Trump also killing the postal service right before the election and mail in balloting is not a coincidence . His postmaster general was a huge donor with no experience ( I know shocking right ).
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Yet people think they can run something as complex and personal as healthcare.Not sure if other people are experiencing this but I’ve noticed an decline in mail delivery. We typically get 2-5 pieces of mail a day- every day. In the last month or so, we’d go 2-3 days without a piece of mail- followed by a full mailbox.
I mean no big deal but what is annoying is when I’m supposed to get packages, I’ve received a confirmation of delivery message. No package that day. It arrives 1-2 days later,
Anyone else notice a downturn in service?
I just received a cute little pack of seeds in the mail. Not sure who it's from but the packaging is adorable. I figure I'll eat one later if I'm bored and then plant the rest in the garden.
Nope. I like to live on the edge..As a kid I'd take rides home from clowns.Hope you're kidding about eating them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eeds-may-mailed-china-states-warn/5516852002/
Some of us are old school and like the mail. I for one do. However, my wife does everything on line and once again, I'm the dinosaur for not keeping up with the times. Progress is great and all but sometimes people like things the way they are. And yes I just yelled at a kid to get off my farm.:Wink:Why? It's mostly useless. Almost anything sent by mail can be sent electronically. I don't think we receive any invoices, bills, etc through the mail.
95-99% of what we receive is useless junk mail, which kills trees and increases the carbon footprint.
At our vacation home, we don't have a mailbox or PO Box, and we never miss anything.
Even worse, you live in the rural farm area. You should pay $5 for each piece of mail.Some of us are old school and like the mail. I for one do. However, my wife does everything on line and once again, I'm the dinosaur for not keeping up with the times. Progress is great and all but sometimes people like things the way they are. And yes I just yelled at a kid to get off my farm.:Wink:
I was a rural delivery carrier (RCA) in Hillsborough and we routinely got out to deliver for blocked mailboxes especially when someone was having work done. We don’t have to and it is a pain in the arse because we have to shut the vehicle off every time we leave the vehicle. Only if someone routinely parked in front of their mailbox then I would skip them. If you have a problem, call your post office. They will talk to the carrier and try to resolve the problem.
Also, no one I worked with ever left a package on the lawn. I always felt guilty leaving packages on an uncovered porch when it was raining.
I know I only worked in Hillsborough and Franklin (I got sent over for three days when they were short handed) but we busted our butts and took pride in our work.
KS ... Love your posts, but arguments that tie carbon footprint & second homes are incongruous.It has nothing to do with anything in this thread. If you think a solar-powered home in the desert has a big impact on the carbon footprint compared with thousands of mail trucks delivering junk mail to homes 6 days a week, then I don't know what to say to you. Try to stay on point instead of whataboutisms. It is wasteful from a fuel and efficiency standpoint to be delivering mail 6 days per week.
Not really a campaign, just a statement of fact.I see our resident liberals have turned yet another thread into an
Campaign.
Hey now, I'm not that rural, I have all the creatures of civilization three miles away. Just so happens my road and area is mostly small farms. In about 15 to 20 yrs. it'll be nothing but developments, but my road will be spared the carnage. Thank God for the NJ DEP and wetlands. They might be a pain in the ass to work with, but it'll save my neck of the woods.Even worse, you live in the rural farm area. You should pay $5 for each piece of mail.
Anything south of Newark is rural to me.Hey now, I'm not that rural, I have all the creatures of civilization three miles away. Just so happens my road and area is mostly small farms. In about 15 to 20 yrs. it'll be nothing but developments, but my road will be spared the carnage. Thank God for the NJ DEP and wetlands. They might be a pain in the ass to work with, but it'll save my neck of the woods.
Yes but in our case it is due to a lazy mail carrier. We have curbside mailboxes, and if my neighbor's kid parks a hair too close, no mail that day. In the spring & fall she'll get out of the truck but not summer or winter.
Of course you see it that way. Many see it as he wants a fair election with voting taking place legally. Open mail in ballots are a total joke. Do you have any idea how many dead people will receive one and how easy it is to corrupt the process especially in senior/high density living.I am inclined to blame Trump. He has been pretty transparent about wanting a low turnout. And he has his crony running the post offices.
Look, someone who has asked a foreign official for a political favor will have no compulsions in asking his crony for a political favor.
Did they have to kill any trees for the lumber used to build it?Hey genius, it is powered 100% electric and solar.
We've had 100% mail in voting in Washington for years now with no reporting of voter fraud. Oregon the same thing for 26 years. The real reason for Trump's whining is that mail in voting thwarts the Republican agenda of voter suppression. Voter Photo I.D. laws passed by many Republican State Legislators prevents many inner city citizens, blacks, from voting because they don't have one. Reason is, they don't own a car because they can use mass transit, and therefore have no Driver's License. Trump knows full well that if they are allowed to vote by mail, he stands no chance of winning. He stated so many months ago.Of course you see it that way. Many see it as he wants a fair election with voting taking place legally. Open mail in ballots are a total joke. Do you have any idea how many dead people will receive one and how easy it is to corrupt the process especially in senior/high density living.
I'm with you, the less information I have online the better. That goes double for my finances.Some of us are old school and like the mail. I for one do. However, my wife does everything on line and once again, I'm the dinosaur for not keeping up with the times. Progress is great and all but sometimes people like things the way they are. And yes I just yelled at a kid to get off my farm.:Wink:
Ah, so you're used to the asphalt and concrete jungle. That thing that's tall with leaves and branches, it's called a tree.:)Anything south of Newark is rural to me.
Blame trump . It’s not the employees . It’s being done purposely around election time for spite and to create chaos.
Actually lots of people did . People much smarter than me . It’s called common sense .shelly impressing us with his Po Sci analysis.
How come no one else came up with this factoid?
USPS delivers a lot of packages. People get medicine, checks, and other important stuff through the mail.Why? It's mostly useless. Almost anything sent by mail can be sent electronically. I don't think we receive any invoices, bills, etc through the mail.
95-99% of what we receive is useless junk mail, which kills trees and increases the carbon footprint.
At our vacation home, we don't have a mailbox or PO Box, and we never miss anything.
Yep and it's a shame that more people don't know this. I doubt there's another employer in the world that has this financial burden put on them, and the people who passed that law are now pointing at them for not being profitable.Their trouble started back around 2005 or 6 when congress passed a bill to immediately force the USPS to "fully fund" their pension at that point projected out 75 years. Essentially they had to put away money for someone that was not even working there yet or possibly even born. From that day on they operated in the red going forward.
It's not supposed to be profitable, it's a government agency. As for why it loses money, see the above post I quoted from RU Golfer.The post office has been losing money for a long time and to make it profitable should be reinvented. Some suggestion is eliminate some far out rural deliveries( not cost efficient) or charge more for places like South Dakota or Montana, delivery to the house once or twice a week, or even have them pick it up at the post office like businesses. Eliminate more post office locations.
I haven’t mailed anything for over a year.
As innocent as it may be, I'm pretty sure a mail carrier handing you someone else's mail is technically a federal offense.Hillsborough mail drivers are a bitch. Us landscapers need a place to park. Sometimes its very crowded as I try to stay away from mailboxes or even if we see him coming will stand by mailbox so we can put it in the mailbox. He just drives by like a speed demon.
Wrong,wrong wrong. As a 30 year retired postal worker,upper postal management, the morons they are made,as Trump said a horrible deal.Hardly keeping the USPS afloat.What would have kept them afloat was if they had put effort into keeping the parcel business long before UPS, FEDEX, other delivery agencies ever got a foot hold. Again, morons at the top.The Amazon deal was horrendous they never figured the extra amount of fuel and wear on the trucks using central hubs to pick up the parcells, or the OT or extra workers they had to hire to try and keep the business with Amazon..As if that wasn't enough of their ignorant shortsightedness,they agreed to handle UPS "last mile" a dump off of parcels UPS knew were to areas they couldn't turn a profit on. So they'll just give it to the the dumb Motherfu#kers that run the USPS,lol Put your hate for Trump aside for a minute, Trump is 100% correctHis issue is Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Does not like the discounted rate they were given to deliver the massive number of their parcels. It's actually what's keeping the Post Office afloat. It's Trumps usual petty retaliation for not having the support of Bezos.
100%. Public has no clue, carried for 30 years in the $hitshow.Most management that told you what to do, never carried a letter!!!I used to be a mailman in Edison. Everyone thinks it's easy but it was by far the most difficult job I've ever had. You start out filling in for people who are off each day, so every day you're on a new route and it's like your first day on the job. They're only allowed to have 15% of the carriers be in this category, and that is nowhere near enough. Luckily the contract with the union mandated that we get at least one day off every pay period, and that was all we'd get. We'd do a route plus part of another route because there just weren't enough of us, so we'd work 13 straight days of mandatory overtime and then get our one measly day off before another 13 consecutive 11-hour days. Everything is rigidly timed with unrealistic expectations, so no matter how much you bust your ass, it's not enough. I put up with it for about three months or so and eventually took a big paycut to get out of there.
USPS delivers a lot of packages. People get medicine, checks, and other important stuff through the mail.
Yep and it's a shame that more people don't know this. I doubt there's another employer in the world that has this financial burden put on them, and the people who passed that law are now pointing at them for not being profitable.
It's not supposed to be profitable, it's a government agency. As for why it loses money, see the above post I quoted from RU Golfer.
As innocent as it may be, I'm pretty sure a mail carrier handing you someone else's mail is technically a federal offense.
I know a couple on here I'd love to see you share them with,in fact, he'll probably reply, he follows me around.:Wink:I just received a cute little pack of seeds in the mail. Not sure who it's from but the packaging is adorable. I figure I'll eat one later if I'm bored and then plant the rest in the garden.
They do, and have for over 50 years. The program is called Medicare. People really like it.Yet people think they can run something as complex and personal as healthcare.
Exactly , it’s hilarious that some people think trump is actually doing this to have a fair election . Every move he makes is for his benefit and his reelection purposes and if he loses he has a built in excuse .
Trump and all of his cronies have voted by mail and will continue to do so for this election . He will continue to spread misinformation all the way up to election time to create chaos because it’s the only chance he has to win . He could care less about fair elections because of he did he would have spoke out against Russia in our last one and the fact they are continuing to do it for this one
Hillsborough mail drivers are a bitch. Us landscapers need a place to park. Sometimes its very crowded as I try to stay away from mailboxes or even if we see him coming will stand by mailbox so we can put it in the mailbox. He just drives by like a speed demon.
I just gave you a reason not to blame him for this, and of course,there weren't any other mistakes made, by a boat load of people he relied on giving him correct information. Remember when it wasn't airborne? Remember when Pelosi said it was safe to go to restaurants and visit her dump of a city? Remember when Cuomo sentences 1,000's to die in nursing homes? Can we minus those deaths from the 150,000 you easily place on Trump? You were wrong on USPS, but like so many of you from the left, you just can't get yourself to say it.I can't put my hatred for Trump aside as I have 150,000, and counting, new reasons.
Great result - Looks like everything is going fine in Portland and Seattle. No thanks.We've had 100% mail in voting in Washington for years now with no reporting of voter fraud. Oregon the same thing for 26 years. The real reason for Trump's whining is that mail in voting thwarts the Republican agenda of voter suppression. Voter Photo I.D. laws passed by many Republican State Legislators prevents many inner city citizens, blacks, from voting because they don't have one. Reason is, they don't own a car because they can use mass transit, and therefore have no Driver's License. Trump knows full well that if they are allowed to vote by mail, he stands no chance of winning. He stated so many months ago.
As I mentioned in my post, everything is rigidly timed. Getting out of the truck multiple times on a route that is supposed to be just driving is going to put you further behind schedule. The routes that are walking are timed accordingly.they are awful, we have helped them out sometimes, but quite frankly, its the friggin job, get out and deliver the mail...geez. When we work and have to move a trampoline or a table we dont say oh we are going to skip this...dont understand why mailman have sticks up their butt about getting out, some people have to walk for their mail route