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USPS is fucked
    #26899466 - 08/25/20 08:33 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I have had first class mail that's taken over 10 business days recently... tracking won't update. I have one package that says it's arriving on 8/21.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26899492 - 08/25/20 08:49 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Lol.... swing states....


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: cannabinated]
    #26899496 - 08/25/20 08:52 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

yall need federal money to process ur votes do you :rolleyes:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: cannabinated] * 3
    #26899588 - 08/25/20 10:05 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

USA is fucked

We ain't nothing but bitches and hoes at this point.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: PumpJackTeX]
    #26899666 - 08/25/20 11:26 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I'm waiting on my new cars registration... talk about a pain in the ass can't get it inspected i'm a fucking magnet for staties.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Ice9]
    #26905333 - 08/29/20 12:29 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I just tried to ship a fishing pole 3hrs from me and usps wanted $97 as to where UPS has $25 flat rate shipping.  real hard choice on that one..  :wow:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 1
    #26905343 - 08/29/20 12:46 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah, I used to love USPS. Now they're fucked and because of it we're fucked too.

Because of them my business license expired and cost me $1000's of dollars worth of income. Trump and his family deserve the death penalty. When are Americans going to take to the streets and remove our government from office to make them work for us again. The time for a revolution is way past gone.

The Congress, Senate, President, and the rest need to be afraid of us so they stop this corrupt greed and stop fucking with elections. We need to show them who is boss again. Same with the cops too.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26905349 - 08/29/20 12:49 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Delete that post. We can't have you behind bars yet. Voice your concerns at the regular meeting spot tommorow. Also, bring snacks.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Shiithead] * 3
    #26905355 - 08/29/20 01:07 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Interfering with elections, to me is an act of treason and that deserves the death penalty along with all of the other corrupt shit they are doing. Not doing anything about the Covid Virus and just ignoring it is basically murder. We're paying taxes so that our government can screw us over on elections and paying them to kill us.

I don't think I am going to go to jail for voicing concerns of a corrupt government. I have written to the White House directly and told them that the blood of Americans is on Trumps tiny hands for doing nothing about Covid. I consistently write to Senate and my Congressman to tell them what shitheads they're.

Not voicing concerns for corrupt governments and presidents is basically being complicit and just as bad as them.

I got high and ate all my snacks, plus I think it's your turn to bring the snacks anyways.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Shiithead]
    #26905357 - 08/29/20 01:09 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I bought something from ebay that only weighed 9 pounds and costed $60 to ship by UPS. Luckily the seller payed for shipping.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26905359 - 08/29/20 01:12 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

ignoring coronavirus is murder. You sir are retarded lol.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Saul Ptamets]
    #26905362 - 08/29/20 01:27 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yes, when you're the president and have the power and responsibility to stop the virus then ignoring it is murder.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus] * 5
    #26905366 - 08/29/20 01:42 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

yall know bill clinton is why the usps is fucked, he forced the usps to pay pensions and retirement funds for gov employees that arent even in the usps, that put the usps in the red for 20+yrs.  this isnt trump nor is the corona virus trump fault.  this stuff isnt new to trump its been going on for decades but theres trump derangement syndrome so everything gets blamed on him.  its the people in the white house and their relatives that own media outlets and corporations that make the laws.  crony capitalism not true free market capitalism like its supposed to be.  its all manipulation to push progressivism under the guise of democracy that ends in one world government.  all in the name of safety..  :bonghit2:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 2
    #26905390 - 08/29/20 02:29 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yes, USPS has had funding problems for a while. That isn't the problem here. The problem is Trump hired a postmaster because the guy donated to him. He does Trump a favor, Trump returns it by hiring, and then Trump has him implement stupid ass rules to fuck everything up, just like everything he touches.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is what his supporters use to defend him when there is nothing to defend because they know he is doing the wrong thing. It's basically you just arguing with name calling instead of facts. You even say it's not Trump, it's the people in the White House and their relatives. Well guess what? The people in the White House are Trump and his relatives. The ones he hired who are incompetent and unqualified.  For example, Kushner is in charge of the Coronavirus and look where that got us.


One world government in the name of safety? Are you even being serious?


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26905463 - 08/29/20 05:09 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

My stuff never came still.....

If you're worried about the government corona response you're brainwashed by TV. You've become complacent with all the other things that cause death on a large scale that government might actually have a chance of helping with. None of that stuff matters until the light box says so though.

Fighting corona is an individuals responsibility. Self isolate if you're at risk or at paranoia. Be healthier.

It's our job to be responsible drivers, but the government could repaint the lines and put better street lights in for example


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 1
    #26905554 - 08/29/20 07:19 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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yall know bill clinton is why the usps is fucked, he forced the usps to pay pensions and retirement funds for gov employees that arent even in the usps, that put the usps in the red for 20+yrs.  this isnt trump nor is the corona virus trump fault.  this stuff isnt new to trump its been going on for decades but theres trump derangement syndrome so everything gets blamed on him.  its the people in the white house and their relatives that own media outlets and corporations that make the laws.  crony capitalism not true free market capitalism like its supposed to be.  its all manipulation to push progressivism under the guise of democracy that ends in one world government.  all in the name of safety..  :bonghit2:



This is so wrong you have no idea.

What you are talking about is The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

It was put into law in 2006. Who was president in 2006? Sure as fuck wasnt bill clinton.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow] * 1
    #26905556 - 08/29/20 07:22 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

We fall more and more into orwellian style society every day.

All 13shrooms had to do was actually look up the act he's talking about to know that
bill clinton wasnt president when it was signed. Your attempt to rewrite history is
extremely orwellian in nature and intellectually dishonest as fuck.

I dont like the clintons at all but principle matters dude


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26905586 - 08/29/20 07:42 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah it is. I’d ordered vivobarefoots (ship from the UK), paid extra for DHL express. Once they were here, DHL forwarded them to the USPS for delivery....right at the local mail sorting center. Didn’t actually get them until a week later.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #26905658 - 08/29/20 08:25 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

The problem I am having is that they cut back store and lobby hours. My local Post Office is the hub for the city of Pittsburgh, literally the main post office for the entire city. They used to close at 9pm, now they close at 5pm. They used to open at 7am, now it's 9am. I have a full time job on top of running my home business. My home business is all online sales, no store front, and since I operate out of a residence the won't pick up my packages (sometimes hundreds of pounds worth each day). I have shipped world wide for 5 years, and been in business for 6 years. Since I work 8-5, I can’t get my boxes to the Post Office before closing. That means I have to hold all shipments until Saturday when I can get to the post when it's open. Then with a weeks worth of packages I end up having to take multiple trips because my station wagon can't hold all the boxes at one time. It’s some bullshit. This injection of politics into the USPS is choking my business. I will probably survive it, but these games are silly, and it's hurting small business and private citizens alike.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: christopera]
    #26905663 - 08/29/20 08:27 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Another example that our government doesn’t a give a shit about us.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26905809 - 08/29/20 10:35 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Why does the USPS even exist? Like why is that a function of government? 99% of it is just fucking junk mail that none of us want. I don't get it. Why is the government in the business of forcing advertisements on us?

Abolish the post office! :lol:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie] * 2
    #26905815 - 08/29/20 10:41 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

ACTCHUALLY... it's in the Constitution.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #26905817 - 08/29/20 10:43 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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ACTCHUALLY... it's in the Constitution.



Not really. It's not a requirement. Congress just has the power to do it. Why do it now though? I get how it was necessary 100 years ago, but there's really no benefit to it now as far as I cant tell.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26905835 - 08/29/20 11:04 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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We fall more and more into orwellian style society every day.

All 13shrooms had to do was actually look up the act he's talking about to know that
bill clinton wasnt president when it was signed. Your attempt to rewrite history is
extremely orwellian in nature and intellectually dishonest as fuck.

I dont like the clintons at all but principle matters dude




I didnt feel like looking it up.. so I got the name wrong, that wasnt the point.  I wasnt trying to rewrite history or being dishonest.  calm down snowflakes.

and yeah trump hired relatives to work the whitehouse staff.  so do all the other potus.  thats my point, this isnt a trump thing.  its a government thing. 

I see sides being made about this, hate trump all you want.  Im libertarian, I dont takes the left or right side.  the left wing and the right wing both keep the same bird flying. 

Im with Bod, tv has yall brainwashed.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 2
    #26905860 - 08/29/20 11:19 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

You're a snowflake if you think everyone who corrects you is being a snowflake. Sorry people don't just let glaringly wrong things go especially when they're used as propaganda.

The point was to make Clinton or Dems look bad. So if someone else didn't do their research it like yourself it works.

So TV may have you brainwashed too because that shit sounds right out of Fox


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26905874 - 08/29/20 11:31 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

if you think coronavirus is the governments' problem to solve and not yours go over to some fuckin socialist country. And stop throwing blame on everyone else but yourself.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Saul Ptamets] * 1
    #26905885 - 08/29/20 11:40 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I like getting Christmas cards from my grandma in the mail :crankey:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26905900 - 08/29/20 11:50 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Seriously though most of the important stuff that comes through the mail is from the government. Tax stuff, vehicle registration, permits and denial letters.


And then of course there's drugs.


Honestly it does irk me a bit when people say mail service is useless. Just goes to show how removed people are from the supply line. Any business you walk into recieves at least some of the things they need to function cheaply through the USPS.

Though I have seen first hand what corona has done to snail mail. I work in insurance and we are legally required to send some mail via certified mail from USPS. That legal requirement has been suspended and it's saved us boxes of paper.
The main reason we're required to do that though is you have to sign to get the mail. The post office has to stamp a reception date. So you can't say you didn't get a warning of imminent cancellation if you don't pay your bill.

Now? That whole department is a mess and legal has their hands full. They're just waiving alot of the smaller bills (don't try that at home) and the money we saved on mail and paper is a drop in the bucket compared to the money we will ultimately lose.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26905903 - 08/29/20 11:52 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

i wasnt using propaganda, I said the wrong dude, simple as that.  stop trying to create drama..  lol 

ever heard of a mistake?  thats all it was.  and I called dude a snowflake cus hes clearly got trump derangement syndrome cus all he wants to do is blame 1 dude when its the gov and has been for decades.  that was my whole point is this stuff isnt new..


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26906025 - 08/29/20 01:32 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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CookieCrumbs said:
Seriously though most of the important stuff that comes through the mail is from the government. Tax stuff, vehicle registration, permits and denial letters.


And then of course there's drugs.


Honestly it does irk me a bit when people say mail service is useless. Just goes to show how removed people are from the supply line. Any business you walk into recieves at least some of the things they need to function cheaply through the USPS.

Though I have seen first hand what corona has done to snail mail. I work in insurance and we are legally required to send some mail via certified mail from USPS. That legal requirement has been suspended and it's saved us boxes of paper.
The main reason we're required to do that though is you have to sign to get the mail. The post office has to stamp a reception date. So you can't say you didn't get a warning of imminent cancellation if you don't pay your bill.

Now? That whole department is a mess and legal has their hands full. They're just waiving alot of the smaller bills (don't try that at home) and the money we saved on mail and paper is a drop in the bucket compared to the money we will ultimately lose.




That money you've lost though, would have been payed for by the tax payers. The USPS has run at a deficit for decades.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie]
    #26906036 - 08/29/20 01:41 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Quote:

CookieCrumbs said:
Seriously though most of the important stuff that comes through the mail is from the government. Tax stuff, vehicle registration, permits and denial letters.


And then of course there's drugs.


Honestly it does irk me a bit when people say mail service is useless. Just goes to show how removed people are from the supply line. Any business you walk into recieves at least some of the things they need to function cheaply through the USPS.

Though I have seen first hand what corona has done to snail mail. I work in insurance and we are legally required to send some mail via certified mail from USPS. That legal requirement has been suspended and it's saved us boxes of paper.
The main reason we're required to do that though is you have to sign to get the mail. The post office has to stamp a reception date. So you can't say you didn't get a warning of imminent cancellation if you don't pay your bill.

Now? That whole department is a mess and legal has their hands full. They're just waiving alot of the smaller bills (don't try that at home) and the money we saved on mail and paper is a drop in the bucket compared to the money we will ultimately lose.




That money you've lost though, would have been payed for by the tax payers. The USPS has run at a deficit for decades.



No that's money that would have been earned by the USPS. We pay for that service.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie]
    #26906040 - 08/29/20 01:41 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Fed ex and UPS could pick up all of USPS's slack and do it better. They'd easily handle all of it.

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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26906045 - 08/29/20 01:43 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Not enough. We have some of the cheapest postal costs of any country. A stamp should probably cost at least $1.50.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26906048 - 08/29/20 01:46 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Most of the stuff the government touches still uses floppy disks




Government probably still on 8" floppies.

These ones are advertised as not working, so they are perfect for the government.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26906049 - 08/29/20 01:48 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Seriously though most of the important stuff that comes through the mail is from the government. Tax stuff, vehicle registration, permits and denial letters.


And then of course there's drugs.


Honestly it does irk me a bit when people say mail service is useless. Just goes to show how removed people are from the supply line. Any business you walk into recieves at least some of the things they need to function cheaply through the USPS.

Though I have seen first hand what corona has done to snail mail. I work in insurance and we are legally required to send some mail via certified mail from USPS. That legal requirement has been suspended and it's saved us boxes of paper.
The main reason we're required to do that though is you have to sign to get the mail. The post office has to stamp a reception date. So you can't say you didn't get a warning of imminent cancellation if you don't pay your bill.

Now? That whole department is a mess and legal has their hands full. They're just waiving alot of the smaller bills (don't try that at home) and the money we saved on mail and paper is a drop in the bucket compared to the money we will ultimately lose.




That money you've lost though, would have been payed for by the tax payers. The USPS has run at a deficit for decades.



No that's money that would have been earned by the USPS. We pay for that service.




People who don't use that service, pay for that service. I never send anything through usps, and I'd definitely prefer never to receive anything from them. It's a trash service, that robs that taxpayers, and there's no reason for it to exist that I can think of. Every other carrier does a better job, at a lower rate, and they only charge the people utilizing their service.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie]
    #26906088 - 08/29/20 02:09 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

It's supposed to be people paying higher postal costs than needed to cover areas that would have outrageous postal costs (Midwest.)

The USPS is not supposed to be collecting tax dollars. They needed to raise their prices but have been reluctant to because people whine. People still complain that a stamp no longer costs 25c.


The USPS is supposed to be a self sufficient service for decades. But they work under much stricter regulations. That's why they need grants ect and can't adapt.

Like when Congress got the bright idea that they should fund employees retirement decades in advance. A regulation no other public or private entity is held to.


The main reason the USPS is in a bad way is it's supposed to be a semiprivate business and government couldn't figure out how to keep their hands out of it.


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    #26906090 - 08/29/20 02:10 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

It's a fine enough system that hasn't been allowed to adapt.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26906470 - 08/29/20 06:45 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Not enough. We have some of the cheapest postal costs of any country. A stamp should probably cost at least $1.50.



Probably because that's the price it should be. The post office might not be falling apart if a first class stamp was 1.50
But business would cry about their bottom line rather than just adapt. They sell a service customers will be fine if you sneak an extra dollar in the bill


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    #26906482 - 08/29/20 06:50 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Do people in this thread never ship anything? USPS has amazing service vs fedex and UPS.. they are Waaaaaaay cheaper most times. Not only that, but USPS observes a great deal of protections as to your mails security... there is nothing legally holding back ups or fedex from just opening your stuff, while usps requires a warrent to do so.


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    #26906485 - 08/29/20 06:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Also if you want to know why USPS is failing fiscally, look no further than the crippling bullshit bill passed in 06 under the bush administration...

PAEA was the first major overhaul of the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1970.[5] It reorganized the Postal Rate Commission, compelled the USPS to pay in advance for the health and retirement benefits of all of its employees for at least 50 years,[4] and stipulated that the price of postage could not increase faster than the rate of inflation.[6][7] It also mandated the USPS to deliver six days of the week.[8] According to Tom Davis, the Bush administration threatened to veto the legislation unless they added the provision regarding funding the employee benefits in advance with the objective of using that money to reduce the federal deficit.[2]



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    #26906490 - 08/29/20 06:56 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Do people in this thread never ship anything? USPS has amazing service vs fedex and UPS.. they are Waaaaaaay cheaper most times. Not only that, but USPS observes a great deal of protections as to your mails security... there is nothing legally holding back ups or fedex from just opening your stuff, while usps requires a warrent to do so.



Yea I run a department at a small business. I ship hundreds of things a week. USPS always sucks. Besides on cost for smaller packages.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26906508 - 08/29/20 07:13 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I ship boxes only via USPS and sometimes they are 30 or 40 lbs. each. They arrive in two days for domestic and it costs me $12. Nobody else comes close. I’ve never had a single lost package either.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 1
    #26906581 - 08/29/20 08:02 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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i wasnt using propaganda, I said the wrong dude, simple as that.  stop trying to create drama..  lol 

ever heard of a mistake?  thats all it was.  and I called dude a snowflake cus hes clearly got trump derangement syndrome cus all he wants to do is blame 1 dude when its the gov and has been for decades.  that was my whole point is this stuff isnt new..



Please quote where I blamed anybody?

I just said you were wrong and you were. Your tactic was obvious dude. The fact you
got so upset about being corrected really speaks to your snowflakeyness.

Sorry people like to do actual research and not just take your mistakes for truth.

My comment had nkthing to do with trump :lol: please quote where you think my tds was showing?
For the record Ive supported multiple trump positions:shrug:

I never even said who was actually president in 2006. I hoped you would just know.

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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 1
    #26906612 - 08/29/20 08:18 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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yall know bill clinton is why the usps is fucked, he forced the usps to pay pensions and retirement funds for gov employees that arent even in the usps, that put the usps in the red for 20+yrs.  this isnt trump nor is the corona virus trump fault.  this stuff isnt new to trump its been going on for decades but theres trump derangement syndrome so everything gets blamed on him.  its the people in the white house and their relatives that own media outlets and corporations that make the laws.  crony capitalism not true free market capitalism like its supposed to be.  its all manipulation to push progressivism under the guise of democracy that ends in one world government.  all in the name of safety..  :bonghit2:



I think youre the one with tds:lol:

Takes a post about usps, blames their problems on clinton and then runs on and on about trump.
Fuck clinton but bush was obviously the one who wrecked usps.

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    #26906643 - 08/29/20 08:34 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

The usps doesn’t take any tax payers money since the seventies. Those saying it’s taking tax dollars for operation. Look it up!

My post man has his hands full every time he walks by on his run.

UPS and FedEx can’t take USPS position. There is a bit more intelligence to these operations what what I read of all these complaints there above.  How I see it, UPS, FedEx and any other carrier delivery service are just picking up the slack of what the monstrous operation USPS can tow. 

If your looking at USPS and can’t see their business as a smooth operation, you have some problem with your eyes sight, or somethings loose up in your head. The thing is HUGE!  The operations of such business are enormous and serve up to 200 million people a day!

If you could rack your brain around all their doing and then come to think of some better way to do it, Christ!  Run for President oh! Blessed Wise One.

Make a family member smile, go to your local post office, find a fun loving card and write a letter to dear loved one.  The smile and joy to bring to another in such manner better than some dumb fucking mushroom to eat.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: WhoManBeing]
    #26906648 - 08/29/20 08:38 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Where do you think the money comes from then, considering they ran at a 8+ billion dollar deficit last year?

https://www.atr.org/usps-post-half-billion-losses-despite-billions-subsidies

>This week the Postal Service reported a net loss of $586 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2015. The USPS’s ability to lose over half a billion dollars in just three months would almost be impressive if it wasn’t a detriment to American taxpayers. The fact is the USPS receives roughly $18 billion in taxpayer-backed subsidies annually yet is still failing. 


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie]
    #26906681 - 08/29/20 08:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

“ While the Postal Service is a government agency, it doesn't run off of taxpayer money, and operates entirely off of revenues from mail and package delivery as well as the other services it offers. It employs over half a million people, including 100,000 US military veterans. ”

I’ve asked the post office years ago and got this answer as any google search will state too.

How the government is strangling the post is by not aiding as they done so to so many other needed sources in stimulus it sounds.

Check google usps is not tax payers money.

“ Since the early 1980s, many direct tax subsidies to the USPS (with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with disabled and overseas voters) have been reduced or eliminated. The USPS, as of 2019, has 469,934 career employees and 136,174 non-career employees.” - Wiki


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    #26906705 - 08/29/20 09:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I just got letter stating the USPS moves about 200 million parcel a day. If was to do the math, make average of how much a day, that $500 million dollars sounds like a whole lot but in the scheme of numbers that be adding up to to there operations ain’t that much.

That’s what’s funny about speaking big numbers to such things, is that those operations do consume lots of and circulate lots of money. The two trillion dollar bail out to economy of stimulus ain’t nothing in the ocean of money they swimming in, they the business and all that function with money daily.

It sounds like a lot of money because we only accumulate x a number annually. But take into consideration of the 320 million US citizens...


Those numbers too big to count on my fingers and toes. I out of here.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: WhoManBeing]
    #26906708 - 08/29/20 09:06 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah, I know they claim that, but it's not true.

The government "loans" them tax payer money, that never gets paid back. They're 150 billion+ in debt right now, which is something like 2 times their annual revenue.

Edit:

This is a really good, well sourced article.

https://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/usps-uses-18-billion-in-taxpayer-subsidies-to-subsidize-junk-mail-killing-100-million-trees-and-irritating-millions/


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Saul Ptamets]
    #26906789 - 08/29/20 10:09 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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if you think coronavirus is the governments' problem to solve and not yours go over to some fuckin socialist country. And stop throwing blame on everyone else but yourself.




Of course it's the governments responsibility. The President is the only person in this country that had the power to stop it. I can't make strict stay at home orders and force factories to make test kits and test people. How is that my responsibility? Are you a teenager or something? It sounds like you don't understand how government or the world works and who is responsible for what.

All the President had to do was to make a super strict stay at home order for almost everybody possible until we had enough test kits and medical equipment to go around. They could enforce a contact tracing app for cell phones so we would know who may be infected, by who and who else is at risk. By a couple weeks the virus would have set in to everyone that it infected at the time and we could isolate those people and test the rest to see if they are asymptomatic.

It really wouldn't have been all that hard to get this under control if we had a president who didn't dismantle the programs that were setup to stop this in the first place. Then the president says it will miraculously go away in a few days when China and science said otherwise. The he said it would magically go away when it got warmer, which again was based on nothing. He claims it's a hoax, made by democrats, discouraged mask wearing, made it political, and so on.

The President and Federal government was responsible for stopping this and they failed when they had the chance. They continue to fail and pretend that it doesn't even exist while 100.000's of people are sick and dying. They are responsible for this, not me, and these deaths are on their hands for failing to act, failing to listen to science, and failing to lead.

Not only did they kill all these people, but they actually fucked up the economy up even more. When they could have shut down for a few weeks and paid people's rents and salaries they didn't. Instead they gave everyone a measly $1200 and forced them to go back to work while sick and spread the virus. They give out small business loans, but they are so incompetent that instead of going to small businesses they gave millions to huge corporations. The economy could have been fixed by now and people could be at work safely. Instead they fucked us over for at least a couple years.

I do what I can to stop this and try to educate people who can't comprehend science or how government should work. Unfortunately there are a lot of low IQ people that just blame democrats, socialists, and spew out "Trump Derangment Syndrome" instead of arguing with facts, science, and history. It's not about Democrat vs Republican. It's about doing the right things to get this under control. IMO supporting Trump and the Federal Governments actions on this matter shows an uneducated person with a low IQ.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: 13shrooms] * 1
    #26907040 - 08/30/20 01:59 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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yall know bill clinton is why the usps is fucked, he forced the usps to pay pensions and retirement funds for gov employees that arent even in the usps, that put the usps in the red for 20+yrs.  this isnt trump nor is the corona virus trump fault.  this stuff isnt new to trump its been going on for decades but theres trump derangement syndrome so everything gets blamed on him.  its the people in the white house and their relatives that own media outlets and corporations that make the laws.  crony capitalism not true free market capitalism like its supposed to be.  its all manipulation to push progressivism under the guise of democracy that ends in one world government.  all in the name of safety..  :bonghit2:




Yeah tbf they haven't paid into the retirement fund since 2009 but it's a great example of why Trump is not special in fucking everything up with asinine ideas.

Or rather people they're responsible for.

Fun to hate the dude but our government has been running the country with incompetence and greed for a while.


Also panicked clickbait articles about how USPS was going to shut down were up well before the brilliant new ideas of the Trump boy took effect. As soon as 2 months before.

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    #26907089 - 08/30/20 04:23 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

How come no discussion of the bill which forced them to set aside funds for 50 years in the future worth of retirement back in 06? There's an extremely strong correlation with their finances and this extreme expense.


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    #26907153 - 08/30/20 06:43 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)



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    #26907263 - 08/30/20 08:42 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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yall know bill clinton is why the usps is fucked, he forced the usps to pay pensions and retirement funds for gov employees that arent even in the usps, that put the usps in the red for 20+yrs.  this isnt trump nor is the corona virus trump fault.  this stuff isnt new to trump its been going on for decades but theres trump derangement syndrome so everything gets blamed on him.  its the people in the white house and their relatives that own media outlets and corporations that make the laws.  crony capitalism not true free market capitalism like its supposed to be.  its all manipulation to push progressivism under the guise of democracy that ends in one world government.  all in the name of safety..  :bonghit2:




Yeah tbf they haven't paid into the retirement fund since 2009 but it's a great example of why Trump is not special in fucking everything up with asinine ideas.

Or rather people they're responsible for.

Fun to hate the dude but our government has been running the country with incompetence and greed for a while.


Also panicked clickbait articles about how USPS was going to shut down were up well before the brilliant new ideas of the Trump boy took effect. As soon as 2 months before.

Stop plz.




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    #26907363 - 08/30/20 09:52 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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    #26907385 - 08/30/20 10:03 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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    #26907527 - 08/30/20 10:59 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I know I know....I've been putting off hopping on the phone with the DMV to get them to send a new one :okay:.


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    #26907544 - 08/30/20 11:03 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I always go to the dumb dmv for this very reason.  It’s more annoying to deal with the robots on the phone and the robot people than just wait in line and walk out holding a card


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Getting it from both ends, the DMV and the current post office.. ouch, they be spit roasting you.


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    #26908000 - 08/30/20 02:13 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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How come no discussion of the bill which forced them to set aside funds for 50 years in the future worth of retirement back in 06? There's an extremely strong correlation with their finances and this extreme expense.




I mean it's been mentioned like 6 times. I can't remember what it's called and I assume no one else does either.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26908049 - 08/30/20 02:36 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Postal accountability and enhancement act. I dun mentioned it on the last page
and I was told I had TDS for bringing it up even though my post didnt mention trump in the least.

2006 laws have nothing to do with trump so the accusation came out of nowhere

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    #26908364 - 08/30/20 04:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

USPS is going under, its being treated as a business and not a service.


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    #26908406 - 08/30/20 05:14 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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    #26909114 - 08/31/20 05:52 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Seriously though most of the important stuff that comes through the mail is from the government. Tax stuff, vehicle registration, permits and denial letters.


And then of course there's drugs.


Honestly it does irk me a bit when people say mail service is useless. Just goes to show how removed people are from the supply line. Any business you walk into recieves at least some of the things they need to function cheaply through the USPS.

Though I have seen first hand what corona has done to snail mail. I work in insurance and we are legally required to send some mail via certified mail from USPS. That legal requirement has been suspended and it's saved us boxes of paper.
The main reason we're required to do that though is you have to sign to get the mail. The post office has to stamp a reception date. So you can't say you didn't get a warning of imminent cancellation if you don't pay your bill.

Now? That whole department is a mess and legal has their hands full. They're just waiving alot of the smaller bills (don't try that at home) and the money we saved on mail and paper is a drop in the bucket compared to the money we will ultimately lose.




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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Brian Jones] * 1
    #26909198 - 08/31/20 07:08 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

"Business friendly fiscal conservatives" are going to destroy an insane number of small businesses in the US of they fail to keep the USPS functioning.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: christopera]
    #26909287 - 08/31/20 08:24 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

If your business depends on the usps, its subsidized by tax money and debt.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: blewmeanie]
    #26909297 - 08/31/20 08:35 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yea any small business can adapt lol. You use a different carrier and pass the cost to the customer with transparency. Hey customers we can't guarantee timely shipments with USPS we no longer offer free shipping. We will use a different carrier see rates below


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    #26909353 - 08/31/20 09:31 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I was just thinking I guess ima have to charge a couple more bucks for shipping in the future of this happens
Really they will just destroy cheap shipping option for the consumer.  Businesses will be mostly unaffected me thinks


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: theRealrollforever]
    #26909371 - 08/31/20 09:48 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Some of my products would see a 50% increase in price based on the current rates for shipping via alternative shippers.

That means less people buy. I already got destroyed by increased tolling costs as a result of the tariffs.

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If your business depends on the usps, its subsidized by tax money and debt.




lol. If you are worried about my subsidies, you better not look at what other companies in this country receive.

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Yea any small business can adapt lol. You use a different carrier and pass the cost to the customer with transparency. Hey customers we can't guarantee timely shipments with USPS we no longer offer free shipping. We will use a different carrier see rates below




Passing it on the consumer doesn't mean I sell as much volume, in means less volume, and my margins are already fairly thin. Consumers don't magically have more money to compensate for more shipping expenses.

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I was just thinking I guess ima have to charge a couple more bucks for shipping in the future of this happens
Really they will just destroy cheap shipping option for the consumer.  Businesses will be mostly unaffected me thinks




See above. I'm not sure what you are shipping, but for me to move from USPS to Fedex or UPS I would often see a 50% or more increase in shipping cost.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: christopera]
    #26909387 - 08/31/20 09:56 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah but I’m thinking in terms of once usps is gone.  It’s gone for everyone.  Everyone will be taking the increased hit and then consumers won’t be seeing it as an individual business raising prices, as they will have to pay the difference no matter who they use and the only way to avoid that is get off their lazy ass which is not gonna happen lol


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    #26909533 - 08/31/20 11:28 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

That still ignores that consumers will have less free capital as a result of inflated shipping costs. Simply put, it will result in less buying power. That means less sales.


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    #26909565 - 08/31/20 11:44 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Maybe in an economic textbook and on a huge scale you are right, but I just don’t see a couple bucks in shipping as big of a deal as you do.  I am selling art so the buying power isn’t going to affect my demand the same way.  If I was buying and reselling goods with a slim margin for resale it could cripple something like that.  Anything that people actually need or want badly enough though, people will shift their buying power accordingly.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: christopera]
    #26909585 - 08/31/20 11:58 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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If your business depends on the usps, its subsidized by tax money and debt.




lol. If you are worried about my subsidies, you better not look at what other companies in this country receive.






Certain industries are subsidized because it's a strategic advantage to the country for those industries to exist. I'm not particularly in favor of most those either. That's the theory though.

While I'm sure the hand made unicorn dildos you sell on etsy are lovely, they're not necessary for the security of the nation, so I don't want to pay for it, which is exactly what I'm doing with you use the post office.

If what you're shipping is under 5 pounds, there's a good chance you can ship it cheaper with FedEx anyway, unless we're talking about mailers.


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    #26909612 - 08/31/20 12:10 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Also I bet money that once the post office is gone, more private shipping companies will open or st the very least fedex and ups will have to compete for the business of the small mailers being mailed everywhere daily.  They will most likely offer a different ground option with a slower turnaround if there was a hugely underserved market


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: theRealrollforever]
    #26909634 - 08/31/20 12:24 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I don't know if it would be gone entirely, just privatized.

Didn't germany privatize their postal service? I think I remember hearing something about that.

edit: yeah, here it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post#:~:text=2%20January%201995%3A%20Deutsche%20Bundespost,acquiring%20shares%20in%20DHL%20International.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26909815 - 08/31/20 01:46 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Yea any small business can adapt lol. You use a different carrier and pass the cost to the customer with transparency. Hey customers we can't guarantee timely shipments with USPS we no longer offer free shipping. We will use a different carrier see rates below




Small business is already struggling because they can't compete with massive conglomerates in pricing.

The Piggly wiggly has been replaced by Walmart and shit like this is a big reason why.

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    #26909829 - 08/31/20 01:52 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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If your business depends on the usps, its subsidized by tax money and debt.




lol. If you are worried about my subsidies, you better not look at what other companies in this country receive.






Certain industries are subsidized because it's a strategic advantage to the country for those industries to exist. I'm not particularly in favor of most those either. That's the theory though.

While I'm sure the hand made unicorn dildos you sell on etsy are lovely, they're not necessary for the security of the nation, so I don't want to pay for it, which is exactly what I'm doing with you use the post office.

If what you're shipping is under 5 pounds, there's a good chance you can ship it cheaper with FedEx anyway, unless we're talking about mailers.




I ship under 5 pounds all the time, but I also get a volume discount with USPS, so again, FedEx can't compete.

So, Apple, Amazon, GM, Chrysler, and a never ending list of other tax dodging corporate welfare earners get a priority over the little guy? That's a great sell. You should run for office.

I don't sell on Etsy, because Etsy is a terrible platform. But again, if you are worried about that small amount of tax you may be spending with the USPS, then don't take a look at the rest of where your tax money is going.


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If your business depends on the usps, its subsidized by tax money and debt.




lol. If you are worried about my subsidies, you better not look at what other companies in this country receive.






Certain industries are subsidized because it's a strategic advantage to the country for those industries to exist. I'm not particularly in favor of most those either. That's the theory though.

While I'm sure the hand made unicorn dildos you sell on etsy are lovely, they're not necessary for the security of the nation, so I don't want to pay for it, which is exactly what I'm doing with you use the post office.

If what you're shipping is under 5 pounds, there's a good chance you can ship it cheaper with FedEx anyway, unless we're talking about mailers.




I ship under 5 pounds all the time, but I also get a volume discount with USPS, so again, FedEx can't compete.

So, Apple, Amazon, GM, Chrysler, and a never ending list of other tax dodging corporate welfare earners get a priority over the little guy? That's a great sell. You should run for office.

I don't sell on Etsy, because Etsy is a terrible platform. But again, if you are worried about that small amount of tax you may be spending with the USPS, then don't take a look at the rest of where your tax money is going.




It's not a small amount. If I remember correctly, they're running at a 10 - 15 billion dollar deficit per year.

All that aside, have you looked into a FedEx corporate account? It should be something like 20% off for ground and 40% for express. I used to manage drop shipping for an ecommerce company, and express was often cheaper for us than ground.


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Yea any small business can adapt lol. You use a different carrier and pass the cost to the customer with transparency. Hey customers we can't guarantee timely shipments with USPS we no longer offer free shipping. We will use a different carrier see rates below




Small business is already struggling because they can't compete with massive conglomerates in pricing.

The Piggly wiggly has been replaced by Walmart and shit like this is a big reason why.

Rip Piggly wiggly 🐖 :sad:



I knew the kids of the owner's of Piggly. They lived in elm Grove Wisconsin. Piggly wiggly is such shit. The worst grocery store in the state besides aldi

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    #26910088 - 08/31/20 04:08 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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    #26910105 - 08/31/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

More bad news, the US government bailed out private businesses, one's that aren't accessible to every individual equally like USPS, to the tune of $700B just this year. If you are worried about where your tax money goes, USPS is pretty low on the totem pole. Meanwhile, the USPS has to pay out it's pentions 75 years. That's a good thing but is also impossible. No other pension fund is as funded. The USPS politicized, at least in this case, because the president doesn't like mail in voting. Meanwhile he stands to damage tens of thousands of small businesses in the process. Not cool.

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    #26910508 - 08/31/20 06:57 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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More bad news, the US government bailed out private businesses, one's that aren't accessible to every individual equally like USPS, to the tune of $700B just this year. If you are worried about where your tax money goes, USPS is pretty low on the totem pole. Meanwhile, the USPS has to pay out it's pentions 75 years. That's a good thing but is also impossible. No other pension fund is as funded. The USPS politicized, at least in this case, because the president doesn't like mail in voting. Meanwhile he stands to damage tens of thousands of small businesses in the process. Not cool.

Also, I've looked into FedEx annually. They just don't compare.








The USPS is a shining example of a government agency that actually worked until a bill was passed that it had to fund itself 75 years into the future, including all the pensions for it's future, unborn employees.



ANY business that was required to do this would go insolvent. This is unlike any private or public entity. So WHY are we doing this? Especially for something that is a service that is literally written into the constitution. Don't know how you could support an individuals right to bear arms without supporting an individuals access to a postal office without being completely intellectually dishonest and hypocritical. But whatevs.


https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/fy2010/ar2010_4_002.htm




There are some very simple solutions here. And either the people in charge of these decisions are totally incompetent - which is a possibility, but more likely, they're doing what they always do, which is starving the beast, and then shrugging their shoulders sitting with their thumbs up their asses yelling about how government doesn't work.



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Thats chapter one in the Republican legislators playbook: Prove government doesn't work by making sure that it doesn't.


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    #26911452 - 09/01/20 08:50 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Been trying to track a package of meds since yesterday and I keep getting "This service is currently unavailable."

We're in the midst of a pandemic where millions are staying at home, it's the biggest economic downturn in recent history, and we're fucking with a service that brings goods to those who can't leave their homes, employs hundreds of thousands of people, and who hundreds of thousands rely on to run their business?


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I made two trades recently.

One took 35 days to reach me and 28 days to reach a bloke in TN.

Another took 20 days to me and 14 days to IL.

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    #26911500 - 09/01/20 09:15 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

They've cut the USPS staff and hours drastically. The service has gotten worse for everybody. Now that some of the COVID mail order rush has slowed they are getting caught up, but still, mail order stuff is at pretty much all time highs.


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    #26911509 - 09/01/20 09:22 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

How so very fucking convenient the usps services start to be a mess when they announce a mail in ballot may be in order.:rolleyes: It's so FUCKING obvious what the hell is going on!:mad2:


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How so very fucking convenient the usps services start to be a mess when they announce a mail in ballot may be in order.:rolleyes: It's so FUCKING obvious what the hell is going on!:mad2:




Especially when you see different states and cities that are refusing to allow people to drop off ballots. When I voted for my state primaries I just requested a ballot in the mail and dropped it off at city hall after I completed it. Didn't even have to go in, they had a mail drop slot into a safe that probably cost them $100 to install. There's no reason it can't be like that everywhere.

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    #26911580 - 09/01/20 10:08 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

People in Canada complain about Canada Post too, but I never had a problem with it personally, I dont get my mail in 2 days like with Amazon, but I never had a huge delay, the only complaint I have is they offer a 2-3 day Canada wide option, but you'll never get your mail in 3 days coming from the other side of the country, so I just use the normal shipping option that cost less

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So 10 years of surpluses and then like magic it's back into bigger deficits in 2006?


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26911617 - 09/01/20 10:31 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

So you're arguing that USPS is inherently unprofitable even though the data shows 10 years straight of massive surplus right up until a rule mandating that they have to fund pensions 75 years in a future.


IDK. Seems logical and rational to do away with the fucking rule first and foremost if you want to 'cut costs', not throw out mail sorting machines that cost millions of dollars. Seems pretty fucking dumb, if not outright malicious in it's attempt to render usps even more dysfunctional. And in fact, the usps could still feasibly fund it's employees pensions and retirement on it's own, if they allowed them to do it in a way that is outlined in the first link above that I posted.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26911656 - 09/01/20 10:55 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Interfering with elections, to me is an act of treason and that deserves the death penalty along with all of the other corrupt shit they are doing.




But he’s not interfering with elections.

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Not doing anything about the Covid Virus and just ignoring it is basically murder.



What’s he supposed to do? 

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We're paying taxes so that our government can screw us over on elections and paying them to kill us.



sounds like unnecessary hand wringing.  Did you enjoy your tax cut?

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I don't think I am going to go to jail for voicing concerns of a corrupt government.


Wishing death on the commander and chief is a grey area.

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I have written to the White House directly and told them that the blood of Americans is on Trumps tiny hands for doing nothing about Covid. I consistently write to Senate and my Congressman to tell them what shitheads they're.


well they’re probably already watching you.

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Not voicing concerns for corrupt governments and presidents is basically being complicit and just as bad as them.


I’m sure your letter wasnt violently passive-aggressive.

I got high and ate all my snacks, plus I think it's your turn to bring the snacks anyways.




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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: lowbrow] * 1
    #26911669 - 09/01/20 11:04 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

TIL that the majority of "wild" pacific salmon is farmed in hatcheries and released. Where they outcompete other wild fish and as many have noted are not as healthy as their wild counterparts.


These hatcheries are subsidized with tax dollars at $60,000 per fish with 300,000,000 fish per year. It's billions of dollars.


If the USPS is a major drain on taxpayer dollars I think we have bigger fish to fry first.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26911685 - 09/01/20 11:12 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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TIL that the majority of "wild" pacific salmon is farmed in hatcheries and released. Where they outcompete other wild fish and as many have noted are not as healthy as their wild counterparts.


These hatcheries are subsidized with tax dollars at $60,000 per fish with 300,000,000 fish per year. It's billions of dollars.


If the USPS is a major drain on taxpayer dollars I think we have bigger fish to fry first.



300mil * 60k. Is trillions. So your mistaken


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26911711 - 09/01/20 11:24 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Sorry that's per fish they harvest back from the water to "farm". I don't know how many they harvest back but I found another figure that says that each fish hatchery costs an average of 20 million dollars on upkeep per year. So... maybe you can math that out mr math wizard.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26911713 - 09/01/20 11:25 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Definitely mistaken. We're talking minute fractions of 18 trillion.

Millions maybe. Definitely not billions and certaintly not trillions.

The 1st hemp farm I worked on in colorado was an old trout hatchery that went under
and couldnt get assistance. The owner killed himself and his wife leased the
hatchery to my boss.

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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26911731 - 09/01/20 11:37 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

You just inspired me to buy some hemp clothing, but the first link I clicked when I typed canadian hemp clothing, was trying to sell me organic cotten and bamboo tee shirts, guess I might have to do some research


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26911760 - 09/01/20 11:52 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

There's different types of fisheries. These are talking about salmon in the pnw.

Trout I imagine would have problems in recent years when we realized stocking trout in waters they're not native to isn't a great idea. And it's not as big of a consumer fish as salmon.

Tbh I knew almost nothing of fish farming before the documentary I watched this morning so I'm open to being orrected. I had always imagined fish farms were all enclosed tanks where fish live until they're ready to go on the dinner plate. But I admit in retrospect it probably depends on the goal of the hatchery. If you want to circulate the fish back to fisherman of course you'd have to release them.

Even still it was just a recent example of something I think should be reexamined. A bigger fish to fry that I'm more familiar with is the military. Yall know about the figher jets they are spending billions on that are supposed to be the be all end all to replace the air force fighter jets but the project is stalling because they are not working as advertised?


Or a home grown example, my dear sweet former governor spent over 40 million dollars on a highway project over epa protected land that never broke ground.


We do need a national mail service. I'm not sure how much we need bureaucrats signing bills that make them sound good on projects that are doomed.


Or how about how we spent over 2 billion dollars on our cancelled particle accelerator in Texas, before any part of the machine itself was built?


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: gopher]
    #26911784 - 09/01/20 12:03 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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You just inspired me to buy some hemp clothing, but the first link I clicked when I typed canadian hemp clothing, was trying to sell me organic cotten and bamboo tee shirts, guess I might have to do some research




I had hemp shoes a while back. They were pretty much indestructible, I used them pretty heavily for skateboarding and other than dirt and some scuffs they were practically like-new a decade later. They had a hidden stash pocket under the sizing label


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: feevers]
    #26911799 - 09/01/20 12:11 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

most fisheries feed the fish bullshit, like grain/corn fed cows, wild caught fish are much better


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: gopher]
    #26911924 - 09/01/20 01:01 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Trout is a kind of salmon.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26911938 - 09/01/20 01:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Ya I know there's a difference in management(although trout are salmonids and they also did kokanee salmon to stock reservoirs)

Trout can naturalize though so they really dont need much hatchery help.
Rainbow, cutthroat, brook trout, bull trout, humpback trout are all native to N. American waters,
but brown trout are an introduced species that have thrived here and have even
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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26912079 - 09/01/20 02:15 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

They look pretty similar so that makes sense.

Come to think of it I'm not sure I've ever had trout. Do they have pink meat too?

I don't think it's outright harmful to restock but you have to do it with ecology in mind and ecology is a complex thing. I'd rather us just not overfish and fix some of these old dams that block spawning routes.

There's a few ponds and lakes I can think of where game fish such as trout were introduced. Though I can't think of any instance where they go absolutely crazy like the snakehead and asian carp.

My concern is just that between pollution and global warming it can get real bad if you introduce yet another factor that throws the ecosystem out of balance.

Also worthy of note: now, with ecosystems rapidly changing, is not the time to be artificially breeding and preserving and encouraging the weak links in the gene pool. You want the fish that are ready to deal with algae blooms and smart enough to climb up fish ladders on dams and hardy enough to deal with different temperatures, ph levels, phosphorus, and all the other stuff in the water.


Releasing a million genetically inferior specimens after giving them a head start could out compete the fewer hardier individuals.

Now I'm not saying that's happening exactly like that. Just a small chunk of what you have to consider when you're manipulating ecology.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs] * 1
    #26912108 - 09/01/20 02:31 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Yes older larger trout specimens have pink meat

Here's a freshly caught and gutted brown


Trout are friggen delicious. My favorite fish by far. My chick loved atlantic salmon
and I kept trying to tell her wild trout was much better. First time I made it
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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26912121 - 09/01/20 02:35 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Pan fried trout in seasonings and butter, fuck yes! I love the crispy skin too!:tongue:


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: natedawgnow]
    #26912125 - 09/01/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I might have some cod for a before bed snack if im hungry tonight, I like cooking it throughly though cause I dont know the source, and they tend to stick to the pan on me, any tips? should I just eat it less cooked before it sticks?


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26912527 - 09/01/20 06:21 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Pan fried trout in seasonings and butter, fuck yes! I love the crispy skin too!:tongue:



How does one season trout?

I tried perch for the first time recently and it tasted strangely minty. I'm not sure if it's something I did or if it's a minty fish...


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26912731 - 09/01/20 08:24 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Put what you like on it. cajun, lemon pepper, roasted garlic, citrus, citrus ginger, black pepper and salt, etc


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26913289 - 09/02/20 07:28 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Put what you like on it. cajun, lemon pepper, roasted garlic, citrus, citrus ginger, black pepper and salt, etc



yep! One kitchen I worked in made a seasoned butter that we would ladle onto a flat top grill then put the fish on that.:tongue: You can also prep the fish an hour or more ahead of time with seasoning on it and then wrap it in a container or plastic wrap on a plate and let it marinate.


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26962436 - 09/30/20 04:53 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Everything is fucked up now a days...


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Re: USPS is fucked [Re: vencx]
    #26962885 - 09/30/20 09:09 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Your ratings are not fucked up:snowman:


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