Oh my package shipped from Appleton WI on Aug 5th, I still don't have it. Its now sitting in St Paul and has been for 5 days. It went from Appleton, to Chicago, sat there for a few days. Then to Des Moines, They sent it out that same day to St Paul. If I could go to St Paul to get it I would just for the drive. Its only winterizing stuff any how. I hope it get to me before winter of 2020..
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul on Friday suggested
cutting the number of days rural America receives postal deliveries to
help shore up the financially ailing U.S. Postal Service.
The Kentucky
Republican also said Congress should attach conditions to any infusion
of federal money for post offices — including reducing the postal
service's workforce.
Paul pitched
those changes as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appeared for a Senate
committee hearing amid intense scrutiny of postal service operations and
whether it will be able to provide timely delivery of ballots for the
November election.
Paul referred to
the postal service's financial woes as “almost an impossible problem"
short of a legislative overhaul, and even then he said it would be
difficult to fix the problems.
He floated the
idea of reducing mail delivery from six to five days weekly, saying it
would save the postal service up to $1.5 billion. Paul said that could
be accomplished with a “one-sentence bill" that would put the postal
service on “better footing.”
The
postal service could close much of its budget shortfall if it went
“below five days for some very rural areas," the senator said. Paul is a
member of the committee that heard the postmaster general’s testimony.
“The easiest way
to continue personalized service to each person individually at their
house would be to do it less frequently,” Paul said. “And, frankly,
people who live 20 miles down a shale road -- if you told them they were
going to get it twice a week versus six times a week — I’d think we’d
actually live with this. ... I really think people could live with
that."
Paul represents a sprawling state that is dotted with small towns.
DeJoy responded that the current delivery schedule is a strength for the postal service.
“As I’ve worked
through the process and researched and studied the organization, I think
the six-day deliver, the connection that the postal letter carrier has
with the American people, that gives us this highly trusted brand,"
DeJoy said. “And where the economy’s going in the future, I think that
is probably our biggest strength to capitalize on.”
Paul's idea was quickly criticized by the American Postal Workers Union.
“Sen. Rand Paul
takes the (asterisk)brave(asterisk) position of telling people who “live
down dirt roads” they should get their mail two days a week," the union
tweeted. “Rural Kentuckians will be angry to hear that!"
During the
hearing, Paul also insisted on the need to cut the postal service's
workforce, suggesting that it be tied to any financial assistance from
Congress.
“I’ve been of
the opinion basically we shouldn’t give you any more money unless it’s
attached to reform," the senator said. “That’s the only leverage we
have. When the post office becomes desperate for money, we should attach
things they don’t want to necessarily do — less employees.”
“The mail keeps dropping. You’ve got to have less employees,” he added.
House Democrats
are pushing ahead with a rare Saturday session to pass legislation that
would send $25 billion to shore up postal operations. The U.S. Postal
Service said recently that it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that
ended in June.
This P.O. stuff is BS. I wish someone would walk up to me and say here take this money, build yourself a bunker compound, and enjoy life...HA
Stay Safe.........Rob
This P.O. stuff is BS. I wish someone would walk up to me and say here take this money, build yourself a bunker compound, and enjoy life...HA
Stay Safe.........Rob
4 comments:
It should be for everybody or nobody, not just country folks.
I have never lived where there was mail delivery or even an open post office on Saturdays.
Business don't get mail on Saturday, so why should the general public.??
AAand then there is this
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/business/postal-service-losses-bailout/index.html
Sayin they are generatin huge cash flow,, then weaeling back, talkin about how maybe thats not an indicator theyre losing money,, blaahhhdeb;ahh,,
What do we know about government and business ( providing service for money)?
WEll,, I know they took over operation of Mustang Ranch, a celebrated whorehouse, internationally known, because of a tax issue,, and went by god bankrupt,, in a place where ya sell something, keep it and sell it again! They ent BUST.. So,, should anyone be surprised that the P.O. is in a bind? I do very little business with them,, The people who want money from me send me envelopes,, and I think the best bang for your buck anywhere is sending a first class letter..
FFS,, under a buck I can have someone pick something up, haul it to a machine, run it thru, get it bundled with others in the bunch headed th same general direction,, and on toward that Zip Code,, until finally someone opens a mailbox and drops it in,,Amazing that it works as well as it does,, and thats anywhere in the continental US of A,,
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