USPS acts without congressional approval for delivery change.

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Taycat wrote on 2013-02-07 10:27

Well luckily for me, FedEx's HQ is in my town, so I'll never need USPS.
Aubog007 wrote on 2013-02-07 10:50

Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1027866:
Well luckily for me, FedEx's HQ is in my town, so I'll never need USPS.

FedEx is barred from mailing a lot of things, only the USPS can use mailboxes for instance. Also letters are cheaper to send via the USPS.

Also fedex does not mail animals. The USPS does, they get a LOT of shipments of chicks.
Every day i hear chicks chirping near the dock.

Not to mention netflix! Netflix mailing is incredibly cheap due to a deal with the USPS, also political mail is a big thing too. There is a lot of things people dont really understand about the postal service.
Taycat wrote on 2013-02-07 11:57

Quote from Aubog007;1027878:
FedEx is barred from mailing a lot of things, only the USPS can use mailboxes for instance. Also letters are cheaper to send via the USPS.

Also fedex does not mail animals. The USPS does, they get a LOT of shipments of chicks.
Every day i hear chicks chirping near the dock.

Not to mention netflix! Netflix mailing is incredibly cheap due to a deal with the USPS, also political mail is a big thing too. There is a lot of things people dont really understand about the postal service.

I very well doubt the USPS will fail, anyway.
FedEx only exists because USPS wouldn't ship certain things anyway.
Selithia wrote on 2013-02-07 13:18

On the one hand, lots of countries don't have saturday delivery.

On the other hand, maybe if we actually put some freaking money into our government services instead of wanting to cut all taxes and raise military budgets all the time, maybe the USPS wouldn't have to keep "spiralling the drain" just to afford to run!
Yoorah wrote on 2013-02-07 13:51

Well, the USPS supposedly doesn't run on taxpayer money. They run on their own revenue. So I really don't see the problem here; US Congress is pretty retarded right now--quite literally in fact.
Aubog007 wrote on 2013-02-07 16:24

Quote from Yoorah;1027913:
Well, the USPS supposedly doesn't run on taxpayer money. They run on their own revenue. So I really don't see the problem here; US Congress is pretty retarded right now--quite literally in fact.

Runs on the sales of stamps and package deliveries.

Extremely common misconception that the postal service runs on taxpayer money.
Tarvos wrote on 2013-02-09 00:23

I use USPS a lot, because they have the cheapest (sometimes only) international mail for packages. Not all the overseas retailers support Fed EX, and even then they're more expensive if it is available. So if you're like me and buy a lot of crap from Japan, USPS is pretty useful. Also, something a lot of people don't take into account is that physical mail is most of the time the preferred way that business communicate sensitive information. So even in an age where we have email they have their purpose.

Them taking away Saturday mail would suck though. What exactly is their motivation in doing this though? I would think they'd want more people to pay to get things delivered quickly...
Aubog007 wrote on 2013-02-10 07:50

Quote from Tarvos;1028995:
I use USPS a lot, because they have the cheapest (sometimes only) international mail for packages. Not all the overseas retailers support Fed EX, and even then they're more expensive if it is available. So if you're like me and buy a lot of crap from Japan, USPS is pretty useful. Also, something a lot of people don't take into account is that physical mail is most of the time the preferred way that business communicate sensitive information. So even in an age where we have email they have their purpose.

Them taking away Saturday mail would suck though. What exactly is their motivation in doing this though? I would think they'd want more people to pay to get things delivered quickly...

They save so much money by not delivering on saturday. Wages, gas, stuff like that.

Postal service has been losing money for a long time, they fund some government stuff as mandated by congress, last year they could not pay their share, so the postal service had to take action, or else they would sink to the very bottom.

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