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Which you have no basis to say without knowing the financials/COB of both.
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Which have been common knowledge for, oh, a couple decades now. *With the warnings coming every year from the Board of Governors. *Which were ignored by successive Administrations and Congresses.
Now, you know how Hemlock had the answers. You had the answer all along. *smile*
Now, you know how Hemlock had the answers. You had the answer all along. *smile*
But he didn't. He made a blanket statement concerning pricing.
I find it fascinating that it appears from this thread, that every single person who reponded has had problems with USPS except me. I have had issues with the local PO not having the Waterfowl Stamp available for early waterfowl season.
Today we can get our bills online. we can pay our bills online. We can even have our bills paid directly from our checking accounts. At work we just went to electronic pay checks. We can even have our W2's sent to us electronically now. I just see less of a need for the postal service than in years past. Someday we just won't have a need for it.
This has a bigger impact on the Post office than UPS or Fed Ex. For awhile Netflix was helping keeping them afloat but now even they are moving away from the DVD business. The internet is what is killing the USPS.
This has a bigger impact on the Post office than UPS or Fed Ex. For awhile Netflix was helping keeping them afloat but now even they are moving away from the DVD business. The internet is what is killing the USPS.
Spam mail and packages are still filling the mailboxes.
I guess fedex and UPS are eating into profits which is weird.
UPS and fedex are very overpriced compared to the Postal service. I shipped internationally for years....the only time I saw the need for Fedex was to bypass the slow, corrupt, post offices of third world countries(may literally do not have computers...literally!)
Otherwise US post service was fine.
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Why can't the black middle class work in the private sector? They already get plenty of grants and aid to educate themselves. Is it any less unfortunate that many Caucasian, Latino, or Asian postal workers might be affected? Is it the tax payers job to waste money to guarantee a job for government workers? Should we also expect private sector companies to go bankrupt to guarantee jobs?
Let's take it a step further... How can private sector companies compete with foreign competition when they are expected to fund inefficient operations like the post office? Won't that cost far more jobs in the private sector?
The private sector in this country has been doing everything possible to adapt in these difficult times. Time the government sector does their part. [+] Rate this post positively
The private sector didn't hire us at all....until the 1980's. It's not like corporate America went on a black hiring spree once the discrimination laws were removed. Blacks weren't allowed into nice places for cultural reasons as well as legal. The government historically was much more lenient(like the army).
I haven't researched the post office but my understanding is that it's politics rather than poor management.
The State of Maryland charges $20 for on-line filing of your State Income Tax.
Little known fact: IRS outsources transferring the critical numbers from the e-file to their systems. That means a third party has view of all of your PII. For that reason, I have NEVER e-filed. My PII is worth protecting, IMHO. I like the Post Office. And they have gotten a lot crisper in recent years.
About the outsourcing: verify on EPIC website, that's how I found out about it several years ago. EPIC is a non-profit electronic privacy group that tracks such things.
After graduating from college, I've gotten the impression that the government is at least more open to interviewing minorities than the private sector. That is just my experience, though.
Fed Ex and UPS have shown that the private sector can handle mail and shipping. It's time for the post office to throw in the towel.
The post office would be in the black if they charged a 30-70% premium as well on the same services sans daily mail delivery.
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