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Good, then there shouldn't be any problem removing life support from it.
You're not subsidizing USPS, at least, not with your tax dollars. You haven't been since 1970. Since that time, the Postal Service has funded its operations out of revenues charged to its customers. It is a quasi-private entity, and has been for nearly 50 years. They operate solely out of the fare box. The only public monies used in USPS operations would be for law enforcement purposes, generally mail fraud investigations.
That's why first-class postage rates have escalated from 6 cents for the first ounce to 49 cents per ounce today. The public subsidy was discontinued by Congress in 1970. But, for 49 cents, you can mail a fist-class letter literally anywhere in the the country, something that FedEx and UPS cannot do for two reasons:
1. USPS has a legislated monopoly on first class mail, which Congress will never lift under any circumstances whatsoever, because if they did, they would lose the franking privilege, which represents a significant advantage of incumbency; and
2. FedEx and UPS would cherry-pick the most profitable first-class routes, leaving the least profitable/money-losing routes to either pay more than the going rates for mail delivery, or to do without first-class mail service altogether. The postal customers served by those routes would not care for that development, as you might well imagine.
If you are having difficulty with late deliveries sending via USPS using Priority Mail, you might try just sending them first class, depending on what you may be shipping. I've found that first-class postage gets a 3-ounce manila mailer to destinations in the Lower 48 just as fast as Priority Mail, and costs less also.
Agreed and 1 BIG reason the Post Office is still around is IF it went away; a LOT of small places like Chloride here in Arizona would have NO way to send letters or bills.
What most people also don't realize is that if a carrier has 1 stop on a road/generally a dead end- and that one house doesn't have any incoming mail- they are still required to go to that one house to see if there is any outgoing mail.
Jim was a rural carrier in farm country, and this was a normal thing.
What most people also don't realize is that if a carrier has 1 stop on a road/generally a dead end- and that one house doesn't have any incoming mail- they are still required to go to that one house to see if there is any outgoing mail.
Jim was a rural carrier in farm country, and this was a normal thing.
That is the rule for rural carriers where the carrier is considered a mobile post office. A uniformed city carrier is on a walking route supposed to skip over a house not getting anything delivered that day. The software looks for carriers with light days and they are suppose to use that assumed extra time from not walking to a house empty carrying parts of another route. It is what the service calls pivoting and is one of the biggest causes of stress between postal management and postal workers in the work faster and your reward is to have more work piled on you business model.
That is the rule for rural carriers where the carrier is considered a mobile post office. A uniformed city carrier is on a walking route supposed to skip over a house not getting anything delivered that day. The software looks for carriers with light days and they are suppose to use that assumed extra time from not walking to a house empty carrying parts of another route. It is what the service calls pivoting and is one of the biggest causes of stress between postal management and postal workers in the work faster and your reward is to have more work piled on you business model.
Of course when Jim was still working, we always had stamps and he took the outgoing mail with him everyday.
We retired and moved to a city location with a city route. One of the hardest adjustments we had to make was to have to go to the PO to mail a letter/bill. But its a good healthy 2 mile round trip walk for us now.
Of course when Jim was still working, we always had stamps and he took the outgoing mail with him everyday.
We retired and moved to a city location with a city route. One of the hardest adjustments we had to make was to have to go to the PO to mail a letter/bill. But its a good healthy 2 mile round trip walk for us now.
I thought the city mailman was supposed to take your stamped outgoing mail, if you attach it to your mailbox with a clothes pin or whatever. Some city routes have rural mailboxes with flags by the curb. If you leave the flag up, that means you got outgoing mail for the mailman. But then that gives notice to mail thieves.
Am I the only one that has noticed USPS consistently delivering packages late? UPS and FedEx seem to be getting it right.
Just the opposite actually. I am not even some USPS booster or anything.
Maybe UPS just doesn't like New Mexico, but aside from Next Day Air, I find USPS to always be much faster than UPS.
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