Fathers, why don't we celebrate their wisdom in establishing a government service that proved incredibly useful to the country for-- what-- ~230 years?

They were pretty bright guys and the post office has been a great American institution, doncha think?

The post office isn't funded by tax money. Last year was their first profitable year in a long time. They were losing billions every year. But, with a big push into the small parcel industry they have shown a heart beat. And it's obviously a lucrative industry. UPS and Fedex are extremely profitable. And they are the two main players. If USPS can sneak in there and start reliably delivering packages and taking advantage of their monopolistic hold on mailboxes and PO boxes, they will be extremely profitable. It's lack of service and incompetence that keeps them down, not that their industry is dying.

usps wrote:

Type

http://www.usps.gov

into your browser and see where that gets you.

usps.com

Just think. You put a 49 cent stamp on an envelope and drop it in a mailbox in AK with a delivery address in FL. It travels several thousand miles in 3 days to FL, but when it gets to FL the Post Office indicates the person moved to HI. The letter is then forwarded to HI. Once it gets to HI it's discovered that the forwarding address was incorrectly reported by the customer, so the envelope is marked "Return to Sender" and it goes back to AK. So, the letter has traveled over 10,000 miles for a freaking 49 cents! For those of you who still use the USPS, and bitch about the price of a stamp, you have to agree you're getting bang for your half buck. Postage in the US should be at least a buck per ounce.

Lastly, I am a CCA (City Carrier Assistant) for the USPS and I don't get paid holidays or sick time. I am on call 7 days a week for $15.00/hr. Wow!

I love the USPS. With regard to the government, it is the illegal/immoral wars and tax breaks for the rich that bother me.

Victorious88 wrote:

Last year was their first profitable year in a long time. They were losing billions every year. But, with a big push into the small parcel industry they have shown a heart beat. And it's obviously a lucrative industry. UPS and Fedex are extremely profitable. And they are the two main players. If USPS can sneak in there and start reliably delivering packages and taking advantage of their monopolistic hold on mailboxes and PO boxes, they will be extremely profitable. It's lack of service and incompetence that keeps them down, not that their industry is dying.

1) Many of the reasons that the USPS was losing money have to with political restrictions placed on them before they were privatized. For example, providing postal service to low population density areas was a known money loser from the start. However, Congress requires the post office to take the hit and provide postal service-- no matter how much money was lost.

If you truly want to compare profitability, go ahead and make it a crime for FedEx and UPS to not have offices and provide pick up and delivery service to the middle of Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, Alaska, etc. and then we'll talk.

2) As for their industry allegedly not dying, why don't you actually bother to read before you speak? Here's one libtard group-- the Heritage foundation-- who disagrees with you: