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Post Office to End Saturday Delivery Starting August 1 | |
BRIEF  User ID: 32991702  United States02/06/2013 09:22 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Last Edited by BRIEF on 02/06/2013 09:23 PM I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked.  |
| Hitokiri User ID: 14988065 United States02/06/2013 09:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33825799 United States02/06/2013 09:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it is a great idea to stop Saturday delivery. I know that when I sometimes go out of town on Saturday that I am a bit worried about my mail with all these thieving bass-turds on my rural road who like to go in other folks' mailboxes searching for God knows what. On weekdays as soon as it is delivered I am out there to bring it in to thwart them. Nothing more annoying than to go out in the morning to get my newspaper and see that my mailbox door is wide open (once when I went to town early I saw that every mailbox door on the entire road was open! How blatant or lazy can the thieves get?) I always make sure I shut it tight after getting my mail as we have some birds (and wasps) who like to try and build nests inside the box. Now I still have to worry about a parcel or package maybe going missing! Terrific! UGH! |
| Instant Karma User ID: 30388691 United States02/06/2013 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks to the Republicans for killing more jobs. Even though the Postal Service doesn't use any tax dollars, they want to kill their labor union and privatize the postal service (siphon profits to their corporate masters.) Dollar Deception: How Banks Secretly Create Money: [link to www.webofdebt.com] ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTH: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public: [link to www.amazon.com] 2028 End? [link to 2028end.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27101962 United States02/06/2013 10:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i delivered parcels for the usps containing designer steroids that were cleverly mislabled as human growth hormones which were legal in some states...al queda was in this business by bankrolling the labs where they did the switches, the labs being bankrolled by saudi based petrodollars that they park in the big commercial holding banks..the pills were then given to strippers, the stripclubs being the meetup based comfort zones for the 9/11 hijackers..they also owned the stripclubs that are nationally franchised thru the petrobased holding banks |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25723103 United States02/06/2013 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Zedakah (OP) User ID: 25719696 United States02/06/2013 10:48 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| vesper User ID: 31851237 United States02/06/2013 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27531391 United States02/06/2013 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Five years time, will be but a shadow of what we once knew. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4613981 80 % of Americans cannot afford the bills now. Unemployment , honestly hovering at 20%. This country is done. This. Just another day in Obammy's America. NOTHING gets better. Everything gets worse. The new postal rates are already affecting what little business I have left. It's over. This country is over. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1614429 United States02/06/2013 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | simple solution, if you want mail get a PO Box. Stop automatic delivery to every single address in the world. What a waste of resources. Pick up your mail once or twice a week at your local PO. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25757891 Electronic mail is taking over. Packages will still be delivered, but electronic mail is rapidly replacing snail mail, and has in many places already. Just "progress" you say? Why do you think that everyone is doing everything, or nearly everything "online"? Just "progress", or is something else in the works perhaps? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24637629 United States02/06/2013 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good, it's a start, now I'll have Saturday and Sunday to shovel out my mailbox from all the ads from K mart, wal mart, kroger, Aldi, Target, Dicks sporting goods, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Meijer, Best buy, Chick fillet, Hardees, Mc Donalds, Ralleys, White castle, Burger King, HH greg, circuit City, game stop, big lots, fuck did I miss any? Quoting: BRIEF Cc offers, car dealerships, and mortgage refi offers... Other than those you got most all of them.... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1614429 United States02/06/2013 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i delivered parcels for the usps containing designer steroids that were cleverly mislabled as human growth hormones which were legal in some states...al queda was in this business by bankrolling the labs where they did the switches, the labs being bankrolled by saudi based petrodollars that they park in the big commercial holding banks..the pills were then given to strippers, the stripclubs being the meetup based comfort zones for the 9/11 hijackers..they also owned the stripclubs that are nationally franchised thru the petrobased holding banks Uh, yeah, you betcha'! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24637629 United States02/06/2013 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | simple solution, if you want mail get a PO Box. Stop automatic delivery to every single address in the world. What a waste of resources. Pick up your mail once or twice a week at your local PO. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25757891 Electronic mail is taking over. Packages will still be delivered, but electronic mail is rapidly replacing snail mail, and has in many places already. Just "progress" you say? Why do you think that everyone is doing everything, or nearly everything "online"? Just "progress", or is something else in the works perhaps? We're moving to email invoices with pay option links. Most everyone prefers it and we should offer a discount to those who use this new service. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24291937 United States02/06/2013 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it is a great idea to stop Saturday delivery. I know that when I sometimes go out of town on Saturday that I am a bit worried about my mail with all these thieving bass-turds on my rural road who like to go in other folks' mailboxes searching for God knows what. On weekdays as soon as it is delivered I am out there to bring it in to thwart them. Nothing more annoying than to go out in the morning to get my newspaper and see that my mailbox door is wide open (once when I went to town early I saw that every mailbox door on the entire road was open! How blatant or lazy can the thieves get?) I always make sure I shut it tight after getting my mail as we have some birds (and wasps) who like to try and build nests inside the box. Now I still have to worry about a parcel or package maybe going missing! Terrific! UGH! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33825799 Stop the mail for a couple weeks . Find rattle snakes Cut of rattles Hilarity ensues when the vermin open mailboxes |
| maxx411 User ID: 11346886 United States02/06/2013 11:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good, it's a start, now I'll have Saturday and Sunday to shovel out my mailbox from all the ads from K mart, wal mart, kroger, Aldi, Target, Dicks sporting goods, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Meijer, Best buy, Chick fillet, Hardees, Mc Donalds, Ralleys, White castle, Burger King, HH greg, circuit City, game stop, big lots, fuck did I miss any? Quoting: BRIEF  Dont forget your playgirl, lolLast Edited by maxx411 on 02/06/2013 11:48 PM |
| TheBiss User ID: 25023924 United States02/06/2013 11:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.grainmill.coop] - Bulk foods, long term storage solutions [link to www.CatawbaCoops.com] - Unique A-Frame chicken coop plans |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33851282 United States02/06/2013 11:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33781878 United States02/06/2013 11:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good, it's a start, now I'll have Saturday and Sunday to shovel out my mailbox from all the ads from K mart, wal mart, kroger, Aldi, Target, Dicks sporting goods, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Meijer, Best buy, Chick fillet, Hardees, Mc Donalds, Ralleys, White castle, Burger King, HH greg, circuit City, game stop, big lots, fuck did I miss any? Quoting: BRIEF Circuit City? You still have one of those? |
| Shishyan User ID: 32589785  India02/07/2013 12:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want to know the truth, think deeper. They expect something to happen by August 1 that ends the need for running the Cabal Corporation Group. By the way, without the Post office, this country aka corporation, will only be the size of Washington DC + Puerto Rico. Think! All suffering caused by unfulfilled expectations. The greatest enemy of truth is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge. Be Open, Be Aware, Be Humble. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21342306 United States02/07/2013 12:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | USPS needs to start paying their workers a realistic amount. There's no reason for a post office clerk to be making $60k+ with benefits. They're doing the same exact job as a cashier at a grocery store (except a lot slower) and they are making like $10 an hour. It doesn't make sense to me. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33523792 United States02/07/2013 12:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks to the Republicans for killing more jobs. Quoting: Instant Karma Even though the Postal Service doesn't use any tax dollars, they want to kill their labor union and privatize the postal service (siphon profits to their corporate masters.) They pay all them postal people way to much money ,time for some pay cuts ,also those pensions are way to much ... |
| spoof User ID: 1231023 United States02/07/2013 12:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The post office makes money, when congress mandated in 2006 that the post office had to pre-fund healthcare for every employee for 75 years in to the future, including putting money away for people yet unborn and that the post office only had 10 years to put 75 years of funding away at a cost of $5.5 billion a year, congress had a goal. Congress knows the post office makes money so they are trying to break them and federalize the post office so they can use the money and TAX you to run the post office. Quoting: Chrit the reality of the mandate also does not take in to account technology and assumes postal employee number will increase at an ever rising rate, the post office is fighting back and something like 5 out of 9 jobs are going to be cut so they can re-do the retirement numbers. One more time, congress wants to take over the postal service & spend the money the postal service makes and Tax you at the same time to run the postal service and still make you buy stamps to mail things. Congress sees dollar signs and a huge money pool they can squander. [link to my.firedoglake.com] The best way to cut jobs (which they should do) is to go to 3 day delivery. There will be A routes and B routes. A routes are delivered Monday, Wednesday, Friday. B routes are delivered Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Each employee works all six days. Great answer. No one needs daily mail. Cell phones, email, blah, blah blah, have erased those. If you don't anticipate your bills before then, you are already screwed. The PO box option is okay, but...I don't want to go to the PO, and they would have to alter hours for those of us that actually work day shift for a living. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25658088 United States02/07/2013 12:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Saddletramp User ID: 739427  Puerto Rico02/07/2013 01:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does that mean they will actually try to deliver the mail on time on those five days of the week they work?!?!? Naw, too much to hope for...(Note to self: temper expectation with reason) After all, this is a govt run operation... Last Edited by Saddletramp on 02/07/2013 01:17 AM "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33742061 United States02/07/2013 01:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19099851 United States02/07/2013 01:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The post office makes money, when congress mandated in 2006 that the post office had to pre-fund healthcare for every employee for 75 years in to the future, including putting money away for people yet unborn and that the post office only had 10 years to put 75 years of funding away at a cost of $5.5 billion a year, congress had a goal. Congress knows the post office makes money so they are trying to break them and federalize the post office so they can use the money and TAX you to run the post office. Quoting: Chrit the reality of the mandate also does not take in to account technology and assumes postal employee number will increase at an ever rising rate, the post office is fighting back and something like 5 out of 9 jobs are going to be cut so they can re-do the retirement numbers. One more time, congress wants to take over the postal service & spend the money the postal service makes and Tax you at the same time to run the postal service and still make you buy stamps to mail things. Congress sees dollar signs and a huge money pool they can squander. [link to my.firedoglake.com] Tragic that people actually believe this crap. The prefunding is required, because without it the post office's unfunded liabilities would go through the roof and THERE WOULD BE NO USPS IN 20 YEARS. Its simple math. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 17385372 United States02/07/2013 01:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| krosty User ID: 15571780 United States02/07/2013 02:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| JohnC User ID: 19603600 United States02/07/2013 02:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The post office makes money, when congress mandated in 2006 that the post office had to pre-fund healthcare for every employee for 75 years in to the future, including putting money away for people yet unborn and that the post office only had 10 years to put 75 years of funding away at a cost of $5.5 billion a year, congress had a goal. Congress knows the post office makes money so they are trying to break them and federalize the post office so they can use the money and TAX you to run the post office. Quoting: Chrit the reality of the mandate also does not take in to account technology and assumes postal employee number will increase at an ever rising rate, the post office is fighting back and something like 5 out of 9 jobs are going to be cut so they can re-do the retirement numbers. One more time, congress wants to take over the postal service & spend the money the postal service makes and Tax you at the same time to run the postal service and still make you buy stamps to mail things. Congress sees dollar signs and a huge money pool they can squander. [link to my.firedoglake.com] The best way to cut jobs (which they should do) is to go to 3 day delivery. There will be A routes and B routes. A routes are delivered Monday, Wednesday, Friday. B routes are delivered Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Each employee works all six days. Exactly right. Stopping Saturday delivery isn't going to help that much. The biggest problem with the post office is that they have huge numbers of workers who cannot deliver mail due to on the job injuries. After about five years many carriers get hurt and have to stay inside and sort mail. And if they run out of work they still sit around and get paid. If you rotate these injured carriers have work to do, preparing routes on the off days. |
