I have no beef with what they make. On the other hand, if the USPS is losing gobs of money, they do need to cut expenses.
They probably should raise the price of a stamp, again. Or they could just give the USPS to the union and wipe out the shareholders and creditors.
The fed gov should start a national lottery. Earmark the money earned for specific things like national debt, national parks and other shit. Since everyone knows that lotteries are just a poor tax anyway there shouldn't be much opposition to this. Make the post office the retailers where people buy and redeem their tickets. That way the post offices get some extra revenue in like all the convenience stores do with the state lotteries.
How about just making the stamps the lottery tickets, and charging lottery ticket prices for them? And let's say the sender and the recipient share the prize equally. barfo
No but we could have a Green Card lottery for illegal aliens. Every month the feds action off 1000 green cards, charge $100 a ticket and whenever anyone shows up to collect we can arrest them for being an illegal alien.
Or we could just say that anyone who goes to the post office is obviously too poor to afford fedex and therefore undesirable, and we could have a machine that turns them into soylent green. barfo
Can't you stick a piece of standard mail into one of those small envelopes they have and send it 3-5 days mail?
I used to Fedex anything if I had to weight it before sending it. I think overnighting an envelope is like $50. The post office people are assholes sometimes they get all anal with the placement of stamps, zip codes, the return receipts etc..if its over 16 oz you have to bring it in to the office, you can't drop it off, its easier to fedex it.
They deliver it to your door (same thing) Just went to UPS website. For a letter to be mailed across town, the only option I got was next day for 22.98. I think USPS should start charging a buck a letter . . . no one would compete with them, iMO. Heck 5.00 a letter and watch USPS start raking in the cash.
It would suck for society to have to send a peice of US mail for 5.00, but if you want to see USPS perform like USPS and Fedex, let them set their own rates.
I worked for UPS years ago. At that time the USPS determined where they could take packages. We were forbidden from taking packages to PO Boxes, overseas, and even in some areas of this country.
You just adapt though based on cost. If they started charging a buck a letter, I wouldn't send anything out anymore. I send out periodic email/fax blasts for events I put together....I stopped doing USPS because of the costs involved for much of it. I have a yearly event still I put together and I sent out 1500 pieces of mail.
I think it's the only restriction. The problem with the USPS is like any government entity they play with house (tax payer) money and zero accountability. It's just the way our government seems to work.
