Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by missedthecue on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:43PM (#24031069)

Accountability to whom? The NSA is still illegally snooping on you and I, killer-cops go unpunished, and the social justice system is biased against black men, but supposedly there is accountability?

The difference here is that it's not profitable for UPS to piss off its customer base. A CEO of a privatised postal company acting in his own rational self interest would produce far different results than Donald Trump acting in his own rational self interest.

And even if the CEO didn't produce good results, I could mail my letter using another firm. With USPS, this is not possible. They have a legally protected monopoly on the delivery of letters. No one else can do it.

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by sixstringtheory on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:02PM (#24031241)

Every delivery service has horror stories. I’ve experienced bad deliveries with all of them. Turns out, there are still humans working at all of them.

Voting is accountability. You’ll have to find another time to discuss every other thing that’s wrong with our government, because right now we’re talking about a service being purposefully degraded in efforts to reduce the one of the only means we have for holding government accountable: voting.

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by ghthor on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:30AM (#24034486)

Theirs 2 sides to every story. The Democrats and the press are doing there best to whip up a fear frenzy over a strong flu wave that's really only killing people who were already sick. If that wasn't happening no one would give a shit about the USPS and what's happening for the better there, in my opinion.

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