Something is very wrong with the USPS at this moment. Has anyone heard anything? I've never seen alerts like this.

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SGT_Wheatstone@reddit

To get conspiratorial they're sabotaging it to have an excuse to kill it and replace it with private services

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jsdykstra68@reddit

Wonder which oligarch will get the contract?

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Rooooben@reddit

We didn’t need to, I’m not sure what you are talking about. DeJoy was a pain but blowing up a 200 year institution’s independence isn’t the thing to do.

That would be like blowing up your home because your neighbor threatened to do it if they buy it.

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Mtgnotmtg@reddit

Let’s not blow up their independence and make sure someone with a conscience runs it and instead let the next guy do it and make sure only the most corrupt run it. Brilliant Sticking to norms in the face of existential threats is stupidity at its finest

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Rooooben@reddit

You aren’t getting it. You don’t want to install your puppet, because the next will replace them with their puppet. That’s why we have the filibuster still. We have to play 4d chess while the a holes are playing checkers.

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Mtgnotmtg@reddit

Except they aren’t playing games. They are flipping the table and holding a gun to our head while we say “check”

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Sea_Back9651@reddit

Destroying norms doesn't save democracy.

To save democracy you have to use it, not undermine it because your enemy does.

Trump is doing stuff that isn't legal and is slowly making it into the court system.

It's just a matter of time before the government is fielding an insane amount of litigation of people suing due to illegal firings and such

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GuruOfTheLeft@reddit

The president can sack the postmaster For Cause. Biden should have done so

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brrrrrrrrrrr69@reddit

Unfortunately, wrong. The USPS is clear on this: USPS OIG

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TheZingerSlinger@reddit

Biden literally couldn’t fire DeJoy because it’s actually illegal for the president to fire the postmaster general.

DeJoy was elected to his job by the Postal Service Board of Governors. That board is partially made of political appointees, but it has to be bipartisan by law.

By law, DeJoy could only be removed by a vote of that board. They couldn’t get a majority because of the way the current members at the time were configured politically.

BTW Trump is now saying he’s going to dissolve the Board of Governors. He wants to fire them all and install himself as the “chairman”, and fold the service into the Department of Commerce.

Which would be illegal under federal law, and unconstitutional because the constitution gives sole power to Congress to oversee the postal service.

You can expect your mail service to get fucked to the point of being unusable if that happens.

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The_Vee_@reddit

It's probably illegal... unless you declare an economic emergency, as Trump has done.

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TheZingerSlinger@reddit

It’s illegal regardless of some bogus emergency declaration made as a political stunt.

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The_Vee_@reddit

A federal judge just recently permitted the Trump administration to proceed with mass firing of federal employees in spite of labor unions asking for it to be halted. https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-lawsuit-unions-17d1b0da62c7e0ccb62b7da5bdac210c

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TheZingerSlinger@reddit

The judge in that case declined to grant a motion for a temporary restraining order.

He did that because there is a whole set of laws and regulations to address this that are supposed to be followed before getting to his court, NOT because any of it is by default legal just because the president and Elon Musk said so.

If he’d granted the order it would have been immediately appealed and more than likely overturned by an appeals court for that exact reason.

From the article:

But Cooper, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat, wrote that judges are “duty-bound to decide legal issues based on even-handed application of law and precedent — no matter the identity of the litigants or, regrettably at times, the consequences of their rulings for average people.”

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This-Dragonfruit-810@reddit

Trump is defying the US Constitution ad has said he won’t listen to courts. He’s dismantling all the checks and balances and wants all power to reside solely with him.

OrigamiMarie@reddit

"But we can't possibly break norms, that'll set bad precedent that the Republicans will take advantage of" the Democrat electeds protest.

And then the Republicans break those norms anyway. So how much damn good did the Democrats' restraint do? Seems to me, none.

If one side is playing Calvinball and the other side is playing softball, the softball side are suckers at best.

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IWantAStorm@reddit

I am from near Bidens hometown. Good Ole Scranton. Scranton was long known as one of the most crooked political towns in the country.

He pardoned a local judge that ruined kids lives by sending them into for profit institutions and getting kickbacks.

The whole area hates the judges. When the guy was released a crowd was waiting to scream in his face.

You could hear this whole portion of the state collectively go "what the fuck?!?".

So minimal at best status quo and 1,200 pardons. Oh and a VP brought in for optics that made it look like they threw the election. Doesn't it look like that? I don't understand any of the decision making of it other than not giving a shit.

This is all horseshit and the plebs have lost. The greediest owners won this time and those that hide their greed for cool points will slink away into the dark so they can look at their bank account.

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This-Dragonfruit-810@reddit

There is no legal definition of an economic emergency that gives the President ANY of the powers to do the things he’s been doing

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The_Vee_@reddit

He declared an energy emergency, too! It gives Trump pretty broad powers, but I honestly don't know to what extent.

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This-Dragonfruit-810@reddit

No it doesn’t give him any additional powers!! He’s lying to you. He has zero authority from the US Constitution to control spending. The power of the purse resides with CONGRESS not the president!

Did you just skip the entire portion of your history classes where they explained how the US Constitution works?

KA_Mechatronik@reddit

It's worth noting, the ONLY time I've ever had problems with getting my absentee ballots for elections in the mail were during the previous Trump administration and DeJoy had a bunch of mail sorting machines scrapped out of cycle.

cinder701@reddit

Postal Unions are planning a national day of action for their members on Wednesday. The action is to flood their congressional representatives with calls and voice the fact that the post office is an important service to the nation and they don't want it messed with or privatized.

You all are encouraged to join us in making calls on Wednesday or at any time! Making the calls is one of the most effective ways of getting your representatives' attention. This is the same both for national USPS issues and those that are more about your local office.

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allred4y@reddit

Many issues with USPS here in S Florida. Zero Accountability. Never seen it so bad. This Swap needs drained. Always in the Red. Privatize or other Please.

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Rooooben@reddit

In 2006, the Republican House installed a change in how the Post Office funded pensions, instead of PAYGO like the rest of the government, to pay ahead 75 years. All of the post office revenues are funneled into this fund, until it is fully paid, about $79b. They are at $50b saved so far. Until that is caught up, on paper the post office loses money, since that is a -49b hit on their budget until its paid.

So then yesterday I saw a piece of mail in the informed delivery that didn’t get into my mailbox. We’ll see if that ever shows up. That one was from AAA and it said it had some free associate cards, you have to sign up for it you can’t just use the cards that it comes with and have them work, but I don’t know if someone tried to steal it thinking they could. I should probably check my account and make sure I’m the only one signed up lol

I’ve been using Amazon for years - hundreds and hundreds of packages - and have NEVER had a package “lost”. If the delivery is going to be one or two days late (only very occasionally) I get a new updated delivery time right away.

Jeff Bezos has Amazon operating like a well oiled machine. And he isn’t using taxpayer dollars to run it. In contrast, despite BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars thrown into it, the USPS is a creaky old machine that barely functions, with a bloated bureaucracy. Time to privatize it.

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FabGabs@reddit

Well, I’ve got news for you. As a small online seller, who has far outstripped you in number of parcels handled - thousands annually - I can tell that I can count on my hands how many have ever been lost. Even things going wrong is rare. The USPS is gem.

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AnaWannaPita@reddit

My informed delivery shows me almost exclusively the junk mail I receive

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willwork4pii@reddit

I only get advertisements for Cruises.

I put a ticket in for not receiving images. They auto-closed the ticket and sent me a reply saying the images take a few days to appear. What sound logic.

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shelbeyrose@reddit

My informed delivery is doubly screwed up because when we put in a change of address someone at the p.o. read the date wrong so we haven't received any of our mail for over a week either at our old address or new address. Kind of in limbo. And I can see from in. Delivery I should be getting at least one check and extremely important pieces of mail. I checked the boxes that declare I haven't received them too and expect no reply or action. Over 30 pieces of mail.

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mckatze@reddit

I've had informed delivery for years and I have noticed once in a while I will see someone else's mail like it got stuck to mine in the machine that does the scanning, or I'll get a weird upside down image of mail. Generally I'd say most of the mail shows up when they say it will, but I live in a single family home so there's no mail room. They've always been shit about accidentally delivering mail to the wrong address, though. I've definitely walked mail over to neighbors at least once or twice a year for ten years lol.

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RachSte@reddit

I spoke to our local Post Office about getting images in Informed Delivery, as an important piece of mail didn’t show up. He said that the photos are taken in the main large sorting facility in Denver about 70 miles away, and then are delivered to our area. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

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StarDue6540@reddit

Was it a social security bill for J? We never got it.

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GuiltyYams@reddit

Anyway a couple Months ago I got a picture of someone else’s medical mail in my email. The letter was addressed to a man who lives in a different town than me I don’t know why I got a picture of his mail but I got really freaked out about it.

S&L?

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D3ath5had0w@reddit

Salt & Lasagna.

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light_refreshing@reddit

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light_refreshing@reddit

Shipping & Logistics

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Kind_Judgment6872@reddit

Can you elaborate on the perversion? I want to attempt a fathom.

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light_refreshing@reddit

USPS by design has a ground network encompassing practically every physical address in the US that is serviced by mail carriers; this is the critical niche/key selling point of USPS - all other services are essentially built/expanded upon this premise. As a business profitability LARGELY relies upon postage (stamps) sales and postage contracts (most physical bills/monthly statements are via USPS).

Amazon, whose humble online book selling origin is far encompassed by its exponential growth since inception, by design has an extensive network of online retailers facilitating procurement of nearly anything. Their utilization of massive warehouse/distribution centers and the associated corporate shenanigans to facilitate their ability to do so has revolutionized the industry and yielded massive profits but was the crux to American consumerism (if consumption is the drug, Prime 2 Day Shipping is the intravenous method).

Most competing/adjacent businesses are transitioning to similar operations, are engaged contractually with those that have, or have been swallowed up by Amazon itself. There are plenty of documentaries and articles providing specific details if you're seeking facts or timelines - I'm just a layman with an opinion.

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lavapig_love@reddit

Not that great. USPS by law and design can deliver to your mailbox. Amazon will ship your package all over the place then give up and hand your package to the USPS for delivery at the last mile because it's too expensive for Bezos to stomach.

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Serious-Sundae1641@reddit

Yup, really pisses me off too. I'm two blocks away from my post office and Amazon will deliver my packages to USPS instead of my front door. I'm not paying USPS to deliver...I paid Amazon.

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light_refreshing@reddit

As well as UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc. Working with tractor-trailer operators really opened my eyes to the fact that at the bulk level (trailers, containers, etc.) EVERYONE picks up EVERYONE. It's a game of perpetual backscratching and triple-front agendas at this point.

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Disgruntled-mailman@reddit

They eliminated a bunch of blue boxes to save money. Now the remaining boxes get more mail. Then they cut the twice daily pickup to save money. If it gets picked up at all.

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ShottySHD@reddit

I wish the public could see the disaster that goes on the inside. Its worse than it appears. And it appears pretty bad.

hsh1976@reddit

On a local level, and I'm going to generalize here, the local postmaster is either unwilling or unable to hire full time workers.

There is a revolving door of temp workers being brought in only for them to go to other locations in order to get to full time status.

For the past 12-18 months, we've been receiving our mail maybe two days a week.

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GuruOfTheLeft@reddit

That’s from upper management. Not your local postmaster

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willwork4pii@reddit

when USPS was first attacked.... we were getting every other day and the letter carrier was rubber banding the entire buildings mail and throwing it into the door and, literally, running away.

We got a permanent carrier. If you make eye contact or say "Hello" you don't get mail for a week.

USPS is over, it'll be quick before it's a subsidiary of FedEX or UPS.

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deciduousredcoat@reddit

If this sub wasn't diluted by constant, inane tds posts, you'd be able to find the post from mid-January where a user posted a USPS-issued warning this could happen because of customs-related issues along with tarriff-related issues stemming from the CBP changes and current foreign policy.

Impossible_Box3898@reddit

We were gone for two weeks. We have a large postal box so didn’t need to hold our mall.

I've had packages stolen where no one out where I live has ever had thefts. At least that is what I'm told. I didn't receive it and they swear on a Bible it was delivered.

But then I've gotten notifications that something was delivered to the house/porch but was sitting under the mailbox at the end of the half mile long driveway.

I ordered something on January 9th and just received it on Friday.

I've tried calling the local post office only to be swore at and hung up on when I tried to figure out where my packages were. Now they won't answer my calls at all.

neverinamillionyr@reddit

I sent Christmas cards for my brother and my mom (to my brother’s address) the first week of December. My brother’s card had a check for my share of mom’s Christmas gift. My mom’s card without a check arrived at the end of December. My brother’s card without a check arrived at the end of December. This is from Maryland to Michigan. Pre Covid this was a pretty consistent 3-4 day delivery. The same happened going the other way. Cards from Michigan took well over a month to arrive with the card with a check in it taking much longer.

I sent a Valentines card to mom and it showed up a week late even though I sent it on the 3rd of February.

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wingnutbutternutter@reddit

Richmond, VA to Nashville, TN is taking over 10 days now.

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slendermanismydad@reddit

Tracking numbers go dead now. We've had mail lost a city away. We need certified mail to do legal service and it barely works. They don't even bother to remove the cert cards from envelopes anymore. It's been years though. Mail people sent me regularly got sent back for no reason since 2020/21.

FedEx is slowing down too. Priority overnight took three days! They're probably still going to charge $70. I'm tired of this.

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Bastilleinstructor@reddit

Our weekend carrier conveniently forgets our Saturday mail all the time. I got a crap ton of mail Monday that was "expected" on Saturday according to the informed delivery scans. It's been that way for years. Oh and if anything is even near the mail box, they won't put the letters in. I had them get out of the truck for a package but not put the letters in the box because someone parked in front of my mailbox. I have no control over that.

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CantaloupeOk5601@reddit

it's a government agency and government agencies suck. And half the country hates the man trying to fix that.

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SepticKnave39@reddit

The USPS is literally the way it is, because of the orange asshole. He appointed DeJoy. DeJoy did this on purpose. And now they are going to privatize it so they can charge you a monthly exorbitant subscription fee or some other absurd pricing.

And you are on your knees licking the orange asshole saying "yes daddy, charge me more".

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Spe3dGoat@reddit

well, no. if that happens, people will simply vote with their wallet.

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AdMuted1036@reddit

They can always vote with their wallet. Go ahead and ship with fedex and UPS, which are already more expensive and use USPS as a last mile delivery service.

USPS has never been and never was supposed to be a wildly profitable business. It’s a SERVICE the same way that the military is a service.

This is also probably took crush people who have a side gig.

When there were supply chain issues and inflation at the same time a young black woman was on TikTok talking about how they wanted everyone back at work for their boss so the government had to make sure that the side gigs became unfordable so y’all had to go work for a boss again.

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Afraid-Bullfrog6812@reddit

Post office union episode of it could happen here podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hxYvZmDHAjgocEAKKwIQw?si=Pt3GDiBBSwuzk3cLeFE8qA

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Stuff-Other-Things@reddit

Columbia, Mo. here...

I can tell you it has gone down hill fast. I work at print shop that sends out about 50-70 orders a day and USPS shit goes missing everyday. We started paying extra to ship UPS or FedEx. If USPS workers go on strike it might just make it all fall. I really don’t see UPS and FedEx absorbing all of those extra parcels. My UPS guy is working crazy hours already and you want to dump more on him?!

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salesmunn@reddit

There were a few stories about entire distro centers being mishandled and backed up. It happened way before the new admin.

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CoffeeExtraCream@reddit

Ya, my local post office said they're severely understaffed and overwhelmed right now.

I ordered something last week that was shipped usps and it got incorrectly shipped across the country and currently in the middle of being sorted out. Unfortunately it's something I medically need.

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JohnnyDigsIt@reddit

DeJoy has been slowly sabotaging it for years. His job was to break it, so the work could be turned over to private businesses.

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Fuzzy-Hurry-6908@reddit

Nothing else symbolizes the failure of Biden and the Dems better than the failure to fix the USPS years ago.

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willwork4pii@reddit

The Democrats have been too busy with their heads up their asses letting everything else go to shit to worry about the USPS.

"tHeY cAn'T dO tHaT!1!" - Well guess fucking what? They can and they did. How about the dems shut the fuck up and start doing something?

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ChampionshipLonely92@reddit

The Republicans in Congress could stop this anytime. There is the 25 amendment all it takes is for them to file the paperwork. He’s already broken hundreds of laws.The dementia is going to get him in about 17 months. That’s about all he’s got

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willwork4pii@reddit

Oh wait again - nope this happened around Jan 10, before Trump took office.

I agree. USPS has gone downhill the last few years. I've been selling online for the past 11 years and I do a lot of online shopping. Thankfully most of the stuff I buy gets to me in a reasonable amount of time, mostly. There was recently one package that went two weeks with no scans after the initial accepted scan. Then all of a sudden it popped up at my local post office and was delivered the next day. That is not nearly as bad as some of the packages I send out.

For the past few years, usually leading up to Christmas, I have gotten messages from customers saying that the tracking shows the package was delivered but they didn't get anything and nothing on their cameras. Usually the package shows up a few days later. I'm not sure why that is happening.

This year we had two days of pickups on the 13th and 14th of December. Every package on those pickups didn't have any scan data, no even an accepted scan) for all other week. By then the packages were 'accepted' past the cuttoff date for then to be delivered before Christmas. So we had about 300 customers that didn'tget their packages before Christmas.

Some of the packages that were shipped in December, even when they were accepted well before the cutoff date, didn't end up getting delivered until the end of January or beginning of February. And this is just from the customers that complained and brought it to our attention. We don't follow up on every package that gets shipped out. So i figure it is probably about twice as bad.

Not to mention that I am constantly getting extra USPS correctional charges through Etsy and also PayPal. Amazon and ebay don't do that i guess. Most of them are bogus but it is such a hassle to go through the process of fighting them. Like my time is worth more than the couple extra bucks that they billed me for that bogus corectional charge. Just for example, one of them was a small flat rate box and they said I packaged it in a medium flate rate box. That one was like a $4 up-charge and I know I didn't use a medium flat rate box cause that item was tiny.

Also, their insurance is worthless. I don't even bother submitting claims anymore... it is just another waste of my time. They always end up denying the claim stating they didn't cause the damage. So if I'm shipping something fragile I always get 'extra' insurance through shipsurance cause they actually payout with out the hassle if something happens.

It definitely used to be a lot better. They've even started denying claims on their Express package delivery date guarantee.

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Jamestiberiouskirk1@reddit

I know exactly what is going on with the post office. As an online seller and as an employee of the post office for 20+ years I’ve seen it all. It started 2 years ago in Atlanta GA when they’ve closed several distribution plants in the area and staged it all in Palmetto GA. All the eBay letters kept taking 30-60 days to get to their destination and a lot of mail was left on trucks bc they were so backed up with mail. A distribution clerk told me she was the only one on the line when there’s supposed to be 3-4. They moved the plant over 60 miles away, so who wants to commute that far to work a $20/hr job. They called in Ga Senators like Osoff to intervene. The thing is, it’s happening to other states across the country now. Pull it up online and you’ll see

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Silver-Honkler@reddit (OP)

This is what I was looking for. Thank you for the first hand info.

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RealCinderMom@reddit

I got an email stating the package i mailed 4 days ago from Oregon arrived in Phoenix this morning.

I ship about 40 packages a day 3-4 days a week, working from home, and don't see any changes.

There have been slowdowns currently because there's been ice and flooding. But It's been a colder than usual winter, we have had way more snow and ice in western NY than last year.

I used to deliver to them. Ups would pay USPS to help deliver our stuff...we've cut that a few months ago. So their load should be less.

That said, the energy ALWAYS sucks at post offices. Angry and depressed employees. Their hours suck so I can't be mad. I seen my local guy out at midnight

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Fine-Ask-41@reddit

Almost two months for a holiday card to travel 500 miles.

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Dobbys_Other_Sock@reddit

I mail a lot of stuff a work and since last November delivery has been hit or miss and it’s getting worse

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mydogisacircle@reddit

yup. things ordered in november early dec tookntill mid to late january to arrive.

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Immediate_Gap_2536@reddit

We haven’t gotten mail in over a week…

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Xibro_Xibra@reddit

Good...tired of the ads. Such a piece of garbage org

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jtime247@reddit

I’ve had several instances over the last month were my daily informed deliveries did not come on the day they were supposed to. Then miraculously show up like a week later.

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DarkRoseCoeligena@reddit

All this feels weird when I start thinking about mail-in ballots. Anyways….

Congress is supposed to control and establish the usps I thought.

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Weak_Level_1886@reddit

You would be correct. But at its current trajectory of checks and balances, I wouldnt count anything off limits or unreasonable.

This all goes back to 2006 when the Bush administration pushed PAEA, forcing USPS, and only USPS by the way... To create a $72 billion fund for post retirement healthcare. Great way to defund an organization without actually defending them.

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

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SepticKnave39@reddit

Trump wants to privatize the USPS. He appointed DeJoy to head the USPS. DeJoy wants to privatize the USPS. DeJoy made a lot of changes that made the USPS significantly worse. Then he stepped down, right before it was leaked that Trump is going to fire the postal board and bring it under his wing. So, he clearly knew what was coming.

Once it is under Trump's wing, he can do the same thing he is doing to every other agency...stripping it down and selling it off. To privatize it.

The Post office used to function more than fine. They took a pipe to its knee caps, and now they are going to say "look at this piece of shit, it can't even walk...might as well put it out of its misery".

I don’t know if anybody can name any job where someone can just use their brain, did they mean telepathically? He can’t sit for more than 10 minutes. He can’t lay for more than 10 minutes he can’t walk for more than 10 minutes. He has to use walking assistance like a cane or a walker to walk further than that.

The man looks like he’s on his deathbed, and now the person that he likely voted for, but won’t admit it, is trying to get rid all of these programs that he desperately needs as a disabled veteran. I’m so confused by people voting against their own interests.

Anyway, back to the mail, my husband‘s insurance was due to be reinstated, he didn’t get the reinstatement letter until a week after it was due. It automatically comes out of our account, but when the reinstatement comes, he has to pay that directly, they don’t just take that out automatically so he almost got his license suspended because we didn’t know.

Life is happening and we’re not paying attention to stupid shit like whether or not the insurance bill is a week late coming into the mail, when it comes we know that it’s here. I mean it’s just so frustrating.

None of this is making any sense. I’m so sorry. I’m just so mentally disturbed right now and angry, that this is happening to so many people because I thought it was… I guess I thought it was just us.

Until today? I hadn’t heard anything about the post office issues. And now I’m seeing it everywhere and it’s just another thing to be terrified about and I’m just tired. I’m sick and tired of all of this shit that they’re throwing at us.

What are we gonna do? Seriously we can’t just sit here…

I feel like I’m genuinely in shock with how fast my head is spinning. I need to get it together and start taking things a bit more seriously.

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TrainerKenjamin@reddit

Understaffed in so many areas. Hard to hire people to work.

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Tall_Newspaper_6723@reddit

The USPS and USPS Complaints subreddits have a lot of chatter. Shipping overall has been touch + go since December for me; first time ever Amazon and UPS have lost packages of mine. I've read hearsay that USPS has been an absolute nightmare due to several distribution centers being overwhelmed and understaffed. I'm sticking to UPS and FedEx whenever possible for the time being.

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willwork4pii@reddit

Trump mentioned the USPS a few days ago. It's going to go away.

I first noticed it in early fall of 2020. I didn't get a single piece of 1st. class mail until after Christmas.

I have switched to almost exclusively email.

I get a compounded prescription from a pharmacy in Massachusetts and they used to ship it for free but now they pay someone to drive it to my door. I guess they got sick of the post office losing expensive medication they figured it was cheaper to pay a human being to just drive it to my place. I live an hour and a half from that pharmacy though.

Johnson’s Compounding in Waltham if you ever need a good compounding pharmacy. I can’t recommend them enough. The owner John will get on the phone with you and answer questions, they make sure I get my medication even if they have to pay a person in his personal car to bring it to me.

They are trying to make it work so slow and bad that no one opsese making it a private company.

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Weak_Level_1886@reddit

USPS is heading towards privatization.

Shitty policies, digitalization and corporate competition have guaranteed it.

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zoinkability@reddit

Trump as president, DeJoy as Postmaster General, and absurd pension funding rules that no other entity in the United States has to cover have guaranteed it.

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sonik13@reddit

On another sub, a user exploited the "convince grok you're elon" trick and asked about the election, and there was a sentence that stood out to me:

[Probing it to see if it would reveal election interference, Grok responded]:

Did we juice the turnout in the red counties-Schuylkill, Fayette, Westmoreland-beyond what anyone saw coming? Push the right people to the polls while the other side's mail-in game got tangled in its own red tape?

I'm not accusing anyone based off this, but it just struck me as an odd thing to respond.

https://i.imgur.com/9ALeyaM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/L8dK0wk.jpeg

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TheFoxsWeddingTarot@reddit

My shipping has been going fine. I know they just swapped out the “Click to ship” with a revised version, I don’t have access to my address book but apparently they’re migrating them over next week.

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Pontiacsentinel@reddit

We were just discussing this in the office and noted this issue with monthly expected mail. Very poor delivery these days and I am a big USPS supporter.

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I've sent dozens of packages over the last few weeks to all coasts, and no, nothing of the sort. Several arrived faster than anticipated in fact.

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Mitzukai_9@reddit

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The USPS has gone through significant downsizing, had processing facilities shuttered and new ones stopped by Republicans, and was put into deficit by Republicans forcing the USPS to pre-fund retirement benefits (which isn’t done in any other public or private org.)

My orders are delayed as well for a little over 2 weeks now.

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GatorOnTheLawn@reddit

There’s been a lot of very bad winter storms.