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apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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Postal service shouldn’t have to worry about operating at a profit.

CarbonIceDragon ,
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It shouldn’t, though to some extent, it operating more efficiently can be a good thing if the efficiency gains can be gotten without significant detriment to service, because then more money is available for either improvements to the mail service or for other services. Profit does not impy efficiency of course, but making something more efficient can make it more profitable.

homesweethomeMrL ,

No. They’re strangled to pieces as it is.

RepubliQans hate the USPS for reasons and have gone to extraordinary lengths to injure it. It’s bullshit. Fuck that.

They are a service, like the army is a service. It costs taxpayer money and they’re out here selling pencils in a cup to make barely enough to pay everyone. Fund them properly, for fuck’s sake.

Nougat , (edited )

It costs taxpayer money ...

No it doesn't. USPS does not receive taxpayer funds to operate. It's all funded by postage and shipping services.

Edit: Since at least two of you don't believe me: https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/do-my-tax-dollars-pay-postal-service

homesweethomeMrL ,

USPS does not receive taxpayer funds to operate.

It should. Maybe take a few hundred million from the army that doesn’t even want it.

Maeve ,

Ask his other efficiency and profit ideas are floundering.

Empricorn ,

Somebody ask how much revenue their corporation’s IT dept generates. Then, ask the executives if they’d be fine if servers crashed, critical payment systems failed, and (God forbid!) their laptop stopped working…

TransplantedSconie ,

Stop funding the retirement fund 70 years in advance, and they would be operating in the black.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Bullshit. Let them raise money. They’re intentionally hamstrung by idiot rightwing Congresses going back fifty years or more.

TransplantedSconie ,

Funding the retirement fund 70 years in advance is the sole reason it’s floundering! The Republicans did it so it could be eventually privatized and if that happens millions will be absolutely fucked.

PlasticExistence ,

Until just a couple of years ago that was still true. Fortunately it no longer is, but it hasn’t really been long enough to turn such a massive ship around yet.

…wikipedia.org/…/Postal_Service_Reform_Act_of_202…

barkingspiders ,

I didn’t realize this, didn’t get enough press. Another notch in Biden’s belt, that’s fantastic!

PlasticExistence ,

We could have done much worse than Joe Biden as president again, but I’m still glad to see the excitement behind Kamala’s campaign. Hopefully she’ll do a better job of advertising accomplishments.

barkingspiders ,

Right there with ya.

BigDaddySlim ,
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In layman’s terms, they wanna move carriers to sorting facilities to cut down on cost for shipping mail to local offices. This could cause carriers who live in the towns the deliver in, like myself, to drive upwards of 45 minutes to an hour away to a sorting facility (this number is based on what my office’s situation would be, could vary office to office). After clocking in and sorting our routes, we would then have to drive back that same amount of time to town to deliver, then drive that far back to return to office.

You can see the issue here, sure you’re cutting on transportation costs to local offices, but you’re now spending a lot more on carriers fuel in the already inefficient mail trucks to drive back and forth to their routes. We wouldn’t get compensated for the milage and time going to and from the new office and it would lengthen our days because of the new drive time. That being said, if that drive time is accounted to our routes, our routes are supposed to be adjusted to 8 hours total time for normal mail volume. Now you’re adding that much time, you gotta cut deliveries per route. Now you have to add more routes to compensate, which means paying more salaries to cover said routes. Sure it’s good for us as carriers because routes need readjusting anyway, but is not the cost saving measure they think it is.

Edit: Another idea they’ve had is create regional delivery offices where 3 or more towns are in a single building, but this can cause the same issue, and in some regions it may not be possible due to the distance between offices in highly rural areas such as the Great Plains.

TLDR: will cause more problems than it solves.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

callouscomic ,

Government is a service. An expense. Nobody says the military is unprofitable.

We don’t have enough money for public Healthcare or even just mail, but we always have room for more fucking bombs!

seaQueue ,
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Fuck DeJoy with something hard and sandpapery. This dude is scum, any plan he has for the USPS is aimed squarely at damaging it and privatizing essential public services.

ulkesh ,
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I mean they got rid of the drop boxes that we could drive up to, because DeJoy is a piece of shit.

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