Left meltdown over Post Office Reform..

[sirhrmechanic]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/23/democrats-panic-over-president-trumps-talk-of-reforming-u-s-postal-service/

Loses billions… service sucks. It’s full of DEI crap who all vote left. Giant pork…

But the left desperately is against reforming it. Why? Well buried deep in the article is this little gem:

Remember… Bernie and his commies are the Senate side of the post office committee. Control the post office and you control mail-in ballots. Thus elections.

More rot to cut out… and every time the left goes “rheeeeeeedds” you know that someone just hit the right target!

Gut the fucking post office of useless eaters! Make it efficient. I could care less if it loses money. Technically it should break even. As long as it works like a well-oiled machine! And is totally focused on one thing… moving mail. Not providing a parking lot for fat DEI shit who belong at the DMV…

Oh, wait…. Let’s root them out of there next!!!

A DOGE for every state!!!

Sirhr

 

[wvfarrier]

The post office has needed reform for 30 years

 

[LuckyLuke80]

The gov says we can’t have a monopoly yet they have the postal service. Also, if it was under private control it would run in the black. Instead the gov runs it and it is in the red. Top of all that they can’t even get the mail right.

 

[The D]

Lysander Spooner has the weirdest boner right now

Anyone that gets this gets a big gold star and pat on the head

 

[KYAggie]

Who relies on the post office for “life saving medications”? If I was getting medications that my life depended on, I think I might use a different delivery method to begin with. Not to mention, as unreliable as they are, you would need to plan ahead anyway. I doubt the restructuring would completely stop service in any case.

This doesn’t just apply to the post office. I’m beginning to think the liberals love all the inefficiencies because it allows them to steal money unnoticed, funnel money to their friends and family, and control things they otherwise wouldn’t have control over. In other words, there are the largest crime syndicate in the world. And I’m sure there are Republicans in on it too.

I love how Trump is dismantling their theft system.

 

[Bigfatcock]

The USPS is pretty damn awesome. Seriously.

If they get more efficient then that would be more betterer.

 

[KYAggie]

Just another fact that proves liberals are idiots and mentally ill is the fact they want and trust government to run everything when it’s a glaring reality that what they do run, they run straight off the cliff every single time.

 

[WTF-2-EDC]

BIDEN HAS SILENCED MANY CONSERVATIVE PUBLISHERS USING THE USPS.

In a magnificent display of stupidity, the unprecedented biannual rate hikes in postage since Biden took office have forced many publishers out of business…or at least in print form. Not only that, the USPS is now reporting that postage hikes reduced revenues and is several billions of dollars in the red BECAUSE USPS RAISED RATES! Many publishers have switched to the online publications (like the CDA did some years back) however, this kills readership and display advertisers know it. The CDA Journal and Update witnessed a mass exodus from display advertisers when ceasing to print and mail their magazines and that’s not a mistake I will make.



The biannual rate hikes are part of a ten-year plan (https://about.usps.com/what/strategic-plans/delivering-for-america/details.htm) which means the pain is going to grow exponentially every year through 2030. An 8% increase may seem like nothing but this is what it looks like now:

Let’s say you spent $1000 a month on postage (before Biden took office). Here’s how your postage increased beginning Jan 2020:

Jan ’20: $1000. + 8% = $1080.

July ’20: $1080 + 8% = $1166.40

Jan ’21: $1166.40 + 8% = $1259.71

July ’21: $1259.71 + 8% = $1360.48

Jan ’22: $1360.48 + 8% = $1469.31

July ’22 $1469.31 + 8% = $1586.86

Jan ’23 $1586.86 + 8% = $1713.81

July ’23 $1713.81 + 8% = $1850.91

Jan ’24 $1850.91 + 8% = $1998.99

July ’24 $1998.99 + 8% = $2158.91

(Your postage increased 116% under Biden)​

Now fast forward two years and the same mailing is $2937.17 and in four years it’s $3995.99 and by 2030 it’ll be up to $5436.50.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Who relies on the post office for “life saving medications”? If I was getting medications that my life depended on, I think I might use a different delivery method to begin with. Not to mention, as unreliable as they are, you would need to plan ahead anyway. I doubt the restructuring would completely stop service in any case.

This doesn’t just apply to the post office. I’m beginning to think the liberals love all the inefficiencies because it allows them to steal money unnoticed, funnel money to their friends and family, and control things they otherwise wouldn’t have control over. In other words, there are the largest crime syndicate in the world. And I’m sure there are Republicans in on it too.

I love how Trump is dismantling their theft system.

Amazon has gotten into the prescription delivery business.
For the most part, people should get them on time.
Bezos has his fingers in every pie

 

[cas6969]

I think about this pretty much every day as I walk from my mailbox to my trash cans to throw it all away.

I don't have any real numbers, but I'd guess 80% of what the post office does is deliver junk mail (bulk mail). And I'd guess most of their revenue comes from the same. So if they just stopped, it would be a wash.

I'd happily sign up to get mail deliver twice, even once a week (if it would help. It wouldn't in the burbs, they'd be going down my street anyway, just not delivering to me. Kind of like the days when the post office is closed and there's no mail delivery, but they have to go to work anyway.)

 

[rdinak]

Ever notice mail trucks running on Sunday with less than 5% route density to deliver Amazon packages?

 

[HPIguy]

Amazon has gotten into the prescription delivery business.
For the most part, people should get them on time.
Bezos has his fingers in every pie

Not around here you won't, you'll drop dead before getting that medication. Ever since they started doing some of their own shipping, even prime items take 6-10 days usually.

Latest was my 3D printer that was ordered last Tuesday, supposed to be here today, and now it says severe weather delay and it's two hours from here. Weather is gorgeous, scAmazon is just operated by fuckwits these days.

 

[mi650]

Ever notice mail trucks running on Sunday with less than 5% route density to deliver Amazon packages?

Yep, got a package yesterday.

Got a package from my sister once on Christmas. No idea how much she paid.

 

[BytorJr]

BIDEN HAS SILENCED MANY CONSERVATIVE PUBLISHERS USING THE USPS.

In a magnificent display of stupidity, the unprecedented biannual rate hikes in postage since Biden took office have forced many publishers out of business…or at least in print form. Not only that, the USPS is now reporting that postage hikes reduced revenues and is several billions of dollars in the red BECAUSE USPS RAISED RATES! Many publishers have switched to the online publications (like the CDA did some years back) however, this kills readership and display advertisers know it. The CDA Journal and Update witnessed a mass exodus from display advertisers when ceasing to print and mail their magazines and that’s not a mistake I will make.



The biannual rate hikes are part of a ten-year plan (https://about.usps.com/what/strategic-plans/delivering-for-america/details.htm) which means the pain is going to grow exponentially every year through 2030. An 8% increase may seem like nothing but this is what it looks like now:

Let’s say you spent $1000 a month on postage (before Biden took office). Here’s how your postage increased beginning Jan 2020:

Jan ’20: $1000. + 8% = $1080.

July ’20: $1080 + 8% = $1166.40

Jan ’21: $1166.40 + 8% = $1259.71

July ’21: $1259.71 + 8% = $1360.48

Jan ’22: $1360.48 + 8% = $1469.31

July ’22 $1469.31 + 8% = $1586.86

Jan ’23 $1586.86 + 8% = $1713.81

July ’23 $1713.81 + 8% = $1850.91

Jan ’24 $1850.91 + 8% = $1998.99

July ’24 $1998.99 + 8% = $2158.91

(Your postage increased 116% under Biden)​

Now fast forward two years and the same mailing is $2937.17 and in four years it’s $3995.99 and by 2030 it’ll be up to $5436.50.

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and not 1% more efficient at actual DELIVERY but 116% more efficient at taking your money!

 

[mvphilly]

50 cents for a fucking stamp and who knows when the letter arrives.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

50 cents for a fucking stamp and who knows when the letter arrives.

Right?

Used to be first class was 2 - 3 days for a standard envelope.

Now it is 5 - 10. That's bullshit.

The USPS failed to take advantage of the biggest change ni American Society since the automobile... the online shopper. eBay should have been their wake-up call. Then early Amazon. Then Cyber Monday and shit...

They could have turned that into their advantage. But nope... now they are a DEI dumping ground filled with useless pieces of shit who are proud to sit at a stool and work at half the speed of smell...

Hiawatha is turnnig over in his grave!

Sirhr

 

[mvphilly]

Right?

Used to be first class was 2 - 3 days for a standard envelope.

Now it is 5 - 10. That's bullshit.

The USPS failed to take advantage of the biggest change ni American Society since the automobile... the online shopper. eBay should have been their wake-up call. Then early Amazon. Then Cyber Monday and shit...

They could have turned that into their advantage. But nope... now they are a DEI dumping ground filled with useless pieces of shit who are proud to sit at a stool and work at half the speed of smell...

Hiawatha is turnnig over in his grave!

Sirhr

Dont get me started on their Priority Mail bullshit either.

 

[jabonra]

They don't even deliver mail to houses in new developments, everybody gets a mail box at a kiosk

 

[mosin46]

The gov says we can’t have a monopoly yet they have the postal service. Also, if it was under private control it would run in the black. Instead the gov runs it and it is in the red. Top of all that they can’t even get the mail right.

same private ownership issue with the fed. an owned by billionaires private co robbing the citizenry for decades. enriching themselves and exercising almost total control of our economy.

 

[mosin46]

The USPS is pretty damn awesome. Seriously.

If they get more efficient then that would be more betterer.

hate to agree,but i do. even with their accuracy,efficiency taking a dump and their prices doubling in recent years,it is impressive that you can drop an envelope in a box and have a fair hope that it gets where you sent it in some days.
their faults and problems are legion. we could all run a list of same. UPS and sometimes fed ex do a gen better job. sorry to say but amazon is unbelievably accurate and efficient.
IMHO the PO could be fixed and should be. i am not smart enough to know or understand how to do it. but most fixes are possible given the smarts out there to work on them.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Many years ago I stumbled across this newspaper clipping from the 1950s where it was talking about the postal rate hike of the day and how every time the post office hiked prices, they got less volume and overall less income because folks cut back on how much / how often they posted.

It seems this proven pattern is never understood by the idiots in charge.

Also the postal service pretty much just said tough luck to folks getting their bills stolen out of the actual postal drop boxes (some even on the actual post office grounds), which pretty much made many folks decide to figure out how to pay stuff online.

Then there was the deal with the devil with Amazon which gave them gross numbers, but ruined their delivery, gave them massive overtime payouts and probably caused them to lose even more money.

 

[W54/XM-388]

They could have turned that into their advantage. But nope... now they are a DEI dumping ground filled with useless pieces of shit who are proud to sit at a stool and work at half the speed of smell...

Yes and no.
You'll find quite a lot of decent folks who are on the angry and conservative side working as postal carriers, often doing a very good job.
But those types never seem to get management type jobs.
As always in government, the worst always floats to the top.

 

[UNRL Ghandi]

Outlaw solicitation/junk mail and you'd cut the delivery needs to my mailbox alone by 75%.

 

[Bacarrat]

Outlaw solicitation/junk mail and you'd cut the delivery needs to my mailbox alone by 75%.

Mine would be like 99%.

 

[mosin46]

and the huge pol stuff i got last year. free to pols i think-the congress franking priv sure an issue.
must say the people at my small PO seem to know their job and do it well. they also are very open about the problems that they face and have to put up with.

 

[ToddM]

I've always heard the biggest issue with the USPS income flow is that their pension funding requirements are so much more strict than private industry. In fact if I remember right they have to pre-fund pensions for some ridiculous amount of time to cover employees that are not even hired yet. I also noticed that they had like 10 payments to hit and only made 4 of them. https://stories.uspsoig.gov/postal-...l-evolution-and-ongoing-challenges/index.html

Seems like their problems probably go well beyond just funding a pension.

That said, there's no reason the average individual needs mail 6 days a week. Split the routes in half, each half gets delivery 3 delivery days a week. You just cut your delivery costs in half. Then start jacking up the price of junk mail, it's clearly FAR too cheap given the amount of unsolicited crap I get every week.

 

[W54/XM-388]

I've always heard the biggest issue with the USPS income flow is that their pension funding requirements are so much more strict than private industry. In fact if I remember right they have to pre-fund pensions for some ridiculous amount of time to cover employees that are not even hired yet. I also noticed that they had like 10 payments to hit and only made 4 of them. https://stories.uspsoig.gov/postal-...l-evolution-and-ongoing-challenges/index.html

Seems like their problems probably go well beyond just funding a pension.

That said, there's no reason the average individual needs mail 6 days a week. Split the routes in half, each half gets delivery 3 delivery days a week. You just cut your delivery costs in half. Then start jacking up the price of junk mail, it's clearly FAR too cheap given the amount of unsolicited crap I get every week.

Junk mail is pretty much one of the biggest cash flows for the post office.
Also cutting the delivery days down like that will simply mean even less business, as folks will find other places to ship with.
People aren't going to be happy waiting for an extra day because the post office doesn't want to work that day.

Bulk mail is a very low effort, high income ratio thing for the post office.

But the main fact of the matter is the Post office needs to understand that small package delivery for (NOT Amazon) is where the bulk of the profits are to be made and if they would actually have efficient fully staffed postal counters at the Post offices, they could make a lot more money.

Most folks dread going to the post office because of how tedious it is to stand in endless slow moving lines as like only 1 or 2 out of 5 counters are in operation and always with the slowest folks manning them.

Had the post office actually had any smarts, they could have been hugely profitable and taken most of the business the UPS stores and the FedEx stores do, but well, they were all about being stuck in "do it our way or tough" and having zero customer service.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Who relies on the post office for “life saving medications”? If I was getting medications that my life depended on, I think I might use a different delivery method to begin with. Not to mention, as unreliable as they are, you would need to plan ahead anyway. I doubt the restructuring would completely stop service in any case.

This doesn’t just apply to the post office. I’m beginning to think the liberals love all the inefficiencies because it allows them to steal money unnoticed, funnel money to their friends and family, and control things they otherwise wouldn’t have control over. In other words, there are the largest crime syndicate in the world. And I’m sure there are Republicans in on it too.

I love how Trump is dismantling their theft system.

That's precisely why the left is showing their ass at all the waste and fraud that has been discovered
That was their financial spigot, and it is being shut off. That money funded shit-bag politicians and left wing policies world wide. Money to buy media, rig elections, and push every form degeneracy and filth down people's throats world wide. The left doesn't enjoy as much support in this country as the media would have you believe. They've just been propped up and their voice amplified by a lot of the wayward dollars that have been identified.

 

[Lange Carabine]

Yes and no.
You'll find quite a lot of decent folks who are on the angry and conservative side working as postal carriers, often doing a very good job.
But those types never seem to get management type jobs.
As always in government, the worst always floats to the top.

Not around here you won't.
99% are incompetent female 'groid DEI hires.
I was expecting a package Friday that never showed.
Saturday I got an out for delivery notification but it never showed up at the usual time.
Late Saturday evening I got another notice that a delivery attempt had been made at 3:32 p.m. but the location was inaccessible.
Bullshit, you can see my house from my mailbox and I have a nice wide driveway.
Truth is the worthless substitute DEI carrier was too damn sorry to deliver it. Not the first time this has happened.....
My regular carrier brought it up to the house this morning and put it on the front porch. She didn't have any problem accessing the delivery location.
Couple months ago a package I was expecting went MIA for a week after arriving at the Atlanta, Ga. postal complex on a Tuesday. Again, not unusual. It happens more often than not.
Then I get a email notification the following Saturday that it's at the local PO ready for pick up. It was the following Friday before I could get to the PO before it closed on account of work and I asked the DEI clerk what the deal was and she says the regular carrier was out all that week and the substitute carriers car wasn't big enough to carry all the mail and packages that needed delivering. Some excuse huh?
The package in question was about 5"x 2"x 1.5" and contained an Ontario folding pocket knife id bought off eBay 2 1/2 weeks earlier.
The USPS has failed to get bills to me on time resulting in late fees. They've lost payments I've sent resulting in more late fees and check cancellation fees.
They've lost health insurance documents I mailed resulting in cancellation of my coverage for a time, they lost my aunt's power bill payment two months in a row and nearly caused her lights to be turned off and worst of all they were late in delivering a relatives meds on several occasions and the incompetent DEI carrier delivered it to the wrong address on another occasion.
That said, I'm glad you have confidence in the USPS because I surely don't.
I don't trust them to deliver a letter across the room and get it there on time....

 

[Lange Carabine]

50 cents for a fucking stamp and who knows when the letter arrives.

50 cents for a stamp?
Last stamp I bought was 73 cents.

 

[mosin46]

50 cents for a stamp?
Last stamp I bought was 73 cents.

correct

 

[UKDslayer]

same private ownership issue with the fed. an owned by billionaires private co robbing the citizenry for decades. enriching themselves and exercising almost total control of our economy.

Remember when Dianne Feinstein gave that big contract to build a huge mail processing center for USPS in California to her relative in an unchallenged bid?

 

[Soulezoo]

The post office has needed reform for 30 years

At least 50 that I am aware of. I'm in the print/mail business.

 

[Big Phish]

USPS is bunch of DEI FAG fucking union HACKS that FJB put billions into their retirement funds so they can fuck off!

 

[Tempest 455]

When my son was in college he applied for position at USPS as a driver. He went through the training and never took the job because he said it was one of the most F'd up places he's ever seen. Also took them months to pay him for the time he spent training.

 

[Bigfatcock]

Everyone will be mad if USPS goes away and they have to pay double with private carriers. That’ll definitely knock off the savings on their TEMU holosun.

 

[The D]

Everyone will be mad if USPS goes away and they have to pay double with private carriers. That’ll definitely knock off the savings on their TEMU holosun.

There will only be a minor inconvenience in the market correction, calm down

 

[mosin46]

their procedures are puzzling and seem incompetent. i live in a small town that has a PO (which tries to do a good job IMHO) if i send a card to a neighbor in town,it goes to Jacksonville center >100m away and then back again. i don't get it,but? local post mistress admits that the screw ups in Jax are frequent and ignored by their management. i bet all the processing centers are a rat fuck. no contact with customers,no accountability because of union and a lot of DEI hires that aren't made to give a shit.