Why? If a forum has an improper title, you have to expect that people will misunderstand it’s purpose. Since TPTB refuse to change anything, you are just going to have to put up with people who think it is wrong. The name of this forum implies that all content in it is “mundane and pointless,” no matter how many times you say that the name is inaccurate
Also, gfactor admitted to me once that he doesn’t actually read the Pit threads. Somebody else reports it, and if he sees their point, he moves it. The problem is that your rant doesn’t quite follow the rules of the pit (which are under review as we speak), but also doesn’t really fit in the forum as it is currently labeled.
Finally, since the only thing you can do in the Pit that you can’t do outside the Pit is directly insult posters, you can say whatever the heck you want about the USPO in this thread. If it gets too heated, it might even get moved back to the Pit. But you won’t get in trouble.
The extremely welcome drop in third class mail volume, I’d add. Residents hate receiving junk mail, and it is a drain on our forested lands as well as posing an energy and emissions problem. Reducing commercial mailings is almost an unalloyed good – frankly it’s always been dubious for the USPS to promote it as a moneymaker in the first place.
“If that purchasing manager doesn’t have a cousin at the ridiculously expensive supplier she wanted us to use, we should donate her to the nearest university with a Biology Department. She’s braindead and walking!”
No, I’ve never found myself sharing enipla’s feeling, why do you ask? :halo:
FTR, general delivery is still available. I am mentioning this just to provide general information, and not to suggest that it is a good solution for enipla. But yeah, my BIL has a job that requires him to move around pretty frequently, and he spends 9 months out of the year living in different motels. He usually just has us send his birthday packages etc. to his name, “General Delivery,” whatever town he’s currently in.
And as far as the USPS’s revenue problems, yes, the biggest issues are the drop in “bulk mail” i.e. junk mail, and the switch to online banking. A few other things, too, but that bulk mail thing is huge.
Unfortunately that wouldn’t help me any; we have a box at work, as well, plus the physical address for shipping companies. The same situation exactly.
And everybody here pays. And the people at the office know damn well where I live so if there was an exception I know I’d have heard about it. But they have their money for the next year, so I will be able to get my mail.
Yeah, I was talking about using UPS and FedX to ship to my office. We don’t get mail delivery there either. My house is pretty remote, and it’s winter 6 months of the year, so I have stuff shipped to my office. Though I did chance it a couple of times this year for big items and it did makke it to my house.
I still say the Post Office should take over as ISPs for towns. Wi-Max, repeaters in the green boxes, not too much technical savvy required to keep it running per town. It’s the mail, it’s their job as much as anything is. Yeah, you’d need a whole new IT infrastructure, but it’d totally revitalize the thing.
Ah. We get serious winter here, but I’m right off the main highway, so getting to my house isn’t difficult except mornings after a big snow dump, and then once they’ve bulldozed out to the highway it’s not bad. I know you live a few thousand feet higher than I do!
Mail? When was the last time I got mail that wasn’t an ad or duplicate of a bill I’d received days before in email? … Wait, I’m thinking…taxes, nope. Oh, yes, the W2. One piece of mail from work. But last year it hadn’t arrived when I wanted to efile so I just asked accounting for an email of it. My refund was e-deposited. Family comes in person or calls, and if they are on vacation they post photos instead of buying postcards.