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Why your USPS packages might be running late

My wife works for USPS has a 128 miles rural route. She can't get all mail in her Jeep Cherokee each day. Has to come back and reload after making part route. UPS--Amazon drops off packages every day for USPS to deliver. People complain about their mail but they don't understand.
 
Wasn't the recently appointed Postmaster General supposed to be an expert in shipping ligestics? Looks like he might not be as smart about it as someone thought. Or maybe he doing the job he was appointed to do & just screw everything up.
 
Trailer dose not work too good but the things like a dog carrier or something that goes in the receiver hitch and a box will carry several lighter packages, that is what ours resorts to.
 
On tv they say the mail volume is low and the post office is going broke. My wife is a city carrier for 6 years. She says the mail load has never been bigger. Gets bigger each year. Fake news?? Al
 

Amazon started delivers around here a short while back my mail now runs several hours earlier. I may get my mail before dark : ) it use to run 7/8 PM...
 
Well they lie. My mail box always has mail I don't need. One letter six items trying to. Sell me something I don't want or need.
 
Until you tour a big mail facility you will never believe the volume. Both UPS and FedX are using the USPS for overflow, the stuff that is expensive to deliver, like rural areas. I hope the USPS is getting an equitable payment for the added load.

Thirty years ago the Post office got "politically correct" and quit promoting based on talent, the writing was on the wall. I am sure the politicians still have a finger on the scale too.
 
(quoted from post at 09:51:39 12/15/20) On tv they say the mail volume is low and the post office is going broke. My wife is a city carrier for 6 years. She says the mail load has never been bigger. Gets bigger each year. Fake news?? Al
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Al Baker you have got to have your TV tuned in to a Conspiracy Theory station, LOL. ABC news AM and PM has been reporting for months that the USPS is super busy because of people shopping on line due to the virus. The post office has been going broke because congress mandated years ago that they fund their pensions in advance. You do know that a high proportion of the news that you get from You Tube and Facebook is planted there by the Russians, right? Our Homeland security intelligence tracked them down months ago.
 
There are also a lot of handoffs from UPS....
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Hope the postal service is getting a few extra $ for it. They need it.

Mike
 
I made a carrier out of a kobalt job box and an insert for the trailer hitch. It will hold 500lbs and quite a lot of stuff.
 
The congress got involved and told him how to run things. The only reason the Post Office is broke is because they must(buy law) fund their pensions now, not twenty years out like the government does.
 
Other years around the holidays we would see USPS postmen making Sunday package deliveries, sometimes from small U-Haul trucks. Have not seen that this year yet, has that been eliminated in the push to reduce USPS overtime costs?
 
Maybe they can have the employees pay for their own retirement and health care like a lot of us have to. Almost like the schools being broke. How about those teachers unions!
 
(quoted from post at 23:50:21 12/15/20) Maybe they can have the employees pay for their own retirement and health care like a lot of us have to. Almost like the schools being broke. How about those teachers unions!
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Buckeye, yes, teachers have very powerful well funded unions that hire very strong negotiators. If postal workers' retirement were not funded they would have to be paid substantially more money. From where would you get that money? Would you write a personal check? Or would you just let most of them walk as you most likely would if your pay were cut substantially?
 
Just what does that mean Buckeye? I had an insurance and two retirement deductions on my USPS check stub for 34 years.
Just because you were not smart enough to get a job with insurance and a defined pension,does not mean it is wrong.
Sounds likw jealousy to me!
 
(quoted from post at 16:46:52 12/15/20) Would have been cheaper to use the Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6 ballots and have Dominion change the algorithm.
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o-it-yourself tin foil hats are on sale at Walmart. 79 cents a roll.
 
Agree also. In 1985, I took a 50% pay cut to get a job with better benefits and a defined pension. I was 32 at the time and had already been saving for retirement for 9 years. Was fortunate enough to get out at 58. Best move I could have made.
 
No,I just don't understand why so many people act like the toughest jobs in the world are postal service and teaching positions because they are not! I'll give postal employees credit, at least they have to show up most of the year. Teachers get the WHOLE summer off (yes I know they have in services but those they get PAID for), and many of them grip about belonging to a union, and yet there are many other careers out there. If I liked kids (which I don't) I probably would have went into teaching. Its really not that bad of a career.

I have a pretty good health insurance plan through my work and a 401k so jealousy is not a factor. I just have a hard time relating to people who have office occupations and act like they live a life of hell.
 
(quoted from post at 07:59:04 12/15/20) My wife works for USPS has a 128 miles rural route. She can't get all mail in her Jeep Cherokee each day. Has to come back and reload after making part route. UPS--Amazon drops off packages every day for USPS to deliver. People complain about their mail but they don't understand.
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Contract carrier? If so, most likely paid by the route regardless of number of trips required. In essence, has to make 2 trips to get paid for 1 ??

Your wife deserves a special THANKS.


My gripe is the ones that dont know or don't care that the "Mail/Package" should be delivered to the address on the label. Seriously, how complicated is the ability to read at least enough to perform your job?
 
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