Will the U.S. Postal Service be a part of our future the way it's been a part of our past?

[@tdp73]

We definitely need the US mail.

[@lindaguida4074]

We certainly do! They work so hard!!

[@christopherhubbard256]

We do!🙂

[@juanalmos1959]

DeJoy the postmaster is trumps boy and he undermined the postal service and still is to this day

[@brianpresley8287]

You got good jokes!

[@LAA2198]

We still need it. I love the stamps and I still send beautiful physical cards to friends and family, cars that I hand made. This appreciation is still needed

[@kellywade8275]

You are so right!

[@RehanKhan-fz3io]

Good morning . I have old and rare stamps . I want to sell this if you want to watch this or buy this than contect me o

[@coltsgood99]

just send it in a text message

[@kellywade8275]

@@coltsgood99 😂Do you play timbales?

[@Benz5469]

That all sounds very sweet and everything, but it also sounds like wants, not actual needs.🤷‍♀️

[@jolyfrye1871]

I remember when I was a kid. My parents would always give our Postman 📬 a gift every Christmas🎄... I can't imagine a 🌏 with out them.

[@samanthab1923]

Right? Same with us & our house was on a corner of a cul-de-sac so our basketball net was down there. When he drove in to deliver to the 3 houses we’d throw the ball to him to shoot from the truck!

[@Raemuva]

Customers on my husband route are so generous year round but especially around Christmas. They give him so many cards filled with money, gift cards, alcohol, candy, clothes & so much more.

[@samanthab1923]

@@Raemuva I love to hear that.

[@angelinimartini]

They’ve always been the most competitive, price wise, for my deliveries. So, idk… I have love for the USPS.

[@ThDirtyCurfDrummer]

Trust, I work for the post office. We're not going anywhere.

[@MrTaylorfenoglio]

They operate at a 10 billion dollar loss every year paid by your taxes. That's not competitive it's a failure you have to pay for.

[@lettuce9850]

@@MrTaylorfenoglio 10 billion loss for an essential service that can deliver a lot of things practically anywhere in the US? That sounds like a great deal in the scope of normal US budget talks I mean military budget increases typically far exceed that. Also keep in mind that the USPS handles a lot of last mile deliveries (most expensive part) from companies like FedEx or UPS so even these companies rely on the capabilities that the USPS has developed since its inception. I think it is a bit shortsighted to view the USPS as a success/failure based off of their profit, consider the essential service they provide to practically every town in America.

[@PostalReptiles]

The bald guy who says we don't need USPS anymore is so wrong. The post office has transitioned from letters to packages. There are days I have packages for more than 75% of my route of 500 residents. Some people get multiple packages EVERY DAY, along with their mail. With Covid, it has increased even more how much people shop online. And like the PO enthusiast in the video said, we deliver to EVERYONE and everywhere, including the places UPS, fedex, amazon and the like won't. Lets also not forget the hundreds of thousands of people it directly employs and millions whose businesses rely on it. It's a joke to think the PO won't be a part of our future. There a lot of problems with USPS. Too many to list here. But there are solutions to these problems if we could just get some competence running it. /rant

[@nothanks6931]

Newman is that you?

[@PostalReptiles]

@@josmacch what about the very rural parts of America, where UPS and FedEx and other delivery services will not deliver to? Those are the places that need the postal service the most. It doesn't make financial sense for the other delivery services to deliver to them, but USPS has to go there every day anyway. That's why they have that last mile contract. If we got rid of the post office it would be devastating for rural America

[@alvinmcbride7579]

Postal managers and postmasters have run USPS into the ground, with their bonus and making good hard working carriers quit because of the constant writing carries up for infractions, lying, and trying to have carries burn themselves out, to save overtime hours so they can collect their bonus!!!

[@duallylicensed145]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@trentd2152]

Any carrier thats been with the usps for awhile could easily fix the whole business. Too much red tape. If it makes sense we cant do it cause some boss 100miles away whos never delivered mail said so. But we want you to finish your whole route in 8 in your crappy mail truck that has no heat in the freezing rain. Bad management, no respect to the hard working employees that show up everyday no matter the weather or virus that’s happening.

[@ThDirtyCurfDrummer]

Everyone who works for the post office has at one time delivered mail, and still does on occasion when they're needed. I'm a postal carrier, so yes, I know the inside of the business.

[@starman7410]

@@ThDirtyCurfDrummer And I can guarantee you that ain't true. Also a mail carrier here.

[@beamerandmercedesthebully3111]

@@starman7410 lol… ur not a carrier if ur saying usps management is in good order

[@starman7410]

@@beamerandmercedesthebully3111 No it's not. I was replying to T.L. Cain comment.

[@beamerandmercedesthebully3111]

@@starman7410 ok sorry bro

[@barbarahering1310]

People listen up , no one can replace the post office. Amazon uses the post office , what does that tell you?

[@JC-hf8yr]

Ups, fedex, dhl, and ontrac also use the post office to deliver their packages.

[@imagem812]

I love the USPS. I have fond memories and special sentiment around the USPS. Receiving cardboard boxes tied up with twine from my grandparents at Christmas was always exciting. Going to the post office with my mom. Picking out special stamps. Friendly mailman. Walking to the corner mailbox. The post office has always been a warm, reassuring place. Like the library. An important institution. It would be really sad to lose the USPS. It's part of who we are.

[@SonOfLancereto68]

As a letter carrier with 27 years of service behind me, I can certainly appreciate the warm sentiments you have just described. I have always felt that we (the USPS as a whole) have always been and still are interwoven into the tapestry of the communities that we serve. I have been invited to weddings, notified of recent births and graduations and sadly, even attended funerals of my patrons. Your expressions of fondness for our aging institution is mutual and greatly appreciated. Thank you!!

[@1970joedub]

Trump started dismantling the US postal system during his presidency. And Biden is not doing anything to fix the damage. 🤷‍♂️

[@alvinmcbride7579]

USPS postmasters and mangers have been running the post office in the ground ever since they started getting a bonus for saving overtime and running carriers into the ground, by lying and cheating the system! Way before Trump! And expect nothing from this bunch of clowns that's in office now!

[@barbaratyrrell3185]

Nope the are never be the same and it’s going to get even worse I don’t blame people who don’t want to work for the post office I heard horror stories

[@llx2258]

U S A post office service is broken, No responsibility. Stealing…..throw things away..,…that’s USA …..

[@Sitchinite420]

Not if Lewis DeJoy has anything to do with it. He deserves to be in prison.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

It will NEVER be wise to abandon the US Postal Service. Documents . . . and they do 'not' mind riders. "Documents" (government) and bills (business IS licensed & protected), and Valentine cards!

[@susansantana4454]

I'm sorry but for us that live in rural areas, we need our post office!!!

[@bnorberg988]

Don't be sorry. America needs our Post Offices. Our Founding Fathers put the USPS right in the US Constitution for a reason

[@nadiasilvershine4630]

You are so right. Fight back please! Step one: urge Biden to work towards getting rid of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (something he is doing to some extent).

[@brent4073]

Isn't that kind of asking for your extra living expenses to be paid for? Like let me just live on an island in the middle of a great lake and expect USPS to make a daily boat trip to the island to deliver my mail worth $2.50 and the taxpayers should pay for it. Living 10 miles away from your neighbor is on par with it just not making financial sense with how it is currently setup for USPS.

[@bnorberg988]

@@brent4073 Postal service, which operates on sales of stamps, last had profit in 2006 and took last taxpayer aid in 1982

[@nadiasilvershine4630]

@@brent4073 The USPS is a service that is provided for by the government, not a for-profit business. So, yes, rural areas need and deserve their post offices!

[@NotUrAvrg]

I would say even with technology, as a postal worker, we are still receiving parcels from online orders to deliver. We still go house to house in any outdoor condition throughout the week. Many workers working more than 8 hour days to meet delivery times. Yes the times have changed, but who else can provide rates like us where a letter can be shipped across the state for 58 cents or out the country for only a $1.30. Thank you for all who continue to support us.

[@eyeswideshut2800]

Dystopian society in full effect.

[@lexipowell123456]

Love the USPS. Hope the American public understands the important place this institutions sits within society! Will always support.

[@natekidren]

Thanks for this. My stepdad works for the usps in a distribution center

[@stevensong8784]

I am a computer science student and I prefer to send message via handwritten letters sometimes because it’s more meaningful

[@cajundude62a]

really well we get nothing but junk

[@MailmanNick]

Definitely needs USPS! Keeps hard working people like me employed!

[@chalkzone0]

I just got hired as an rca but will switch to cca

[@be6715]

Get rid of Louis DeJoy!

[@empath2005]

This brought me to tears. I'm 35 years old, and I've been writing letters, post cards, cards and packages since I was 15 years old. It is a passion of mine & technological advancements will not stop me from ever mailing letters because it is both a beautiful lost art, and a passion of mine that I will continue to do as long as I live.

[@banjothebandit]

Y'all realize that private companies like UPS, Fedex, and DHL have to compete with the price rates the USPS sets right? So, if the government offers a service that competes with their business and doesn't opperate for profit -- they can't just charge you whatever they want, bc you will have a cheaper option. The only thing keeping them from raising their rates like the oil and gas industry, where they can charge WHATEVER THEY WANT WHENEVER THEY WANT is the United States Postal Service. That's why if you care how much your packages and shipping costs, you should want the postal service to exist.

[@machinmon.]

Everything is moved to priority.. And the rate hikes? They were never the market maker... FedEx broke the market, and now DoorDash is breaking it again

[@ianalan4367]

Even without USPS they would be competing with each other. Fed Ex and UPS are able to make profit while USPS consistently looses money and is propped up by our tax dollar. I’m not suggesting we drop it but our government is horrible at running a business.

[@banjothebandit]

@@ianalan4367 government isn’t a business. It’s a public service that we are provided as citizens and tax payers. Nobody expects the military or the Department of Transportation to run like a business. Nobody expects the FDA to turn a profit.

[@ianalan4367]

True. The FDA does not sell a service or commodity though. Of course they can’t be run for profit. It truly is a government service. USPS is run as a business with a bottom line. It is supposed to be profitable. It’s not because you are correct that our government is supposed to be a service not an enterprise. They are not good at business. Imagine what would happen if we gave them control of business. If we were to become more of a socialist society. We would all eventually be in a food line.

[@LawrenceSimms]

@@ianalan4367 The Postal Service isnt funded by tax payers they make their own money

[@DGAFORLIFE]

I buy a Christmas present to my mail carrier every year.

[@maylani3697]

My preferred method of shipping is still the USPS. It is still the quickest, least expensive, and most reliable. I’ve never had a delivery issue with the USPS. I’ve had problems arise from using FedEx and UPS. And, their customers support was awful. UPS wouldn’t even give the the name of a a supervisor or let me speak to one. The representative purposely hung up on me.

[@zqpcydbfoqbdiehdj]

Corporate fools. I know.. I prefer USPS.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

I’m with you. When in college in the mid 70s I worked at the post office. Great pay and benefits at the time but horribly boring and sterile environment as a sorting clerk. The P.O. was a great job for minorities as well . I was one of only 3 whites at my location and only had issues with my extremely racist female black supervisor. But today I still prefer to ship USPS

[@RalphAnthonyCBasco]

I hope it survives, evolve but still survive and maybe even thrive.

[@niniimuka]

Even in Bulgaria, many of the private delivery services, often use the local postal service.

[@papertowel9490]

Been a carrier 23 years. Since covid we are basically an Amazon delivery service now. USPS made a 21 billion profit first quarter this year so it appears we're still needed.

[@biffy7]

You left out that the USPS doesn’t cost taxpayers a single dime!

[@HeyMJ.]

USPS delivers where other services do not. DeJoy needs to be removed by the USPS Board.

[@lisas9109]

The Postal committee needs to fire DeJoy. Maybe they can survive if they do. They are no longer trusted.

[@ohthatpaul]

Right: DeJoy, like so many other people appointed by The Derelict, has been systematically destroying that which he was supposed to protect, but unlike other Trump appointees, has not yet been removed and continues his destruction to this day. Fire DeJoy and modernize the long neglected but still essential USPS. Ironically, the rural areas that need the postal service the most are are also predominantly red. #voteblue

[@walterallen172]

This problem has been going on long before Dejoy took over

[@candlelightphotography322]

My Dad put in 39 years. This breaks my heart to think it won't be around. God Bless the USPS! , as my Dad would say. 📮

[@Tahara-Aichi]

We will be around I guarantee you that

[@susankwak3576]

We need post office

[@Blue2004Z71]

Only because you’re still on lockdown and will never leave your home.

[@jonathanmack7969]

I am a Mail Carrier in Texas and I can honestly say that I love doing my job. I interact with customers almost everydat and just doing that can make their day. I've only been doing this for 6 years and it has been rewarding for me. I take pride in customer satisfaction. We offer services that others don't. We do pick-ups at businesses and residential that are at no charge to the customer. My Mom is the one who told me to apply here and I thank her all the time.

[@coyote520]

Your "company" has lost literally HUNDREDS of pieces of my mail in the last five years. You call THAT good service? Really?

[@jonathanmack7969]

@@coyote520 Well, I don't deliver to your house. It might be your carrier. You seem like the person that complains about getting junk mail but it seems like you still want it.

[@thorrrr1962]

@@coyote520 you one of those that multiply 1 letter by a thousand when calling the office.

[@truehou]

The post office will need a serious revamp in order to stay relevant in a highly evolving, digital world.

[@fuckedupbody4194]

Well some of its core issues is hiring and retention. In my local area, they're REALLY hurting for drivers but they can't get the people they want, young people ages 18 - 30, because most of the people they bring in fail the drug test for mainly weed. Then the retention issue is a domino effect. They're heavily understaffed and they will make you stay for overtime when you can't. So anyone looking to do it part time is being quite literally shown the door since you will usually have to work an extra 4 hrs due to understaffing, 4 hrs that you cant spend working due to various reasons. So that rules out anyone that has passed the drug test, is looking to do it part time and is either in college or trade school. So at the very end of the day, you're left with a vary small amount of people that will actually stay but most of the people that do stay are middle aged people, and even then they might leave due to the high intensity work due to the weather the (USPS mail trucks don't have AC [they do but its usually broken and if it does work its very weak so what the use is a small fan in the summer and layers in the winter])

[@truehou]

@@fuckedupbody4194 Worked there for 18 years so I get it.

[@susansantana4454]

Why isnt dejoy out of his position!!

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

He needs to be primaried....he was put there by trump to dimantal it....

[@samanthab1923]

My aunt & uncles Post man had twins & he got so many gifts & shots he barely made it off their street.

[@Myartspaces]

B.S. i have relatives who work for the post office. They deliver Amazon and pick up the slack from other delivery companies.they work 70+ hours a week and are short staffed. They can’t keep up. They can’t find workers. The post office makes money and then the government takes the money and distributes it for other uses…and they’re also required by law to fund their pension plan for…50 years? I may be off on the years. They’re struggling because they’ve put themself in a loop where they can’t keep new employees because who what’s to work 70 hours and live at the post office. If you work for the post office, your life is the post office.

[@duallylicensed145]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@atlantisosborn1377]

The whole truth and nothing but the truth ! Your whole existence is the post office.

[@sukieBoo66]

This is one government entity that needs to remain. I have very fond memories of going downtown to buy stamps and always enjoy seeing them on their rounds. You can trust the folks that work there and the folks that make the rounds to bring you, all of us our packages and parcels. Through the worst weather, the coldest, hottest and wettest days they’re there. I think we wrongfully take them for granted like that trusty old friend. The post office is just like the library a very much needed service you don’t realize you need until you do.We’ll definitely miss this water when the well runs dry.

[@afor910327910327]

We need this, who said it is not good?

[@tubekxb]

Get rid of the '06 law. No other gov't agency has to prefund their health/retirement burden of prefunding 75 years. When you exclude this insane expenditure, post office operations are in the black.

[@--..-...-..-.--....]

Yes!!! More people need to understand this!!! Thank you! They could also use it as a bank and generate even more profit!

[@dabears371]

Just passed the house and heading to senate now . Looks like will pass finally

[@tpalmer2603]

31 years in love my job 📫📬 also a veteran . When I got out of the military it was the best fit for me . Walking all day and taking care of my customers 👍📫. Love veterans keep the post office .

[@kellywade8275]

Thank you and I love you!🙏🏾👏🏽💆🏼‍♂💐

[@juliemudd2985]

God bless you!

[@lauriesullivan6552]

I still mail my bills. Yes, I could e-mail them, But when my computer crashes then what? I am on a fixed income. I just can't run out and buy another one. Yes, we need the postal service!!!!

[@M-hc9xm]

I switched to online bill pay when my mailed payments were lost for weeks. If they can implement improvements, I'd consider relying on them again.

[@lanalook9200]

You can just call to pay bills haha never mail them!!

[@CoverageAwarenessStudio]

I fell in love with a postal worker.

[@ianalan4367]

USPS is a prime example of why our government should not be involved in business. They are not very good at it!

[@whiteguy5212]

While it may be a useful service unfortunately the USPS is run like all other government agencies. It's full of waste, fraud, incompetence, and zero accountability. Upper management is absolutely useless. It seems like every time the USPS has a chance to make a business decision it deliberately chooses the wrong one. A complete restructuring needs to happen to make this dinosaur profitable and trusted again. I worked as a mail carrier for almost ten years before I quit because of the ridiculous way this place is run.

[@nickpickle3950]

Yup, understaffed so they work you 7 days a week now, went 30 days no break

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I saw a court summons get thrown into the undeliverable bulk business bin. They harass good people who can do the job but the lazy ones have no accountability.

[@zawwin1846]

It IS profitable, that’s the problem. Politicians have been working hard to make it not profitable.

[@Eleannos]

I can tell you as a city carrier, USPS isn't going anywhere. I've worked 13 hr days all of last summer and been working 10 plus hrs, 6 days a week ever since.

[@dixiebrick]

I’VE GOT IT! Just give the postal carriers guns make them part of the DOD and voila their budget will be infinite! Your welcome.

[@Raemuva]

I think they definitely need weapons. So many mail carriers are getting robbed

[@inspiretosmile]

We need the post office! I love sending out heart sticker packs in the mail and I will always support the post office 💜✨

[@Kaxxonxbox]

We all appreciate everyone who sticks with the USPS, we are here for you. Every single one of you who need to send a letter, or a package to a loved one during the holidays, small businesses who are supporting themselves through US! We support you, thank you for everyone who continues to support U.S. ❤️

[@nowayoutT]

Today July 20th biden signed an executive order about climate change please people tell anyone who works for USPS he's going to start doing a purposeful shortage on fuel meaning the trucks will not be able to drive because he's Banning it like a sanction, please tell your manager that is there please

[@xzaviuraurai]

🤣

[@empresskhadijah2677]

I am a proud Mail Handler with the USPS 💕💯

[@cattigereyes1]

The fact that the current guy running has not been jailed for incompetence speaks volumes!

[@nadiasilvershine4630]

DeJoy?

[@LaMaiStyle]

I hope so. My bf’s job relies on it.

[@machinmon.]

He better apply for Uber before the self driving cars take over

[@JB-3794]

You can't send packages digitally. The USPS handles millions of packages, including those for UPS and FedEx.

[@MD-wk3gj]

In small towns where the Post Office still has a location I’ve found that location is usually outside of the town center and requires a drive compared to years ago a simple walk for the majority of the townspeople. My guess is they were building a newer, larger facility and it was cheaper to buy land further out of town instead of renovating a smaller building in the heart of the town.

[@SOL8PORTAL]

There should always be a US Postal Service just for the job placement of veterans re entering civilian life. To end the U.S. Postal Service would be a tragic end to a long standing tradition of Service in America.

[@JMacc-gw6rg]

SMH......The PO is profitable every year. The mandate that congress tried to put on the USPS made it look as if they were loosing money and they weren't. Congress wants to use money from the USPS for spending in other places. I'm happy that USPS is a independent government agency.

[@LutherAEvans]

"Most trusted government agency." Yes!

[@catcherzw]

NO MENTION OF DEJOY???

[@robertw4230]

What did you expect from fake news ?

[@kellywade8275]

Because he's, DePAIN, no sunshine and rain. - Rob Base & Eazy-E😂

[@nevermore4971]

I have 30 penpals and partake in several postcard exchanges so yes, we need the USPS!

[@kellywade8275]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🏆You're the best!

[@darrellenglish2704]

My Wife was a 34 year USPS worker and has since retried

[@stealthassasin1day291]

We need the US Post. There's so many regular people mailing small items and standard letters that the other delivery services can't handle.

[@AN-nl9pu]

They can't handle them because its illegal. The USPS has a monopoly on First Class mail and junk mail. This monopoly costs the public 10's of billions of dollars a year.

[@waltdill927]

A nation that abandons its post is a people abandoning even the pretense of "national security". But, yeah: welcome to the era of the $10.00 plus "postcard" when the USPS goes, and no postcard when the private carriers "don't go" to your address. The clock was ticking soon as the Pony Express rider logo rode into the sunset, ask me.

[@humblecourageous3919]

I wouldn't mind if they stopped Saturday delivery. If something really has to get delivered, there is Priority Express. Even documents can now be sent online and signed online. One day less (like eliminating Saturday) would save a lot of money and a lot fewer would have to work on the weekend.

[@cherray50]

Only in America would we debate if we should or shouldn’t have a basic public service. What terrible journalism.

[@xziang]

Nothing from post master general about retaining and or hiring more employees. Just FORCE/mandate current employees to work 60hrs a week if not more if they are a CCA.

[@edwinsemidey1992]

The Postal service is very important

[@NBA-LejonBrames]

As a letter carrier I have delivered PLENTY of cremated remains.

[@nickpickle3950]

It was the worst place I’ve ever worked, usps is so short on employees that they work you 7 days a week, I swear to god you could work 30 days with no break, I don’t suggest this to anyone. In 15-30 years there won’t be anymore Usps

[@gaggita9922]

"dont need it like they used to" is such a lie. soon as its gone everyone will be clamoring for it back. which is why it needs to stay i support my local post office by buying stamps and other items when i can.

[@SuaveCityGear]

Took 4 months for a check in the same state to get to me…check voided after 60 days 😡

[@cherokeemack3168]

Although it's out of date they should do something constructive with this like make it also a bank for the underprivileged or elderly. Banks are so wierd anyways and a majority of them need to go.

[@--..-...-..-.--....]

I absolutely agree!

[@gmckenzie175]

Ordered free test kit on Jan 18th for upcoming funeral. Never been received. My apt mail box get robbed all the time and it's brand new. I've been using a PO box for 20 plus years for important monthly stuff. I've been happy. Price goes up steadily every once in awhile. Someone in my neighborhood has a master key for other boxes. Hard times means we might have to only do private po boxes only to stop theft.

[@debbiegualco9629]

Get rid of DeJoy!

[@nidialuccioni4476]

They Don’t Deliver The Mail The Right Way Or Come At All Leaves The People Without The Mail

[@prowlermadmax2]

I used to get my packages shipped from McAllen, Texas which is 50 miles away from my hometown in Rio Grande City, the next day. Now my packages travel from McAllen, to Dallas, Texas 500 miles away then back to McAllen, then to my home town. It now takes 7 days to get the packages from McAllen that used to take 1 day.

[@clinttucker5197]

They probably shut down a processing plant forcing everything to go farther, they did that in South Eastern NM so now everything goes to Lubbock and back to NM taking 7 days🤦🏻

[@justinhoward5899]

i’m a mail carrier, and i love providing that service to Americans. but to be honest we deliver way too much, especially amazon. I have to go back to the post office half way through my route because all my packages didn’t fit the first time. i’ll have to get out at every mail box to deliver a package. I used to work 7-3. now it’s more like 7-7, 6 days a weeks.

[@ZasthurX]

I'm also the mail carrier. One time, during the holidays, I have to deliver 700+ one day!

[@clinttucker5197]

The pandemic pushed alot of newly hired RCA's out because of the load of Amazon boxes! One of them left for UPS because "it was just delivering boxes not boxes and mail"

[@ssshhclos405]

I love my PO Box, love knowing where my packages and mail is all the time..

[@prestondier7046]

I take a lot of pride is being America’s “most trusted” brand and govt entity.

[@ritchieboyd2067]

All I think of is long lines and rude employees

[@kathyrogers2065]

No the USPS director has been destroying the USPS for years.

[@DeadCelt]

Post office isn’t going anywhere. Yes you can do about everything on the internet. BUT.. the internet cannot get it to your door.

[@toughharley1903]

Do you think in 10 years, that the usps won't need to deliver mail anymore, just packages? I'm curious

[@Jodielyn413]

I used to work there and it is very poorly managed

[@josephsteward9750]

Lol you can clearly see the biased media. They chose a town of 500 people to try and justify the postal service not being needed as much anymore? Do a segment in any city with at least 50k population, (which by the way would still be considered a small town) and see what they say about if it’s needed or not lol. I work out of a small city in Florida, and the postal service only seems like it’s getting bigger...

[@ulrek54321]

The postal service should be rescued, they've always been the backbone of secure mail.

[@xzaviuraurai]

Spend money on worthless bills and other government if ya want. What’s the point of a postal services if there’s no employees? Half the force is retirement eligible and the other half is treated like horseshit. No one sticking around for a sinking ship.

[@lindaguida4074]

Thank you USPS for all your hard work!!!!!!

[@kaynickerson6138]

Still upset about what Republicans are doing to the post office. Love sending cards to my friend and loved ones. I would even get letters when I was a young child. I've decided that I will never vote for a Republican for the rest of my life and will shop in employee owned grocery store so I don't have to patronize any Republican owned businesses.

[@bfun4615]

It's not a political issue that the media makes it out to be. I work for the said agency as a craft employee , union, and guess what...I'm a Republican.

[@hannahduggan3599]

I sent two letters to two of my elementary school teachers. One was a guidance counselor and one was a music teacher. I told the guidance counselor that I was sorry for lying to her and I told the music teacher that I was sorry for calling him evil. But they never wrote back. The guidance counselor is in her 50's now and the music teacher is 70 now. They have probably gotten older and forgotten about me.

[@youtubelearning2990]

I’m still an avid letter writer and without the USPS I wouldn’t be able to live my epistolary life

[@nadiasilvershine4630]

Good for you! Keep on writing.

[@waltdill927]

The commenters here are too young to appreciate the whole disaster but keep reflecting in a mode of nostalgia and saccharine affection for an old, familiar institution. But in addition to all that the USPS still provides, including arguably the best bargain of the 20th and 21st centuries in the form of a first class stamp, here is something else you won't be able to purchase: a money order, domestic or international, backed by the US government for payment, and valid for a lifetime. Talk about freedom of personal economic choice, boys and girls...?

[@M-hc9xm]

I don't want it to go away, but I don't use it for packages or important mail anymore. I've had too many disappear or be lost for a couple weeks. Sad, but me sending more via USPS won't change their current state.

[@duallylicensed145]

That's real. And honestly that 95% of all of us

[@TheRaginghalfasian]

You didn't even bother to get any of the USPS union's input... didn't get much of the other side's argument from any type of mailing experts. USPS employees thank you for this hit job! Do we need news networks, like CBS, when we get our news from Facebook and KZbin and a host of other smaller online broadcast informational sites? Network tv is on the downfall in large part to the internet, when news turned into editorials from biased sources changing from the olden days of the type of professionals like Dan Rather, companies like Netflix are the Postal Service's Amazon. We already get minute by minute weather updates on our iPhones, live driving traffic data and routing services from apps like Waze. Start doing the news, we don't need you to try to influence our views with whatever opinion and partisan propaganda they put on the teleprompter for you to read.

[@TheLastSaint7]

Postal Office is hiring like crazy nothings going to happen unless the Amazon CEO signs a mega contract with the US government

[@muckraker610]

".... your package will be arriving later than expected"... If at all. The USPS needs to stop making Covid-19 their scapegoat, and just hunker, down and do their job!

[@duallylicensed145]

OOH wee. Ooh wee ‼️💯💯💯

[@Gadgettime]

get rid of the requirement to prepay their healthcare and they will be able to invest in itself and profitable

[@kart182]

Aren’t their losses in large part due to the excessive pension system that’s more extreme than other government orgs

[@duallylicensed145]

Yup. But they will never admit. Overpaid old bitter folks

[@ridegriff50]

No. Nobody got rich working for the post office 😐

[@kart182]

@@ridegriff50 What I meant was, I believe there is a law that requires the USPS to keep like 50 or 70 years’ worth of worker pensions available at all times, which is apparently a lot stricter than most other gov orgs. This effectively has handicapped their ability to use the money elsewhere to grow and be more efficient

[@116AuroraDrive]

Thank You to All of the Mail!! Employees

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I did the job as a CCA. It wasn't worth it being sent to the ghetto everyday, climbing three to six steps to put mail in a box that's next to someone's front door while walking up the stairs with a satchel weighing 30-plus pounds with a bundle of coupons, newspapers and parcels weighing you down. The old-school mail buggies were off-limits, we couldn't use them, however, there was one guy who was super senior and he was the only one allowed to use a buggy. And as you walk up the stairs you find that the concrete's is crumbled, the wood is rotted, no railings to grip on and at the same time you're trying not to slip and fall. You get back to the station in the late evening, only to come back the next day only to have an ugly supervisor cry about your timing and how you're supposed to do more work because you're a CCA. Imagine being assigned a full route for the day which is set up for 8 hours and then they take 5 hours from another route and add that on to your day and management cries and wonders 3:12 why you couldn't get it all done in 7 hours. They do good job of chasing away reputable people who would have otherwise kept the job but left due to harassment.

[@chuckrafiki8649]

There are citizens who cannot use a computer, cant get a telephone, cant access the internet may not even have a radio. In America many of these people are called Inmates and there are millions of them. Ask them if the they like to get and send mail.

[@jilllewis834]

The post office will always have a place in this world- try shutting it down and see what happens😂😂

[@lanalook9200]

Well I mean technically it could go away and be perfectly fine. Bills can be paid online or over the phone, packages can be delivered amazon, ups, FedEx....so what you're saying doesn't make sense. We don't NEED a post office anymore.. sorry bud

[@jilllewis834]

@@lanalook9200 No you are the one not making any sense-maybe take a minute and just think about it🙄

[@jojopuppyfish]

As long as there is old people, there will be regular mail.

[@machinmon.]

The coronavirus will finish them both off 😂

[@victoriadelbando486]

I still love getting my mail everyday! I still send cards to family and friends!!!🤩

[@manintoynenam]

I stick with USPS its cheaper and they dont throw your parcels when delivering like other carriers. Check their reviews.

[@skylinetouring]

Postal service is essential for any country, it’s a national service

[@norwoodlewis5567]

Tampering with someone's mail is a criminal offense..