Are we sure this wasn't a pay off for their help with the election steal? Or hell, they've been shipping so much crap because of the pandemic bullshit what shipper isn't make a buckaroos right now?
DeJoy, Trumps appointment, made the right moves to put them in profit. He gave a different OT deal this year during the holidays, and used temp workers instead of usps hires. This is why the union is pissed at him and went to a work slowdown or working strike over the holidays and slowed every delivery down.
This is in addition to the legacy mail he downsized, the envelope stuff because no one sends letters anymore with email of course and letter service has been drastically declining for years.
I heard trailers were leaving warehouses empty during december. no effort to get anything done. The union just let packages stack up at their regional warehouses as part of their work slowdown.
One of my coworkers is a part-timer at USPS and I can tell you that was definitely not happening here. Small rural area, and they had so many packages this year they were slow as fuck because they were physically unable to sort the packages, as the room they store them in was full wall to wall and more came in every day.
I placed an order for something I could only get from Europe. It was scanned in to USPS at a facility in Frankfurt Germany at the beginning of December. It was delivered at the end of January. USPS is terrible.
Can confirm. I had packages sitting in the midwest for upwards of a week like 4 or 5 times. The day after submitting a missing mail complaint, it magically started moving and I got it within a day or two.
Yeah, I had packaged that arrived in town and then just sat there for another week before they went out for delivery. They were just not processing packages.
This is in addition to the legacy mail he downsized, the envelope stuff because no one sends letters anymore with email of course and letter service has been drastically declining for years.
Still got to do some things by mail
relief checks and tax refunds for those without direct deposit.
tax forms (for those without printing services)
proxy voting for stockholders.
official tax, privacy, and insurance notices (electronic correspondence is disallowed or serves as a back up only).
utility bills for those who don't pay online
Snail mail isn't dead - because just like voting in person, the physicality of something being delivered or handled will remain..... until Star Trek transporter and replication technology is available.
1st class mail might be down by half, but parcel volume is vastly up. When I started you'd have a dozen packages for a whole route, and a few had delivery scans. Now I need 3-4 signatures a day and nearly all of my 100+ packages a day require some sort of scan.
Are we sure this wasn't a pay off for their help with the election steal? Or hell, they've been shipping so much crap because of the pandemic bullshit what shipper isn't make a buckaroos right now?
DeJoy, Trumps appointment, made the right moves to put them in profit. He gave a different OT deal this year during the holidays, and used temp workers instead of usps hires. This is why the union is pissed at him and went to a work slowdown or working strike over the holidays and slowed every delivery down.
This is in addition to the legacy mail he downsized, the envelope stuff because no one sends letters anymore with email of course and letter service has been drastically declining for years.
I heard trailers were leaving warehouses empty during december. no effort to get anything done. The union just let packages stack up at their regional warehouses as part of their work slowdown.
One of my coworkers is a part-timer at USPS and I can tell you that was definitely not happening here. Small rural area, and they had so many packages this year they were slow as fuck because they were physically unable to sort the packages, as the room they store them in was full wall to wall and more came in every day.
I placed an order for something I could only get from Europe. It was scanned in to USPS at a facility in Frankfurt Germany at the beginning of December. It was delivered at the end of January. USPS is terrible.
Can confirm. I had packages sitting in the midwest for upwards of a week like 4 or 5 times. The day after submitting a missing mail complaint, it magically started moving and I got it within a day or two.
Curious, that.
Yeah, I had packaged that arrived in town and then just sat there for another week before they went out for delivery. They were just not processing packages.
I was unaware of all that info, thank you 👍
Still got to do some things by mail
relief checks and tax refunds for those without direct deposit.
tax forms (for those without printing services)
proxy voting for stockholders.
official tax, privacy, and insurance notices (electronic correspondence is disallowed or serves as a back up only).
utility bills for those who don't pay online
Snail mail isn't dead - because just like voting in person, the physicality of something being delivered or handled will remain..... until Star Trek transporter and replication technology is available.
Its not dead, but its 1/2 of its peak around 2000
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/first-class-mail-since-1926.htm
Even more and more services are going electronic with the acceptance of digital signatures.
1st class mail might be down by half, but parcel volume is vastly up. When I started you'd have a dozen packages for a whole route, and a few had delivery scans. Now I need 3-4 signatures a day and nearly all of my 100+ packages a day require some sort of scan.
DeJoy's home was protested after Obama criticized him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8630863/Protesters-gather-outside-USPS-Postmaster-Generals-home-amid-voter-suppression-allegations.html