The Post Office is Going to Die

[theoldwolf]

This is not a threat - Federal Agents take note - but merely a prediction. As long as they continue raising rates and cutting services, there is no way this government entity can continue to exist.

When we moved into our new neighborhood, I noticed with disgust that we were the victims of the "central point delivery" scam, where our mailbox is clustered with about 80 others at the entrance to our subdivision. No more door-to-door delivery or pickup.

Today I went to the post office to mail a package. Signs said "Last collection time 2:00." Great - except there's no collection bin large enough to accept a medium-size flat-rate box. So I waited at the mailboxes outside until 2:20, hoping to catch the carrier as (s)he came for the collection. And nobody came.

The USPS may be an independent, self-sustaining agency, but they are still receiving subsidies from the Treasury to cover their deficits - and that means my tax dollars. And every year that goes by, I get a stronger and stronger feeling that I'm getting ripped off.


Bah.

Comments

[kusanagi-sama.livejournal.com]

The neighborhood we used to live in when we lived in Mesa, Arizona had the mailboxes located on the main street in between each street, this was of course, 1986, so I don't think its anything new. Of course, we would have to drive out to where the post office is to drop off packages.

Now, where I live now, Wichita Falls, TX, they want to close the main postal processing facility and merge it with the one in Fort Worth, TX. Of course, this is only to make the Ft Worth processing facility look good, since they lost quite a bit of business when the one in Wichita Falls opened about 10 years ago, and have been slowly taking business from it and giving it to the one in Ft Worth since then.

We have a situation where if you want to mail a letter to someone in my town, it gets sent to the processing facility in my town, then to the one in Ft Worth then back to my town for distribution.

We have a grand total of three regular Post Offices in this town of 104,000, and they had been toying with the idea of closing the one downtown. When that caused too much of an uproar, I guess they went with the idea of closing the mail processing facility. I think the Post Office seems to not like this town.

Also, what sense does it make to have all the lights on in a post office when nobody is there at night? Only the lobby lights need to be on.