I <HEART> the Post Office

[BodieTown]

Last edited Sat Feb 8, 2014, 05:42 PM - Edit history (2)

We are having a second big snowstorm in as many days.

Schools are closed. The city is essentially crippled.

No UPS deliveries. No garbage pickup.

And the little US Postal Service truck comes puttering down the street as usual, doing what it promises to do every 6 out of 7 days of the week.

It is just EFFIN unbelievable that anybody would want to PROFITIZE the Postal Service. I've seldom seen a better run business.

UPDATE: Saturday February 8, 2014:

Portland Oregon is basically shut down. We have about 8 inches of snow here, and it's still snowing. The USPS carrier just effortlessly zipped down the street (and the garbage containers are still out there...no service until next Friday!).

[lostincalifornia]

1. I agree, and the repukes are trying to destroy it

[kardonb]

17. USPS

We live in AZ , Sun City West , and we have the greatest crew in our PO , always friendly , courteous , efficient , knowledgeable , its a pleasure to go there . Even at high traffic times , things go very smoothly and pleasantly ! Keep USPS alive , they are a GREAT service .

[kimbutgar]

27. Just got back from visiting sun city west az

Home of the surprise tea party. To my mother in law the mail is something she looks forward to everyday. Funny that a tea party stronghold wants to privatize the one government agency that works the best.

[jmowreader]

66. I think that's why they want to destroy it

There can be no indication whatsoever the government works.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. k&r

[grasswire]

3. proud to be the fifth rec

Hooray for USPS.

[Skittles]

4. have always loved the USPS

I was a GI brat and the USPS helped me keep in contact with my family in an affordable manner

[wryter2000]

5. I'm a bit lol today

I ordered something that the seller sent via UPS with the last leg done by the USPS (don't know why, I'm in an urban area). Anyway, supposedly, they left an unable to deliver message yesterday, but they didn't.

It took me a bit googling to find the actual phone number of my post office. When I called them, I got a person who was able to yell to my letter carrier in the back and ascertain that he had it. On one hand, they shouldn't have said they tried to deliver it when they didn't. On the other hand, I spoke to a person who actually knew about my package and reassured me it would get delivered.

[byronius]

6. I'm a big fan.

[madokie]

7. Navy postal clerk here

and I must say I heart the USPS too

[Laelth]

8. The USPS rocks! k&r n/t

-Laelth

[ohheckyeah]

9. I love the USPS, too.

It was kind of sad this Christmas when my husband gave the mail man a card with money in it and it surprised the heck out of him. He said it was the first one he had gotten. He does an outstanding job of making sure our packages are always in the same place and out of the weather. With UPS or FedEX I often have to do a scavenger hunt just to find the damn package IF I know it's even here. UPS delivered a package this morning and didn't ring the bell or anything. I don't go out the front every day but fortunately I had the porch alarm on because I was expecting a package and got it in right away.

[Hamlette]

47. I always give our mail lady a tip

and she deserves it. We went out of town and asked our grown son to come up and bring in the mail and paper. He didn't. So our mail lady brought the paper from the street and "hid" it behind a bush by the door. She also went through our mail as the mail box got full and put the junk mail under the newspapers to make room. Above and beyond.

It is astonishing to think, someone comes to my house 6 days a week.

I should tip more this year....

[ohheckyeah]

54. I know what you mean.

This guy is the same way. We told him he could put stuff on our back patio instead of climbing all the stairs up to our porch...our house sets on a hill. But, if the weather is really bad, he brings the packages to the front porch so they stay dry or if it's just drizzling rain, he sets them under a chair on the patio.

[riderinthestorm]

10. Yup. I use them for everything and have never had a bad experience. I'm rural too

and even with the bad northern Illinois weather our mail is still arriving every day, on time even.

[MerryBlooms]

11. Me too! I still send paper cards and letters and buy stamps regularly

I love my mail carrier and

[oldandhappy]

12. I am with you BodieTown

USPS is a terrific bargain.

[flying rabbit]

13. The USPS is a government entity that works.

That is why the republicans hate them. Privatize it and the costs go up and the service gets worse. At least the 1% get a bigger share.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

49. The Republican was on the USPS

Good Article:

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/republicans-look-to-destroy-post-office-further/

[Beartracks]

67. Which is precisely why Republicans have to say it does NOT work.

"A government entity that works" does not fit their fantasy of government as being inefficient and wasteful by definition. So they must tell themselves and anyone who will listen the Big Lie.

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[bkanderson76]

14. Kudos to the USPS

[GobBluth]

15. Thank you! I'm an RCA Rural Route Carrier

Fairly new, but with the situation in my office, I "Know" (meaning I can get back in time for outgoing truck, I still suck, lol), over half the routes already. It is the hardest, yet easiest job I have had (and I grew up doing farm work in North Dakota). I can honestly say, that in my office, every one there wants to do the best job possible. Newbies like me get much help on making sure we are accurate and timely. I don't know if that is the norm in other offices, my supervisor husband (boo hiss lol) at another office says it isn't at his.

I have many internet friends around the world, and most are totally in awe over the service Americans take for granted. Luckily I am in a warm state, no snow, But today I had to deliver on a route "new to me" on a fairly busy road, in the pouring rain. My feet are freezing, my car (we use our private vehicles here) is a mess, but I thank the Lord for this job, and hope to do my best every day. Mistakes will be made, but I (and all my co-workers in my office, they, and management even, are awesome) will go out of my way to correct it and help y'all in any way I can.

[Fla Dem]

58. Thanks for sharing your experiences. You should print out this whole thread and pin it to your

office bulletin board so all your other USPS co-workers can read it and know there are many, many people in the USA who appreciate the USPS.

[senseandsensibility]

16. They outperformed the private mail companies during the holidays too!

Love the United States Post Office.

[Enthusiast]

36. I bet we won't hear that on Fox "News".

Actually we won't hear it anywhere in the "liberal" media.

[lpbk2713]

18. We should remember this ...

next time RWingnuts want to drag union workers through the mud.

[heaven05]

19. yeah

I must say the P.O. is doing a great job. We've been experiencing a brutally cold and snowy winter in S.E. michigan. My mail has been delivered EVERY day. Republithugs, leave the Post Office alone.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I am still waiting on a Christmas package I doubt will ever come, and my

father dropped off some mail that belongs the next street over (this happens 2x a week here). I am glad you've had a good experience. Unfortunately, it's not the same all over.

[Enthusiast]

35. I'm sure Fed Ex and UPS will do better.

[ScreamingMeemie]

57. In fact, they all have the same track record.

Not sure why you have used tears here. (?) I just don't believe in lauding someone who doesn't deserve it.

[Enthusiast]

61. This past holiday season the USPS far outperformed both UPS and Fed Ex.

[ScreamingMeemie]

62. This past holiday season in this house, the letters USPS became synonymous

with poor performance and the inability to correctly track packages...leading to a battle over postal insurance. So no, I will not pat them on the back. (unless they somehow manage to magically find the package or reimburse via insurance). You didn't explain the tears. I found them rather odd.

I am quite sure our post person screwed up. It happens far, far too often in this neighborhood of 90 houses.

[Enthusiast]

68. So you want to do away with the postal service?

Turn it over to private hands?

[mac56]

21. The USPS is consistently the most trusted governmental entity.

That may be part of why the Repos want to do it in. A part of government that actually works. Unionized too.

[1000words]

22. I <3 USPS, too

They could make stamps $1.00 and it would still be a bargain, in my opinion.

[MindMover]

23. krnt ...

[blkmusclmachine]

24. +1

[beac]

25. Me too!

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

A rare motto that is actually TRUE!

[fadedrose]

26. I want them to reinstate paper bond program

taking it away from the banks and let the US Post Office handle applications, take checks/money, send to Treasury, and let Treasury mail bonds to purchasers of any age, sex, anything....

Price would start at $25, like it had been before they ended the program...

[Historic NY]

28. Yup same here...I told him stay on the town roads.

[Hissyspit]

29. Me, too.

[liberalmuse]

30. So do I!

I have an online business, and they are just awesome. I wouldn't use anyone else. My mail lady caught a dumb mistake I made on a package this week. I realized I'd put on the wrong sticker, but sure enough, she let me know and asked it if was okay that she fixed it herself before I could even ask her about it. She will also pick up packages at my door, and get this: brings packages to my door. The UPS guy just stashes my packages in-between the garbage bins on the side of the house because it's too much to walk 10 extra feet, I guess. I didn't find that sucker until a couple days later because he'd logged that he dropped it at my side door when I don't have a side door. My mail lady goes the extra mile, never mind 10 measly feet. The USPS is amazing, and I wish more Americans realized this. They are so taken for granted!

[democratisphere]

31. USPS provides great service and is one of the very best deals in this price gouging world.

[MoreGOPoop]

32. Effin A!

Keep your oily, greedy fingers out of our government, you fascist pigs!

[RC]

33. We got a foot of snow here in KCMO Wednesday and

mail delivery. Otherwise the city was mostly shut down.

[Enthusiast]

34. K&R! I share your love of the USPS.

Can you imagine, there are Republican postal workers? Unfuckingreal.

[Cha]

37. I'm a USPS lover,

too! Was there today.

Your description was very vivid, Bodie Town.. thanks!

[Art_from_Ark]

38. I love the USPS as well

ever since I posted my first letter with a 5-cent stamp

[DeeDeeNY]

39. 49 cents per ounce

I can send mail from New York to California and it gets there in 3 days for 49 cents. That says it all.

[mstinamotorcity2]

40. Big ups to the

men and women of the United States Post Office you are appreciated. Thank you!!!

[tomp]

41. the post office in my neighborhood is abysmal.

the only day I can get there to pick something up is Saturday and the lines are out the door because they don't provide enough staff to accommodate working people. No matter how many people complain they do nothing about it. I do whatever I can to avoid using them.

[Octafish]

42. Union jobs, mostly.

Good pay, benefits, pension. Target for Koch Klass.

[marble falls]

43. Anyone who hates the US Post Office needs to go somewhere else and try their postal "service".

[Divernan]

44. During recent subzero weather, I didn't bring my mail in one day. The next day,

my mailman knocked repeatedly on my door (took me a while to get there) to check I was OK! I'm a senior citizen who lives alone, which he knows. I actually consider him a friend cause in good weather I'm often outside gardening when he delivers mail & we have brief chats. He also knows that I worked at a temp job one Christmas season at a giant USPS processing facility, and understand what's involved in the processing of mail, and how the USPS got screwed by Congress with pre-paying pension requirement. So I'm like USPS alumni. Also had great service from the Kansas City MO post office tracking down & retrieving a mis-addressed piece of important mail delivered to someone who never bothered to return it.

I'd love to have an I Heart the USPS bumper sticker.

[mopinko]

45. i had the best luck with them this xmas. the local supervisor was great.

f'ed up my son's presents, 3 boxes. luckily i had done a flat rate print at home, so i could see what i had done. i also could see that a box i thought was stolen had indeed made it into the mail (dropped and picked up by an employee, no doubt).

his cookies almost bounced back home but the guy fished them out of the return bin while i was on the phone. gave me his cell number and his email, took tracking info from third party shipper and corrected it in the system.

it was his first xmas away from home, and i was already late sending. it really made my xmas to get it straightened out.

yeah, f brown. the way they rob the small sender, i ain't never going back.

[daleanime]

46. Big K&R...

[Triana]

48. I tweeted this to @USPS

Just to let them know.

[ljm2002]

50. Yes, the USPS is great!

My daughter sent us a Christmas present via UPS. Later she called to let us know it would be late, estimated to arrive Jan 15. It actually finally arrived 2 days ago, Feb 6.

Well at least it got here.

OTOH, our gifts delivered via USPS all arrived here on time.

TAKE THAT, privatizers!

[raging moderate]

51. U. S. Post Office workers are true heroes.

My message to the Republicons:

Keep your sticky fingers off of OUR Constitutionally mandated United States Post Office, part of OUR government of the people, by the people, for the people!

[The_Commonist]

52. You realize, of course, why the USPS works so efficiently?

No human organization works quite so well, which is why the privatizers want to destroy it:

[valerief]

53. I heart the Post Office, too! I heart them as much as I hate Congress, and I hate Congress A LOT! nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

55. Maybe some of you saw the segment on USPS on MSNBC just now...

It's very exciting, the post office is going to go back to providing financial services. VERY, exciting!

On another note, I don't like that anchor. I hope she's a temp.

[dougolat]

56. They upset the 'thugs when they proposed converting the small vehicle fleet to electric,

where practical.
That helped earn them the union-busting "treatment" they're burdened with now.

[tecelote]

59. Our business used USPS, UPS and Fedex...

Guess who would stay late to help us get our orders out?

Very few business or government branches are run as well as the USPS.

A proud American institution.

[quakerboy]

60. I like the USPS

but what i hear from people working for the USPS is that things are going downhill fast.

From the outside perspective, it looks to me likely that the R's will get what they want and see the USPS destroyed.

There's the overall financial burden imposed by the pension law that we all already know about, But from what I am hearing, there seems to be some significant internal degradation as well, because the big financial pinch is resulting in internal cutbacks that are negatively effecting peoples ability to do their jobs, make a reasonable wage, and most especially to have job satisfaction.

[Phentex]

63. No delivery for two days after our ice over recently...

but still a bargain all the way around. I'd pay more for stamps than I already do if I had to.

[Egalitarian Thug]

64. It is one the very best large systems of any type in the world,

and is, hands down, the best delivery service in the world. The fact that, after 40 years of constant attack by the politicians, it is still such is testament to how unbelievably well designed it is.

Here's a tidbit I'll bet you didn't know, the USPS has the best demographic database in America (perhaps the CIA's is better, but we'll never know), and invaluable information on just about anything can be accessed very reasonably. In my case I needed to know what area of a large metro area had both sufficient income and a high rate of dog owners so we could choose the best place to locate a new business. USPS to the rescue!

[grandpamike1]

65. Hey Obama & Democrats

How about allowing the PO to fund it's pensions like every other business does ? It is the only agency that has to pre-fund 75 years in 10, which, of course, leads to yearly deficits. Come on, get spines and right this wrong.