Will the United States Postal Service ever shut down? It needs to.
I doubt I will have much argument on this subject but here it goes. The USPS needs to be shut down and shut down now. In the last two weeks the company I work for, my wife's in home "side business" on ebay, and my personal business have been absolutey screwed by the USPS.
We had four packages simply not picked up for five days. Our mailboxes are community mailboxes. Each house does not have one at the end of their drive like many of us who were raised in the country were used to during our childhood. We have a community mailbox with individual numbered slots representing each residence's "slot" for receiving mail. There is a place at the bottom left of the box for outgoing packages. The person sending the packages places the packages in this drawer, closes the box and turns the permanent key that is in it. This locks the box and then the mail person has a separate key that fits into a keyhole next to the permanent key to open and retrieve the packages for mailing. My wife gets a nasty email from one of her customers wanting to know where her package was and at the end of all the searching we find they were still sitting in the box. We found this out because I went down to the box Sat. and WAITED on the mail person to come. She drove up and I asked her could she open the bottom left hand box. She did and low and freakin' behold there's my wife's four packages.
The company I work for continues to have mail lost or ending up going to another business two floors up. The lady who runs our local office went up to the post office yesterday to speak with someone about this issue and she came back fighting mad. The supervisor at the post office agreed they were in mistake and it shouldn't have happened and continue to happen like it has but there's little he could do because "they" are "union workers" and not much reprimanding actually helps. I got to thinking "Isn't he a union worker as well?"
I wish the mail system would go completely private business. When people have zero threat to lose their jobs the natural human nature thing to do is to not care about how one goes about doing their jobs.
I doubt I will have much argument on this subject but here it goes. The USPS needs to be shut down and shut down now. In the last two weeks the company I work for, my wife's in home "side business" on ebay, and my personal business have been absolutey screwed by the USPS.
We had four packages simply not picked up for five days. Our mailboxes are community mailboxes. Each house does not have one at the end of their drive like many of us who were raised in the country were used to during our childhood. We have a community mailbox with individual numbered slots representing each residence's "slot" for receiving mail. There is a place at the bottom left of the box for outgoing packages. The person sending the packages places the packages in this drawer, closes the box and turns the permanent key that is in it. This locks the box and then the mail person has a separate key that fits into a keyhole next to the permanent key to open and retrieve the packages for mailing. My wife gets a nasty email from one of her customers wanting to know where her package was and at the end of all the searching we find they were still sitting in the box. We found this out because I went down to the box Sat. and WAITED on the mail person to come. She drove up and I asked her could she open the bottom left hand box. She did and low and freakin' behold there's my wife's four packages.
The company I work for continues to have mail lost or ending up going to another business two floors up. The lady who runs our local office went up to the post office yesterday to speak with someone about this issue and she came back fighting mad. The supervisor at the post office agreed they were in mistake and it shouldn't have happened and continue to happen like it has but there's little he could do because "they" are "union workers" and not much reprimanding actually helps. I got to thinking "Isn't he a union worker as well?"
I wish the mail system would go completely private business. When people have zero threat to lose their jobs the natural human nature thing to do is to not care about how one goes about doing their jobs.
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