Postal Service

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by hornpharmd, May 26, 2012.

  1. hornpharmd

    hornpharmd 5,000+ Posts


     
  2. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I'd probably go with three days per week - Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Depending on the logistics involved, I might keep express mail available as well for people willing to pay for overnight delivery.
     
  3. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Sure the post office is an anachronism. If it disappeared tomorrow it's functionality would be assumed by private companys that would do a better job for probably less. But don't look for it to go away anytime soon, too many union jobs. They'll just offer less services for the same cost.
     
  4. hornpharmd

    hornpharmd 5,000+ Posts


     
  5. JohnnyYuma

    JohnnyYuma 500+ Posts

    M-W-F is a great idea. Half the time my mail gets delivered to the neighbor so I don't get it until the next day anyway.
     
  6. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    But how will I get all of my unsolicited ads and spam mail?
     
  7. Horn2Run

    Horn2Run 1,000+ Posts

    i think this whole thing about a private corp & mail was hashed over already. No private corp wants anything to do w/ it b/c they cannot compete with usps cost.

    M-W-F residential delivery sounds good. Businesses need 5 days, at least the one i slave away at, does.

    I guess the cost will go up, service goes down. The price of mail service always needed to sort itself out naturally. Too much **** in my mailbox, hopefully with the cost rising I won't see alll the nonsense in the mailbox/ Goodness knows I don't open half of it as is
     
  8. hornpharmd

    hornpharmd 5,000+ Posts

    You hope? Aren't you pissed our gov't is throwing away this cash when they can cut this service to the bone now. We don't need hand delivered mail to within 50 yards of our houses on 6 days of the week.
     
  9. CottonEyedHorn

    CottonEyedHorn 1,000+ Posts

    So long Saturday delivery. Doesn't matter to me.
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  10. Basil Your Face

    Basil Your Face 100+ Posts

    Well I'll be.
     
  11. Larry T. Spider

    Larry T. Spider 1,000+ Posts

    Wouldn't it be more efficient to have each delivery person run one route mwf and a different route t th s?
     
  12. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts


     
  13. CottonEyedHorn

    CottonEyedHorn 1,000+ Posts

    For the record it's pretty easy to opt out of junk mail.

    https://www.dmachoice.org/

    It's cut way down on the junk in our mailbox.
     
  14. majorwhiteapples

    majorwhiteapples 5,000+ Posts

    Just think in 20 years, just like the Post Office, you will only be able to see your Doctor on M, W, and F!!!!!!

    Of course you can just go to the Express or Emergency Room, wait they already do......
     
  15. BigWill

    BigWill 2,500+ Posts


     
  16. HammerOfTheHorns

    HammerOfTheHorns 100+ Posts

    The Post Office is a make-work jobs program as much as anything, so it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
     
  17. TxStHorn

    TxStHorn 1,000+ Posts

    One of, if not the primary reasons they are going broke is because the genius that is Congress required in 2006 the USPS to pre-fund its retirement system for 75 years in advance, and to do it within 10 years. That's a $5.5 billion/year payment.

    In other words, funding retirement for employees that haven't even been born yet.

    It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this were done so that Congress could "borrow" from the fund, just as they have Social Security. Or, just to please private delivery business lobbyists who will gain business from the demise of the Postal Service.

    It's a great way to intentionally bankrupt a Constitutionally mandated system that, frankly, has operated pretty damn well for the past 2 1/2 centuries. That way, private business can take over.

    Of course, I don't know if I actually trust UPS and FedEx to continue to charge me only $.66 to deliver a letter to the front door of any house in the country.

    It's funny - as much as people ***** about the USPS (including myself), they actually do a very good job. Not many systems in this world can deliver within just a few short days a package to practically any doorstep in the world.

    UPS and FedEx, by the way, often will take your package, charge you $11 to deliver the package, and then use the USPS to deliver it (for $5, or whatever). So they charge you more, make a $5 profit, and let the (quasi) government delivery system do the work - saving on employee and equipment costs - then pick it back up in the town, and have their truck deliver it to wherever it was supposed to go.

    You could have done it yourself through USPS and saved $5.

    Modern Business
     

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