USPS Wants To Limit Next-Day Service

[hellaine]

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. Postal Service on Monday will announce a cost-savings proposal that would no longer deliver first-class mail on the next day.

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#csb

[free_spoons]

USPS lost my Harry Potter blurays, I kinda wish bad things upon them >:(

Re: #csb

[stellar_kar]

seeing how both my parents could lose their job this comment is really irritating

[mastadge]

This will have zero practical effect on my life except when it comes to scheduling my Netflix returns so as to avoid very long waits for new releases.

More seriously, though, isn't the Post Office insolvent not because it doesn't pay for itself but because the new Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (as usual, laws in this country have ironic titles!) has been foisted on it requiring it to prefund its retirees' health benefits some ridiculous number of generations in advance? Basically, lawmakers are now trying to find a way to "save" the post office after introducing ridiculous legislation designed expressly, it seems, to cripple it.

[omgangiepants]

It's almost as though they introduced to PAEA to intentionally bankrupt the post office and make a stronger case for privatization!

[serendipity_15]

Yeah well the USPS has been more reliable and hasn't lost anything I sent them unlike UPS which has problems delivering me things like saying they did deliver but I don't have it or saying they can't find my house yet still manage to send me a postcard saying that they can't find my house.

[mastadge]

I agree with this -- in my 30 years or so of using USPS, as often for packages as for letters, they have never lost anything that I missed, and only one piece of mail was damaged -- and they carefully wrapped it so all the damaged pieces made it to me. I know every so often people have a bad experience with them, but I've found them at least as reliable and often more convenient and cheaper than UPS, FedEx and so forth.

[omgangiepants]

*crosses arms*

[effervescent]

This is kind of ironic. If things take longer to get places, then people will just use it even less, which will only worsen the problem.

[emofordino]

mte! i don't know what the long-term goal is that they are planning. it's just going to push more people to use UPS/Fedex so they can send/receive mail faster.

[keeperofthekeys]

I'm always sad when I hear things like this for the USPS and I get even more mad about PAEA. I love the USPS. They're cheap and efficient. I always get mad when certain businesses force UPS or FedEX, because they cost way too much and it takes forever.

[doe_witch]

+1000

[rex_dart]

ia. We've had our share of problems with the USPS, but I will stan for life because dealing with UPS and FedEx is a thousand times worse. USPS sends us free mailing implements when we need them, gives us special daily bulk pickup from a friendly mailman, and lends us plenty of big bags to put the mail in. On the other hand, the UPS guy is a dickbag who treats us like shit because we receive a lot of large boxes and has tried to purposely knock so quietly that we won't hear him. Too bad we've got huge living room windows, dickbag.

[lickety_split]

I hate it when the UPS guy does that! I always like to burst through the door right as they start walking away like (in Doakes voice) "SURPRISE MUTHAFUCKA!"