USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save a Buck
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#2USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US?
Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from being able to innovate what they do in this changing world. And produces a dysfunctional, costs-go-to-the-consumer mentality that is destined a slow painful death.
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#3americans, this is the time to ring up your legislators. elections will be stolen | rigged in broad daylight. first the president says mail in votes results in voter fraud. appoints a postmaster general that will do his bidding. then consider the legislation passed by R, to get USPS to lose money. once again, Fascism comes draped in an american flag carrying a bible. Remember people are already getting snatched off the streets - only the beginning.
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#4It’s great to see how easy it is for bad actors to undermine the institutions Americans depend on. And by great, I mean absolutely awful. I hope that going forward governments are better about drafting legislation that doesn’t allow one person to slowly dismantle everything according to their whims.
I assume this is partly why my BarkBox shipment from USPS, which used to arrive in days, has now been stuck in transit for over two weeks. Bark says it’s because of COVID, but based on the news coming out about USPS, seems more like it’s conservatives trying to dismantle the post office.
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#5USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US? Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from…
I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it.
I'm thinking about a webmail service with verified email addresses. You go the a local post office with a government issued picture ID, they give you an email address with a name based on you real name (with possibly some variation because of name collisions) with "usps" as part of the domain name. People receiving email from these addresses can have somewhat increased confidence that the email they're getting is, in fact, from someone they actually know.
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#6USPS is slashing hours because this is a plan by Trump to make sure that Voting by mail is as difficult as possible so he can pretend there is fraud. Plain and simple.
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#7USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US? Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from…
"In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation."
This is the anchor that is killing the post office.
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#8Still subsidizing Amazon though? Cool.
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#9USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US? Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from…
"In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation." This is the anchor that is killing the post office.
I have heard that, and I don't know the full detail. But I'm sure it was used as a political pawn to ensure that pension costs wouldn't fall on taxpayers later like other agencies, and that USPS wouldn't be able to expand and incur costs / hire people willy-nilly like it otherwise would.
What we need is for some leaders to figure out what they want the USPS to be. And fund it that way.
Re: USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save a Buck
#10USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US? Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from…
I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it. I'm thinking about a webmail service with verified email addresses. You go the a local post office with a government issued picture ID, they give you an email address with a name based on you real name (with possibly some variation because of name collisions) with "usps" as part of the domain nam…
Excellent idea. Even if they decide to monetize this, at $12 a year.