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2021-10-02 Economy

Snail mail: USPS slows first-class mail delivery service

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-02 02:29|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

Bag Balm and chicken wire sales are way down also. Worthless gummit paracytes and AA make work jobs. Their day is DONE! Put some competition back in the game. Hand the mission off to FedEx, Amazon, DHS, or UPS. Competitive bids maybe? Their trucks go by house 2-3 times per day. Deliver mail to residences once or twice per week, business (if any are left) as needed.

Never mind, who an I kidding. Never happen.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-02 02:52|| 2021-10-02 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Cut the taxpayer subsidies for junk mail and use that money to shore up legitimate USPS operations.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-02 07:02|| 2021-10-02 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3
Mentioned this a few months ago.

In our Area...

Postmarked 1st class taking 7 to 10 calendar days to arrive.

Outgoing 1st class mail to pay bills was taking 8+ days.

USPS Overnight delivery from Atlanta to St. Louis took 3 days. So much for that $25 fee.

Back in Jan/Feb. was worse as we were seeing 14+ days for a while.

To avoid penalty payments/fees we have been calling the vendor billing dept. and making payments using
Non-reloadable Visa Cards.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-02 08:30|| 2021-10-02 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My donation to the republican party in October 2020 took four months to clear (OKC to NYC).

Critical mail, such as credit card payments always go by priority mail. USPS bit me once on that one.

Most the problem with mail service as it is now is with the coasts and with interstate mail.

And now they're saying they're gonna improve on that.

Posted by badanov 2021-10-02 08:37|| 2021-10-02 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I did notice that a couple of my credit cards recently changed the address to send payments to. I bet it has something to do with trying to stay ahead of these changes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-02 08:41|| 2021-10-02 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 with a government service, there is always room for impairment

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-10-02 08:47|| 2021-10-02 08:47|| Front Page Top

#7 The Post Office Ain't Going Nowhere Readers ---

FYI:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." The Post Office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes. The Post Office is also empowered to construct or designate post offices with the implied authority to carry, deliver, and regulate the mail of the United States as a whole. The Postal Power also includes the power to designate certain materials as non-mailable, and to pass statutes criminalizing abuses of the postal system (such as mail fraud and armed robbery of post offices)

So, Is this News to You...?
The Post Office is a Constitutional Construct,
You want Change, then Change the Constitution !

Posted by Solomon Snore9565 2021-10-02 10:35|| 2021-10-02 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Large corporation had a meeting yesterday afternoon and it wasn't good. Purchase your oil and gas now. Huge problems shortly. Certainly big price increases but availability also a noted concern.

Posted by Dale 2021-10-02 13:18|| 2021-10-02 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Yet mail-in ballots appear to go backwards in time.

Posted by KBK 2021-10-02 22:53|| 2021-10-02 22:53|| Front Page Top

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