SHIV YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS

No. Just wondering how this is affecting him, and hoping that he won't be hurt too badly by it.

he's probably all like

DAY OFF, MUTHAFUCCAS

Yeah it sucks that the USPS has to make such severe cutbacks, and I hope they don't have to cut too many jobs.

It still doesn't really make sense to me that in a time when retail stores everywhere are closing due to the fact that people are ordering so much stuff online, the service that delivers a lot of the stuff people order isn't making money but is losing billions a year.

I know UPS and FedEx and other services are being used a lot, too, but I'd say roughly 75% of everything I order is delivered by the USPS.

As a former postman I'd would definitely have hated people that order as much stuff off the internet as I do.

Back in my day there was two rounds per morning and the first one had to be delivered before 9am and the second one before 12. Now there is only one delivery and I sometimes wait until after 2pm before I get mail. Lazy bastards.

By the way, the people that post dog turds and chewing gum in post boxes should be sent to Devil's Island.

What toots said.

Though the Tuesday after a holiday is going to be a bitch.

There's a long-ass article in the latest Esquire mag about the post office, and it addresses (ha!) the Sat. delivery.

http://www.esquire.com/features/post-of ... ble-0213-3

A week earlier, in March, Donahoe presented his reorganization plan to a highly skeptical Congress. The post office of the 1990s, even of the last five years — huge, capable of moving a piece of mail across millions of square miles in mere hours for a nominal fee, six days a week — cannot survive, he said. He wants to get back the $49 billion the postal service has already prepaid in health benefits, wants to manage his employees' health care. But much more, his plan calls for sizing the post office for today. That means cutting 120,000 more jobs, largely through attrition; halving the number of processing centers that relay mail across the country at often breakneck speed; and drastically scaling back the hours of thirteen thousand unprofitable local post offices. He would stop nearly all Saturday mail, and ease the rate at which first-class mail races across the country, because much of the paper we do send doesn't need to get there tomorrow or on Saturday. Give me the freedom to do that, Donahoe said, and the postal service can make a profit of $6 million per day by 2016.

The Tea Party, constitutional scholars all, want all post service taken over by FedEx (non-union... & the TEApers jizz... In... Their pants), & to a lesser extent UPS (union, & better on-time rate than FedEx) & DHL, so they're loving this. But, then, you have to stop & remember postal service is explicitly required to be performed by government. Not even by an amendment. It's in the original articles of the constitution.

According to the article I posted above:

Over the past five years, FedEx and UPS have spent a combined $100 million lobbying Congress. Because neither company has a delivery network nearly as sprawling as Donahoe's, they contract with the postal service to deliver the "final mile" of much of their cargo. For instance, more than 21 percent of all FedEx deliveries are dropped off by a postal carrier. Meanwhile, millions of postal-service letters hitch rides on FedEx flights every day, for which the company gets paid $1 billion a year. FedEx and UPS don't want the postal service to go out of business but to remain contained, out of the way — one reason many of the addresses on packages that pass through Medford are handwritten by mothers and grandfathers and eBay minimoguls, rather than printed by manufacturers and retailers.

Read more: The Post Office Connects America - Why We Should Save the Post Office - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/post-of ... z2KABup6Ur[i][/i]

So, Teapartiers, that probably isn't gonna work.

A couple interesting articles on the Atlantic's website also, from Jordan Weissmann and James Fallows