rain Alaska wtf. That’s still doesn’t make a difference??? American doesn’t mean white. Anyone can be American and that’s what makes America, America whether you like that or not. Unless you’ve seen that they don’t have their papers the you can’t say sh*t.
The thing is there isn't really a privatize company that makes soldiers so there isn't an alternative compared to the postal service that's privatized.
@@lolwtnick4362 if you think the junk mail revenue pays for the service you are mistaken. 1) I still have to pay postage, 2) they run a deficit every year.
@@robm6510 #1 you're wrong bc it does pay for you service , #2 we run at a deficit bc postal reform and accountability act 2006 forced us to prefund our health pension and care for 75 years for people who haven't even been born yet.... this was done to kill the postal service so they could privatize it ....
Hes not doing nothing, just very little, at his rate he will make it profitable, uhhhh never, because i have no doubt he's trying to make it profitable but his cost savings wont outpace the speed at which congress cripples them
As shown in the video, he can't do nothing unless congress allows him to. The only way they can reduce employees is through retirement. They can't close small unneeded post offices.
I worked for the post office for 36 years and I’ve seen the waste. What the public doesn’t know is there’s a lot of people in the post office they get paid large amounts of money and never touch a letter or a magazine. They’re called supervisors and there’s way too many of them. They spent so many millions and millions of dollars on scanners just so they can keep track of the letter carriers.The letter carriers are the back bone of the post office.
@Hex Zimpo As the video points out very clearly: the Constitution doesn’t actually require postal service, it merely says Congress has the power to make post offices if it so chooses
Bobba saw his father get beheaded, by the Jedi, right in front of him. That, normally, would affect people in some way. In Bobbas case, he dont give a shit, in a badass way. But since its 2020 Bobbas motivations are now Misogyny.
@@neckarsulme The "Internet" is just a fad and will eventually go away. The Postal "Service", on the other hand, will continue to suck tax dollars to keep it going. The irony is that they need the Postal "Service" to send us tax bills in order to pay for the Postal "Service". The Mafia would be proud.
This board chairman really nails it in the first part of the interview: “congress expects us to act like a business but doesn’t give us the flexibility to do so.” That’s the one model that hasn’t been tried: appoint a CEO (someone with non-competing interests), tell them what the goals have to be, then leave them alone and don’t micromanage every decision. If the CEO isn’t doing a good job, fire them and get a new one.
It's exactly correct. Congress made USPS a profit earning business back in the 70s or whenever but refused to let them pay the employees like a business. Then in 2006 they enacted price controls and other things to make profiting impossible. It's kind of like they're trying to destroy USPS but without taking away benefits to any of the workers or customers until it does finally capitulate. I think it's fine for USPS to not be a "business" trying to make a profit. But they should at least require that the expenses of USPS be covered by the prices they charge. It makes zero sense that what you pay to mail something is priced less than it costs to bring to someone. Even if you average it out to where someone sending mail to an impossible to reach place is the same price as down the road, the overall outcome should be no monetary gains or losses for USPS. Socialism mail is a stupid idea esp when most mail coming to you is junkmail. We're funding garbage!
@@srdjan455Mail is not a necessity. Plus, you can run something like a business even if you're not trying to maximise profits, as long as you're trying to maximise something.
Um…… No, your box always looks so beat up because people are overwhealmed with all of the packages that are sent out every single day. The average facility takes care of a MININUM of 600,000 packages a shift, an average of 700,000 packages a shift, and durring peak season (aka Christmass) it goes anywhere upwards to 1,200,000 packages a shift. Now also try to remember that there are Night Shifts as well as Day shifts, so basically every facility has to process 2x as many packages every single day. Btw, I'm not even talking about the Post Office themselves. I'm talking about the people who ACTUALLY Ship all of those packages along with countless letters and crates. A lot actually goes into sending those packages where they need to go and it can get very rough on both packages as well as the individuals handling them.
I sincerely hope you didn't believe any of this , the lady at the counter could speak to him because it's illegal for him to even be filming inside of a post office without the postmaster General's permission. He's lucky they didn't call the postal inspectors on him bc I would have
Cameron Dunstan The fact that you think so is proof that we’re doomed. The number of morons incapable of critical thinking has reached a critical point. The fucking ship is going down.
@@rocketfamilykml2528 I know fellow patriot. I'm just stating that fake news will somehow spin these facts and try blaming it on our President since they want 'mail in voting'😣😑
My best friend works for USPS circulation center and tells me that no employee is worried about getting fired so many will take naps on the job and not show up for work quite frequently. But this is the issue with any bureaucracy. They're there for tenure, not to serve the clientele. No professionalism or sense of competition. What a waste of government $$$
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII actually no, since u can make 50-100K a year depending on position with just a high school diploma with lil knowledge about anything. It attracts and keeps alot of inbreds and alcoholics cause they know one cannot get fired leaving usps would be economic suicide for alot of them.
To be fair though, private businesses haven't taken up the burden of delivering junk mail and ads. Those go to everyone and take a much larger support service since they aren't just delivering to private individuals who paid for the shipping themselves. Yeah it's prepaid by the company sending the ads out, but they seem to choose USPS exclusively because of the pricing. If you think private companies won't go for those corporate ad guys business over yours and increase your price for service to compensate for the shit they want to send ... You're mistaken. And it's not like you could just make the argument that that company will crash because you all will boycott them or something ... You can't just opt out of these guys dropping packages off to you from a service you aren't even registered with. It's really not any better than a public service ... It's just that the govt offsetting costs for the USPS has naturally attracted all of the ad delivery work, in true capitalist fashion. That part of it is the plague that will not go away. It's one of the businesses, like water, that would actually be worse to have competition in because of the sheer infrastructure that each has to put in place to operate at it's best. It's inefficient to have too many options, and you take a quality hit.
@@robm6510 “If you think private companies won't go for those corporate ad guys business over yours and increase your price for service to compensate for the shit they want to send ... You're mistaken.” You’re mistaken if you think there would be no price competition or efficiencies introduced by private carriers which the Postal Service is incapable of. “And it's not like you could just make the argument that that company will crash because you all will boycott them or something” Sure you can….IF YOU ALLOW COMPETITION, which is ILLEGAL under current law. “the govt offsetting costs for the USPS has naturally attracted all of the ad delivery work, in true capitalist fashion.” A government subsidy is not capitalism at work. “That part of it is the plague that will not go away.” The only reason it doesn’t go away is because far too many people (including, apparently, you) swallow the myth that some things “need” to be a monopoly. “It's one of the businesses, like water, that would actually be worse to have competition in because of the sheer infrastructure that each has to put in place to operate at it's best. It's inefficient to have too many options, and you take a quality hit.” Nonsense. There is no justification for government enforced monopoly. mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
My neighbor moved away, but kept ownership of his old house. He notified the USPS to forward his mail and NOT deliver mail to the old house. But they kept delivering mail to the old house even after I informed the postman twice that no one lives there. They stuffed the mailbox so full there was literary no empty space in the mailbox and you could not close the door/hatch. This was AFTER the mailbox post toppled over and the mailbox was lying on the ground, they kept stuffing it. Finally, I got tired of this BS and got permission from the owner to junk the mailbox and all. From my window I can see where the old mailbox once stood and months afterwards I would see the postman looking to find the mailbox to stuff more mail into a mailbox that was lying on the ground for a house with no one living in it. That's how ridiculous the USPS is. I've lived in 4 countries and traveled to another 4 and I can tell you the USPS is by far the absolute worst. In other countries like Japan their postal service is so reliable and efficient they even offer banking. You read that right; you can do all your banking at a Japanese postal office. Imagine trying that at a USPS.
Third class mail doesn’t get forwarded. So even if a change of address is filled out, only first and second class mail will be forwarded. Junk mail will still be delivered to the old address. Also, a change of address is only good for a year and can’t be renewed indefinitely. The post office is legally required to deliver mail to the address on the envelope.
@@PoesRaven73I think the overall point of the comment is beyond that. I work for USPS currently. You are correct about mail forwarding and the classes of mail but that's not the point. The regular carrier can mark the house as "vacant" in the case and the substitute carriers should respond accordingly. Removing the mail receptacle shouldn't be the only solution to stopping the mail service. I wouldn't be surprised if some carriers just drop the mail on the ground where a missing box should be, I know carriers like that unfortunately. Furthermore, vacant houses are often used to conduct nefarious and illegal activities. The post office shouldn't be putting carriers in danger by aiding those activities.
Part of my soul dies every time I have to pick up a package from our local post office. It's like they try to do everything wrong, discourteous, and slow.
Tyson Webber B/c it’s patriotic to support the military no matter the price tag. If you support downsizing the military obviously you are a treehugger communist who hates the armed services so much they should leave the country duh.
@@zarnaku6467 I think Lucas Bendit was being sarcastic, but yeah lol. It's ridiculous how the Post Office is supposed to make the government money unlike EVERY OTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT EXISTS. Military waste is gigantic
Look into E-packet from China. We are subsidizing the delivery of chinese goods that are competing with American businesses and those American businesses are paying extra for their competition to get cheaper rates. Must have been one of those bills that nobody read until it was too late.
I'm a Republican, but this is one of the things I don't like about the Right in America, this assumption that we need to constantly jack up defense spending year after year just because, including in peacetime. And the unfortunate thing is that the base is largely for it. So, you can blame the military industrial complex all you want, but ultimately, the GOP is simply representing its voters on this one. And I wish they'd come around on that.
This is why the post office doesn't make money any more "In 2006, Congress passed a law to require the USPS to prefund 75 years worth of retiree health benefits in the span of ten years-a cost of approximately $110 billion. Although the money is intended to be set aside for future Post Office retirees, the funds are instead being diverted to help pay down the national debt" Why no mention of this, John?
Ohhh you were so close. If you just pasted the following paragraph from DeFazio's site, you would kinda make sense. The money, that they're supposed to set aside, being diverted to pay other national debts has nothing to do with losing money. That money isn't to be used by the USPS for yearly expenses. They're just losing money outright. Now let us not forget that over 48 billion dollars that the USPS was supposed to pay for retirement since 2010, hasn't been paid. So even though they aren't paying the money they're supposed to be paying, they still are losing money. The US Government Accountability Office's report on the USPS even mentions that the service's expenses are growing faster than its revenue. Due to competition, benefits costs, and decline of the volume of mail, its losing money.
@@ammonchristiansen4518 it receives tax breaks of $2.18B a year and borrows from the treasury at the legal limit of $15.2B at 1.2% saving almost half a billion a year in interest. Its also estimated that they make $14B a year solely from being legally the only service that can deliver directly to mailboxes. While taxes might not directly go to them in a check, they are absolutely getting money off the backs of taxpayers.
@@john-michaelfranco4694 while you're on the subject how much money has the government stolen from the P.O. to pay off debt. Also name me one government institution that actually MAKES money. The P.O.
I worked for the Post Office for 32 years.And rarely had an easy day.It's a physically demanding job.It takes a toll on your body.The biggest problem is when someone is hired and can't do the work,they get into management and then demand the people who do the work to do more than what time allows.It's the Peter Principle defined.There is a lot of waste.And generally it's in management.They don't do much at all.And they pressure carriers,who are out in the elements and out in the public to do more and more.And some carriers will skip their lunch and breaks so they won't get disciplined.The Post Office promotes people who show a history of disciplining carriers and clerks.It's a good paying job,with good benefits.But a miserable company to work for.I always said when I worked there.Check your smile at the door.They don't want any happy employees.they will discipline you with a letter of warning for being 5 minutes late on your route.And yet they claim to preach safety.
mrclassicrock61 sooo glad I was able to endure long enough to retire from that HELLHOLE. I still can't believe the change in my attitude and personality since I'm not under that stress anymore.
I had a family member that was a postman. He had a medical issue and blacked out on someones porch. He's ok, and lucky the person who lives there saw. but the post office was such a Nazi, they contacted the home owner wanting to know the exact time when he blacked out on his porch. They wanted to get his time clock correct.
You are exactly right. The pay we get at the post office is because of the bullshit we have to deal with working at the post office. Short handed and expected to do 3 peoples work all while management acting like Saddam
My dad worked for the post office as a kid and could do two routes in the time allotted to doing one, and got yelled at for that. Sounds like the managers haven't changed.
As someone who has lived in extremely rural areas i gotta say thats jusy not the case, although tbh you could deliber mail to everyone in the country while still being profitable, personally id be happy if they just broke even
'Every citizen must get mail service'? NOT! I am in court right now with the post office for a psychotic post master that has stopped my mail. Someone pointed me to the US postal service Administrative Court. It is run just like a court with an administrative judge and everything. Im having to go against a hired east coast lawyer and i don't get representation except for my humble non-lawyer self. Mr Stossel, the Lowell postmaster Don Knotts (yes, that is his name), told me on camera that HE does NOT have to prove the existence of a law LIMITING mail to only one location, but that I have to prove that i DO have that right to get mail at more than one location. I have put in complaints to the USPS and they have not responded. The postal service is another out of control agency, that is now taking control of my mail. That's not service! The administrative hearing is set for Jan 13, 2017 in Virginia. Mr Stossel you are invited to attend if you have time.
+MCSilverNinja The USPS only has to PROVIDE your mail; they don't necessarily have to bring it to your door or even to your neighborhood in some circumstances. I've cut off customers for being abusive or for having an unrestrained dog in the yard.
I actually like the post office. For my business it works, their prices are so much cheaper then UPS and FeDex, though those ones are open later, the difference for me when I mail paintings is, USPS $4 - $15 a painting (size pending). The other 2 charge $24- $125 for those same sizes. It just works for me, and the people at my post office are super sweet.
@@terrigoodsell9596 might as well get some benefits for all these taxes I’m paying. Like, 24 - 33% I pay. 33% is based on receiving tips for working festivals and bar jobs for the last 30 years.
I am sick and tired of only paying cents for stamps! We need to privatize the post office and let big business come in and start charging me DOLLARS not cents. That makes no sense. Thank god Stossel is here to gut an entity older than USA itself and fight for big business.
The Postal Service does not receive government tax money to operate. The loss is caused by Congress mandate to pre-fund our retirement health. The Postal Service has over 55 billions dollars in the U.S. Treasury
you missed the part where he manipulated an existing situation to cover an illegal action - something a real hustler knows how to do. It's no coincidence that the shutting down is perfectly timed to interfere with the election. He repeatedly complained that voting by mail results in fraud (not a historical fact), and out the other side of his mouth he was sending GOP voters notices to hurry up and do their vote by mail. Pretty sad when you have to pull blatant criminal behavior to get your votes. Not a surprise, considering how much protesting he did about fraud. He was right - there IS fraud going on. And he's the one pulling it. So sorry you aren't seeing the whole picture.
He’s president for 3 years only act now when people are expecting more than ever to vote by mail! He want to cheat to win he know Biden voters are more likely to not vote in person because of the pandemic
@@mastermnd22 Reality definitely is a bitch. The rest is more your department than mine. I don't let politicians tell me how to think. You should try it.
The USPS was required to wean itself off of taxpayer dollars in *1971* (there is an exception to compensate for congress requiring the USPS to give free mailing service to overseas voters and the blind which accounts for less than 1% of their annual budget). It hasn't relied on taxpayer money since *1971* due to how profitable it was before the *Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act* intentionally gutted it in 2006.
I worked at the post office for a while and we have had the same vehicles for 30 years, we rarely get 40 hours (meaning we mainly work 10 hour days), and the leadership refuses to increase prices. Like seriously, the prices for stamps is a joke. Most of our money is made from junk mail, and most people want us open lol.
The FIRST thing a newly elected congressman or senator thinks the first time he sits at his desk is, “ aah, this is good”. The second is “how do I get re-elected”. And that’s how our tax dollars “crumble”.
The post office is so cheap. I tried sending a package internationally and FedEx wanted $300. I went to a post office and spent $75. Why would i use FedEx when i can get the same service for lesser cost?
First, the business carriers have varying rate for varying services. If you really want to get something somewhere, and get it there by a certain time - DO NOT USE USPS! If you don't care if it is lost, crushed, weeks, late.....use USPS.
I use USP over fedex because fedex has a habit of just not delivering on time. I lived in Californian and for the most part the USPS was good. Had a few lazy mail carriers but most were good. Moved to Alabama and they use private contractors. The mail gets here when it gets here. Some days the mail person does not show up.
That's what I was told by Postal workers whom I asked about the whole "not being profitable." I was told they have to fund things so far out it always looks like a loss.
I hate the post office. I don't care if it costs a few dollars more to use UPS, that's where I go. I'm shown friendliness, courtesy and obviously valued as a customer every time I walk through the door.
you can have your opinion about the usps the next time you see your mailman go down the street stop and ask him if you could shadow him for a week and walk in every foot step that he takes the usps is always looking for someone that can do the job better
the postal service started in 1774the founding of this country would be 1776you find a gov angency that is as old as that and puts out great service for this long
I've never had an issue with USPS, I always get my packages quickly and undamaged. DHL is by far the worst shipper anyone can use (they've both damaged my packages and taken forever to deliver them), I've had some issues with FedEx, and UPS is just too expensive.
Whether this was years ago, decades ago, or today, it is the same theme. Government work is not efficient, not effective and doesn’t care about how your money is spent.
They're actually a monopoly. I've been battling my post office for better efficiency for the last 27 years. I complained so much I just gave up. I expect to lose mail anymore so I simply went to paperless mailing as much as possible. I live in a 200 plus condo association and once a post office delivery person asked me what to do when the box is too small. Isn't there a common sense test before they hire these people?
As a 36-year veteran of the USPS (now retired), I understand your frustration. Now I do business transactions and personal communications via phone or email. I have been "on the inside" and I know how the sausage is made.
I worked for a "giant" telecommunications company before I retired. One of my supervisors retired earlier than me ( I remained as a tech because I saw what management had to go through) and decided to work for the USPS to try a draw a second pension. He quit the USPS after the first day on the job.
I can say the same for that "giant" telecom company I retired from. At one time they considered getting rid of the middle three layers of five layers of management but you know they patted each other on the back so well it didn't happen.
@Abunai - It sounds like you may need to battle your condo a little more. If a mail box is too small and too full, then there's nothing the postal carrier can do. Maybe the management of your condo can hold the mail for you. You don't have to shit on the post office for the weaknesses of your condo.
UPS, FedEx make some money by using the cheaper services of the USPS, ShurePost as one example. They also negotiate prices with the USPS. Foreign countries get much better inbound prices, than American's get outbound. It's cheaper to ship a fairly big box of goods from China, than it is to send some small packages to the next closest city here (this is easily verifiable). If it weren't for the USPS, many small businesses would have to shut down, most of eBay would cease to exist, and that $99 a year prime, would most likely be $250 +. The base cost (starting cost) for package shipment from UPS & FedEx is about $9.00. Small packages up to one pound can be sent First Class mail, starting around $2.50 and up. Priority mail starting around $6.00, delivery in three days or less, where UPS & FedEx may take 5 or more days. Taxpayers are subsidizing large multi-national corporations like UPS & FedEx, retailers like Amazon, and yes, many small businesses. 90% + of my sales are shipped USPS, faster delivery on average, and a cheaper cost. I wouldn't be able to run my business, and compete with the big boys, without them.
Correct, UPS and FedEx both will hand over mail/packages to the USPS to finsh the delivery where the 2 don't deliver. I sent a package to my brother using UPS and had to pay an extra charge for the last leg of the delivery. I was told because it will actually be delivered by USPS because UPS does not go that far out in his rural area in Virginia, to much added cost. They said they drop it at nearest town.
@@joyceb8407 UPS and Fedex won't deliver there because it is cheaper to outsource to the USPS. And the reason the USPS is cheaper is because they are not allowed to charge what the delivery is worth.
I live on an island in Alaska. There's no UPS or Fedex, and just a post office. There's no competition here, so they don't even try. There is no home delivery, everyone has a PO box and all of your mail has to be picked up from there.
They need authorization to do that. If you were a rank and file employee (in any business) usually you would have to get permission to speak to media. I had to when a reporter wanted to do a story about me saving an elderly person out of $4000.00 scam. I had to get permission to talk to media. Most companies have spokespeople for media requests.
@@_multiverse_ Yes her. Just because she's a federal employee that doesn't mean there is no protocol for media requests. And NOT all employees want to be on camera. When my story aired on TV I had to get permission to do so.
@@bfun4615 yeah they had a couple guys bust into the p.o. claiming to be media. And they got rights to film all the workers. Problem is that the sign that proves they have a right to film also states they need approval from postmaster or station manager. Which they dont get. Cause they are fake media
As someone who orders from eBay almost everyday and has packages, parcels, and boxes delivered to his address, I must say that the USPS is the most reliable. FedEx, Amazon Logistics, and UPS _always_ deliver my packages to the wrong address. I'm not defending the financial wastefulness of the USPS, but I do have to give credit where it's due.
I've had FedEx deliver to the wrong address once which pissed me off, (he obviously didn't look at the door number since there wasn't one on THE LAUNDRY ROOM door at my apartment building for crying out loud) but I've also gotten pissed off at the post office for delivering to the wrong address (he delivered it to a different house number on my street). Although my current mailman is rather excellent I will say. I still want the postal service privatized 100% but I want the privatized service to hire him.
formerevolutionist. Oh boy do I remember! It was likely because they didn't sent it right away. A company isn't gonna rush to send something to a kid who sent in a few boxtops and 50 cents. Also they sent that stuff 3rd class if I remember right.
Our local post office sends mail 300 miles away to be sorted and sent back. So if I’m going to send a letter to someone a couple towns over, my letter has to go on a truck, delivered 300 miles to be sorted, put back on a truck, and delivered another 300 miles to finally be sorted and delivered. It’s kind of silly.
Honestly, the error in both the USPS and Amtrak is that these should be run as government services, not businesses. As another commenter said, running at a deficit is normal when you are talking about a governmental agency. Most agencies have no income or little income. But the "it is a business being run by the government" is sheer foolishness because a business is set to make decisions based on income, but especially when dealing with congress the decision making is based on "supporting my base". In business, this will cause failure. Either make it a federal agency... With the full support of the government, or a state agency... Or let them operate as a business.
Lee Chowning agree one the usps, I don’t know too much on Amtrak, but a basic centralized postal service should be 100% government funded even if at a loss.
@@leechowning2712 the main issue with government business is, that hey have a terrible service record. If UPS or Fedex had the same level of service as USPS they would have been out of business long time ago.
@@NickYourHomeLoanFriendKrehnke and that's supposed to be an incentive? If they were a private business, they would have either changed or shut down. They have lost $69 billion in 11 years
@@hint0122As do all major businesses in this country. USPS has had a major decline in 1st class mail for many years and they have to adjust to that, just like any other company in a similar situation. They have sold and are selling lots of buildings and assets as a result. They are half the price of Fed Ex, and if my tax money goes toward actually lowering the price to me, all I can say is "finally!" We are gonna pay one way or another, either by taxes or higher prices.
I think it’s tough for me to get past the universal aspect of the mail service. I get that it’s at a loss, but I live in a rural area and I like having a post office near me where I can receive my mail and packages on time without the excess expanses. Sometimes, these delivered services are a necessity to me. So, though I love the free market, I’m not sure if not having the government postal service is the right way to go.
Problem right now is your paying for it with interest and then some. And it wouldn't have to be eliminated they could centralize boxes at that post office drop off pick up less often run shorter hours. So instead of 5 full time employees to deliver all over county they have one part time employee who does the pick ups and sorts drop offs into appropriate mail box. There is a million solutions and most "rural" ones are not losers by themselves its when you have 3-4 post offices in on very small town. But right now we are operating at a deficit meaning every dollar spent is 2 dollars taken from tomorrows and 5 from next and 20 then 1000. Because we are paying compounding interest on it. Taxes are not theft because we argue "greater" good ineffective or selfish squandering of tax dollars does turn it into theft. Which is why the sentiment of taxes are theft if growing. And nobody wants to pay taxes the left wants "other people" to pay and the right wants to avoid paying themselves. And its only natural ineffective use of tax dollars is like getting less than you paid for with any service. If you paid for a ferrari and got 1980s ford fiesta would you want to keep using that company. If you ordered and paid for 12oz steak and got a 6oz would you keep coming back. Fact is wasting money in government makes people feel like they are not getting value. Makes them less willing to pay while yes government iron fist can stamp that out. People are getting more and more creative in ways to dodge for example keep "bees" on property and some states you are now a bee farmer exempt from property tax. Couple hundred bucks to get started and very little maintenance if your not harvesting honey. You also have lobbying and buying themselves loopholes. Fact is the harder you squeeze the more they can offer politicians to buy their exemption. Its a sacred trust we promise to make nation better with x money if you spend inordinate amount of money on one group of people then majority never see the benefit. If they don't see the benefit they wont see the value in paying. And it becomes a downward spiral. Responsible spending not saying you go without maybe just use creative solutions to minimize cost. And make that dollar do as much as possible while yes it might be inconvenient to have to go to post office to pick up mail or have shorter hours for drop offs ect. Ever dollar spent making things "convenient" is a dollar not spent on a kids education funding cancer treatment for sick people who can't afford it helping addicts overcome addiction or providing tangible benefits for all of society.
My mail is mutilated, ruined and I have to have valuable documents (my wife's Doctoral degree) resent. I get no satisfaction from the Postmaster. They fold my mail even though my rural-sized mail box can fit large packages. They even document delivery attempts that they never made.
I remember taking a package up to the local post office and was going to get it sent. The guy said the box needed to be taped before shipment..I was like ok, can I use that role of packing tape RIGHT BESIDE YOU? "Sorry sir, we don't have tape."
Andrew They don't give away packaging supplies like tape, unless you use priority mail, and then they actually do. UPS and FedEx never do so you'd really hate them.
+Andrew Customers want EVERYTHING for free. We already give away boxes and envelopes (I think we should charge for them like everyone else does). Our station sells rolls of tape, but God forbid you pay for it or something.
jeffw1267 I paid for the box, and shipping label. Yeah, sorry for asking if I could use 7 inches of tape. That's why the USPS sucks, government complacency doesn't work well with customer service. You couldn't say, "you'll have to pay for it but yes, we can tape your box."?
Andrew yea and then you found some post office stickers right next to the tape, and proceeded to take them with out the lady clerk noticing, and decided to use them as tape you later gave the box to the lady and got into a big argument but ended up spending more money than you intended any ways, you greedy Mr. Spaghetti
Contrary to what John Stossel tries to imply, the Post Office does not receive tax dollars. A huge problem that they do have is the fact that in 2006, Congress passed a law that required the Post Office to create a $72 billion fund to pay all its employee's post-retirement health care costs 75 years into the future. Making payments into this fund is what drove the PO into the red, before that they were breaking even as they were supposed to. FEDEX and UPS don't have to do that. You try running a business that has to pre-pay 75 years worth of health costs for its retirees.
True - not directly. But they have a government-mandated monopoly that is worth billions, they pay absolutely no state and local property and real estate taxes, along with other burdens like tolls, vehicle registration fees, and parking tickets (more billions). They can "borrow" money at highly subsidized interest rates (free money!) estimated to save them about 1/2 billion a year. And yet, they still lose billions a year. Those are facts.
Jason Gagnon People pay taxes which funds the government, any money that is used in the government to help or aid the Post Office is our tax dollars just like everything else in the government.
Fun little tangentially related fact: My father lives next to Harwich in Dennis. His house is made of 3 different buildings moved to the site and put together to form a single house. 2 of them are old houses from Nantucket. The third is the original post office for Dennis. It is perhaps 1/3 the size of the little one in Harwich where the woman said she couldn't speak to him. addendum: for anyone asking "wth?" about moving houses from an island.... apparently back when whaling first started getting big around Cape Cod and captains (and the like) started to make a lot more money, there was a trend of building bigger houses, as one would expect. But they didn't just demolish the old houses. Nantucket sound is basically a giant 20 foot deep swimming pool, very calm water, so it was no issue to float them a few miles across it to the Cape. To the best of my knowledge, when they were doing this a couple centuries ago, it was completely viable financially and moving houses around like this, where you lift them off their foundation, bring them somewhere else and give them a new foundation was not uncommon as more and more money poured into the Cape Cod area. So 2 of the parts of his house were floated across from Nantucket and combined with the old post office into a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath house in Dennis.
Brian i found this video to be lacking depth. A bill was passed forcing USPS to fully fund all retirement plans up front which is the root cause of their bleeding money so profusely. It’s quite sad.
Two years ago they were going to cut Saturday delivery because they were ( losing )wasting money and now that Amazon is delivering the post office makes Sunday deliveries .
2:14 before someone points out that the USPS isn't directly funded by taxes, they still are bailed out of being bankrupt from time to time and unfortunately that money has to come from somewhere.
The US post office delivers at least 40% of all packages from UPS, FedEx and DHL. The reason the Post office has trouble making money is the laws of the US. Not only is there universal delivery the Post Office CANNOT own there own airline. They have to use the overprice service of national carriers. Also there is one Admin person for every three production workers. A study was done on how to make the USPS more profitable. One of the main suggestions was to eliminate 30% of supervisory personnel. They increased the amount of supervisors instead. However, even with the top heavy business model, the post office has done an incredible job in controlling inflation of the cost of postage. Around 1950 the cost of a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk and a first class postage stamp were all about the same price. Now a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas are both about 500 - 1000% more than a first class stamp. Also UPS and FedEx prices are a lot more depending on the region. Both FedEx and UPS both use the USPS to deliver a large amount of their packages. They charge so much more they can afford to take customers money then send the package to the USPS for delivery and still make money.
Ron Breton I always have to laugh when people say I only use UPS or FedEx, because they care about my package. Truth is they just dump it on USPS and pocket your extra postage lol
I work for the USPS, and I can tell ya there were several days we didn't have a supervisor come in. When the supervisor finally did show up hours late, we had everything in perfect order. Imagine that, people with work ethic who don't need half a million dollars of supervisors standing over their shoulders. (I work in an office with roughly 90 employees on the clock during main operating times. We have a minimum of three supervisors and a station manager overseeing us. About 90% of us know our jobs to a point we could operate all year efficiently without ever seeing a supervisor. That's just local supervision. We also have a Postmaster that overseas ONLY two stations. Then we have about 5 layers of management above him.)
In reality, the biggest problem with the USPS is that it's an impossible business model. Due to growth, every year the USPS has to deliver to more homes, businesses, and shopping centers than it did the previous year. Due to modern tech (like email), they deliver to a larger infrastructure with less money. The USPS does provide centralized service that might be a disaster if left to the local governments. They name roads, maintain the grid system that dictates your address. They ensure apartment numbers and suite numbers are fairly uniform. I've seen what happens when we allow the developer or county planner do this. I've seen apartment complexes numbered 101,104,109,110,113, 202, etc. What? What happened to apt 102 and 103? Why skip those? Recently I started delivering a building that had been gutted and remodeled. Suites were set to follow a fairly predictable pattern -- 200,210,215,220, etc. Suddenly, months after people started moving in, Suite 279 showed up. WHAT? Why did that happen?
USPS probably delivers remote packages for the big carriers, but I have only ever once had a FedEx package be fulfilled by the USPS and I was extremely angry. I don't use USPS for a reason, they lose tons of packages and make no effort to deal with "lost" packages.
"Bypass Mail" is why the Post Office looses $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ each year in Alaska. What is Bypass mail...it is mail that 'by passes' the Post Office. A small eskimo Store will order food, clothing , tires etc to be delivered directly to that store in a small Eskmo vilages. The store will pay a very small fraction of the cost of shipping to the Post Office. The Post Office then pays the lions share of the shipping. For example, 3 cases of Coke banded or boxed together to meet the post office weight limit of 70 pounds, may cost $150 in shipping. The store might pay $30 dollars and the Post Office will pay $120 of the actual cost of shipping. This is where they loose so much $$$. Alaska has almost no road system within a State that is over twice the size of Texas!
Larry Ehrlich crimity, that's insane. How many of these inuits living on welfare snarfing down cokes used to be completely self-sufficient on fish and polar bears 50+years ago. What a joke. And that one bitch who is on disability for a head injury but has 6 or 7 kids. WTF. Fuck Ted Stevens. Glad to see he was removed and hopefully his death was excruciating. If these losers don't like the price of living in nowhere Alaska where they don't even have vital jobs or jobs at all, then move
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Aww look at little Mikey trying to pretend he has an opinion worth a bag of wet shit.
Larry, good point. It sucks, and sounds like the taxpayer is footing the bill for that extra amount. There are other things nationally which suck too. Rural red states do get a disproportionately higher amount of federal aid than do blue states. That's because they don't collect as much in state taxes. Kind of ironic since they're the ones who are always chanting "lower taxes!" I guess if they want no services whatsoever, then they could have zero taxes!
I gotta be honest, of all the ways government wastes money, the Post Office is way, way, wayyy down the list of my personal priorities when it comes to where to start cutting.
"Close'em down, except the one near me" That's the problem.
I have a separate problem, I have no clue where the federal office is so I can use their other method of putting it in the mail box
Some conservatives feel the same way about military bases! Make government smaller...but not in my district! Because people like government spending.
rain Alaska stfu if they’re brown that doesn’t mean they are illegal. Pls do the world a favor and kya.
rain Alaska wtf. That’s still doesn’t make a difference??? American doesn’t mean white. Anyone can be American and that’s what makes America, America whether you like that or not. Unless you’ve seen that they don’t have their papers the you can’t say sh*t.
The thing is there isn't really a privatize company that makes soldiers so there isn't an alternative compared to the postal service that's privatized.
If the Postal "Service" goes away, how am I supposed to get the 15 lbs of junk mail I get every week?
that junk mail pays for your service. don't like it? buy a PO box. naw you're gonna do that though.
@@lolwtnick4362 so it's like having ads for a streaming service? Neat
@@lolwtnick4362 if you think the junk mail revenue pays for the service you are mistaken. 1) I still have to pay postage, 2) they run a deficit every year.
@@robm6510 #1 you're wrong bc it does pay for you service , #2 we run at a deficit bc postal reform and accountability act 2006 forced us to prefund our health pension and care for 75 years for people who haven't even been born yet.... this was done to kill the postal service so they could privatize it ....
This was introduced and passed by Republicans in Congress .... a munfactured crisis kinda like what they are doing on the immigration front
He said "we're working on it". That means he's doing absolutely nothing.
Hes not doing nothing, just very little, at his rate he will make it profitable, uhhhh never, because i have no doubt he's trying to make it profitable but his cost savings wont outpace the speed at which congress cripples them
As shown in the video, he can't do nothing unless congress allows him to. The only way they can reduce employees is through retirement. They can't close small unneeded post offices.
He's stalling until he's out of office.
I worked for the post office for 36 years and I’ve seen the waste. What the public doesn’t know is there’s a lot of people in the post office they get paid large amounts of money and never touch a letter or a magazine. They’re called supervisors and there’s way too many of them. They spent so many millions and millions of dollars on scanners just so they can keep track of the letter carriers.The letter carriers are the back bone of the post office.
This person is 100% correct he forgot to mention excessive postmasters and what they call MPOOs
Wait so there's supervisors? The mail carriers aren't the boss? Who ever would've thought? lol you're an idiot.
"I don't feel any sort of moral compulsion"
ALL politicians and bureaucrats summarized in *one* quote!
How did you bold your text?
@@OdinTheTall put a * on either side of a word like *this*
@@Ivan.Wright Thanks, that's cool!
Ivan Wright- Thx from me too! Do you know how to underline text? Also, do you know how to put a line through(cross out) text?
@@bradss1000 -this- uses -
_this_ uses _
On either side of the word
lol that representative, "the congo includes universal mail service"
yes lets emulate the congo
We're working on it.
We don’t need another imperial wave
it also includes ebola every few years, but that's not really a service.
The Congo emulated the USA. Article 1 Section 8
@Hex Zimpo As the video points out very clearly: the Constitution doesn’t actually require postal service, it merely says Congress has the power to make post offices if it so chooses
Well this is perfectly timed.
This was made 4 years ago.
@@thejurassicchicken1445 It was made in 2013 @ 0:17 sec., and posted on here 4 years ago.
Interesting to have this in the feed at a time like this. Orange man bad, how?
Everyone knew the post office was on its way out. Problem is the media and the people choose to focus on issues only when it affects them directly...
Yup, came up in my recommended.
Bobba saw his father get beheaded, by the Jedi, right in front of him. That, normally, would affect people in some way. In Bobbas case, he dont give a shit, in a badass way.
But since its 2020 Bobbas motivations are now Misogyny.
Shorter walks to get that government checks!!!
@@happycamper4429 goverment checks are direct deposit
Congress in general cares less about financial responsibility and more about maintaining their position in congress.
Justin Joy well said laddie
There is something way out of whack when getting re-elected becomes more important than being proficient at your job.
@@Gitn2it from the first day they're elected job number 1 is getting reelected.
Without "universal" mail service, how do you make sure that all homeowners are notified about property taxes?
You're correct. The Mafia will always need a way to screw us.
That's a hell of a good point! Haha....ha.....😡😡😡
internet?
@@neckarsulme The "Internet" is just a fad and will eventually go away. The Postal "Service", on the other hand, will continue to suck tax dollars to keep it going. The irony is that they need the Postal "Service" to send us tax bills in order to pay for the Postal "Service". The Mafia would be proud.
@@rob1248996 must be why so many people pay their bills on line I guess
This board chairman really nails it in the first part of the interview: “congress expects us to act like a business but doesn’t give us the flexibility to do so.”
That’s the one model that hasn’t been tried: appoint a CEO (someone with non-competing interests), tell them what the goals have to be, then leave them alone and don’t micromanage every decision. If the CEO isn’t doing a good job, fire them and get a new one.
It's exactly correct. Congress made USPS a profit earning business back in the 70s or whenever but refused to let them pay the employees like a business. Then in 2006 they enacted price controls and other things to make profiting impossible. It's kind of like they're trying to destroy USPS but without taking away benefits to any of the workers or customers until it does finally capitulate.
I think it's fine for USPS to not be a "business" trying to make a profit. But they should at least require that the expenses of USPS be covered by the prices they charge. It makes zero sense that what you pay to mail something is priced less than it costs to bring to someone. Even if you average it out to where someone sending mail to an impossible to reach place is the same price as down the road, the overall outcome should be no monetary gains or losses for USPS. Socialism mail is a stupid idea esp when most mail coming to you is junkmail. We're funding garbage!
But a public necessity can't be run like a business because business has to run on a profit.
@@srdjan455Mail is not a necessity.
Plus, you can run something like a business even if you're not trying to maximise profits, as long as you're trying to maximise something.
@@me-myself-i787 Mail is not a necessity? What horseshit is this
The tech people and the comedians were all making jokes once about "snail mail" Now they all weep when there should be changes in the postal service.
And British people complain about the NHS, but good luck taking it away from them. Even Tories won't touch that third rail.
0:27 no wonder my box always looks so beat up.
Um…… No, your box always looks so beat up because people are overwhealmed with all of the packages that are sent out every single day. The average facility takes care of a MININUM of 600,000 packages a shift, an average of 700,000 packages a shift, and durring peak season (aka Christmass) it goes anywhere upwards to 1,200,000 packages a shift.
Now also try to remember that there are Night Shifts as well as Day shifts, so basically every facility has to process 2x as many packages every single day.
Btw, I'm not even talking about the Post Office themselves. I'm talking about the people who ACTUALLY Ship all of those packages along with countless letters and crates. A lot actually goes into sending those packages where they need to go and it can get very rough on both packages as well as the individuals handling them.
@@Snowmon89 Take a joke snowflake
MY GLASS BOWL
@@Snowmon89 no u
Snowmon89 geez why don’t you marry them
I love John stossel, straight to the point with no messin about
Oh yeah yeah
I sincerely hope you didn't believe any of this , the lady at the counter could speak to him because it's illegal for him to even be filming inside of a post office without the postmaster General's permission. He's lucky they didn't call the postal inspectors on him bc I would have
Other than the fact that the USPS has received zero public money since the 80's. That's kind of a huge omission.
Cameron Dunstan The fact that you think so is proof that we’re doomed. The number of morons incapable of critical thinking has reached a critical point. The fucking ship is going down.
@@MrJeremiahxlewis oh no one person doesn't agree with you the world is going to end
And it's all Trumps fault. He reached back in time to make it so.
Lemon head, Fredo, and Humpty Dumpty will claim Trump has a time machine and went back 13 years to make the USPS start losing billions.
@@darknessdevil2657 the post office has been loosing money for 13 years
@@rocketfamilykml2528 I know fellow patriot. I'm just stating that fake news will somehow spin these facts and try blaming it on our President since they want 'mail in voting'😣😑
*president trump makes time machine*
Now is not the time to close USPS. Considering we may need mandatory mail in voting this time.
Postal Service is not a business. It is ... wait for it ... a service. And, all Americans deserve to be connected by this vital communication link.
As if they can't communicate over the Internet.
My best friend works for USPS circulation center and tells me that no employee is worried about getting fired so many will take naps on the job and not show up for work quite frequently. But this is the issue with any bureaucracy. They're there for tenure, not to serve the clientele. No professionalism or sense of competition. What a waste of government $$$
Seanster82 a lot of assholes work for the USPS, because it’s political ass kissers who kiss the city’s government to get that job.
Seanster82 I work for USPS and if I don't show up one day with out a very good reason I'd be fierd that day.
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII actually no, since u can make 50-100K a year depending on position with just a high school diploma with lil knowledge about anything.
It attracts and keeps alot of inbreds and alcoholics cause they know one cannot get fired leaving usps would be economic suicide for alot of them.
Lack of college degree = inbred? We can see how well the college degree turned out for you lol. What a joke!
Seanster82 I can confirm.
Someone show this to joe rogan, he claims the Post office is a prime example of government superiority over private business
To be fair though, private businesses haven't taken up the burden of delivering junk mail and ads. Those go to everyone and take a much larger support service since they aren't just delivering to private individuals who paid for the shipping themselves. Yeah it's prepaid by the company sending the ads out, but they seem to choose USPS exclusively because of the pricing. If you think private companies won't go for those corporate ad guys business over yours and increase your price for service to compensate for the shit they want to send ... You're mistaken. And it's not like you could just make the argument that that company will crash because you all will boycott them or something ... You can't just opt out of these guys dropping packages off to you from a service you aren't even registered with. It's really not any better than a public service ... It's just that the govt offsetting costs for the USPS has naturally attracted all of the ad delivery work, in true capitalist fashion. That part of it is the plague that will not go away. It's one of the businesses, like water, that would actually be worse to have competition in because of the sheer infrastructure that each has to put in place to operate at it's best. It's inefficient to have too many options, and you take a quality hit.
The post offices that are privately run are a million times more efficient than any run by worthless unions.
@@robm6510 “If you think private companies won't go for those corporate ad guys business over yours and increase your price for service to compensate for the shit they want to send ... You're mistaken.”
You’re mistaken if you think there would be no price competition or efficiencies introduced by private carriers which the Postal Service is incapable of.
“And it's not like you could just make the argument that that company will crash because you all will boycott them or something”
Sure you can….IF YOU ALLOW COMPETITION, which is ILLEGAL under current law.
“the govt offsetting costs for the USPS has naturally attracted all of the ad delivery work, in true capitalist fashion.”
A government subsidy is not capitalism at work.
“That part of it is the plague that will not go away.”
The only reason it doesn’t go away is because far too many people (including, apparently, you) swallow the myth that some things “need” to be a monopoly.
“It's one of the businesses, like water, that would actually be worse to have competition in because of the sheer infrastructure that each has to put in place to operate at it's best. It's inefficient to have too many options, and you take a quality hit.”
Nonsense. There is no justification for government enforced monopoly.
mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
Joe Rogan is a meathead brainlet.
Joes been hit in the head too many times and thinks weed will compensate for it.
My neighbor moved away, but kept ownership of his old house. He notified the USPS to forward his mail and NOT deliver mail to the old house. But they kept delivering mail to the old house even after I informed the postman twice that no one lives there. They stuffed the mailbox so full there was literary no empty space in the mailbox and you could not close the door/hatch. This was AFTER the mailbox post toppled over and the mailbox was lying on the ground, they kept stuffing it. Finally, I got tired of this BS and got permission from the owner to junk the mailbox and all. From my window I can see where the old mailbox once stood and months afterwards I would see the postman looking to find the mailbox to stuff more mail into a mailbox that was lying on the ground for a house with no one living in it. That's how ridiculous the USPS is. I've lived in 4 countries and traveled to another 4 and I can tell you the USPS is by far the absolute worst. In other countries like Japan their postal service is so reliable and efficient they even offer banking. You read that right; you can do all your banking at a Japanese postal office. Imagine trying that at a USPS.
Third class mail doesn’t get forwarded. So even if a change of address is filled out, only first and second class mail will be forwarded. Junk mail will still be delivered to the old address. Also, a change of address is only good for a year and can’t be renewed indefinitely. The post office is legally required to deliver mail to the address on the envelope.
@@PoesRaven73I think the overall point of the comment is beyond that. I work for USPS currently. You are correct about mail forwarding and the classes of mail but that's not the point. The regular carrier can mark the house as "vacant" in the case and the substitute carriers should respond accordingly. Removing the mail receptacle shouldn't be the only solution to stopping the mail service. I wouldn't be surprised if some carriers just drop the mail on the ground where a missing box should be, I know carriers like that unfortunately. Furthermore, vacant houses are often used to conduct nefarious and illegal activities. The post office shouldn't be putting carriers in danger by aiding those activities.
well this aged like fine wine, didn't it?
Yep, yet the points here are completely being ignored now in favor of allegations of election interference. SMH
The video still has one thing wrong. USPS does not use tax payer money.
Lee Sanction Wrong.
@@danieldaniels7571 Prove it.
@@leesanction2068 It's a government agency. Come on.
Hmmm, I wonder why RUclips is recommending that to me now?
Freudian slip
@@descripto2586 bingo, google abhors trump
Based on people that watch similar content to you looking up videos about the US Postal Service
Part of my soul dies every time I have to pick up a package from our local post office. It's like they try to do everything wrong, discourteous, and slow.
News Flash: everything the government does loses money!
News flash: The government isn't meant to turn a profit.
Not the IRS.
News flash: the USPS turned a profit until 2006 when congress passed a law that severely hindered its ability to do so. You fucking loser.
@@hitthegoat conservative is love facts until they don't
Loses money until us fools keep paying our taxes that could be used better otherwise.
more prevalent today in 2020 than ever.
Fire congress
Sam Hudson - I Wish!
We need it
That Al Franken cameo hasn’t aged well
I literally get maybe 2-3 bills a month and about 40 pieces of junk mail.
"THE POST OFFICE ISNT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE GOVERMENT"
Spends 934 billion a year to drone strike kids
Tyson Webber
B/c it’s patriotic to support the military no matter the price tag. If you support downsizing the military obviously you are a treehugger communist who hates the armed services so much they should leave the country duh.
@@lucasbendit7564 but inefficiency needs to be resolved tho
@@zarnaku6467 I think Lucas Bendit was being sarcastic, but yeah lol. It's ridiculous how the Post Office is supposed to make the government money unlike EVERY OTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT EXISTS. Military waste is gigantic
@@zarnaku6467 It's a joke
@@bdbailey really? I couldn't tell
I live in Russia, and here State Postal service is just ridiculous. It works bad, it works slow, just a one big joke.
hahaha and think about it when it was in the 80s the whole market was government owned
Seán O'Nilbud someone's having a bad day :(
Seán O'Nilbud Spoken in the words of a tries intellectual.
Virgin Wizzardo. I'm a letter carrier. There are two Russian letter Carriers that I work with. LOL you just shit on your own nationality.
You have gorgeous Russian women so don't be unhappy about anything.
Look into E-packet from China. We are subsidizing the delivery of chinese goods that are competing with American businesses and those American businesses are paying extra for their competition to get cheaper rates. Must have been one of those bills that nobody read until it was too late.
How about how the military loses 700 billion a year next?
They don’t
@@toosweet6046 You're right! They actually lose 738 billion per year. Thank you for fact checking me there
I'm a Republican, but this is one of the things I don't like about the Right in America, this assumption that we need to constantly jack up defense spending year after year just because, including in peacetime.
And the unfortunate thing is that the base is largely for it. So, you can blame the military industrial complex all you want, but ultimately, the GOP is simply representing its voters on this one. And I wish they'd come around on that.
None of that money leaves the country.
@@JRLSprague3 None of the money spent on welfare or NPR leaves the country either.
This is why the post office doesn't make money any more
"In 2006, Congress passed a law to require the USPS to prefund 75 years worth of retiree health benefits in the span of ten years-a cost of approximately $110 billion. Although the money is intended to be set aside for future Post Office retirees, the funds are instead being diverted to help pay down the national debt"
Why no mention of this, John?
Ohhh you were so close. If you just pasted the following paragraph from DeFazio's site, you would kinda make sense.
The money, that they're supposed to set aside, being diverted to pay other national debts has nothing to do with losing money. That money isn't to be used by the USPS for yearly expenses. They're just losing money outright.
Now let us not forget that over 48 billion dollars that the USPS was supposed to pay for retirement since 2010, hasn't been paid. So even though they aren't paying the money they're supposed to be paying, they still are losing money.
The US Government Accountability Office's report on the USPS even mentions that the service's expenses are growing faster than its revenue. Due to competition, benefits costs, and decline of the volume of mail, its losing money.
@@john-michaelfranco4694 you are a assclown you don't know what you are talking about
It's my understanding the USPS doesn't receive literally any of our taxes either?
@@ammonchristiansen4518 it receives tax breaks of $2.18B a year and borrows from the treasury at the legal limit of $15.2B at 1.2% saving almost half a billion a year in interest. Its also estimated that they make $14B a year solely from being legally the only service that can deliver directly to mailboxes.
While taxes might not directly go to them in a check, they are absolutely getting money off the backs of taxpayers.
@@john-michaelfranco4694 while you're on the subject how much money has the government stolen from the P.O. to pay off debt. Also name me one government institution that actually MAKES money. The P.O.
Whoops, you seem to have forgotten congress forcing the usps to prepay pensions and retirement for decades at the cost of billions
I worked for the Post Office for 32 years.And rarely had an easy day.It's a physically demanding job.It takes a toll on your body.The biggest problem is when someone is hired and can't do the work,they get into management and then demand the people who do the work to do more than what time allows.It's the Peter Principle defined.There is a lot of waste.And generally it's in management.They don't do much at all.And they pressure carriers,who are out in the elements and out in the public to do more and more.And some carriers will skip their lunch and breaks so they won't get disciplined.The Post Office promotes people who show a history of disciplining carriers and clerks.It's a good paying job,with good benefits.But a miserable company to work for.I always said when I worked there.Check your smile at the door.They don't want any happy employees.they will discipline you with a letter of warning for being 5 minutes late on your route.And yet they claim to preach safety.
mrclassicrock61 sooo glad I was able to endure long enough to retire from that HELLHOLE. I still can't believe the change in my attitude and personality since I'm not under that stress anymore.
I had a family member that was a postman. He had a medical issue and blacked out on someones porch. He's ok, and lucky the person who lives there saw. but the post office was such a Nazi, they contacted the home owner wanting to know the exact time when he blacked out on his porch. They wanted to get his time clock correct.
You are exactly right. The pay we get at the post office is because of the bullshit we have to deal with working at the post office. Short handed and expected to do 3 peoples work all while management acting like Saddam
My dad worked for the post office as a kid and could do two routes in the time allotted to doing one, and got yelled at for that. Sounds like the managers haven't changed.
You could have done something different if it was so hard. Why does everyone have to think their job is the hardest.
Occasionally the algorithm really works.
The postal service is there because it’s not profitable. Many rural towns may be completely cut off from the mail as it would be too costly
As someone who has lived in extremely rural areas i gotta say thats jusy not the case, although tbh you could deliber mail to everyone in the country while still being profitable, personally id be happy if they just broke even
kiyosen L. Ups and fed ex came ?
@@dez8946 yeah, looked into it though and there are some rural areas where they really wont
... it’s 2020 though, we got other services, e-mails, dms, literally so much now.
Like he said, nobody is forcing them to live there
'Every citizen must get mail service'? NOT! I am in court right now with the post office for a psychotic post master that has stopped my mail. Someone pointed me to the US postal service Administrative Court. It is run just like a court with an administrative judge and everything. Im having to go against a hired east coast lawyer and i don't get representation except for my humble non-lawyer self.
Mr Stossel, the Lowell postmaster Don Knotts (yes, that is his name), told me on camera that HE does NOT have to prove the existence of a law LIMITING mail to only one location, but that I have to prove that i DO have that right to get mail at more than one location. I have put in complaints to the USPS and they have not responded. The postal service is another out of control agency, that is now taking control of my mail. That's not service! The administrative hearing is set for Jan 13, 2017 in Virginia. Mr Stossel you are invited to attend if you have time.
What was the outcome?
Why did they stop your mail? I'm sure that had a reason. They just don't decide to randomly stop someones mail.
MCSilverNinja lost his case because he's a fucking idiot and a lunatic like most of the subnormals who worship Stossel's demonic moustache.
+MCSilverNinja The USPS only has to PROVIDE your mail; they don't necessarily have to bring it to your door or even to your neighborhood in some circumstances. I've cut off customers for being abusive or for having an unrestrained dog in the yard.
Seán O'Nilbud :(
I actually like the post office. For my business it works, their prices are so much cheaper then UPS and FeDex, though those ones are open later, the difference for me when I mail paintings is, USPS $4 - $15 a painting (size pending). The other 2 charge $24- $125 for those same sizes. It just works for me, and the people at my post office are super sweet.
USPS is cheaper because taxpayers pay.
So the rest of us have to subsidize your business?
@@terrigoodsell9596 might as well get some benefits for all these taxes I’m paying. Like, 24 - 33% I pay. 33% is based on receiving tips for working festivals and bar jobs for the last 30 years.
With the pandemic and mail in ballots, we are now seeing this all over again in 2020.
I am sick and tired of only paying cents for stamps! We need to privatize the post office and let big business come in and start charging me DOLLARS not cents. That makes no sense. Thank god Stossel is here to gut an entity older than USA itself and fight for big business.
The Postal Service does not receive government tax money to operate. The loss is caused by Congress mandate to pre-fund our retirement health. The Postal Service has over 55 billions dollars in the U.S. Treasury
It's almost like this video isn't about the facts but it's instead about pushing an agenda
“I can’t talk to you” smart woman
Trump telling the truth again.
you missed the part where he manipulated an existing situation to cover an illegal action - something a real hustler knows how to do. It's no coincidence that the shutting down is perfectly timed to interfere with the election. He repeatedly complained that voting by mail results in fraud (not a historical fact), and out the other side of his mouth he was sending GOP voters notices to hurry up and do their vote by mail. Pretty sad when you have to pull blatant criminal behavior to get your votes. Not a surprise, considering how much protesting he did about fraud. He was right - there IS fraud going on. And he's the one pulling it. So sorry you aren't seeing the whole picture.
He’s president for 3 years only act now when people are expecting more than ever to vote by mail! He want to cheat to win he know Biden voters are more likely to not vote in person because of the pandemic
@@chryssoraidy9838 it must be easy to live life deaf/blind. Reality is a bitch
LOL
@@mastermnd22 Reality definitely is a bitch. The rest is more your department than mine. I don't let politicians tell me how to think. You should try it.
Was turning a profit until 06 , forcing yhe postal service to prefund billions. Those are about 80 percent of the loses
The USPS was required to wean itself off of taxpayer dollars in *1971* (there is an exception to compensate for congress requiring the USPS to give free mailing service to overseas voters and the blind which accounts for less than 1% of their annual budget). It hasn't relied on taxpayer money since *1971* due to how profitable it was before the *Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act* intentionally gutted it in 2006.
Largest employer of veterans within the united states.
LongShot you’re so tough
@LongShot chill you fucking pog
Largest employer of slackers within the united states. fixed it for free.
A congress man saying I don’t represent you... Get him the hell out
tbh most of the electorate is greedy (thinking we “need” handouts and a “social safety net”-we don’t) , unprincipled, emotionalist and unintelligent
I worked at the post office for a while and we have had the same vehicles for 30 years, we rarely get 40 hours (meaning we mainly work 10 hour days), and the leadership refuses to increase prices. Like seriously, the prices for stamps is a joke. Most of our money is made from junk mail, and most people want us open lol.
The FIRST thing a newly elected congressman or senator thinks the first time he sits at his desk is, “ aah, this is good”. The second is “how do I get re-elected”. And that’s how our tax dollars “crumble”.
You're correct, but that doesn't apply to the Post Office. They receive ZERO (0) tax dollars.
" Alright it's true, nobody needs mail. You think you're so clever for figuring that out? "
Cristian Munoz Is there a problem here, Postal Employee Newman?
The post office is so cheap. I tried sending a package internationally and FedEx wanted $300. I went to a post office and spent $75. Why would i use FedEx when i can get the same service for lesser cost?
Because FedEx has a higher probability of delivering it on time and intact?
If you want something expensive thrown on a porch and stolen, then use the US postal service
First, the business carriers have varying rate for varying services. If you really want to get something somewhere, and get it there by a certain time - DO NOT USE USPS! If you don't care if it is lost, crushed, weeks, late.....use USPS.
I use USP over fedex because fedex has a habit of just not delivering on time. I lived in Californian and for the most part the USPS was good. Had a few lazy mail carriers but most were good. Moved to Alabama and they use private contractors. The mail gets here when it gets here. Some days the mail person does not show up.
Anthony you've obviously never been in a FedEx terminal. Boxes are tossed and thrown multiple times and dropped on your porch.
Amazing this has been brought back by the algorithm. Keep up the quality work John.
90% of my recycle bin is junk mail. Then I have to pay the city to haul it off.
What this whole story never touches on is that the postal service has to fully fund it's pension plan 75 years out. That is why it loses money.
That's what I was told by Postal workers whom I asked about the whole "not being profitable." I was told they have to fund things so far out it always looks like a loss.
I hate the post office. I don't care if it costs a few dollars more to use UPS, that's where I go. I'm shown friendliness, courtesy and obviously valued as a customer every time I walk through the door.
you can have your opinion about the usps the next time you see your mailman go down the street stop and ask him if you could shadow him for a week and walk in every foot step that he takes the usps is always looking for someone that can do the job better
the postal service started in 1774the founding of this country would be 1776you find a gov angency that is as old as that and puts out great service for this long
Kevin108 lol ups sucks and has awful customer service. Theyre as bad as the post office
Rich Novotny actually the video said they aren't. They have Union contracts that can't be fired. So even if you offered to work for less, you couldn't
I've never had an issue with USPS, I always get my packages quickly and undamaged. DHL is by far the worst shipper anyone can use (they've both damaged my packages and taken forever to deliver them), I've had some issues with FedEx, and UPS is just too expensive.
Who remembers when Kramer said he was quitting the mail?
Whether this was years ago, decades ago, or today, it is the same theme.
Government work is not efficient, not effective and doesn’t care about how your money is spent.
They're actually a monopoly. I've been battling my post office for better efficiency for the last 27 years. I complained so much I just gave up. I expect to lose mail anymore so I simply went to paperless mailing as much as possible. I live in a 200 plus condo association and once a post office delivery person asked me what to do when the box is too small. Isn't there a common sense test before they hire these people?
Abunai One nope my friend worked for them for a few months and he said half the people in orientation were complete morons
As a 36-year veteran of the USPS (now retired), I understand your frustration. Now I do business transactions and personal communications via phone or email. I have been "on the inside" and I know how the sausage is made.
I worked for a "giant" telecommunications company before I retired. One of my supervisors retired earlier than me ( I remained as a tech because I saw what management had to go through) and decided to work for the USPS to try a draw a second pension. He quit the USPS after the first day on the job.
I can say the same for that "giant" telecom company I retired from. At one time they considered getting rid of the middle three layers of five layers of management but you know they patted each other on the back so well it didn't happen.
@Abunai - It sounds like you may need to battle your condo a little more. If a mail box is too small and too full, then there's nothing the postal carrier can do. Maybe the management of your condo can hold the mail for you. You don't have to shit on the post office for the weaknesses of your condo.
UPS, FedEx make some money by using the cheaper services of the USPS, ShurePost as one example. They also negotiate prices with the USPS. Foreign countries get much better inbound prices, than American's get outbound. It's cheaper to ship a fairly big box of goods from China, than it is to send some small packages to the next closest city here (this is easily verifiable). If it weren't for the USPS, many small businesses would have to shut down, most of eBay would cease to exist, and that $99 a year prime, would most likely be $250 +.
The base cost (starting cost) for package shipment from UPS & FedEx is about $9.00. Small packages up to one pound can be sent First Class mail, starting around $2.50 and up. Priority mail starting around $6.00, delivery in three days or less, where UPS & FedEx may take 5 or more days.
Taxpayers are subsidizing large multi-national corporations like UPS & FedEx, retailers like Amazon, and yes, many small businesses. 90% + of my sales are shipped USPS, faster delivery on average, and a cheaper cost. I wouldn't be able to run my business, and compete with the big boys, without them.
Socialism for the rich and corporations but hope, prayers, and bootstraps for everyone else!
Not one word about pre funding bill, UPS and Fed Ex don’t deliver every address in America. No taxpayer money Stossel.
Correct, UPS and FedEx both will hand over mail/packages to the USPS to finsh the delivery where the 2 don't deliver. I sent a package to my brother using UPS and had to pay an extra charge for the last leg of the delivery. I was told because it will actually be delivered by USPS because UPS does not go that far out in his rural area in Virginia, to much added cost. They said they drop it at nearest town.
Joyce B I called ups and fed ex and they said if you pay extra they will do the last leg
Haha the us is such a shithole😂
@@joyceb8407 UPS and Fedex won't deliver there because it is cheaper to outsource to the USPS. And the reason the USPS is cheaper is because they are not allowed to charge what the delivery is worth.
No one forces any of these individuals to live there, so stop whining!
Another example of "hey government,we dont need you"
I don’t know who else is willing to send an envelope to Alaska and Hawaii for 47 cents
email for free
What's an "envelope"?
@@rob1248996 LOL! you millennials are so funny
@@bfun4615 Wish I was a millennial. On the other hand I'll be dead before the REAL shit hits the fan.
Ups would cost arm and a leg to deliver everywhere
I live on an island in Alaska. There's no UPS or Fedex, and just a post office. There's no competition here, so they don't even try. There is no home delivery, everyone has a PO box and all of your mail has to be picked up from there.
Never seen such a truthful guy ever .
You forgot to mention how much money they pissed on Lance Armstrong !
lance has no bells
@@sandymoonstone855 ; lol
Look at that federal employee hiding from a camera..... What a joke.
They need authorization to do that. If you were a rank and file employee (in any business) usually you would have to get permission to speak to media. I had to when a reporter wanted to do a story about me saving an elderly person out of $4000.00 scam. I had to get permission to talk to media. Most companies have spokespeople for media requests.
@@bfun4615 Not her, she's a federal employee in a public building.
@@_multiverse_ Yes her. Just because she's a federal employee that doesn't mean there is no protocol for media requests. And NOT all employees want to be on camera. When my story aired on TV I had to get permission to do so.
@@bfun4615 yeah they had a couple guys bust into the p.o. claiming to be media. And they got rights to film all the workers. Problem is that the sign that proves they have a right to film also states they need approval from postmaster or station manager. Which they dont get. Cause they are fake media
@@_multiverse_ got it .
This channel should be a major news network...
I live in an apartment, and can't remember the last time I check my mailbox. It's literally all junk mail.
As someone who orders from eBay almost everyday and has packages, parcels, and boxes delivered to his address, I must say that the USPS is the most reliable. FedEx, Amazon Logistics, and UPS _always_ deliver my packages to the wrong address. I'm not defending the financial wastefulness of the USPS, but I do have to give credit where it's due.
I've had FedEx deliver to the wrong address once which pissed me off, (he obviously didn't look at the door number since there wasn't one on THE LAUNDRY ROOM door at my apartment building for crying out loud) but I've also gotten pissed off at the post office for delivering to the wrong address (he delivered it to a different house number on my street). Although my current mailman is rather excellent I will say. I still want the postal service privatized 100% but I want the privatized service to hire him.
Does anyone else remember the phrase: "Wait six to eight weeks for delivery" when trying to get some toy through the mail?
formerevolutionist. Oh boy do I remember! It was likely because they didn't sent it right away. A company isn't gonna rush to send something to a kid who sent in a few boxtops and 50 cents.
Also they sent that stuff 3rd class if I remember right.
Also, six to eight weeks is like a few years to a kid. I remember going to the post office every day with the same question: "Is it here, yet?"
formerevolutionist I'm with you on that!!! Seemed like forever.
It's called being mandated by congress to pregund retiree health benefits
"these politicians aren't dumb"
🤣🤣🤣😭 Good one John
All this time, I thought Pres Trump was responsible for failing post offices.
Guessing from the dozens of ads?
Have you seen the uproar from the Democrats over his attempts to reform the Post Office?
@@buddyjenkins7188 how is not funding the post office "reform"?
@@johnlazar1818 Since when did not increasing funding become "not funding?"
@@buddyjenkins7188 I haven't heard about his attempts to reform the post office please enlighten me
"I don't represent John Stossel"
Yup. You don't represent most of Americans.
THAT'S THE POINT.
Edward Green, Jr ctually he is correct, he represents the people in the congressional district he was elected to. Notice both he and Frankan are gone.
that's how congress works dumbass
he did talk about funding 75 years of health care in advance.
Our local post office sends mail 300 miles away to be sorted and sent back. So if I’m going to send a letter to someone a couple towns over, my letter has to go on a truck, delivered 300 miles to be sorted, put back on a truck, and delivered another 300 miles to finally be sorted and delivered. It’s kind of silly.
Thanks for throwing in the real obstacle at the end - selfish, short-sighted people.
Reminds me that the USPS shut down privately owned postal services back in the 1800's
" The congress shall have the power to establish post offices." The word shall means MUST so you guys know
this is misinformed, the usps got screwed by the 2006 pension act, forcing them to pay full lenth pensions on the date of hirement
That's what you get when the union has full control over the contracts. They were concerned that the USPS might go broke, so they make it happen.
@@leechowning2712 The GOP has wanted USPS privatized for a very long time and no other government agency has to do this.
Honestly, the error in both the USPS and Amtrak is that these should be run as government services, not businesses. As another commenter said, running at a deficit is normal when you are talking about a governmental agency. Most agencies have no income or little income. But the "it is a business being run by the government" is sheer foolishness because a business is set to make decisions based on income, but especially when dealing with congress the decision making is based on "supporting my base". In business, this will cause failure. Either make it a federal agency... With the full support of the government, or a state agency... Or let them operate as a business.
Lee Chowning agree one the usps, I don’t know too much on Amtrak, but a basic centralized postal service should be 100% government funded even if at a loss.
@@leechowning2712 the main issue with government business is, that hey have a terrible service record.
If UPS or Fedex had the same level of service as USPS they would have been out of business long time ago.
In my experience, the USPS is a by cheaper than Fed Ex and UPS. EDDM, priority mail, and next day air are by far the best deal in their catagory
Last year they lost $8.8 billion. That's unsustainable for a for profit business.
they've sustained for 150 years or so....
@@NickYourHomeLoanFriendKrehnke and that's supposed to be an incentive? If they were a private business, they would have either changed or shut down. They have lost $69 billion in 11 years
It's cheaper because it's subsidized by the government
@@hint0122As do all major businesses in this country. USPS has had a major decline in 1st class mail for many years and they have to adjust to that, just like any other company in a similar situation. They have sold and are selling lots of buildings and assets as a result. They are half the price of Fed Ex, and if my tax money goes toward actually lowering the price to me, all I can say is "finally!" We are gonna pay one way or another, either by taxes or higher prices.
I think it’s tough for me to get past the universal aspect of the mail service. I get that it’s at a loss, but I live in a rural area and I like having a post office near me where I can receive my mail and packages on time without the excess expanses. Sometimes, these delivered services are a necessity to me. So, though I love the free market, I’m not sure if not having the government postal service is the right way to go.
Problem right now is your paying for it with interest and then some. And it wouldn't have to be eliminated they could centralize boxes at that post office drop off pick up less often run shorter hours. So instead of 5 full time employees to deliver all over county they have one part time employee who does the pick ups and sorts drop offs into appropriate mail box.
There is a million solutions and most "rural" ones are not losers by themselves its when you have 3-4 post offices in on very small town.
But right now we are operating at a deficit meaning every dollar spent is 2 dollars taken from tomorrows and 5 from next and 20 then 1000. Because we are paying compounding interest on it.
Taxes are not theft because we argue "greater" good ineffective or selfish squandering of tax dollars does turn it into theft. Which is why the sentiment of taxes are theft if growing. And nobody wants to pay taxes the left wants "other people" to pay and the right wants to avoid paying themselves.
And its only natural ineffective use of tax dollars is like getting less than you paid for with any service. If you paid for a ferrari and got 1980s ford fiesta would you want to keep using that company. If you ordered and paid for 12oz steak and got a 6oz would you keep coming back.
Fact is wasting money in government makes people feel like they are not getting value. Makes them less willing to pay while yes government iron fist can stamp that out.
People are getting more and more creative in ways to dodge for example keep "bees" on property and some states you are now a bee farmer exempt from property tax. Couple hundred bucks to get started and very little maintenance if your not harvesting honey.
You also have lobbying and buying themselves loopholes. Fact is the harder you squeeze the more they can offer politicians to buy their exemption.
Its a sacred trust we promise to make nation better with x money if you spend inordinate amount of money on one group of people then majority never see the benefit. If they don't see the benefit they wont see the value in paying. And it becomes a downward spiral.
Responsible spending not saying you go without maybe just use creative solutions to minimize cost. And make that dollar do as much as possible while yes it might be inconvenient to have to go to post office to pick up mail or have shorter hours for drop offs ect. Ever dollar spent making things "convenient" is a dollar not spent on a kids education funding cancer treatment for sick people who can't afford it helping addicts overcome addiction or providing tangible benefits for all of society.
"Governments never learn. Only people learn." Milton Friedman
My mail is mutilated, ruined and I have to have valuable documents (my wife's Doctoral degree) resent. I get no satisfaction from the Postmaster. They fold my mail even though my rural-sized mail box can fit large packages. They even document delivery attempts that they never made.
I remember taking a package up to the local post office and was going to get it sent. The guy said the box needed to be taped before shipment..I was like ok, can I use that role of packing tape RIGHT BESIDE YOU?
"Sorry sir, we don't have tape."
Andrew They don't give away packaging supplies like tape, unless you use priority mail, and then they actually do. UPS and FedEx never do so you'd really hate them.
+Andrew Customers want EVERYTHING for free. We already give away boxes and envelopes (I think we should charge for them like everyone else does). Our station sells rolls of tape, but God forbid you pay for it or something.
J Shepard I've used both UPS and FedEx plenty.. they've taped my box up for free literally every time.
jeffw1267 I paid for the box, and shipping label. Yeah, sorry for asking if I could use 7 inches of tape. That's why the USPS sucks, government complacency doesn't work well with customer service. You couldn't say, "you'll have to pay for it but yes, we can tape your box."?
Andrew yea and then you found some post office stickers right next to the tape, and proceeded to take them with out the lady clerk noticing, and decided to use them as tape you later gave the box to the lady and got into a big argument but ended up spending more money than you intended any ways, you greedy Mr. Spaghetti
And people out here saying we gotta "Save USPS" in 2020
We don’t get any tax money!!! All our money comes from postage!!!
Contrary to what John Stossel tries to imply, the Post Office does not receive tax dollars.
A huge problem that they do have is the fact that in 2006, Congress passed a law that required the Post Office to create a $72 billion fund to pay all its employee's post-retirement health care costs 75 years into the future. Making payments into this fund is what drove the PO into the red, before that they were breaking even as they were supposed to. FEDEX and UPS don't have to do that.
You try running a business that has to pre-pay 75 years worth of health costs for its retirees.
No tax dollars goes to the post office. Know your facts
True - not directly. But they have a government-mandated monopoly that is worth billions, they pay absolutely no state and local property and real estate taxes, along with other burdens like tolls, vehicle registration fees, and parking tickets (more billions). They can "borrow" money at highly subsidized interest rates (free money!) estimated to save them about 1/2 billion a year. And yet, they still lose billions a year. Those are facts.
When the get paid is it a Federal check ?
Jason Gagnon People pay taxes which funds the government, any money that is used in the government to help or aid the Post Office is our tax dollars just like everything else in the government.
@@doctorlarry2273 I heard they could borrow money but it had to be paid back by the end of the year. That's like taking a loan out from a bank.
Yeah I guess those buildings were paid by donations.
I would support Stossel as one of Trump's advisers in a heart beat.
oh god just what we need more fox new people
Yeah they're perfect together - two douchebags.
@@Exileonbackroad Who hurt you?
Fun little tangentially related fact: My father lives next to Harwich in Dennis. His house is made of 3 different buildings moved to the site and put together to form a single house. 2 of them are old houses from Nantucket. The third is the original post office for Dennis. It is perhaps 1/3 the size of the little one in Harwich where the woman said she couldn't speak to him.
addendum: for anyone asking "wth?" about moving houses from an island.... apparently back when whaling first started getting big around Cape Cod and captains (and the like) started to make a lot more money, there was a trend of building bigger houses, as one would expect. But they didn't just demolish the old houses. Nantucket sound is basically a giant 20 foot deep swimming pool, very calm water, so it was no issue to float them a few miles across it to the Cape. To the best of my knowledge, when they were doing this a couple centuries ago, it was completely viable financially and moving houses around like this, where you lift them off their foundation, bring them somewhere else and give them a new foundation was not uncommon as more and more money poured into the Cape Cod area. So 2 of the parts of his house were floated across from Nantucket and combined with the old post office into a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath house in Dennis.
they claim no tax is used for the post office... only stamp fees pay the bills. I call Bs.
You need to revisit this video. it is outdated. and no taxes are given to the USPS
Brian i found this video to be lacking depth. A bill was passed forcing USPS to fully fund all retirement plans up front which is the root cause of their bleeding money so profusely. It’s quite sad.
Two years ago they were going to cut Saturday delivery because they were ( losing )wasting money and now that Amazon is delivering the post office makes Sunday deliveries .
Perfect timing for a reccomendation
Try passing a joint resolution to stop the prefunding of retirees benefits 50 years in advance.
2:14 before someone points out that the USPS isn't directly funded by taxes, they still are bailed out of being bankrupt from time to time and unfortunately that money has to come from somewhere.
The US post office delivers at least 40% of all packages from UPS, FedEx and DHL. The reason the Post office has trouble making money is the laws of the US. Not only is there universal delivery the Post Office CANNOT own there own airline. They have to use the overprice service of national carriers. Also there is one Admin person for every three production workers. A study was done on how to make the USPS more profitable. One of the main suggestions was to eliminate 30% of supervisory personnel. They increased the amount of supervisors instead. However, even with the top heavy business model, the post office has done an incredible job in controlling inflation of the cost of postage. Around 1950 the cost of a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk and a first class postage stamp were all about the same price. Now a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas are both about 500 - 1000% more than a first class stamp. Also UPS and FedEx prices are a lot more depending on the region. Both FedEx and UPS both use the USPS to deliver a large amount of their packages. They charge so much more they can afford to take customers money then send the package to the USPS for delivery and still make money.
Ron Breton I always have to laugh when people say I only use UPS or FedEx, because they care about my package. Truth is they just dump it on USPS and pocket your extra postage lol
I work for the USPS, and I can tell ya there were several days we didn't have a supervisor come in. When the supervisor finally did show up hours late, we had everything in perfect order. Imagine that, people with work ethic who don't need half a million dollars of supervisors standing over their shoulders. (I work in an office with roughly 90 employees on the clock during main operating times. We have a minimum of three supervisors and a station manager overseeing us. About 90% of us know our jobs to a point we could operate all year efficiently without ever seeing a supervisor. That's just local supervision. We also have a Postmaster that overseas ONLY two stations. Then we have about 5 layers of management above him.)
In reality, the biggest problem with the USPS is that it's an impossible business model. Due to growth, every year the USPS has to deliver to more homes, businesses, and shopping centers than it did the previous year. Due to modern tech (like email), they deliver to a larger infrastructure with less money.
The USPS does provide centralized service that might be a disaster if left to the local governments. They name roads, maintain the grid system that dictates your address. They ensure apartment numbers and suite numbers are fairly uniform. I've seen what happens when we allow the developer or county planner do this. I've seen apartment complexes numbered 101,104,109,110,113, 202, etc. What? What happened to apt 102 and 103? Why skip those? Recently I started delivering a building that had been gutted and remodeled. Suites were set to follow a fairly predictable pattern -- 200,210,215,220, etc. Suddenly, months after people started moving in, Suite 279 showed up. WHAT? Why did that happen?
Hey if it BROKE fix the dam thing or shut the doors !
USPS probably delivers remote packages for the big carriers, but I have only ever once had a FedEx package be fulfilled by the USPS and I was extremely angry. I don't use USPS for a reason, they lose tons of packages and make no effort to deal with "lost" packages.
"Bypass Mail" is why the Post Office looses $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ each year in Alaska. What is Bypass mail...it is mail that 'by passes' the Post Office. A small eskimo Store will order food, clothing , tires etc to be delivered directly to that store in a small Eskmo vilages. The store will pay a very small fraction of the cost of shipping to the Post Office. The Post Office then pays the lions share of the shipping. For example, 3 cases of Coke banded or boxed together to meet the post office weight limit of 70 pounds, may cost $150 in shipping. The store might pay $30 dollars and the Post Office will pay $120 of the actual cost of shipping. This is where they loose so much $$$.
Alaska has almost no road system within a State that is over twice the size of Texas!
See this article. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/us-postal-service-alaska-bypass
Larry Ehrlich crimity, that's insane. How many of these inuits living on welfare snarfing down cokes used to be completely self-sufficient on fish and polar bears 50+years ago. What a joke. And that one bitch who is on disability for a head injury but has 6 or 7 kids. WTF. Fuck Ted Stevens. Glad to see he was removed and hopefully his death was excruciating. If these losers don't like the price of living in nowhere Alaska where they don't even have vital jobs or jobs at all, then move
Aww look at little Mikey trying to pretend he has an opinion worth a bag of wet shit.
Larry, good point. It sucks, and sounds like the taxpayer is footing the bill for that extra amount. There are other things nationally which suck too. Rural red states do get a disproportionately higher amount of federal aid than do blue states. That's because they don't collect as much in state taxes. Kind of ironic since they're the ones who are always chanting "lower taxes!" I guess if they want no services whatsoever, then they could have zero taxes!
Congress needs to quit telling the PO how to do things and let them thrive. We need the PO as it guarantees our 1A rights.
I gotta be honest, of all the ways government wastes money, the Post Office is way, way, wayyy down the list of my personal priorities when it comes to where to start cutting.