USPS is the quintessential model of how the Government can fùck up anything they run.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." -- Winston Churchill "LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
@Trykflyr_1 said:
Of course they are. Lower the standards until they can actually achieve them. What’s the point in actually raising the level of competency?
Isn't that how education is now working?
Lower the standards, so kids will pass?
Kind of like a lot of jobs. Can't pay enough to hire competent people?
Lower the standards and hire what ever walks in the door.
The more advanced we become, the worse it gets.
You are exactly right, however, people born around or after 1980 or so may have it so deeply ingrained in their psyche's that they are unaware of it.
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@Jrflickster said:
Call it the 1990s and anything after is a lost cause. I feel i was right at the cut off
There's an exception to every rule.
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I'm still trying to figure out how delivering later saves money. If you used to deliver 3 flyers offering pizza Monday, but now you deliver those same 3 flyers Wednesday, how much delivery have you saved? Personally, I'm thinking they can save money if they stop delivering spam and stoops period. Lacking that, cut it back to once or twice a week. I can't think of any letters I need right away, any more. Does not happen.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The spam pays for the post office though. Plus, small businesses would scream bloody murder because spam cards represent most or all of their advertising. The post office is a Public trust and they can't just cut off something that promotes local commerce. Then there's the enforcement of such a policy. Is there a judgement call? Who makes the call? That has Trainwreck written all over it.
In a surprising turn off events, my weekly Wednesday shipment, normally arriving Tuesday, came today. However it was shipped via USPS not the regular USPS/UPS amalgamation.
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@VegasFrank said:
The spam pays for the post office though. Plus, small businesses would scream bloody murder because spam cards represent most or all of their advertising. The post office is a Public trust and they can't just cut off something that promotes local commerce. Then there's the enforcement of such a policy. Is there a judgement call? Who makes the call? That has Trainwreck written all over it.
Agree completely that's a very silly thing to say. Save money by not delivering mail.
@VegasFrank said:
The spam pays for the post office though.
Apparently, not enough.
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I'd just as soon not have to throw it away. I don't read it. I don't want it. I would do well enough with once a week delivery of genuine mail. Don't need to prop up an obsolete business model on my dime. Save the trees.
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I usually use PayPal for shipping labels but I've heard that they're using ShipStation now. I haven't tried it but I've heard some people are changing to PirateShip. Anyone use that service?
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Makes perfect sense to me to send a package that’s going to Alaska from Nevada to Kentucky first. I suppose if they sent it north instead of east they couldn’t justify the rate increase nor the additional transit time they insist they require.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
Well, things are back to normal. Placed an order October 1st, received notice it had been shipped that afternoon and should arrive here on Wed, the 6th. Now, it's the 7th, and per postal tracking.....wait for it......they haven't received it yet.
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Placed an order from smallbatch. Suppose to be delivered today. Went to Cali to Wilmington Delaware, to Philadelphia so far. They can fùck right off.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." -- Winston Churchill "LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
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USPS is the quintessential model of how the Government can fùck up anything they run.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
I thought that was the cops....😆 Kidding!!! Just kidding Nick......
You are exactly right, however, people born around or after 1980 or so may have it so deeply ingrained in their psyche's that they are unaware of it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Call it the 1990s and anything after is a lost cause. I feel i was right at the cut off
There's an exception to every rule.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I'm still trying to figure out how delivering later saves money. If you used to deliver 3 flyers offering pizza Monday, but now you deliver those same 3 flyers Wednesday, how much delivery have you saved? Personally, I'm thinking they can save money if they stop delivering spam and stoops period. Lacking that, cut it back to once or twice a week. I can't think of any letters I need right away, any more. Does not happen.
They are switching moving thing distance by air to trucking it. I can hear the complaints already.
The spam pays for the post office though. Plus, small businesses would scream bloody murder because spam cards represent most or all of their advertising. The post office is a Public trust and they can't just cut off something that promotes local commerce. Then there's the enforcement of such a policy. Is there a judgement call? Who makes the call? That has Trainwreck written all over it.
In a surprising turn off events, my weekly Wednesday shipment, normally arriving Tuesday, came today. However it was shipped via USPS not the regular USPS/UPS amalgamation.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Agree completely that's a very silly thing to say. Save money by not delivering mail.
Apparently, not enough.
Just imagine how expensive your letters and packages would be without the spam.
Without the spam we'd need fewer postal workers.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
https://stateimpact.npr.org/new-hampshire/2011/09/27/how-junk-mail-is-helping-to-prop-up-the-postal-service/
I'd just as soon not have to throw it away. I don't read it. I don't want it. I would do well enough with once a week delivery of genuine mail. Don't need to prop up an obsolete business model on my dime. Save the trees.
Funny I said the same thing about social security
Seriously. I don't want it. I won't get it. Yet I pay into it. #EndSocialSecurity2day
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Social security, the first legal pyramid scheme.
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Your order no. SO-4753407 has been fulfilled via USPS Priority Mail® (Expect Delays And Poor Tracking)
You know things are going swimmingly when companies add this to their customer’s shipping notification email, Mr Postmaster General.
Anyone plan on using the USPS bank?
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Can I have some of that crack?
You’re drunk again usps...
Flat rate shipping went up $.80.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
I usually use PayPal for shipping labels but I've heard that they're using ShipStation now. I haven't tried it but I've heard some people are changing to PirateShip. Anyone use that service?
Makes perfect sense to me to send a package that’s going to Alaska from Nevada to Kentucky first. I suppose if they sent it north instead of east they couldn’t justify the rate increase nor the additional transit time they insist they require.
Well, things are back to normal. Placed an order October 1st, received notice it had been shipped that afternoon and should arrive here on Wed, the 6th. Now, it's the 7th, and per postal tracking.....wait for it......they haven't received it yet.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I get cigars from the west coast usually in two days. But the holiday surge is starting.
Placed an order from smallbatch. Suppose to be delivered today. Went to Cali to Wilmington Delaware, to Philadelphia so far. They can fùck right off.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
I'm right at the cut off as well but I figure since i grew up in Iowa and we were usually at least 10 years behind i am safe lol
Credit is due my lottery pack to @Vision was delivered a day early.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.