‘Postal Service will not survive the summer.’ Lawmakers warn it could go bankrupt

The losers sounding the alarm here are democrats. It won't work. They are making up a crisis that they then can "save".

The democrat party is doomed, and the sooner the better. The USPS will go on. There have been public postal services since ancient Mesopotamia, and they fall under the regulations of the government.

 

ya, my dad loves those stupid coupons. I've never found them to be really useful unless it's a place that I go to all the time anyway.

there's one coupon he uses all the time where lunch is bogo up to $7.99 but you have to buy two drinks, in the end he saves maybe $2 total and the food is average anyway. I'm ok with it because when we use the coupons hes buying so I let him pick the place. it always has a coupon.

I do the same as most people, I toss 8 things in the trash bin on the way from the mailbox to the house and keep 1 or 2 pieces at best.

my biggest complaint is that sometimes important stuff gets thrown away because the mail lady folds it inside the dam fliers.

 

ups left a package outside my office door on friday night, It was there for 3 days, im shocked it didnt get stolen.

 

Yeah I can't stand them half the time. A portion of my back yard is fenced in and I have Australian Shepherd back there. I went outside to feed her one evening when I got home from work and I saw a package on the deck. The deck is about 10' from the fence and you can tell this package was thrown from the fence to the deck. It was the UPS guy who did it. This dude passed two covered parking areas and the porch on my shed, JUST to toss this package on my deck. Luckily it was just clothes, plain t-shirts my wife had ordered for her little design things she puts on them, so there was no damage. And luckily my Shepherd doesn't chew things up.

 

Utopia and perfection are never options in human, especially government, endeavors.

 

I have about a 3' tall metal tub painted a nice red color and on the inside back, so it faces out, as sign that says "Deliveries Please". Now you can't see that from the street but as you walk up it is quite apparent. I have it so that boxes aren't plainly sitting on my front porch especially if I am gone a few days. I constantly find UPS and FedX sitting right next to the tub and you would think they are TRAINED to look for such tubs/boxes whatever people put on their porches to help prevent drive by run and grab theft. USPS mostly can use the mailbox, federal crime if someone else does, but when they have to bring to the door they use the tub.

 

I have installed enough HughesNet to tell you that is incorrect, a lot of people in rural areas are totally surrounded by trees and the further North one go the worse it gets.

Which very few are.

 

Through cable, telephone wires or fiber. Satellite internet services cover just about anywhere.

 

Bingo, and you just unearthed all the true intent of the Complex shills on this issue. Public union good, taxpayer bad. It's long past due for the USPS to be privatized, there is no national security or necessity of it as part of the central government whatsoever.

 

Are you aware that the taxpayer does not currently pay any of the operating expenses of the USPS?

 

They could eliminate the home delivery system and in the oft chance you have "legal" papers, you could pick them up at the now skeletonized post office. A text message could alert you to pick them up. there are already printable coupons on line. There are many options.

 

I gave my postal route, UPS, and FedEx drivers a Christmas card with a $20 in it with instructions to leave all parcels (if they fit) in a brand new clean 60 Gal garbage can by my front door. My parcels never get wet nor get stolen.

 

Excellent, then they can cut wages and benefits accordingly to balance the books.

 

I dunno how common it is, but in my area, the state, county, feds and private parcel companies all have different address maps. 100 Main St might be 100 N Main St on a diff map, with 100 Main being across town. As a result, our mail is delivered to PO Boxes that all residents are provided at no cost (in liu of delivery to residences).

My address on google maps is different from my address on property parcel maps and different still from my address on Postal Service maps.

UPS and FedEx deliver here, but its not uncommon for our packages to show up on someone else's doorstep (and thus, sadly, not 'show up' at all...).

 

Except out in the sticks, like where I live.

Here we have no cable, CenturyLink limits their ADSL to 3Kf from the Remote Terminal DSLAM, and satellite service such as HughesNet is sketchy, I had HN when I first moved in here as a backup to CL ADSL, the beam they had me on was so oversubscribed during the evening it was sub-dial-up speeds, after I filed a FCC complaint they caved and let me out of the 2 year contract I was locked into without a ETF.

Other problems with geostationary satellite are latency and rain fade, the latency is so high VPN's don't work, this precludes telecommuting and many times e-mail just times out, as for rain fade, the typical consumer dish because of it's size lacks enough gain to keep the service alive during most rain storms, and don't even think of using the service here in a typical SW Florida thunderstorm.

Now there is another option out in the sticks, which is known as a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) which I am, my 100meg/100meg backhaul is provided by Windstream over leased CL fiber, I have a decent SLA and the monthly cost is a fair $1250 per month.

I'm not making a killing, but am making a decent monthly revenue generation, because my pricing which is the same geostationary satellite services to subscribers who are outside of the CL 3K limit, however expanding the service beyond a couple of miles is not going to be easy or inexpensive, to do so I need to buy some property and install another 75 foot tower NW of here, then either bring in power or go solar and backhaul, which will be wireless, I'm looking to push to the NW as that seems to me to be the next growth area for this decade or so I hope.

 

The best way to balance the books would be to close facilities and liquidate some of their extensive real estate portfolio. But they can't close facilities or end Saturday delivery because Congress won't let them. Although the USPS does not get US Government money for operating expenses, the Congress gets to tell them operate, i.e., how to run their business. Think UPS, FEDEX, could turn a profit under these conditions?

 

Not at all, politicians only care about themselves and remaining in power, and sadly their people who so lack an understanding of that reality, they want the same politicians in charge of running this countries healthcare system.

 

The Post Office was never meant to make a profit.

 

The Post Office is the only department that is Congress' sole responsibility. The dummies that the voters keep electing have ruined it.

 

They should simply switch to satellite.

 

Why? Simply reducing Wages, Benefits and closing some facilities would keep them open. But they have to make it on their own. If not sell it off to a private company.

 

my guess is eventually we won't have mail boxes, we will have places we go to get our mail, be just a building full of mail boxes

so we can all meet a share our viruses

 

yeah, just what we need, another monthly bill to get our mail

the government took and took from the postal service, time to give some back

how about this, make Amazon pay taxes for once and give it to the post office

 

Why would you get a monthly bill for your mail? The sender would pay the postage.

 

i have relatives with the crappy rural satalite. I switch to 4g when I visit, the wifi sux, never stayed long enough to need to hot spot, but it might make sense.

they are used to it. they don't even notice the lag until they visit houses like mine with lightning fast wifi.