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Should door to door mail delivery end?

What do you think of the new Post Office proposal?


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Bingo! Agree completely.

I also believe that guaranteeing anything would require them to change their mindset... their "culture of indifference" (I like that) as you call it... and they simply don't want to do that. Have you even been to the PO and notice how quiet and slow things move in the back? They'd have to move faster and with purpose and urgency.

I used to live in a small town, and the women at that Post Office were just awful. Mean, ugly, rude -- all of them. They moved like they were underwater and didn't really want to do anything. You would think, for what they are making, they might try to make an effort. But that was too much like work. And for the most part, it's been like that with all the POs. They really can't be fired. It's almost impossible. I saw a documentary several years back on Dateline that talked about the substance abuse that was rampant in the PO. They specifically picked out a PO in Cincinnati. The workers would all go out on break, drink from a flask, get high, and then show back up to work an hour late. Now it wasn't just Cincinnati. It was all over the country. It was just worse in Cincinnati. Explains a lot about why they don't want to do anything, huh? But instead of a reprimand, or being terminated, they were all sent to rehab (on the Post Office's dime) and continued to get paid - while in rehab.

If you can get away with behavior like that and not get fired, who's going to fire someone for being lazy, or insolent, or incompetent?
 
Interesting. You either had the Nordstrom's of internet service already, or found Billy Bob's Discount Satellite & Taxidermy Emporium. When I checked into it, about 10 years ago, it was 3x anything else.

Nope, it was done by DirecTV.
 
The story is our US Post Office is loosing tons of money - the reasons are a bit complex but suffice to say they have been running in the red for quite some time and something has to give. A recent bill H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 -- was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently. This bill basically removes at home delivery and creates a centralized delivery mailbox (outdoors or indoors) where people will need to travel to pick up their daily mail, USPS packages, etc. The saving is estimated (yeah right - sorry but government identifying savings is like NASA stumbling on a "faster than the speed of light warp drive") to be $2 Billion per year.


Like that plan? Hate that plan? or Don't care... choose one and don't forget to give a blurb reply about your answer.

Who the hell writes letters anymore? The only mail I get is paper duplicates of my electronic bills. I think door to door mail delivery will die out simply because people from my generation will eventually stop using it completely.
 
Who the hell writes letters anymore? The only mail I get is paper duplicates of my electronic bills. I think door to door mail delivery will die out simply because people from my generation will eventually stop using it completely.
I'm terrified of stopping paper billing because someday my computer may die and I not be able to afford to fix it. Some people can't afford computers and paper billing is their only option.
 
I'm terrified of stopping paper billing because someday my computer may die and I not be able to afford to fix it. Some people can't afford computers and paper billing is their only option.

Calm your fears, until your car dies and you can't afford to fix it, you can drive down to the Post Office and get your mail there. (I guess a smart phone bill pay app is out of the question :mrgreen: )
 
Calm your fears, until your car dies and you can't afford to fix it, you can drive down to the Post Office and get your mail there. (I guess a smart phone bill pay app is out of the question :mrgreen: )
I still use a clamshell.
 
For most people in the USA door to door mail delivery is an expensive luxury that they could live without.

And probably wouldn't even want if we hadn't been made accustomed to it. Think about it: do we really prefer providing 90% of the companies with whom we do business every detail of our lives including were we sleep at night? This is all complements of home delivery mail service. I'd much rather have a quick, self-service neighborhood postal pickup and delivery center that doesn't charge po box rental fees.
 
Calm your fears, until your car dies and you can't afford to fix it, you can drive down to the Post Office and get your mail there. (I guess a smart phone bill pay app is out of the question :mrgreen: )

Do you use the SP bill app? What safety measures are you using?
Thanks
 
Other then the disabled, nobody needs door-to-door delivery any longer.

And if you live in the middle of nowhere and cannot get your mail without the Post Office...tough.
 
It is a federal crime to read my mail, apparently it isn't to read my email.
 
Do you use the SP bill app? What safety measures are you using?
Thanks

Oh 'I' don't app, my wife apps on her phone with the Apple logo, most our bills are done by automatic billing and email alert. She has bought stuff on the interwebz, I call the company and order over the phone- 14 dollar AT&T flip phone... :mrgreen:
 
I'm terrified of stopping paper billing because someday my computer may die and I not be able to afford to fix it. Some people can't afford computers and paper billing is their only option.

With the myriad of ways to access the internet and the enormous amount of computing technologies in our lives it seems improbable to me that you wouldn't be able to pay that bill. But maybe you are right and some people really couldn't. That being said I think this is still an inevitability.
 
It is a federal crime to read my mail, apparently it isn't to read my email.

Even if it was, the NSA would still do it and you know it. Laws can change though.
 
Even if it was, the NSA would still do it and you know it. Laws can change though.

Looks how many people the NSA have to try to read all the electronic stuff, how many more do you think they need to read printed mail?
 
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I see a modern sequel coming - The Postman Never Rings
 
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