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USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service
New submitter cstacy writes "The United States Postal Service will be closing half of its processing centers this spring. Currently, 42% of first-class mail is delivered the following day for nearby residential and business customers. But that overnight mail will be a thing of the past, with delivery guaranteed only for 2-3 days. About 51% will be delivered in two days. Periodicals may take up to nine days. (Additional delays beyond this may come into play when Congress also authorizes USPS to close operations for some days each week.)"
A Republican so someone who cuts of his own legs because they are to large and unwieldy for their minimal usefullness. All that meat and bone (lets face it, muscles on a rep are in the neck) for what? Cut it off. And that brain? 25% of energy of the body? Who does it think it is?
For a postal service to work, it has to be inefficient. The same with public transport. Unless it reaches everywhere, it isn't usable. That is why early electricity producers PAID big bucks to get everyone hooked up. But they would only do that where it made sense. Getting a line out to the farms often didn't. And so they didn't.
Society NEEDS infrastructure even in areas YOU as a person never use. That road to nowhere DOES go somewhere and those people at the end need it.
Don't believe it? Go live in areas of the world where only individual interests are catered for. Somalia is nice for that. No functional government, no services. No taxes. Just protection money to the guy with the bigger gun. And the payment might be your kids. Gosh, wished you payed a tiny percent for a national police service now eh?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The USPS is incredibly cheap compared to the commercial alternatives
The USPS is a commercial institution. The only special thing about it is that it gets regular bailouts from us, and it has a government-granted, anticompetitive monopoly on delivering mail to your mailbox. (UPS seems to have failed to notice though, and is now leaving post-its on my mailbox when they want to talk to me. They are not, however, leaving me any phone messages, though they have my phone number.)
What are you going to do for the farmers and ranchers who live 50 miles away from the nearest FedEx drop box?
Give them cheap/free internet access so they can pay their bills and place orders on line. Or, you know, eliminate the USPS' monopoly on delivering to your mailbox. Preferably both.
Government operations like the post office is just one of the many "costs of doing business" in a large society.
It can be replaced with internet access, and in today's world, it should be. There is no need for the continuing deluge of paper. It benefits only USPS employees and paper companies. If my local USPS employees are any indication, they can go fuck themselves. My postmaster would rather stand around and jaw-jack with his buddies than do work, my carriers are lazy and crazy. I would be much happier with no USPS.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
OK, then they won't use UPS if they want their discs to be intact.
EVERY. SINGLE. THING. that gets sent to me UPS appears to have been intentionally kicked, punched, or slashed. This goes for parcels as well as envelopes.
I got three new 1U servers sent to me via UPS last year. One of the cartons had a TIRE TRACK across the top of it.
Sorry to say that this is one obvious result of a "free market" competitive economy. It's the same reason you get spit-burgers delivered out the drive-thru window to your Mercedes.
I had a good relationship with my local KFC, I usually shambled in the door in holey T-shirts, cheap shorts and worn out flip-flops. I got really good chicken from them. Same thing when I came through the drive through in my 20 year old pickup truck with the big dent. I made the mistake of going through the drive through in my shiny (8 year old, Blue book value $1500) Mazda Miata one night - I got nothing but the nastiest greasiest garbage from there from that day forward. Doesn't matter that they spent more on the rims for their Caprice than my car is worth, it identified me as "one of them."