The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]

Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by jdm2212 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:14PM (#23911929)

What do you find lacking in USPS?

My experience with other countries is Israel and Russia's postal systems, which are both notoriously bad at actually delivering mail. USPS doesn't ever seem to lose my mail, and stuff gets to where I send it in ~3 days, so I've always been a happy customer.

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by schnable on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:27PM (#23912038)

USPS is a disaster in Philly. Mail and packages don't get delivered, the tracking is a lie ("attempted delivery" when they haven't etc.), and it's impossible to get any customer service at all because the the escalation path is to a local postmaster with a full voicemail inbox.

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by loeg on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:32PM (#23912076)

Ah, sounds like Fedex and DHL in Seattle.

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by armitron on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:18PM (#23911960)

What they don't seem to lose is priority mail (I'm assuming it's actually tracked in a way that counts). They have lost plenty of my regular mail.

Not to mention consistently misdelivering my mail to other mailboxes. One time, I had to escalate all the way to the region supervisor before I found someone that would actually hear me out. The general attitude seems to be one of incompetence and total indifference.

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