Sick of USPS.

[Coinstriking Michigan]

I am done using United States Postal Service. You pay for priority mail, you pay for a tracking number and they don't update the damn thing making the number that you paid extra for totally useless. $37 for 2 day Priority mail and it's been 5 days. How can they get away with charging people for services they aren't getting?

 

[fmrUSMC_0844]

They can get away with it because it is run by the government.

I am guessing this is why the USPS is not doing so well?

I have had the same problem.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Another happy customer.


have a good un....
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

I am ready to blow my stack today....it's total bull----.

 

[TarheelPanner]

They can get away with it because it is run by the government.

There it is!

 

[sleepwalker]

Another happy customer.


have a good un....
SHERMANVILLE

yeppers!! HH

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Just wait until they start running our health care!

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

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Here are a few facts about the USPS.......

The U.S. Postal Service also is effectively bankrupt. The USPS expects to lose about $7 billion this year. The post office already has borrowed roughly $13 billion from Uncle Sam. At the end of 2009, USPS had $33.5 billion in outstanding liabilities and another $54.8 billion in unfunded retiree health and pension obligations. It appears that Congress has directed the USPS to pre fund its employees health care benefits. [/FONT]
Since 1971 the post office has lost money in 24 of 38 years. Starting in 2007 the bottom fell out of the postal system’s finances.

Roughly 80 percent of the agency’s costs go to its workforce of more than 700,000, which trails only Wal-Mart in numbers. Postal employees enjoy staffing levels and wages set by a politically potent union rather than productivity in a competitive marketplace. Union contracts bar or restrict outsourcing, layoffs, part-time and contract work, and employee assignment outside of narrowly defined crafts. Hence an estimated wage premium of 30 percent. The average USPS salary is $83,500, which makes postal employees among the highest paid semi-skilled workers around. The problem may grow even worse as postal contracts with the four largest unions come up for renewal over the next two years.

There are 36,500 post offices in America, more than the combined number of Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Walgreens. Yet the average number of weekly postal customer visits was 600, one-tenth the
average at Walgreens. Consequently roughly 26,000 of the post offices lose money.

The USPS lost $1.4 billion last year. The red ink will be five times as great this year. And over the next decade Postmaster General John Potter predicts losses of $238 billion.
11 Things You Should Know About The U.S. Postal Service Before It Goes Bankrupt - Business Insider

I keep seeing references to " pre-funding" of USPS employees health care benefits, but have not found any other info on it. Sound like the ride on the gravy train is coming to an end for the USPS.




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[FCCDFEd]

And it won't get any better with all the shuting down of the central shipping stations. Last I heard 1-2 day mail delivery will be 3-5 for a normal envelop. don't ya just love the Government and the way they operate?