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The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

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Re: The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

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Post by kyleee »

ardy42 wrote: post #41
dwiel wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may still be helpful to delay the counting of these votes to further the narrative "look, Trump won by a large margin the first day, then all these mail in votes come in a week later and the winner is now Biden? Obvious mail fraud!"

> It may still be helpful to delay the counting of these votes to further the narrative "look, Trump won by a large margin the first day, then all these mail in votes come in a week later and the winner is now Biden? Obvious mail fraud!" Yeah, other people are seeing that as his strategy, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/opinion/trump-election-da... > There’s no mystery about what President Trump intends to do…

yep, everyone needs to wear PPE and go to the polls

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Post by seizethecheese »

nthj wrote: post #27
seizethecheese wrote: post #17

We do just in time shipping on top of the post office, so have visibility here. We're definitely seeing mail being delivered more slowly, with more delays. At the same time, it's a question of degree, not a major dismantling of the post office. I'd guess 90% of our packages are still arriving within a day of when they were supposed to. For context, I run bottomless.com, YCW19. We're shipping hundreds of packages from…

Hey, newish customer here. I’m in the 10%—my bag is somewhere halfway across the country, and USPS hasn’t posted an update in a week now. I’ll need to supplement with Instacart, which kinda breaks the abstraction. I totally appreciate that USPS isn’t in your control. Cost isn’t really a constraint for me, but running out of coffee is. I just checked and I don’t see a way to switch to FedEx or UPS for an additional ch…

Sorry for the delays. We can't control it, but we still are responsible for your overall experience.

Generally we monitor this and send replacements if coffees get stuck. We will probably do this automatically soon. I understand this still isn't ideal.

We definitely are looking into allowing a FedEx option. We have a pretty complicated product, so it is nice to use a single shipper for now, though.

One thing that could help is picking coffee directly from a roaster that is close to you. If you tell me where you live, I can send you the best roasters for a consistent experience.

Re: The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

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Post by ac29 »

alwaysdoit wrote: post #20
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've actively lobbied for that for years--Republicans have refused, because they know that the people working low-income jobs whose managers will not let them off to go vote tend to lean Democratic. There are some states where the best we've managed is being allowed to take "unpaid" time off to go vote, with the caveat that your employer cannot fire you for doing so. Some states don't even have that much. Guess whic…

Well, many of those people also don't get to take Federal holidays off. See "Black Friday", "Presidents' Day Sale", etc.

Black Friday is not a federal holiday, its the day after a federal holiday, which many office workers customarily get off (but not retail workers as you mentioned).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United...

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Post by pseudalopex »

valbaca wrote: post #60
zalkota wrote: post #2

How about we don’t have a mail in vote and just make the day a holiday.

In-person voting is being stifled as well. Look at the Georgia primary. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873054620/long-lines-voting-m... Mail-in ballots are so good that once you do them, you'll be dumbfounded at why this isn't the absolute standard country-wide. Like I can't describe how simple it is and nice to be able to research candidates on your own with the full ballot in front of you. Using phones and such is…

Voting in person means you can't prove how you voted. That makes it harder for someone to bribe or bully their way into office.

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Post by nthj »

seizethecheese wrote: post #62
nthj wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, newish customer here. I’m in the 10%—my bag is somewhere halfway across the country, and USPS hasn’t posted an update in a week now. I’ll need to supplement with Instacart, which kinda breaks the abstraction. I totally appreciate that USPS isn’t in your control. Cost isn’t really a constraint for me, but running out of coffee is. I just checked and I don’t see a way to switch to FedEx or UPS for an additional ch…

Sorry for the delays. We can't control it, but we still are responsible for your overall experience. Generally we monitor this and send replacements if coffees get stuck. We will probably do this automatically soon. I understand this still isn't ideal. We definitely are looking into allowing a FedEx option. We have a pretty complicated product, so it is nice to use a single shipper for now, though. One thing that cou…

Thank you, that makes perfect sense. I hadn't considered optimizing for location. I just saw in the settings where I can choose a roaster, so I reduced the selection to those much nearer my location. And I did indeed receive an email about a replacement—very slick and very appreciated.

Re: The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

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Post by seizethecheese »

nthj wrote: post #66
seizethecheese wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the delays. We can't control it, but we still are responsible for your overall experience. Generally we monitor this and send replacements if coffees get stuck. We will probably do this automatically soon. I understand this still isn't ideal. We definitely are looking into allowing a FedEx option. We have a pretty complicated product, so it is nice to use a single shipper for now, though. One thing that cou…

Thank you, that makes perfect sense. I hadn't considered optimizing for location. I just saw in the settings where I can choose a roaster, so I reduced the selection to those much nearer my location. And I did indeed receive an email about a replacement—very slick and very appreciated.

Thanks!
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