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Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

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Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

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Are there some actual studies stating that privatized mail office would be cheaper/more efficient/better service? Or is this just attempt at money grab?

How can it not be less expensive? The private companies don’t have to offer/fund the insane pension benefits that public sector employees get.

The public sector pension scandal is insane.

Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

#12

Are there some actual studies stating that privatized mail office would be cheaper/more efficient/better service? Or is this just attempt at money grab?

I think the parsimonious explanation is that it's a political move to delegitimize voting by mail.

It's hard to imagine such intentionally bad management without some sort of motivation.

Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

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post #11

Are there some actual studies stating that privatized mail office would be cheaper/more efficient/better service? Or is this just attempt at money grab?

How can it not be less expensive? The private companies don’t have to offer/fund the insane pension benefits that public sector employees get. The public sector pension scandal is insane.

Not giving employees benefits does not necessarily lead to a better service

Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

#15
post #9

> Amid this increase, sudden policy changes instituted to cut costs by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump donor who was appointed in May, Interesting how that's possible. Corona delayed things in Netherlands, but seems they dealt with it smartly. Those delays didn't last that long as well. It does align with the suggestion that voting by mail is problematic, though seems like a created problem.

It would appear to be the goal: scuttle the post system to disrupt voting by mail.

Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

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Incredibly frustrating to get mail by USPS over the past couple months and even more frustrating to know this is an intentional kneecapping of the USPS by the administration in order "prove" government services are inefficient to privatize the USPS

Boy, it sure is coincidental timing that Trump appointed a new Postmaster General two months ago that immediately changed policies to prohibit overtime needed to get mail delivered, just as we're about to have an election that will see large parts of the country having to vote by mail.

Now if only Trump could get his supporters to not rely on voting by mail, such as by playing up the message that the Coronavirus is not a big deal and that everyone just needs to go back to work and school and that they'll be fine by the time they need to get out and vote in person.

Re: Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

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post #13

Are they de-prioritizing all the spam and useless pre-sort stuff? That would be the first order of business for me.

I think it's the opposite, by design. This administration installed a loyalist (with extreme conflicts of interest) to de-legitimize the postal service prior to the election, which will largely be held by mail.
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