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The people are talking about how horrible and unreliable the postal service is but that hasn't been my experience. I can't remember them ever failing to deliver and I seem to be getting all my mail.
After several complaints about weeks of the USPS failing to forward any mail, the manager figured out the problem. See, I had written a "v" instead of a "u," misspelling my own last name. Boy, did I feel dumb.
I used to get paid through my city, every Monday. Labor Day resulted in my paycheck being delayed _two weeks._ _Two weeks_ because they were closed one day on a holiday we observe every year. I've also had issues with them carrying something all the way across the country, then putting it on the wrong truck, claiming my address doesn't exist _because they sent it to the wrong part of town_ and then sending said items all the way back _to China._ I've never had that problem with a private carrier, but I write off anything USPS is supposed to deliver me until it actually shows up.
Yeah I don’t either but why isn’t it even close to being profitable? It should at least be self sufficient instead of tax payers subsidizing there incompetence
My husband works at USPS currently and is in his 29th year of working there. The main problem is that CONGRESS messed them over a decade ago by forcing them to "pre-fund" retirement for FUTURE employees....that's right, not current ones, FUTURE ONES. So blame CONGRESS for making it seem like the USPS is "in the red" every year when it's not really. LOOK INTO IT PEOPLE.
I will not be getting a pension. But, I will have to work until I'm 75 to pay for your husband's pension. You are incredibly tone deaf to be in the position you're in and still be complaining or defending.
USPS was the cheapest way to send our packages until recently. What happened? They are now a parcel delivery company with a Universal Service Mandate albatross. What about that universal service? The Postal Service loses money because it has to prefund retirees 75 years out. Duh.
I don't care who you put in charge of USPS -- there is no way ANYBODY could make sweeping changes -- Due to UNIONS. USPS deals with nine collective bargaining agreements with seven unions. HOLEY SHIT -- that makes it impossible to get ANYTHING Changed. Any proposed changes have to be checked against 9 different sets of rules to maintain compliance with the Union requirements. And of course, the unions push back against 99 percent of proposed changes. How much money and man hours are spent (wasted) on Union Compliance? ** I am NOT necessarily Anti-Union. But having to deal with 9 collective bargaining agreements is TOTAL HORSE SHIT.
@@CelestialWoodway horsehit. These agreements cover far more than just basic pay and benefits. They are huge bloated things that cover all sorts of ridiculous things.
My problem is here in Appalachia we have lots of people leaving out in the mountains. I doubt a private company would deliver mail up into the moutains.
@hughmiller2416 what mail are you getting that can't just be replaced with digital options? Only old people send letters, packages would go to a PO Box or a Dropbox in town. Solved.
Can we make junk mail illegal then? Or charge the companies more? It seems to me the tax payer is paying to subsidize advertisements hitting my mailbox.
@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 You want to know why there is so much junk mail? It is the actual thing that funds the Post Office. There is no Federal budget for the Post Office, the employees are not funded by tax money. People just regurgitate the same dumb ass line without actually knowing anything about the Post Office. Everyone wants to go for the low hanging fruit, however look at the spending bill Mike Johnson put out there. Foreign aid, endless wars and back room deals with congress critters, but you know what the real issue is? The Post Office! FedEx and UPS can't even handle their loads as they dump packages on the Post Office. Amazon is a joke to even consider doing anything with it
Amazon, UPS, FedEx, etc. are horrible delivering to many rural areas, so much so that they often use USPS to fulfill many rural deliveries. Good luck rural communities!
@@mr2981OR, or, they are so cheap, that it’s cheaper to just let them do it, instead of doing it yourself? Yeah, when you have a cheap and subsized option, of course you’re going to choose that option. Take that option away, and they will magically find a way to deliver to those routes too.
The post office would actually be profitable, but Congress forced them to prefund retirement benefits. Something no other organization, public or private has to do. That immediately put them into the red. Congress intentionally has set them up to fail so they can privatize it.
It loses you money and I don't consent to ineffective government or business practices. If UPS caused you to lose money because it did a bad job and you don't use UPS it doesn't fall on you. This does.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was required to prepay retiree health benefits under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006, which mandated prepayment for 75 years into the future. This unusual requirement obligated the USPS to set aside funds for benefits of future retirees who had not even been born yet, over a 10-year period from 2007 to 2016. This mandate created significant financial strain on the USPS, contributing to ongoing losses. In 2022, the Postal Service Reform Act was passed, eliminating the prepayment requirement and transferring the responsibility for retiree health benefits to Medicare, providing much-needed financial relief.
if you guys don't know what they do then stop making comments about their job! I am pretty sure that you only know is what you see but inside of all these job and all the carriers you guys don't know, you don't know.
The post office is in the US Constitution and cannot be privatized unless there’s a constitutional amendment. I am an employee of the United States Postal Service, and I have to say, something needs to be done and needs to be done quickly. I hope they can find some answers to resolve this issue.
If they privatise the USPS, does that mean the U.S. will still subsidize the new private company? Because the majority of all mail routes are unprofitable, hence why the USPS was created in the first place. Either get rid of 75% of mail service or subsidize the new private company, both options are terrible.
How do UPS, FedEx and Amazon make money then? Think about the last time you got mail from USPS, what was it? Junk mail pamphlet? A bill? There's nothing that the USPS provides that can't be replaced with digital, or is already done by fedex.
@@Girraficusthewise they only do packages, not mail or medication delivers. Plus there shipping fees are extremely high for packages. On top of that UPS and FedEx use USPS for deliveries and facilities in many rural areas, because it's not profitable. Just like with infrastructure, I don't think people understand how logistics work and who is truly paying for it
@elizabethb3436 ok, who the fuck sends letters still? Its nearly 2025. Email, text, e-card. The only letters people get on a regular basis can 100 percent be replaced with digital options, or are things no one wants anyways like those promotional flyers.
There are a lot of government programs that deserve to be cut and we can do without. USPS is not one of them. It’s too important of a service. Many mail routes are inefficient, and a private company would simply cut those routes or charge exorbitant fees. That is not only bad for individuals, but also bad for the market, as many corporations depend on USPS for things like billing or sending standardized forms.
Ah... yes you bring up a good point. We have too many laws requiring private businesses to notify their clients "by mail." Those laws would have to go. How ridiculous to require private business to hire private hand delivery. How expensive.
With that kind of belief, I highly doubt you actually want to cut certain departments. I am at least interested in the ones you do want to cut. In a privatized world, the companies charging "exorbitant fees" would go out of business and be easily beaten by reasonably priced mail services. You pay for the mail service of others through huge income taxes anyways.
Many mail routes are pretty efficient. Most of the mail process is automated and the stuff that isn’t is protected by unions.(like package sorters, and mail sorters) But let’s get to it mail isn’t efficient. The main problem I believe is with the managers and outdated methods.
Its always funny seeing people who have never worked a physical job in their lives talk about how easy it is to take a parcel from one spot to another 🤡
@@TheFettMan They're legally not allowed to. The postmaster general had to forcibly shut down private mail courier operations like the Pony Express specifically because they were bankrupting the Post Office. The only reason the Post Office exists today is because it is a very old federal monopoly - it would have died long before the Civil War otherwise.
Even worse yet, my local post office in Duluth, GA is a den of thieves that is protected by law against having my local police department investigate crimes from this location. We were victims, but thankfully not to the extent of some.
@@DonaldJoeKennedy Point well taken he is enacting major changes, yet two years later USPS reported a $9.5 billion net loss for fiscal 2024, despite year-over-year growth in revenue and a reduction in its controllable expenses. The agency saw a $6.5 billion loss in FY 2023.
Well, to be fair, as I understand it they also allow for lateral transfers from the DoD; buddy of mine in college transferred from the Army into the Postal Service and kept his seniority.
USPS is absolutely the best delivery service at my house. UPS is acceptable, FedEx is horrible and Amazon uses USPS here. However, probably the primary reason why USPS works so well here is because the actual delivery is done by a private contractor
....that's girl math, silly goose........having the government do anything guarantees to cost 3x more, is never able to do a satisfactory job, and is never held to accountability......
well, with a truly private company, that's exactly what you want. you want incentive to be efficient and provide a decent service or good. those who own the company (as in, the ones who put in all the money, blood, sweat, and tears to start the business, who are also the ones who will have to go BANKRUPT if it fails..) should indeed reap the benefit of cutting waste. ofc, if they cut too much, they will eat into what is necessary to do good business, and they will feel the hurt as a result. this is how the market regulates itself, regardless of what any socialist think tank troll says.
lol good luck with that. USPS delivers more mail than all the rest of the worlds postal agencies combined. Even among packages, USPS delivers more than UPS, FedEx, and Amazon. Hell, DHL delivers less than 2% of packages in the US. Not to mention that USPS delivers a significant portion of UPS SurePost, UPS Mail Innovations, FedEx SmartPost and Amazon packages. Without USPS already going to every mailbox already, making it cost-effective for those companies to have USPS do the final delivery, all those other shipping companies would see significant increases in their shipping costs. If Congress just got rid of the mandated retiree health benefit pre-payments and allowed USPS to use a "Pay as you go" system like every other company on the planet, USPS would save nearly 6 Billion dollars per year and be profitable, even with all the unions jacking up the salaries and making it impossible to fire the useless employees.
@@edv9142 I mostly agree. I see USPS delivering packages for Amazon on Sundays here in rural northwest PA. I haven't inquired, so I can only assume that the USPS is being paid by Amazon. I also know that I have tracked a few packages from the UPS system to the USPS for final delivery during the week. I don't understand why that is, because we routinely have UPS (and FedEx) in our neighborhood, just not on Sundays. Anyway, keeping it germane; UPS/FedEx aren't permitted by law to be the custodians of mail; meaning letters/postcards/birthday cards, etc. By law, as I understand it, only the postal service can handle those, and they do it inefficiently....it is abject stupidity. For instance, have you noticed that there is no more "local zip code" box in the PO any more? If anyone wants to deliver a sympathy card--this has happened to me, and others--and have it arrive before the funeral, good luck. You're better off delivering it to the mailbox of the bereaved yourself. The card would have to leave Ridgway, PA, be transported to a sorting center in Harrisburg, where it is then routed back up to the very town where it began it's journey. Absolutely stupid...and they just began that practice withing the last ten years or so. The postal service may still handle as much as you've stated, albeit inefficiently, but it's only because they're so ubiquitous. There is a stretch of "highway" between St. Marys, PA and Penfield, PA, of about 19 miles where there are three small post offices in between, each with their own employees serving their little communities, each with their own publicly funded salaries, benefits, and pensions. Again....just stupid because it is unnecessary. There should be ONE between St. Marys and Penfield. Anyway, I don't disagree with your statistics, but it doesn't mean that they're processing all of those parcels efficiently and that it wouldn't be more efficient by the private sector.
I have problems with privatizing utilities that raise all of our standards of living but the idea of it no longer being affordable for most junk mail does raise my interest
any "private" company that does not boast lower prices and better service/product than its govt counterpart? is also govt pretending to be private, or else is run by the wildly incompetent. private means better stuff for lower prices by its very nature.
I tend to agree with the idea that the USPS provides a service (mail service to every household in the US) which has value even if it cannot be done profitably. Unless there is a mandate that the USPS continue to provide service to all households I feel like there is a real possibility that some houses may lose mail service if we fully privatize. Without an artificially low competitor it also seems likely that consumers will see a large increase in shipping costs. If a private USPS veers toward bankruptcy would the government bail it out to maintain mail service to all Americans? Is that any better than our current arrangement? I don’t know what the solution is but fully privatizing the USPS seems fraught with potential issues.
I’m not a fan of USPS in general or any large government agency, but I live in a rural area, Amazon doesn’t even deliver out here…period. They farm it out to other carriers, seemingly FedEx gets most of it. When I lived in a city Amazon was hands down the worst. I had packages that got lost completely, delivered to wrong houses on my street and even wrong streets and numbers at the same time. They were horrible. Now that I’m in the boonies I have 3 carriers, not counting freight; USPS, UPS and FedEx. Of the 3 where I live, FedEx is the worst of the 3. It depends upon what carrier I get that day. The other 2, UPS and USPS are great. Bear in mind I’m talking about this at the carrier level, my carriers in particular, not the bureaucracy, not the waste that goes into USPS.
Amazon's pretty good in my area; I don't have any issues with them or FedEx, but UPS pretty consistently refuses to deliver to apartments no matter where they are. And then there's the Post Office, who will happily load a package on the wrong truck, send it to the other side of town, determine my address doesn't exist, and then return the package to sender. I had an actual inspector explain that journey about a package to me once. Also, I live in southern Missouri; if I want to mail a letter across town, it's actually shipped four hours north to _Kansas City_ and then sent back here after being "sorted." You wanna see inefficiency, watch the real-time tracking for any USPS package. I watched something leave a warehouse here, bound for California, end up in New Jersey.
I'm not sure if this number factors into the losses mentioned in the video, but USPS is part of an international consortium of mail services that subsidize 3rd world countries mail delivery to outside countries. It costs less for someone in Africa to send a letter to US than someone in the US to send a letter to Africa. This is why you can order something from China for under a dollar. China really exploits this definition of third world since they have things like a large standing army and space program
4:27 I have to weigh in on this. I work for a small financial institution and I deal with all of the mail. You are so right it hurts!! People have NO IDEA how to address a letter. I’m talking no return address, no addressee, the return address in the bottom corner for god knows why. It’s frustrating but I also wonder if I’m expecting too much of people 🤔
USPS isn't wasting money. It's operating costs are self-funded. The "deficit" everyone talks about is due to the retiree pre-fund mandate from Congress. If Congress allowed USPS to use a pay-as-you-go system like every other company in the world, the deficit would be non-existent and USPS would actually be profitable.
The first thing that should be done with the postal service is to add some common sense into their procurement. There is no reason we are paying a defense contractor a million dollars per truck. Go to Ford, have them convert a right hand drive transit from the UK and use that for ~50K a pop. I'll be sad to see the Mailcat replaced but its served its purpose. Second thing to do is reform the service as a whole, the postal service is something guaranteed via the constitution and is vitally important to transmit information (even in this day and age) from point A to B. We should look at how to best optimize the service for the 21st century. That firstly goes into greater transparency of its issues, and empowering the executive over the agency to address them without the need for congressional approval.
We live in a rural-ish area. People usually have at least an acre if not more. There are mailboxes up a main road and County Roads, however some how the house that we purchased in 2019 do not get USPS delivery nor UPS. Our house isn’t registered. This house is at least 50 years old if not older. But the Postal Service can’t “see” the house. And UPS can’t seem to find my house that is visible from the mail road. 😶 Now it turned out to be a blessing we got a private mail box service and we don’t get junk mail, we don’t need to worry about porch pirates. The private service is always available during the day to sign for packages. It’s fantastic!
I get it. It's probably a "multi-service" business that also takes packages. Nice. How much do they charge extra per package for having it delivered there?
You can also get a PO Box at a post office that uses parcel lockers for larger items. You'll still get 24/7 access. You can also sign up for Informed Delivery to see pictures of incoming mail so you'll know if it's worth the trip to the post office that day. Informed Delivery also automatically detects and tracks incoming packages headed to your PO Box. You can also use the "Street Addressing" feature to mimic a street address, allowing you to order packages on websites that don't allow shipping to PO Boxes. You can also use the "Electronic Signature Online" service that would allow the post office to apply a pre-saved signature to any incoming mail/package that requires a signature so they can leave it in your PO Box or locker. All of these extra features are free. Just gotta pay for the PO Box, which is less expensive than 99% of the PMBs you'll find out there, in my opinion.
This. People pretend the Postal Service will deliver everything everywhere without question, but the fact of the matter is they're actually _less_ beneficial for people who truly live in rural areas. Back when I worked in mail order, I had customers who would _have_ to specify shipping things to a PO Box in another city if there was a chance the Postal Service would carry it, because they'd flatly refuse to do so. FedEx never had that problem, and FedEx would also carry all the fun stuff (like ammo) the Postal Service will also flatly refuse to carry.
@@edv9142 That's assuming your Post Office is open 24/7; in the very small town I used to live in they were on site four days a week, from 8 AM to noon. Try using that reliably while working a 9/5 job.
@AJadedLizard That's a fair point. some rural post offices have weird hours like that. In those situations, I'd imagine any private mailbox business would have limited hours too.
The most incompetent government agency. 90% of mail delivery has been eliminated since 1990, but the cost to the taxpayer has increased by the billions. For Every mail carrier there are 3 retired.
It doesn't need to be privatized it needs to change how it's retirement is funded. It's ridiculous that every employee has to have a fully funded retirement when they are hired.
The usps website doesnt fully function. Try telling them to hold a package at the post office, the website wont let you checkout. Then i tried the chat link on the website and it told me its not available right now.
Yeah it's frustrating. The "Delivery Instructions" tool has been wonky for a long time. It seems to work better for folks who are enrolled in the Informed Delivery program already. Most of the time, we have to resort to placing the address on hold (like a vacation hold) and then give the tracking number and instructions into the Additional Notes section. Sadly, the USPS website isn't actually owned and maintained by USPS. It's frustrating for our IT Help Desk to send a "ticket" up to the "program office" only to get back some useless template email with instructions that we've already walked the customers through lol.
People don’t understand that the USPS has a monopoly. It is illegal for private companies to carry letters, only the USPS can. Privatization means getting rid of these monopoly powers.
@@snipingcow Yup. Universal service is why it was listed in the Constitution. Wonder how many of the other 500 federal agencies have their own clause in the Constitution? Zero? lol Love how these fickle political hacks always use the USPS as a punching bag for having a deficit due to the mandated pre-funding of retirees to the tune of 5 billion, but never display such vigor in all the other agencies costing us Trillions.
Also, just not true. You can carry a letter no matter who you are. But also not really the point. USPS is a public good, mandated in the US Constitution, it is a huge economic driver and great agency. It shouldn't have to be profitable when it drives economic and societal good by existing in its current form.
USPS lost a huge collection of books I was sending to my favorite author to sign. They never found them. Books I had been collecting since the 1970's. They didn't even refund my shipping fees.
These two are completely misinformed. USPS isn't ment to make a profit. And they deliver to every home. The other services do not.Fedex and ,Amazon depend on the USPS for most of there rural deliveries. So thank the USPS
Those other businesses are for profit we charge universal coverage where cost the same price for mailing a letter or package from around the corner or from Alaska to Florida.
Some years ago a guy in Alaska tried to get a whole bunch of bricks shipped to him the price he got quoted was ridiculous. Can you put an address on each brick paid postage and have the post office mail it to him it was a lot cheaper then the price you got quoted but the post office had to rent A barge in the tugboat to deliver it he saved money but the taxpayers took off the slack
USPS got mildly better when private carriers like FedEx, UPS and others stepped in. People saying USPS is still reliable and cheap also must understand that they're still losing money and gets heavily subsidized by the federal government. Should our government be handling your amazon purchase? I think not.
The postal service has a constitutional mandate (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7), so privatization is highly unlikely. No private company would be willing to take on the double liability of its postal workers union and its unfunded pension plan, and those couldn’t easily be phased out. Abolition is the only solution, and that would require a constitutional amendment. Sorry, libertarians, it appears we’re stuck with it.
As a boomer I have mailed checks to utility companies, etc. Now, however, because thieves are breaking into mailboxes and steeling checks and changing the information on them, the post office is telling us not to send checks through the mail. I guess I can't even send birthday cards for fear they will never arrive. So why do we have this service?
I used to pay by money order, but I've never actually mailed anyone a check. I prefer echecks now: it can't get lost in the mail, it can't get stolen, and it can't get left sitting on a shelf for a month because the company who owns my apartment is inept and forgot to cash it (yes, that happened).
This video presents a characteristically simplistic and unnuanced but elitist perspective on the issue. I generally favor privatization but I have serious doubts that this would be well handled well or that we wont lose more than we gain from the options presented. At the moment the things propping up the USPS are the junk mail no one wants and the delivery services that people want to replace USPS with. There are still significant important and legally mandated services that must remain viable through the mail but that are nowhere near the profitability required for a private organization.
Make email a part of USPS which was created to protect the privacy of citizen letters, etc. It would restore rightful privacy to citizens AND bolster USPS
What? Why does the government need to be involved in email? That's a terrible idea. Most companies will email you bills if you ask them to. Most companies will _text_ you bills now. There's nothing else need be mailed to you.
It's true. DeJoy has been trying to "restructure" our logistics network to make it more efficient. Mainly by closing more of the smaller regional hubs and trying to centralize mail and package sorting and processing into larger hubs. Unfortunately, those hubs were never meant to handle the resulting increase in volume, so everything is backlogged and slow as hell. All a lame attempt to counter-act the cost of being forced to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years into the future ... a Congressional mandate that no other company on the planet is forced to endure.
In rural areas the post office is an essential service and our postmaster an important member of our community. We send and receive books and chicks at affordable rates. Cottage businesses are allowed to thrive because they can send products at affordable rates. It’s when we go to the larger cities that we are met by rude employees and government excuses. Rural communities would suffer from the loss of US Postal Services.
I wonder how this would change mail-in-ballots. Not that I feel they are secure now going through USPS, but it seems even more problematic going through a private corporation.
I dunno, the Postal Union has been a Democrat stronghold for...ever, actually. I'm a bit skeptical of them not "losing" ballots in areas they don't expect to win as it stands.
Postal workers are overpaid and receive extremely generous benefits and pensions. The term "going postal" came about when a postal worker lost their job and went crazy because they knew wthey could not get a job in private industry at anywhere near their government salary.
Did these two people not do any research before they aired this? USPS is not tax payer funded. USPS is not supposed to make a profit. And it’s almost like they’re excited about over 600,000 people could potentially lose their job? This is honestly really disgusting ReasonTV
South African Post Office: one month to send a registered mail letter from the Cape Town Master of the High Court to an address barely 10km away. Pretty sure USPS isn't that bad, but definitely still unnecessary today.
It's a myth the Postal Service delivers to rural areas. They'll deliver to small _towns,_ but if you don't live in a city, guess what, you're going to have to hope the nearest town to you has a PO Box. Or you can just have FedEx swing by once a week.
Not taking into account economy or politics, the USPS is the most reliable delivery service I've used in years. They may not be as fast as Amazon, but if they say it will be there on Tuesday, it will be there on Tuesday. Is this a regional thing? Is the USPS bad outside of Indiana?
USPS is only in the shape they're in because Congress forced them to pre fund their retirement benefits. They are forced to set aside money for retirement benefits for employees 75 years into the future. They were doing fine before Congress intentionally cut their legs off to set them up to fail. Congress was lobbied hard to pass this bill by private carriers who want USPS routes and who didn't want to compete with USPS.
When the government sets the prices, who's responsible for the losses? My source tells me that when Trump came into office, he assigned a postmaster who removed many of the sorting machines. Why would he do that? Could that be the cause of so many complaints of delays or lost mail? This episode seems very one-dimensional
You do realize that the mail tampering and warrant requirements to keep mail private do not apply to private companies that handle packages. Post Offices provide more services than you realize. Money Orders, Passports just a few.
I sent a Christmas package usps years ago to friends on an archeological dig in Israel and paid for guaranteed delivery.... They got it for Easter because they sent it to Australia! Did I get a refund? Nope. 🙄 They don't do refunds even when they mess up.
Very true about the importance of sending back thank you letters for gifts! Unfortunately I have to be better at it. My Mother has tried to remind me to do it consistently.
@@edv9142 It takes two days in WI through USPS. Nova Poshta offers changing rooms for people to try on clothes purchased online to see if they fit and return them right away. It is better.
lol I hope you filed an inquiry with the post office. Those ones are always funny when they learn it contained a firearm. Upper management has to put on diapers, just in case lol.
Hold on there. - I propose reducing physical mail requirements for general billing, etc. - Then, dramatically reduce USPS's duties to just rual areas where it's not cost-effective and there isn't consistent demand for service for companies to deliver to. That I would agree to. Not this tired "all or nothing" argument on both sides.
Ok, I'm a postal employee 23 years, and you know going private means layoffs. Not everyone in the postal service is lames. How about looking at management there's your problem.
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LOOK USPS DELIVERS AMAZON, UPS, FED EX, DHL... AND MAIL AND PACKAGES 7 DAYS A WEEK TOU BLITHERING IDIOTS!!!!!!
The people are talking about how horrible and unreliable the postal service is but that hasn't been my experience. I can't remember them ever failing to deliver and I seem to be getting all my mail.
After several complaints about weeks of the USPS failing to forward any mail, the manager figured out the problem.
See, I had written a "v" instead of a "u," misspelling my own last name.
Boy, did I feel dumb.
I used to get paid through my city, every Monday. Labor Day resulted in my paycheck being delayed _two weeks._ _Two weeks_ because they were closed one day on a holiday we observe every year.
I've also had issues with them carrying something all the way across the country, then putting it on the wrong truck, claiming my address doesn't exist _because they sent it to the wrong part of town_ and then sending said items all the way back _to China._ I've never had that problem with a private carrier, but I write off anything USPS is supposed to deliver me until it actually shows up.
Yeah I don’t either but why isn’t it even close to being profitable? It should at least be self sufficient instead of tax payers subsidizing there incompetence
My husband works at USPS currently and is in his 29th year of working there. The main problem is that CONGRESS messed them over a decade ago by forcing them to "pre-fund" retirement for FUTURE employees....that's right, not current ones, FUTURE ONES. So blame CONGRESS for making it seem like the USPS is "in the red" every year when it's not really. LOOK INTO IT PEOPLE.
I don’t see a private company wanting to buy the postal service if they have to cover the pension
Preach it. USPS if fine the retirement system is killing them.
@@jeffa7671unless the retirement system is changed nobody is going to touch USPS with a 10 foot pole. They are a semi independent as it is.
I will not be getting a pension. But, I will have to work until I'm 75 to pay for your husband's pension. You are incredibly tone deaf to be in the position you're in and still be complaining or defending.
German post service is private and way better than USPS
USPS was the cheapest way to send our packages until recently. What happened? They are now a parcel delivery company with a Universal Service Mandate albatross. What about that universal service? The Postal Service loses money because it has to prefund retirees 75 years out. Duh.
Bad idea. People in other countries constantly complain when public services are privatized. Don't do it here
lol what? That’s the opposite of most real world data. Where are u finding examples of socialist programs being better then the private sector
Lol, she didn’t have to mail the invitations by usps for $00.73 a piece she could have used fedex for $13.95 a piece.
When ever I order something from Amazon it is delivered by the USPS.
Exactly.
The post office delivers Amazon packages lol
Us postal service Should not be owned by any affiliated number
I don't care who you put in charge of USPS -- there is no way ANYBODY could make sweeping changes -- Due to UNIONS.
USPS deals with nine collective bargaining agreements with seven unions.
HOLEY SHIT -- that makes it impossible to get ANYTHING Changed. Any proposed changes have to be checked against 9 different sets of rules to maintain compliance with the Union requirements. And of course, the unions push back against 99 percent of proposed changes.
How much money and man hours are spent (wasted) on Union Compliance?
** I am NOT necessarily Anti-Union. But having to deal with 9 collective bargaining agreements is TOTAL HORSE SHIT.
How dare unions ask for decent pay and benefits.
@@CelestialWoodway horsehit. These agreements cover far more than just basic pay and benefits. They are huge bloated things that cover all sorts of ridiculous things.
My problem is here in Appalachia we have lots of people leaving out in the mountains. I doubt a private company would deliver mail up into the moutains.
Get a P.O. Box in town? Why would you expect cheap and or free delivery to some place in the boonies?
......you are assuming, without any facts, that a significant elimination of service would occur.....IMO, that won't occur.
Libertarians just don't Get It
Amazon does
@hughmiller2416 what mail are you getting that can't just be replaced with digital options? Only old people send letters, packages would go to a PO Box or a Dropbox in town. Solved.
As a postal worker, i can say that the Postal Service is not meant to be Profitable. It's a service meant to ensure mail service for every American
Can we make junk mail illegal then? Or charge the companies more? It seems to me the tax payer is paying to subsidize advertisements hitting my mailbox.
Can't it just break even and stop being a money pit?
@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 You want to know why there is so much junk mail? It is the actual thing that funds the Post Office. There is no Federal budget for the Post Office, the employees are not funded by tax money. People just regurgitate the same dumb ass line without actually knowing anything about the Post Office. Everyone wants to go for the low hanging fruit, however look at the spending bill Mike Johnson put out there. Foreign aid, endless wars and back room deals with congress critters, but you know what the real issue is? The Post Office! FedEx and UPS can't even handle their loads as they dump packages on the Post Office. Amazon is a joke to even consider doing anything with it
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 What you consider junk mail is profitable for the postal service.
You basically just stuff everyone's mailboxes with spammy junk mail. That's not a service. Especially when you waste tax dollars to do it.
Amazon, UPS, FedEx, etc. are horrible delivering to many rural areas, so much so that they often use USPS to fulfill many rural deliveries. Good luck rural communities!
Exactly, USPS is often the 'last mile' deliverer because they are the only ones that go to certain regions.
@@mr2981OR, or, they are so cheap, that it’s cheaper to just let them do it, instead of doing it yourself? Yeah, when you have a cheap and subsized option, of course you’re going to choose that option. Take that option away, and they will magically find a way to deliver to those routes too.
These two elites DO NOT CARE. This show is absolutely detached.
Entrepreneurs will step up and fill the gap
@@sirclarkmarz repeat after me: only.if.they.can.make.money.
They should be held accountable for their waste and inefficiencies, but I also think it's ok that the USPS does not "make money".
The post office would actually be profitable, but Congress forced them to prefund retirement benefits. Something no other organization, public or private has to do. That immediately put them into the red. Congress intentionally has set them up to fail so they can privatize it.
Nothing helps with accountability like having your profits hurt. This is what keeps private businesses paying attention.
It loses you money and I don't consent to ineffective government or business practices. If UPS caused you to lose money because it did a bad job and you don't use UPS it doesn't fall on you. This does.
Yeah.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was required to prepay retiree health benefits under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006, which mandated prepayment for 75 years into the future. This unusual requirement obligated the USPS to set aside funds for benefits of future retirees who had not even been born yet, over a 10-year period from 2007 to 2016.
This mandate created significant financial strain on the USPS, contributing to ongoing losses. In 2022, the Postal Service Reform Act was passed, eliminating the prepayment requirement and transferring the responsibility for retiree health benefits to Medicare, providing much-needed financial relief.
But without the Postman, what will we do after the end of the world when we need a symbol of hope and normalcy?
Doordash driver?
.....stop playing Android games 24/7
if you guys don't know what they do then stop making comments about their job! I am pretty sure that you only know is what you see but inside of all these job and all the carriers you guys don't know, you don't know.
The post office is in the US Constitution and cannot be privatized unless there’s a constitutional amendment. I am an employee of the United States Postal Service, and I have to say, something needs to be done and needs to be done quickly. I hope they can find some answers to resolve this issue.
If they privatise the USPS, does that mean the U.S. will still subsidize the new private company? Because the majority of all mail routes are unprofitable, hence why the USPS was created in the first place. Either get rid of 75% of mail service or subsidize the new private company, both options are terrible.
How do UPS, FedEx and Amazon make money then? Think about the last time you got mail from USPS, what was it?
Junk mail pamphlet? A bill?
There's nothing that the USPS provides that can't be replaced with digital, or is already done by fedex.
@@Girraficusthewise they only do packages that make money not letters
@@Girraficusthewise they only do packages, not mail or medication delivers. Plus there shipping fees are extremely high for packages. On top of that UPS and FedEx use USPS for deliveries and facilities in many rural areas, because it's not profitable. Just like with infrastructure, I don't think people understand how logistics work and who is truly paying for it
@elizabethb3436 ok, who the fuck sends letters still? Its nearly 2025.
Email, text, e-card. The only letters people get on a regular basis can 100 percent be replaced with digital options, or are things no one wants anyways like those promotional flyers.
@@SofaSpy UPS does medication deliveries. Its what Pillpack used to use for their deliveries before Amazon bought them. Worked there for 4 years
There are a lot of government programs that deserve to be cut and we can do without. USPS is not one of them. It’s too important of a service. Many mail routes are inefficient, and a private company would simply cut those routes or charge exorbitant fees. That is not only bad for individuals, but also bad for the market, as many corporations depend on USPS for things like billing or sending standardized forms.
Ah... yes you bring up a good point. We have too many laws requiring private businesses to notify their clients "by mail." Those laws would have to go. How ridiculous to require private business to hire private hand delivery. How expensive.
With that kind of belief, I highly doubt you actually want to cut certain departments. I am at least interested in the ones you do want to cut. In a privatized world, the companies charging "exorbitant fees" would go out of business and be easily beaten by reasonably priced mail services. You pay for the mail service of others through huge income taxes anyways.
I doubt your assertion that this service is important. I get 90% junk mail.
@@michaelsmith6818 just think of the benefit to the environment of all the junk mail never made, sent, and disposed of......
Many mail routes are pretty efficient. Most of the mail process is automated and the stuff that isn’t is protected by unions.(like package sorters, and mail sorters) But let’s get to it mail isn’t efficient. The main problem I believe is with the managers and outdated methods.
Its always funny seeing people who have never worked a physical job in their lives talk about how easy it is to take a parcel from one spot to another 🤡
They can see that some do it much better than others, and that's all most people care about.
FedEx,
UPS, FedEx, DHL & Amazon manage to do so.
@mylessalmon2569 do they deliver mail too?
@@TheFettMan Except for Amazon.
@@TheFettMan They're legally not allowed to. The postmaster general had to forcibly shut down private mail courier operations like the Pony Express specifically because they were bankrupting the Post Office. The only reason the Post Office exists today is because it is a very old federal monopoly - it would have died long before the Civil War otherwise.
My carrier departs, talking on the phone, leaving the mailbox lid open. In the rain. In front of me.
Even worse yet, my local post office in Duluth, GA is a den of thieves that is protected by law against having my local police department investigate crimes from this location. We were victims, but thankfully not to the extent of some.
The post office is not meant to ensure mail delivery, it’s meant only to ensure gravy jobs for gold- brick government employees.
Wrong. Read the Wiki on Louis DeJoy.
@@DonaldJoeKennedy Point well taken he is enacting major changes, yet two years later USPS reported a $9.5 billion net loss for fiscal 2024, despite year-over-year growth in revenue and a reduction in its controllable expenses. The agency saw a $6.5 billion loss in FY 2023.
Well, to be fair, as I understand it they also allow for lateral transfers from the DoD; buddy of mine in college transferred from the Army into the Postal Service and kept his seniority.
Junk mail puts food on my table Robbie.
You may well be going hungry soon…
USPS is absolutely the best delivery service at my house. UPS is acceptable, FedEx is horrible and Amazon uses USPS here. However, probably the primary reason why USPS works so well here is because the actual delivery is done by a private contractor
Privatization doesn't guarantee anything because savings from waste elimination is just pocketed by those at the top.
....that's girl math, silly goose........having the government do anything guarantees to cost 3x more, is never able to do a satisfactory job, and is never held to accountability......
Atleast the tax payers won't be force to pay for wasteful spending.
well, with a truly private company, that's exactly what you want. you want incentive to be efficient and provide a decent service or good. those who own the company (as in, the ones who put in all the money, blood, sweat, and tears to start the business, who are also the ones who will have to go BANKRUPT if it fails..) should indeed reap the benefit of cutting waste.
ofc, if they cut too much, they will eat into what is necessary to do good business, and they will feel the hurt as a result. this is how the market regulates itself, regardless of what any socialist think tank troll says.
It is a step in the right direction. Your issue seems to be more with the way taxes are collected
@@SmartCreeperits not government funded lol
A good start would be for UPS, FedEx, DHL, and Amazon to begin delivering mail.
lol good luck with that. USPS delivers more mail than all the rest of the worlds postal agencies combined. Even among packages, USPS delivers more than UPS, FedEx, and Amazon. Hell, DHL delivers less than 2% of packages in the US. Not to mention that USPS delivers a significant portion of UPS SurePost, UPS Mail Innovations, FedEx SmartPost and Amazon packages.
Without USPS already going to every mailbox already, making it cost-effective for those companies to have USPS do the final delivery, all those other shipping companies would see significant increases in their shipping costs.
If Congress just got rid of the mandated retiree health benefit pre-payments and allowed USPS to use a "Pay as you go" system like every other company on the planet, USPS would save nearly 6 Billion dollars per year and be profitable, even with all the unions jacking up the salaries and making it impossible to fire the useless employees.
@@edv9142 I mostly agree. I see USPS delivering packages for Amazon on Sundays here in rural northwest PA. I haven't inquired, so I can only assume that the USPS is being paid by Amazon. I also know that I have tracked a few packages from the UPS system to the USPS for final delivery during the week. I don't understand why that is, because we routinely have UPS (and FedEx) in our neighborhood, just not on Sundays.
Anyway, keeping it germane; UPS/FedEx aren't permitted by law to be the custodians of mail; meaning letters/postcards/birthday cards, etc. By law, as I understand it, only the postal service can handle those, and they do it inefficiently....it is abject stupidity. For instance, have you noticed that there is no more "local zip code" box in the PO any more? If anyone wants to deliver a sympathy card--this has happened to me, and others--and have it arrive before the funeral, good luck. You're better off delivering it to the mailbox of the bereaved yourself. The card would have to leave Ridgway, PA, be transported to a sorting center in Harrisburg, where it is then routed back up to the very town where it began it's journey. Absolutely stupid...and they just began that practice withing the last ten years or so.
The postal service may still handle as much as you've stated, albeit inefficiently, but it's only because they're so ubiquitous. There is a stretch of "highway" between St. Marys, PA and Penfield, PA, of about 19 miles where there are three small post offices in between, each with their own employees serving their little communities, each with their own publicly funded salaries, benefits, and pensions. Again....just stupid because it is unnecessary. There should be ONE between St. Marys and Penfield.
Anyway, I don't disagree with your statistics, but it doesn't mean that they're processing all of those parcels efficiently and that it wouldn't be more efficient by the private sector.
I have problems with privatizing utilities that raise all of our standards of living but the idea of it no longer being affordable for most junk mail does raise my interest
any "private" company that does not boast lower prices and better service/product than its govt counterpart? is also govt pretending to be private, or else is run by the wildly incompetent.
private means better stuff for lower prices by its very nature.
Odd. I've almost never had a problem with the mail being lost. Amazon often uses the USPS for delivery to remote/rural locations.
I tend to agree with the idea that the USPS provides a service (mail service to every household in the US) which has value even if it cannot be done profitably. Unless there is a mandate that the USPS continue to provide service to all households I feel like there is a real possibility that some houses may lose mail service if we fully privatize. Without an artificially low competitor it also seems likely that consumers will see a large increase in shipping costs. If a private USPS veers toward bankruptcy would the government bail it out to maintain mail service to all Americans? Is that any better than our current arrangement?
I don’t know what the solution is but fully privatizing the USPS seems fraught with potential issues.
I’m not a fan of USPS in general or any large government agency, but I live in a rural area, Amazon doesn’t even deliver out here…period. They farm it out to other carriers, seemingly FedEx gets most of it. When I lived in a city Amazon was hands down the worst. I had packages that got lost completely, delivered to wrong houses on my street and even wrong streets and numbers at the same time. They were horrible. Now that I’m in the boonies I have 3 carriers, not counting freight; USPS, UPS and FedEx. Of the 3 where I live, FedEx is the worst of the 3. It depends upon what carrier I get that day. The other 2, UPS and USPS are great.
Bear in mind I’m talking about this at the carrier level, my carriers in particular, not the bureaucracy, not the waste that goes into USPS.
Amazon's pretty good in my area; I don't have any issues with them or FedEx, but UPS pretty consistently refuses to deliver to apartments no matter where they are. And then there's the Post Office, who will happily load a package on the wrong truck, send it to the other side of town, determine my address doesn't exist, and then return the package to sender. I had an actual inspector explain that journey about a package to me once.
Also, I live in southern Missouri; if I want to mail a letter across town, it's actually shipped four hours north to _Kansas City_ and then sent back here after being "sorted." You wanna see inefficiency, watch the real-time tracking for any USPS package. I watched something leave a warehouse here, bound for California, end up in New Jersey.
I'm not sure if this number factors into the losses mentioned in the video, but USPS is part of an international consortium of mail services that subsidize 3rd world countries mail delivery to outside countries. It costs less for someone in Africa to send a letter to US than someone in the US to send a letter to Africa. This is why you can order something from China for under a dollar. China really exploits this definition of third world since they have things like a large standing army and space program
Yup. All the international rules are established through the Universal Postal Union since 1874, merging into a UN agency in 1948.
4:27 I have to weigh in on this. I work for a small financial institution and I deal with all of the mail. You are so right it hurts!! People have NO IDEA how to address a letter. I’m talking no return address, no addressee, the return address in the bottom corner for god knows why. It’s frustrating but I also wonder if I’m expecting too much of people 🤔
It sucks that public schools no longer teach kids such basic things as letter writing and mailing envelopes.
USPS is wasting money,
But first have to fix healthcare insurance problems.
When first problem is fixed, then we can look postal service.
USPS isn't wasting money. It's operating costs are self-funded. The "deficit" everyone talks about is due to the retiree pre-fund mandate from Congress. If Congress allowed USPS to use a pay-as-you-go system like every other company in the world, the deficit would be non-existent and USPS would actually be profitable.
The first thing that should be done with the postal service is to add some common sense into their procurement. There is no reason we are paying a defense contractor a million dollars per truck.
Go to Ford, have them convert a right hand drive transit from the UK and use that for ~50K a pop.
I'll be sad to see the Mailcat replaced but its served its purpose.
Second thing to do is reform the service as a whole, the postal service is something guaranteed via the constitution and is vitally important to transmit information (even in this day and age) from point A to B. We should look at how to best optimize the service for the 21st century. That firstly goes into greater transparency of its issues, and empowering the executive over the agency to address them without the need for congressional approval.
TSA needs to go private!!
It needs to go away, private
It is a federal crime to bribe any postal employee as per 18 U.S.C 201, so that was an untasteful joke.
We live in a rural-ish area. People usually have at least an acre if not more. There are mailboxes up a main road and County Roads, however some how the house that we purchased in 2019 do not get USPS delivery nor UPS. Our house isn’t registered. This house is at least 50 years old if not older. But the Postal Service can’t “see” the house. And UPS can’t seem to find my house that is visible from the mail road. 😶 Now it turned out to be a blessing we got a private mail box service and we don’t get junk mail, we don’t need to worry about porch pirates. The private service is always available during the day to sign for packages. It’s fantastic!
I get it. It's probably a "multi-service" business that also takes packages. Nice. How much do they charge extra per package for having it delivered there?
You can also get a PO Box at a post office that uses parcel lockers for larger items. You'll still get 24/7 access.
You can also sign up for Informed Delivery to see pictures of incoming mail so you'll know if it's worth the trip to the post office that day. Informed Delivery also automatically detects and tracks incoming packages headed to your PO Box.
You can also use the "Street Addressing" feature to mimic a street address, allowing you to order packages on websites that don't allow shipping to PO Boxes.
You can also use the "Electronic Signature Online" service that would allow the post office to apply a pre-saved signature to any incoming mail/package that requires a signature so they can leave it in your PO Box or locker.
All of these extra features are free. Just gotta pay for the PO Box, which is less expensive than 99% of the PMBs you'll find out there, in my opinion.
This.
People pretend the Postal Service will deliver everything everywhere without question, but the fact of the matter is they're actually _less_ beneficial for people who truly live in rural areas. Back when I worked in mail order, I had customers who would _have_ to specify shipping things to a PO Box in another city if there was a chance the Postal Service would carry it, because they'd flatly refuse to do so. FedEx never had that problem, and FedEx would also carry all the fun stuff (like ammo) the Postal Service will also flatly refuse to carry.
@@edv9142 That's assuming your Post Office is open 24/7; in the very small town I used to live in they were on site four days a week, from 8 AM to noon. Try using that reliably while working a 9/5 job.
@AJadedLizard That's a fair point. some rural post offices have weird hours like that. In those situations, I'd imagine any private mailbox business would have limited hours too.
The most incompetent government agency. 90% of mail delivery has been eliminated since 1990, but the cost to the taxpayer has increased by the billions. For Every mail carrier there are 3 retired.
Note that USPS is already largely independently funded. This would be the last string tying it to the federal government.
It doesn't need to be privatized it needs to change how it's retirement is funded. It's ridiculous that every employee has to have a fully funded retirement when they are hired.
It's sad to see the Free Media Comments becoming as rude as the Rising Comments. Please be respectful and polite. Thanks.
The usps website doesnt fully function. Try telling them to hold a package at the post office, the website wont let you checkout. Then i tried the chat link on the website and it told me its not available right now.
Yeah it's frustrating. The "Delivery Instructions" tool has been wonky for a long time. It seems to work better for folks who are enrolled in the Informed Delivery program already. Most of the time, we have to resort to placing the address on hold (like a vacation hold) and then give the tracking number and instructions into the Additional Notes section.
Sadly, the USPS website isn't actually owned and maintained by USPS. It's frustrating for our IT Help Desk to send a "ticket" up to the "program office" only to get back some useless template email with instructions that we've already walked the customers through lol.
People don’t understand that the USPS has a monopoly. It is illegal for private companies to carry letters, only the USPS can. Privatization means getting rid of these monopoly powers.
people dont understand that this monopoly is a net good which allows and forces the USPS to deliver to rural areas for cheap.
@@snipingcow Yup. Universal service is why it was listed in the Constitution. Wonder how many of the other 500 federal agencies have their own clause in the Constitution? Zero? lol
Love how these fickle political hacks always use the USPS as a punching bag for having a deficit due to the mandated pre-funding of retirees to the tune of 5 billion, but never display such vigor in all the other agencies costing us Trillions.
Also, just not true. You can carry a letter no matter who you are. But also not really the point. USPS is a public good, mandated in the US Constitution, it is a huge economic driver and great agency. It shouldn't have to be profitable when it drives economic and societal good by existing in its current form.
Doesn't the Constitution require a Post Office.
Congress also has the power to issue Letters of Marque. Which is something they haven't done in awhile but should definitely bring back.
@@Hedgehobbit So we can sink more pirate ships?
It allows Congress to establish one. It does not require one.
Doesn't require, but authorizes Congress to create one and post roads. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7.
I am younger than the two of you combined and I know how to send and receive mail. It's a subconscious action.
Yeah, it's not complicated. Hilariously inefficient, but not complicated.
@@AJadedLizard Not complicated whatsoever. Even less because I work for the USPS.
The USPS is not tax-funded.
Only thing I would say is that USPS workers pay Federal and State taxes like every other American does.
if it goes private that means someone would have to buy it from the government. as much debt that the postal service is in I doubt that happens.
USPS lost a huge collection of books I was sending to my favorite author to sign. They never found them. Books I had been collecting since the 1970's. They didn't even refund my shipping fees.
That sounds bizarre. Was it shipped within the last 120 days? I might be able to help if you still have the tracking number.
These two are completely misinformed. USPS isn't ment to make a profit. And they deliver to every home. The other services do not.Fedex and ,Amazon depend on the USPS for most of there rural deliveries. So thank the USPS
If the USPS is so bad, why does Amazon rely on it to get the Last Mile delivery to its customers?
Because they pay the USPS to process and delivery an undisclosed amount of packages.
Those other businesses are for profit we charge universal coverage where cost the same price for mailing a letter or package from around the corner or from Alaska to Florida.
Some years ago a guy in Alaska tried to get a whole bunch of bricks shipped to him the price he got quoted was ridiculous. Can you put an address on each brick paid postage and have the post office mail it to him it was a lot cheaper then the price you got quoted but the post office had to rent A barge in the tugboat to deliver it he saved money but the taxpayers took off the slack
Let Amazon pay the post-office a reasonable price for delivering their packages then the postal service wouldn't be in this shape.
USPS got mildly better when private carriers like FedEx, UPS and others stepped in. People saying USPS is still reliable and cheap also must understand that they're still losing money and gets heavily subsidized by the federal government. Should our government be handling your amazon purchase? I think not.
My mail man is great
My university wisely privatized parking, and students saved so much money. Oh, wait, prices went up 2x.
The postal service has a constitutional mandate (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7), so privatization is highly unlikely. No private company would be willing to take on the double liability of its postal workers union and its unfunded pension plan, and those couldn’t easily be phased out. Abolition is the only solution, and that would require a constitutional amendment.
Sorry, libertarians, it appears we’re stuck with it.
As a boomer I have mailed checks to utility companies, etc. Now, however, because thieves are breaking into mailboxes and steeling checks and changing the information on them, the post office is telling us not to send checks through the mail. I guess I can't even send birthday cards for fear they will never arrive. So why do we have this service?
I used to pay by money order, but I've never actually mailed anyone a check. I prefer echecks now: it can't get lost in the mail, it can't get stolen, and it can't get left sitting on a shelf for a month because the company who owns my apartment is inept and forgot to cash it (yes, that happened).
This video presents a characteristically simplistic and unnuanced but elitist perspective on the issue. I generally favor privatization but I have serious doubts that this would be well handled well or that we wont lose more than we gain from the options presented. At the moment the things propping up the USPS are the junk mail no one wants and the delivery services that people want to replace USPS with. There are still significant important and legally mandated services that must remain viable through the mail but that are nowhere near the profitability required for a private organization.
Amazon and UPS do a better job of delivering parcels and letters. They can even tell you where the packages are and to whom they were delivered.
No mail means no bills. Sounds awesome.
Make email a part of USPS which was created to protect the privacy of citizen letters, etc.
It would restore rightful privacy to citizens AND bolster USPS
What? Why does the government need to be involved in email? That's a terrible idea.
Most companies will email you bills if you ask them to. Most companies will _text_ you bills now. There's nothing else need be mailed to you.
Hate to break it to you,but the post office is already a self funded private organization.
oh sure because privatized healthcare has worked out to advantage so many Americans.....
There is almost no part of the healthcare sector that is fully privatized
Because public-run police forces have worked out _so well_ for so many Americans.
See, I can do it too.
@@AJadedLizard actually they are unionized and thus have a private entity
@@charlesballiet7074 Are you, uh, suggested the police _aren't_ a government organ? Are you suggesting the USPS _doesn't_ have a union?
so many of my packages are lost or late, USPS needs to be fixed
It's true. DeJoy has been trying to "restructure" our logistics network to make it more efficient. Mainly by closing more of the smaller regional hubs and trying to centralize mail and package sorting and processing into larger hubs. Unfortunately, those hubs were never meant to handle the resulting increase in volume, so everything is backlogged and slow as hell. All a lame attempt to counter-act the cost of being forced to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years into the future ... a Congressional mandate that no other company on the planet is forced to endure.
Remember that one time Kamala Harris said she was going to fix grocery prices? Whacko number one!
In rural areas the post office is an essential service and our postmaster an important member of our community. We send and receive books and chicks at affordable rates. Cottage businesses are allowed to thrive because they can send products at affordable rates. It’s when we go to the larger cities that we are met by rude employees and government excuses. Rural communities would suffer from the loss of US Postal Services.
I wonder how this would change mail-in-ballots. Not that I feel they are secure now going through USPS, but it seems even more problematic going through a private corporation.
.....so your "feelies" tell you it would be bad?......where have I heard that before?
I dunno, the Postal Union has been a Democrat stronghold for...ever, actually. I'm a bit skeptical of them not "losing" ballots in areas they don't expect to win as it stands.
Postal workers are overpaid and receive extremely generous benefits and pensions.
The term "going postal" came about when a postal worker lost their job and went crazy because they knew wthey could not get a job in private industry at anywhere near their government salary.
Lysander Spooner approves. On my desk are two of his stamps framed.
Thank you for being the only person to mention Lysander Spooner. :-)
Did these two people not do any research before they aired this? USPS is not tax payer funded. USPS is not supposed to make a profit. And it’s almost like they’re excited about over 600,000 people could potentially lose their job? This is honestly really disgusting ReasonTV
Everyone would lose if the USPS were to go private. It wouldn't just affect us postal employees. We would all lose.
South African Post Office: one month to send a registered mail letter from the Cape Town Master of the High Court to an address barely 10km away.
Pretty sure USPS isn't that bad, but definitely still unnecessary today.
You need the post office for universal delivery and rural areas ,
It's a myth the Postal Service delivers to rural areas. They'll deliver to small _towns,_ but if you don't live in a city, guess what, you're going to have to hope the nearest town to you has a PO Box.
Or you can just have FedEx swing by once a week.
@AJadedLizard nah bro I'm in rural alabama they come deliver every day .
Not taking into account economy or politics, the USPS is the most reliable delivery service I've used in years. They may not be as fast as Amazon, but if they say it will be there on Tuesday, it will be there on Tuesday. Is this a regional thing? Is the USPS bad outside of Indiana?
Will the government open up the market on certified letters?
USPS is only in the shape they're in because Congress forced them to pre fund their retirement benefits. They are forced to set aside money for retirement benefits for employees 75 years into the future. They were doing fine before Congress intentionally cut their legs off to set them up to fail. Congress was lobbied hard to pass this bill by private carriers who want USPS routes and who didn't want to compete with USPS.
Bruh. It needs to be privatized cuz it's just sitting there losing tax payer money
When the government sets the prices, who's responsible for the losses? My source tells me that when Trump came into office, he assigned a postmaster who removed many of the sorting machines. Why would he do that? Could that be the cause of so many complaints of delays or lost mail? This episode seems very one-dimensional
Forget about your Christmas gifts usps delivers more packages than probably Amazon ,usp and fed ex put together just do your research
All the USPS drivers complain about their job anyway
USPS has been reliable for me.
It's obvious these 2 don't have a clue about the usps
Please enlighten us.
You do realize that the mail tampering and warrant requirements to keep mail private do not apply to private companies that handle packages. Post Offices provide more services than you realize. Money Orders, Passports just a few.
Reason, bringing on these two hosts was a VERY smart move for the brand and its content. well done
I sent a Christmas package usps years ago to friends on an archeological dig in Israel and paid for guaranteed delivery.... They got it for Easter because they sent it to Australia! Did I get a refund? Nope. 🙄 They don't do refunds even when they mess up.
Very true about the importance of sending back thank you letters for gifts!
Unfortunately I have to be better at it. My Mother has tried to remind me to do it consistently.
Even Ukraine has private mail. Nova Poshta(нова пошта) delivers mail anywhere in the country in one day.
Ukraine is smaller than Texas. FYI, you can ship a package within Texas in one day lol.
@@edv9142 It takes two days through UPS in WI.
@@edv9142 It takes two days in WI through USPS. Nova Poshta offers changing rooms for people to try on clothes purchased online to see if they fit and return them right away. It is better.
I bought a pre 86 M16 a few years ago. Shipped overnight via USPS and it got lost for a week. Pretty stressful.
lol I hope you filed an inquiry with the post office. Those ones are always funny when they learn it contained a firearm. Upper management has to put on diapers, just in case lol.
How are you shipping a gun through the USPS? These are the same jokers who won't let you ship ammo.
I disagree. I experience exceptionally reliable service from the usps.
Hold on there.
- I propose reducing physical mail requirements for general billing, etc.
- Then, dramatically reduce USPS's duties to just rual areas where it's not cost-effective and there isn't consistent demand for service for companies to deliver to.
That I would agree to. Not this tired "all or nothing" argument on both sides.
How would we send letters?
My USPS doesn't have a landline. My $800 package delivered to wrong address.
Ok, I'm a postal employee 23 years, and you know going private means layoffs. Not everyone in the postal service is lames. How about looking at management there's your problem.
My wife is a carrier and your right,the management is horrible.
ok, let's lay off the incompetent managers then
These two are clueless about the Postal Service
Please enlighten us.
The only government money is for Matter for the Blind or Military letters for service members in designated combat areas
Every time I hear your theme song, there’s a little voice in me that sings Bob Marley’s get up, stand up.
You guys have no idea what you are talking about please go back to school.
But who would get subsidized by the government to send spam to my house!? And what about Oshkosh?
The postal service from the beginning was a patronage vehicle.
I'm not a fan of FedEx or UPS but Amazon is great at delivering on time. I'd be all about them taking over USPS' role.