The post office is not supposed to be a business
Stop treating it like a business
It’s a government provided service (gasp, a social service!) so citizens can communicate.
No wonder they want to take it away from us.
It's the same with public transit. Some people think the government shouldn't invest in it because it won't be profitable, but... it's not supposed to be. It's a public service, just like libraries, firefighters, parks, public schools, road maintenance, etc. That's literally what taxes are supposed to be for.
It's crazy. I mean even if you are against taxes and everything it is a shared pool of resources. What are we supposed to with it if not pay for these things? Pay for the salaries of politicians that do not utilise these resources?
All the time you hear from these people what the government should not be spending tax payer money on but you rarely hear anything about what the money should be spent on.
you rarely hear anything about what the money *should* be spent on.
You must not be listening cuz plenty of people talk about spending it on bombing more foreign children for the good of the military industrial complex.
And cage fight matches in front of the white house
My dad (a conservative) works in usps and thinks that there's no way they'll go after them.
He gets fed up saying how DMV workers are so slow and disrespectful and them glazes up his work in the dmv saying that their agency is the one that gets overworked the most.
There's a potential future where we could get rid of the DMV. Like we could simply require insurance through AAA or whatever. If you can't get insured by any branch, then you shouldn't drive.
Cops should have to get malpractice insurance too. Insurance is a good solution to a lot of stuff.
AAA is a nonprofit, if they privatize the DMV it'll damn well be a corporation with a CEO that can make kickbacks to all the right people and keep the poors below him at bay.
I’m a big fan of their new duck trucks. Saw one the other day and it made me smile.
The new trucks that are designed far better than the old ones? Half As Interesting on YouTube has a great video on those.
Those remind me so much of The Busy World of Richard Scarry! I love them, with their little mustache blinkers.
They look like if a car had Downs syndrome though.
Vibe:
hmm idk, that truck doesn't have massive tits
You don't know that
They need to paint one like a duck for the lolz
"Hey, can you place my vote, please? My taxes have already paid for the postage."
Current administration:
"Nah. The wanna-be dictator says no, and our top guy is corrupt as fuck..."
My wifes vote was held up in “customs” when she voted from abroad. It never arrived and it was also to late to send a new vote. Why a letter would even go to customs is beyond me.
i'm from the bay area in california. i went to college in utah (please don't start i know i was an idiot. i still am an idiot (thanks mitch) that's how i know) and my absentee ballot would reliably arrive the day after the election. i tried having it sent to my parents and having them mail it to me in a nondescript envelope and it arrived on time. HUH I WONDER WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THE POST OFFICE IN UTAH, since that didn't happen to me when i had my california absentee ballots sent anywhere else.
The cool thing about the postal service is that they will deliver anything no questions asked.
Top bun from a McDonald's hamburger? no problem!
Asbestos condoms? You got it!
Several slices of 9 year old moldy balogna? Hell yeah buddy!
The cool thing about the postal service is that they will deliver anything no questions asked.
Having shipped packages via USPS before, I cannot confirm they don't ask questions, they specifically asked to make sure I wasn't shipping chemicals or explosives.
I know it means hazardous chemicals, but I find the idea of "does your package contain molecules" chuckle-worthy. Probably something a surreal world post office would say.
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D o e s y o u r p a c k a g e c o n t a i n c o n c e p t s ?
mayhaps
Well, you could send a lump of pure gold. That would have atoms but no molecules. You could try it with silver or iron, too, but the surface would probably start to oxidize before you got it into the box.
Just send some Helium.
USPS used to ship children. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/
Were the bologna and the asbestos condoms at any point related?
The asbestos condoms keep your shlonger safe from all the gross stuff on the balogna when you stuff it into a toilet paper tube to bake a makeshift fleshlight.
Easy, it’s the difference between a service and a business. War is a business, run by profiteers who charge $1000 to produce and deliver a hammer or a toilet seat, whereas historically the postal service was a pure need met by the government and subsidized by the people, but seen previously as such a critical means of transferring critical information, news, it was necessary to prop up the entire economic system by transferring contracts, documents for business, government, personal dealings, so it had to function and the cost was not a consideration, gouging wasn’t dreams of, and it piggybacked on all the major and newest modes of transportation. Today greed and political malfeasance has intentionally spread the idea that the postal service should be profitable, for some to kill it off or raise prices to enrich their own investments in competition, for some to damage voting by mail, for some to further sow distrust in reliable government services to convince the masses that the government is entirely incompetence and untrustworthy to run such programs to further privatize various industries.
It was cheap because capitalists relied on it to enrich themselves. Now they can do their business in other ways cheaper, so they can do what they always do - raise prices, enshittify it, strip the parts and sell them off once people lose faith in it, then use their corporate monopolies that provide the same services to gouge the populace that previously paid pennies for the same services.
State: Hey, can you mail out this ballot postmarked by the state to a resident in the same state that isn't on a special federal government list?
USPS: No.
Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
Well this made me frown like grumpy cat..thanks
Don't kill the messenger.
We live under a fascist regime that is dismantling itself to ensure it's power over us.
"Don't kill the messenger" is a great slogan for supporting the USPS
USPS is one of the many things that still makes me feel a large rush of civic pride in these dark times, among museums and libraries, firefighters, and good community spaces(parks, bike trails, hiking areas, etc).
Ok, but unrelated to the post office, is this the actress from Game of Thrones? The lady who first marries King Joffrey?
They skip many rural communities.
Fuck the USPS.
I bet many will downvote me. They don't know... No, they actually don't care.
City life is so nice, they don't care.
"How could people vote for Trump?!"
This is how.
I've never done it... But I get it now. You people don't fucking care. USPS fucks us over, and they tell everyone they always deliver. They don't.
THEY FUCKING DON'T.
It was Trump's postmaster general that enacted the recent cuts to USPS in 2020. Bush did plenty too.
Cowards downvote. They try to bury us. Fuck you fucking pieces of shit. We matter. WE MATTER.
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