Any organization gets big enough and it gets pretty dumb. Government, corporations, private companies, churches - the stupid is unstoppable at a certain scale. Life is tragic.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
It's actually even worse than when it started. The post office based the contract on much more volume than they are getting now. Since the contract went into effect the Amazon fulfillment center started sending trucks (Independents) with skids of orders early every morning to local rural post offices leaving the POs with the most expensive last mile. They forced Amazon to deliver their packages on sundays in the majority of cities. Then in big metropolitan areas like NYC they started up independent deliveries where drivers can deliver hundreds of packages on a single a block in Manhattan or with a small van with the same volume in a square mile in the outer boros. These deliveries to densly populated areas are gone from the PO. All that is left are the rural areas that are very expensive to go to eery day.
Desperation will lead to seemingly corrupt actions because that is all you have left when a law passed in 2006 forces you to finance your pension obligations for the next 75 years with the money coming in from 2007 to 2016.
Imagine if the law forced you to set aside enough money to pay a 30 year mortgage in 9 years. You would be wise to never take that mortgage.
I mostly vote GOP, but I am comfortable admitting this was all Dubya's fault and the corrupt idiot GOP Congress that paved the way to the most devastating loss in modern political history which begot us Obama and the Demoncrat super majority in both houses of congress.
I can acknowledge that the USPS will have its inefficiencies and things that need reformed, but that 2006 law singling them out for this financially ruinous requirement is the only reason we are talking about USPS and Amazon making deals.
What dumbass made that business agreement? Government (minus GEOTUS) is so damn retarded.
Swing a cat.
Excluding military, everyone in gummint is a dumbass. Start with that bias and you'll be right 99% of the time.
Having been around the military...we can include them a bit.
If we required officers to come from lower ranks it would change considerably.
Any organization gets big enough and it gets pretty dumb. Government, corporations, private companies, churches - the stupid is unstoppable at a certain scale. Life is tragic.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
So it's like the difference between
the centipedes who support Trump and moved to .win
versus
the tarantulas/caterpillars who REEmain at the old subreddit instead of joining us here?
Lowest common denominator
Those who can, do. Those who cant, get a job in government.
Damn, I'm a teacher for the Govt. I really can't do anything.
This is cynical but I think it is correct.
It's actually even worse than when it started. The post office based the contract on much more volume than they are getting now. Since the contract went into effect the Amazon fulfillment center started sending trucks (Independents) with skids of orders early every morning to local rural post offices leaving the POs with the most expensive last mile. They forced Amazon to deliver their packages on sundays in the majority of cities. Then in big metropolitan areas like NYC they started up independent deliveries where drivers can deliver hundreds of packages on a single a block in Manhattan or with a small van with the same volume in a square mile in the outer boros. These deliveries to densly populated areas are gone from the PO. All that is left are the rural areas that are very expensive to go to eery day.
The corrupt fuck that got a huge suitcase of cash.
Desperation will lead to seemingly corrupt actions because that is all you have left when a law passed in 2006 forces you to finance your pension obligations for the next 75 years with the money coming in from 2007 to 2016.
Imagine if the law forced you to set aside enough money to pay a 30 year mortgage in 9 years. You would be wise to never take that mortgage.
I mostly vote GOP, but I am comfortable admitting this was all Dubya's fault and the corrupt idiot GOP Congress that paved the way to the most devastating loss in modern political history which begot us Obama and the Demoncrat super majority in both houses of congress.
I can acknowledge that the USPS will have its inefficiencies and things that need reformed, but that 2006 law singling them out for this financially ruinous requirement is the only reason we are talking about USPS and Amazon making deals.
Thanks Dubya.
Maybe someone who now has more houses than Bernie.