PO and chicks

[WillieBoy]

The USPS is a dying diansour.Two weeks ago i sent my ailing father a 2 lb. jar of my local honey, it never made it.I didn't insure , do registered,or delivery confirmation, spending the extra money. Big mistake, and not the first time.It really ticked me off that my honey didn't get to dad, and i'll never use the USPS agian for packages.I don't do online bill payments and still buy stamps and pay my monthly bills through the USPS.That being said, I don't trust online banking for anything, and i no longer trust the the USPS for shipping uninsured/registered packages....pick your poison folks...! Bottom line, the USPS is a wasteful, union driven, goverment service thats time has come to face the real world.
We may all be depending on chick delivery in a different form sooner than we'd like to think. I just hope i'm not forced to pay my utility bills and do my banking online, IMO...that would truly suck....!

 

[galanie]

Well, I for one hope it never dies. I get much better service from USPS than from UPS or even FedEx most times. And it costs less. Maybe I'm in a unique situation or something, I don't know. I also like my paper bills. Emails, etc. are too easy to overlook but paper bill sitting on the countertop isn't forgotten.

The reason the USPS is losing money has nothing to do with waste and everything to do with letters and households in remote areas. Competitors have taken the must lucrative mail, leaving the USPS with the most costly to deliver. Unlike any of the competing companies, the USPS must deliver to every household some way or another no matter the location. There are carriers going to places where it costs the USPS $30 to deliver a letter with a 40 cent stamp on it. You can't mandate a private company to do that but somehow we've decided to call the USPS a government service AND a business and you can't have it all.

 

[GAchick]

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When you say 'jar of honey' I hope you didn't actually send it in a glass jar....Otherwise that precious honey probably broke, and wound up all over other people's packages. As well as gumming up a parcel processing machine somewhere.... Delaying a bunch of mail, somewhere. Liquid in glass jars is very heavy, and VERY breakable. Here are the USPS regulations for shipping liquid in glass.Package glass and other breakable containers of liquid with a capacity of more than 4 fluid ounces according to the following requirements:

1. Cushion the primary container with material sufficient to absorb all leakage in case of breakage.

2. Place the primary container inside another sealed, leakproof container (secondary container), such as a can or plastic bag.

3. Use an outer mailing container that is strong enough to protect the contents.








5 years ago, you would be right about 'Bottom line, the USPS is a wasteful, union driven, goverment service thats time has come to face the real world' The Postal Service now days has cut costs to the bone. (It took me nearly 2 months to get a replacement STAPLER for my office.) And the union has very little power in today's Post Office... And most people don't think we are a government SERVICE, but, rather some kind of BUSINESS. Can't have it both ways. Either we are a business or we are a service.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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The USDA could use some pointers from the USPS, thats one sector that could use some more budget cuts.

As for the chicks, I'm sure everything will work out fine.

 

[EggsForIHOP]

As it is we cannot seem to get a box of chicks from the post office here that is actually still full of the chicks they put in it...they aren't DOA...they MIA!!! So MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, the budget cuts will find their way to "fox" at our local post office that is stealing chicks out of the boxes! I would be okay with that...kharma is a BEAST!

Really though, I don't think it's going to hurt the chicks too much...maybe holiday cards and bills...but slower moving bills wouldn't make too many of us cry I don't think

 

[wyoDreamer]

Slower moving bills can be a problem for some of us - the USPS hires a "contractor" to deliver the mail to our local box stop and they cannot get the mail into the right slots. It can take the neighbors up to a week to get the mail to the right person. Luckily most of the neighbors care enough to go out of their way to hand deliver the mail to the right person. Last night we drove 8 miles down the road to give the neighbor his mail that was in our box. If you are already loosing up to a week in delivery time because of misdirected mail, another day or two can make you late on payment.

 

[Chemguy]

Sticking to the main point (which is hard for me, I have some opinions...), I am glad to hear that priority mail is likely to be unaffected. But, part of the proposal is to also cut delivery by one day per week. Would priority mail still be delivered? I had heard that an additional day would be allotted for delivery of this type of mail. This shouldn't be a big deal, and I'm sure that the major hatcheries can plan around this to minimize any impact. However, I am starting to wonder if I should just drive a few hours to Meyer next spring, rather than order through the mail.

Oh, crud. I just realized that I'm starting to do chicken math!

 

[galanie]

If it were only a few hours to a good hatchery, you can darn well bet I'd drive there rather than order through the mail! Even if the USPS was perfect, I'd still rather go pick them up if I could.

Really though, the idea of curtailing Saturday delivery has been around for 40 years. It will surprise me greatly if they really do it this time. Problem with doing this is, that the same amount of mail is still going to be looking at the carriers Monday morning, only more so because they will in effect be delivering holiday mail (two days worth of mail in one day) every Monday. Which costs the USPS tons of overtime thus extra expense. Friday is usually the day that many businesses dump their mail for the week ("we mailed it on Tuesday" is too often a lie - they put it in the tub to be mailed on that day but no one actually bothered to mail it till Friday) and it gets processed and sent to the carrier on Saturday. Having all this happen on Monday would be a weekly nightmare.