The U.S. Postal Service is planning to make changes that could result in slower service to rural areas.
The proposal, announced Aug. 22, would adjust mail delivery times while maintaining a commitment to a maximum five-day delivery for the flagship Ground Advantage program nationwide and a maximum three-day delivery for local first-class mail.
They should be stopping Sunday package delivery. They are no doubt losing money on every package that goes out in the truck on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteThey're missing money on every on acting they deliver.
DeleteThey're the government, they're incompetent like that.
John g
...except that they're not government.
DeleteWhat a crap article. That pile of word salad said nothing, but repeated itself like three times. "Journalism".
ReplyDeleteCan't get much slower in the city - just got my Wall Street Journal for August 24th today.
ReplyDeleteAbolish the first class monopoly and allow others to do a superior and less expensive job. The government monopoly has failed for far too long now.
ReplyDeleteEarly '70's in my town, (approx 10k pop.)we used to get 2 mail deliveries a day, 6 days a week, and the mailman walked. Had the same mailman for 20 years.
ReplyDeleteNow, it's rare to see the same mailman 2 weeks in a row. At least once or twice a month, we don't even get a delivery. I can't count the number of times I've had to chase down the carrier because I didn't get a package that was scheduled. Kind of pisses me off that I pay for UPS delivery and they turn it over to USPS.
I paid once almost $200 for a custom red cedar mailbox and a matching post. The post had the house number on it. I came out to get the mail and the postman was just putting the cap back on his black magic marker after he scrawled the house number on the cedar wood in huge numbers. Dark, very dark thoughts went through my mind.
Don't even get me started on the fact that a primarily Democrat postal union delivers votes.
I know my regular mailman by name. He's got the route 5 days a week.
DeleteI went through a couple of mail delivery people for about a year then I got this one woman that goes out of her way to put all packages that don't fit into my mailbox against my back door...
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If it's rainy and windy, Jason will put my packages in the cab of my truck rather than on the porch where it'll get wet.
DeleteExcellent service from him, by back door is under my carport so unless it's storming my package is safe from the weather as well
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You guys are lucky and fortunate!
DeleteI repaired the mail-lady's minivan and jeep she uses to deliver, after I fixed up her dually.
DeleteShe couldn't do the rear brakes herself and asked over a dozen different legit and shade-tree mechanics to work on it before she asked me, and I can't turn down a widow.
I am sure if the USPS quit offering such cheap mailing rates from China they could probably raise quite a bit of revenue. It is really sad when something can be mailed from China to a CONUS address cheaper than it can be mailed from within CONUS itself.
ReplyDeletePost office has three speeds, slow stop and reverse! I am in New York, and I ordered something that was shipped from Illinois. I kept getting notices from the seller that my item is delayed. When I went online to track the package, rhe USPS website showed that the package took a diversion to Oklahoma first. I got the package five days after it was originally scheduled to be here
ReplyDeleteHappens to me all the time with Brown. Package gets to the Twin Shitties, goes on a sight-seeing tour of Indiana by way of Des Moines and Chicago, back to Somaliapolis and maybe then up north to me.
DeleteThe mail is just super slow here due to city neglect....
Q. Why is the USPS like Thom McAn?
ReplyDeleteA. Because both have hundreds of thousands of black loafers!
We get deliveries roughly every other day, sometimes 2 in a row. I haven't seen our regular mailman since about July 1. I asked a mailman about it, and he said they're short-staffed, and skipping daily deliveries is the only practical way to deal with the shortage. Any priority mail, I.E. a tracking number, gets delivered promptly because that's traceable.
ReplyDeleteMy bills are auto pay, I get a couple paper bills but they are just a courtesy. I get a couple birthday cards a year, I get a handful of Christmas cards a year. I get a jury duty notice, and a court summons. I get notices of personal and property taxes, DMV sends a yearyl notice. I get some electioneering mail. and lots of junk mail. Junk mail is the post offices bread and butter. For the most part I think the post office is archaic and serves no real purpose anymore.
ReplyDeleteWe get delivery Monday/Wednesday/Friday and sometimes Saturday. Been that way for about 2 years now. Package delivery is everyday with another person, not our regular mail lady, they got suckered by Amazon on that
ReplyDeleteI have a lab we use that's HQed in NJ. It taks 7-9 biz days for mail to get there from SC.
ReplyDeleteI believe this announcement was made for extending election ballot counting. You cant stop counting votes for at least 5 days after the election. USPS should not be part of an election.
ReplyDeleteI live in a town of 2500 people in SE GA. The local Post Office does not process our mail locally. They send everything to Atlanta five times a week. It takes a week or so to get processed and another week to be shipped back to be delivered. Typical across town deliveries is just over 3 weeks. Any bill mailed to me must go through Atlanta where it gets delayed for at least 3 weeks where most arrive on or just after the due date. Any outgoing mail I have I will post it from a neighboring town that does process their mail.
ReplyDeleteMail in voting should not be allowed.
There is a USPS sorting center in Palmetto GA that is causing a lot of problems with delays ( as long as three weeks). I don't know if it is a new facility or just has "other problems".
DeleteHave to drive into town to get mail at a POBox. Don't get charged a fee because of that. OK by me, just go in maybe once a week. Maybe.
DeleteA related problem is that in many States, the presumptive time for mail delivery is a matter of Court Rules.
ReplyDeleteIf the Rules say 15 days notice of a hearing, and that if mailed on Monday, it is presumed delivered on Wednesday, and it actually takes two weeks, you're screwed when you miss your Court date.
John in Indy
I got a package delivered on Labor Day. Yes, Labor Day, even though the original delivery date was the Tuesday following Labor Day and I actually indicated that it should be delivered with other articles that were also scheduled for Tuesday. I asked our normal route guy yesterday and he said that the Amazon packages are delivered on Sundays and holidays. I cannot believe that this is cost effective.
ReplyDeleteAbout all I get is junk mail . It goes from the box to the burn barrel without a second glance.
ReplyDeleteIt's my fault. I opted out and mostly get junk mail but I won't accept that without a postmark. So I put it all in a blue bin and make them deliver it again and again.
ReplyDeletePart of the push to get people out of rural areas & into the "15 minute cities". This is a long term project & the postal slowdown fits in nicely with the push to go electric...
ReplyDeleteThen there is the combined cluster-fuck of DHL-USPS that Express Scripts uses to get my meds from Saint Louis to Memphis...
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