You know, I remember not even a couple months ago when we as a country were viciously debating a certain debt ceiling that needed raising. Mind you, this is back when the debate first kicked off, towards the first of the year.
At such point, some very irate groups of “concerned citizens” were jumping up and about, getting all piss-y with suggestions that certain parts of government need not be counted toward the debt debate because they were, quote, “self-sufficient.”
In particular, I remember suggestions that the post office be scaled back to a more controllable level being met with outright hostility by certain “pro-post office” types who had only to say that the post offices budget never costs taxpayers money and therefore should be excluded from the debate.
After all, the money that established the post office was a one-time expenditure, and sales of stamps and postage made the government body totally self-sustainable.
A real example of a business venture success at the hands of the political know-how!
So let me ask you little vermin; is it still not costing me anything?
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ask the biggest leech of all,they can answer that question…….their name is fed-ex
@Drummerboy pls explain? Why is Fedex a leech?
Drummer’s pissed they are non-union, unlike UPS, which does a pretty good job of competing considering they have that millstone around their necks.
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no sir, that is not it. it’s about fairness. it’s lost
also mr.gint.that millstone around all the transport industry….it’s called the “master freight agreement contract”. that “bible” as we called it in the industry,sets the final price for all goods and services that travel on u.s roads. and that my friend is based on union pricing along with the railroad pricing.those are the benchmark prices that the transports work off of. any discounting from there is at the discretion of the carrier. in other words,this is where the prevailing wage “lives”. without that pricing,well lets just say, NO ONE IN THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD WORK FOR WHAT THESE COMPANIES WOULD REALLY LIKE TO PAY. (sarc) here, take this 150k truck,with a 100k load,but you’ll only get 8-9 bucks an hour like it,, or lump it. thats why i left. they can lump it.
Preach ON, Mr Cain Thaler! I despise the post office. If fedex/ups delivered to PO boxes, I’d never set foot in one.
I don’t know what it is like elsewhere in the country, but as outrageous as it sounds, the DMV here is better than the post office.
Mad Wills… it looks like Amazon may be able to wean you off the Post Office after all….
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Thanks Senator. Very interesting.
Innovation, baby! I love it. Yet another attribute that will not be ascribed to the USPS.
I don’t get the US at times. The post was privatized in Australia or at least the outlets were made franchises. It’s now quite profitable.
Privatization is the worst possible solution to the U.S. mail service. You might not see the problem with this idea in the big ole city, but do you think that Fed-Ex will deliver a package to my grandma in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere in two days? Or how about a letter? I’ve seen it countless times-send a package via Fed-Ex and four days later you get the “could not deliver” message and they send it back your way (aka it wasn’t cost effective for them to drive 10 miles to deliver a $4 package.) You put a stamp on a letter and drop in it the mail and it will arrive where it needs to be on time, wherever in the hell that may be. Can you put a price on the joy that my grandma receives from that letter? In my life, I have never lost a single piece of mail in the US mail system, how many have YOU lost via Fed-Ex or UPS? (Not excluding packages that look like they have time-warped back to Soviet Russia, stained with cheap vodka puke)
Bullshit, my family lives in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere and they have no problem receiving mail in a timely manner.
I also have a friend who used to work for FedEx in the logistics department. Guess who the U.S. Postal Service delegates a large portion of its shipment duties to?
Personally, I don’t want to see the Post Officeg one. Just a little smaller and more expensive.
you just answered my post. fed-ex sucks at the post office teet. do any of you notice at post offices there is always a fed-ex drop box,but you’ll never see a ups box right next to a fed-ex box at any post office.why is that? guess who the post office delegates a large portion of their shipments to..then why doesnt ups get any of the post office business,fed-ex is a “private” company also?
Slick Rick..
Ummm Australia is a country of 22 million on a continent about the size of the US give or take california. Please don’t tell me the distances are too far for privatization to succeed in the US.
And it’s not privatization of of central operation we have here. It’s privatization of the store fronts and the distribution. It works well.
Franchise USPS!
This reminds me that I haven’t heard about any big shoot outs at a post office in a long time. What gives?
Aging postal workers just can’t get up the rage anymore.
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cain, shout out to you in latest blog
i think snb and fed are similar in their concern for the euro, what do you think?
also bought some aec
also i ranted about the stupid postal service a few blogs ago, Lol
Let me state my bias first. Father has been a letter carrier for 20+ years.
The post office is a service to Americans and if we need our support our own internal system via financial funding then so be it. I would much rather spend tax money funding internal services to Americans than fund frivolous expenditures overseas.
That being said I also do believe they need to bring in some outside business talent to aid in running a more self sustainable system. Management seems to be lacking in intelligence quota department. One example that comes to mind, my father drives a rear-wheel drive truck in the northeast that averages close to 8 mpg.
That’s really all I want also. I’m not looking to closure the Post Office. Just streamline it.
It’s just funny to me how extremely virulent people were when the idea of tinkering with the Post Office was brought up earlier this year. They jumped around like fools talkinga bout how the Post Office wouldn’t even effect average Americans because it’s “self-contained.”
Look where we are. It’s barely been a fucking month since the debate ended. I am affected. The calls for emergency money are beginning.
Fuck everyone who said otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox-ni8geIw
Good Seinfeld episode.
Better Clip..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUqLjjKk4Y&feature=related
Be careful Mr. Cain Thaler…
mr thaler. i have with “great” confidence, that i myself can come up with at least a thousand improvements to the postal service,they are ass backwards in the running of a business. as far as logistics are concerned, those people havent a clue
My mailbox is virtually empty every day except for junk mail that I do not wish to receive. Therein lies the problem with the post office. Mail traffic is down due to the Internets rise in popularity. I would be ok with receiving mail every other day. Cut the delivery staff in half by giving every driver 2 routes that are delivered only 3 days a week.
That makes sense. Hence, people will bitch ENDLESSLY about it.
Don’t wanna wait that long for my NFLX, bitchez.
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You can be a “premium customer” then. For a small monthly fee.