What I find odd is that the older gentleman on this forum are very, very right wing, yet they love the post office. Choose one guys.
Either you like small government, free and efficient markets, and meritocracy, OR you like bloated, insolvent government programs that cannot function without unfair protections.
Feel free to love on the USPS, but you sure as hell better have equal enthusiasm for FDR and all related government interventions.
A few reasons why the USPS sucks:
1.) They cannot ship any package via air without having Fedex haul their packages for them. Even when USPS attempts to deliver a service, they have to piggy back on a competent private sector corporation.
2.) Their propaganda around USPS priority is BS. 2-3 day delivery means "87% of packages arrive in 2-3 days" which is misleading and also very old data. When you peel back the terms of service USPS has a TEN BUSINESS DAY service level objective for priority mail. Meaning? You cannot even trace your package or escalate for ten business days which in fact might be closer to three weeks with holidays and weekends.
3.) The USPS is so F'd they sell forever stamps as a ponzi scheme. They are willing to deliver future services at a loss in order to stay alive another day for immediate revenue.
4.) They are government slobs that lose packages, argue with you, and just hold the package at the post office if they don't want to deliver that day. Recently I had a first class letter take 14 days to go 300 miles. (destination Chicago...not the sticks)
5.) They have lobbied to prevent any private competition from having the right to deliver to a mailbox. Naturally, if that day ever comes, USPS will be out of business immediately.
6.) They are the government, they suck at everything. Do you think they are experts on fraud? No. The USPS money order is the easiest instrument to counterfeit and the USPS makes little effort to prevent counterfeiting because they are an agency, not a business. Who cares anyway, its just somebody else's money.
7.) They cannot deliver a package on a Sunday, but they are so defective and insolvent they are delivering Amazon packages on a Sunday at a loss.
I've made my feelings crystal clear on the USPS. I put that prohibition in all my classifieds. About every 2-3 years someone disregards that and either sends me a PO money order or sends me a package USPS signature required. In case of the former, I throw the money order away. Sorry. I don't take funny money and I told you I wouldn't. In the case of the latter, I refuse to go to my USPS on a Saturday for the 4 hours they are opened begging for a package. I charge a $1000 inconvenience fee for going to the post office, therefore anything sent signature required USPS or anything they fail to deliver goes back to the post office where I will never, ever collect it.
It's a free country, don't engage with me in commerce if you wish, but do not try to get me to participate in supporting a worthless government agency. There is nothing I need the USPS for and my life would not be impacted whatsoever if they ceased to exist tomorrow.
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