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It's so sad to look at. 5 days for first-class mail? Remember when we were a first-world country where you could get first-class mail delivered from coast to co
by jrochkind1 5y ago
It's so sad to look at. 5 days for first-class mail? Remember when we were a first-world country where you could get first-class mail delivered from coast to coast in 3 days or less? That was 6 months ago.
- lelandfe 5y agoA reminder that Louis DeJoy is somehow still the postmaster general.
- beanjuiceII 5y agoI've been working at usps for 18 years...DeJoy is the best PMG over that entire span.. i really don't get what the hate is about
- lelandfe 5y agoI'm not sure what your criteria for "best" is. But others' concerns stem from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Postal_Service_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Postal_Serv...
- throwaway111023 5y ago
- aldebran 5y agoHave you been sleeping while he’s been dismantling the USPS and blatantly been sabotaging ability to reliably send absentee ballots in time?
- beanjuiceII 5y agohe has not been dismantling anything that wasn't already in the works
- jrochkind1 5y agoAs an employee, what do you like about what he's done? I am actually curious.
- beanjuiceII 5y agohe's doing long term work for many fixes that need to be done in terms of logistics and processing that many PMG's put off to instead make stuff like teen apparel and other ridiculous forms of revenue. Some fights he can win, some he can't unfortunately.. many many politics at play.
- cripblip 5y agoCould you advise how best to submit feedback ? The font on usps labels is comically small and leads to numerous package misdeliveries in my area, have tried submitting feedback, cases go dark in the middle of conversations etc
- beanjuiceII 5y agoi never felt like it was small, but i can ask the team responsible for generating labels about the size
- hackernewds 5y agoGenuinely curious what you find "best" among his maleficent sabotage, and the undeniable benefits he's been reaping from his conflict of interest with XPO logistics
- beanjuiceII 5y agothere is no sabotage everyone keeps saying that, but I've seen nothing but false information about it...and conflicts of interest people act like that something new at USPS. Here check this guy out https://washingtontechnology.com/2007/10/otto-joins-agilex-technologies/335741/ https://washingtontechnology.com/2007/10/otto-joins-agilex-t... one of many, guess who agilex had large contracts with after otto joined agilex? who got usps paid and agilex paid?? Guess who cashed out big time when accenture scooped up all those agilex usps contracts? this type of stuff is rampant. And while perhaps dejoy is reaping benefits, he's also improving things not been improved in a very long time. In the political hellscape that is usps i'll take what i can get
- ars 5y agoHe's doing what he was hired to do: Keep the USPS solvent. Every single decision I've seen him make had just one goal: Save money. It somehow because a political thing, because that's what we do these days, but it never actually was.
- dillondoyle 5y agoI, and many others, disagree with that premise which is part of the reason he is not popular. That USPS needs to be profitable (it's a us govt service for the people). And that there were (bill just fixed it) onerous requirements that made 'profit' basically impossible. For me it's also political. It's hard for me to separate his political agenda from things that materially impact elections.
- clarionbell 5y agoUnfortunately the law doesn't align with that view. USPS is not being funded by government, but by postage. Unfortunately, the volume of mail has dropped by about 50% in the last two decades. And since USPS can't cut unprofitable routes and can't raise postage prices above inflation, again because of legislation, there are only few options left. Unless the Congress decides to directly fund USPS, or let them raise more money, the cost cutting is the only way forward.
- hackernewds 5y agoFind it hard to believe mail has declined. We're shipping packages at record rates through online shopping, which at the unit level can be charged more than pennies like letters were. First, the USPS as a US service need not be profitable. They were also fiscally sound _until_ the Bush administration abruptly changed the rules of establishing pension liabilities as current https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-post-office https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-po...
- op00to 5y ago"The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. *This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation*." [1] [1] https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/ https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoDoes it really matter now? You can pay for faster shipping and regular old letters are obviously antique.
- dawnerd 5y agoFirst class encompasses more than just letters.
- avs733 5y agoyes, immensely many people still pay bills by mail. they may not have access to the internet or know how to pay bills online (i.e., the poor and elderly). They still exist and this makes their lives harder and more complex and more uncertain.
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- ars 5y agoWhat's interesting is that this is how long it used to take, till around about 10 or 20 years ago. The USPS increased speeds during the early days of email to try to stay relevant. Maybe it worked for a while, but it no longer matters now - no one sends stuff by mail if they are in a hurry. People seem to have forgotten that faster mail was only like that for a (relatively) short time.
- op00to 5y agoI remember letters taking 2-3 business days from the East Coast to California in the 1980s. Is this faulty memory? I wouldn't put it past myself! :)
- jrochkind1 5y agoHuh, this is interesting if true, but doesn't match my memory either. Can you find a cite for it?
- mshroyer 5y agoI'd be happy to get my mail delivered, period. Just yesterday my neighbors dropped off two more items that were addressed to me but had been delivered to them by USPS.
- aaronbrethorst 5y agoRemember when we had a postmaster general who wasn’t actively trying to undermine the USPS and wasn’t under investigation by the FBI? https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003172114/fbi-investigates-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-over-campaign-fundraising https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003172114/fbi-investigates-p...
- hackernewds 5y agoAll under the pretense that USPS has to be fiscally responsible. We don't expect the military to be profitable, it's a money sink since it's a service! Not to mention, the USPS _is_ pretty fiscally sound. Until they were sabotaged for political purposes https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-post-office https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-po...
- AnssiH 5y agoDelivery standards are being loosened in many countries due to significant reduction of non-package mail during the last decade, this is not US-specific. E.g. here in Finland the standard stamped mail service has been reduced from mostly 1 day to 4 days, and in many areas they are only being delivered on every other business day (so one carrier alternates between two routes, I think). There are also significant yearly increases in stamp prices, which US has not yet seen I believe. These non-US measures were also briefly explored in USPS Office of Inspector General report RISC-WP-20-004 in 2020 (https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2020/RISC-WP-20-004.pdf https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...).