I HATE the US postal service

[Jack steel]

According to my tracking number my order from GWP arrived on the day I ordered it. really? Why do we even have tracking numbers when they so rarely are accurate?

 

[mistaballoonhands]

Mitch, your woman has some 'splaining to do.

 

[Jack steel]

Lol

 

[pin]

Me too. I got into a conversation with a couple of guys while in a long line a the post office the other day when I was mailing my wife her breast pump. These 2 old farts start going off on how the government blows, and the post office sucks because of unions, you know, typical old guy talk. Not that I disagree.

Then Its my turn and I walk up and the useless sack of shit (who heard the conversation) behind the counter says "we don't tape boxes". He wanted me to buy tape go to the end of the line and tape it up. I turned to the old guys and said "get this, they don't tape boxes, that's why they lose 8 billion dollars a year". Fag taped my box for me. Breast pump arrived safely. Happy ending.

 

[WoodyO]

I thought the US postal service lost $8 billion per year because our Federal Gov't taxed it unjustly in an attempt to constantly raise postage prices. Something they can't do as easily to non-federal shippers such as DHL, UPS and Fed-Ex. The service just sucks, because all Gov't ran services suck.

 

[wootoom]

Can I pin?

 

[pin]

Can I pin?

I hate this shit. Mainly cause I dunno wtf you're saying. I must have missed the era of ef that spawned this shlogan.

 

[WoodyO]

Can I whine?

 

[Jack steel]

I thought the US postal service lost $8 billion per year because our Federal Gov't taxed it unjustly in an attempt to constantly raise postage prices. Something they can't do as easily to non-federal shippers such as DHL, UPS and Fed-Ex. The service just sucks, because all Gov't ran services suck.

^^^ exactly.

 

[Headholio]

Try mailing a letter for half a buck with UPS or Fedex.

I love the US postal service!
Fed ex is great, with much better tracking, but its a different animal.

And Woodyo is right. The USPS actually sustains itself. Reported losses have to do with unfair accounting laws put into place by republicans to fund their pensions ahead of schedule. This was done to make a good public program look bad.

The operational profit turns into red ink only when an external factor unrelated to mail delivery is considered – the 2006 congressional mandate that requires the Postal Service to pre-fund its future retiree health benefits over the next 75 years within a decade. That, along with a non-cash actuarial adjustment to the Postal Service’s workers’ compensation costs, is entirely responsible for the $3.3 billion “loss.” The pre-funding alone accounts for $3.1 billion of the quarter’s “loss.”

NALC: Congress turns $200M USPS profit into $3.2B loss - postalnews blog

 

[WoodyO]

Yeah, i knew i read something like that. I was fairly certain that I wasn't completely talking out of my ass.