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My best friend is a postal worker. Based on how he describes the majority of his coworkers, it is no surprise.
Growing up in the '70s, and early '80s, I seem to recall that postal workers were well-respected individuals who held well-paying positions. For the most part, that hasn't been my experience over the last 20-25 years. However, before we moved two months ago, our delivery man kept a sharp eye out for our adult, autistic son. If there was anything that seemed out of the ordinary, he would make a special trip to the house just to let me know. He was a solid guy.
They are a victim of technology. Getting the Amazon delivery contract was a real win, but Amazon is starting to deliver some of their own things now. Fed Ex delivers most of our packages from Wal-Mart, if not all.
This is very bad news. I do wonder about the future of the USPS.
Personally, I still use first class mail to send checks for utility bills (which I pay three months at a time) -- yes, I'm a dinosaur -- but the increased postage rates AND the costs for nice greeting cards are ridiculous, imo. Therefore, I no longer send any greeting cards except to my mother and sisters, and I have the online retailers send gifts for me, although I miss the personal touch of wrapping the gifts myself. In short, ten years ago, I probably gave at least $100 annually to the USPS and now they might get $10 of my money per year, at most.
I know 2 USPS upper management retirees...both in late 50's, or very early 60's. They started there right out of school.
Have a very nice retirement home in FLA, & 2nd home elsewhere...snowbirds.
Based upon lifestyle, they have excellent pensions, & maybe lifetime Cadillac healthcare...not a care in the World.
Great people, who were smart enough to see how good the USPS career proposition was, and went for it.
As a taxpayer, I'm not upset with them at all, but a bit disappointed with the political system that would pay so much in overall comp pakcage for a gov't service job that would allow employees to retire so young w/ a top 2% lifestyle.
Great for them, not so great for the taxpayers who are $33.7T in debt and paying $1T/yr in interest.
I have no idea how many young affluent retirees the USPS has, so maybe they are outliers...it does make me suspect though, and able to see why the USPS is losing $6.5B.
Just a sidenote...I'm surrounded by retired Federal Gov't workers who live affluent lifestyles in retirement...not just USPS.
slower delivery standards and postage hikes...unpopular....
Mail volume across the U.S. declined almost 9%...
Some critics are pointing to DeJoy's string of postage rate hikes as the reason for the decline in volume....
"Twice-annual, above-inflation postage hikes are worsening the USPS' financial woes and trapping it in quicksand, as even more mail is driven out of the system"
...USPS is planning to hike postage rates in January, which would mark the fifth rate hike since 2021 and come on the heels of a July postage increase.
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