The federal government is the largest employer in the United States....
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Run whatever particular scam or grift they can think of and can get away with?
I’m sure you can. Can you smell the deaths along with it? Amazon required their drivers to drive during tornadoes. Hurricanes. Are they going to require their drivers to deliver during flash floods? Massive fires?
Writing letters is a “life skill”I want my kids and grand kids to understand….I am getting close….
Biden put disabled Vets to work providing services to the Government. Trump just fired their asses. Yay team red. Suckers and losers keep losing.
Writing letters is a “life skill”I want my kids and grand kids to understand….I am getting close….
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
Tax payer dollars are not used to fund USPS.
Do my tax dollars pay for the Postal Service?
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No, the Postal Service is generally self-funded. This means that no tax dollars are used to keep the lights on at its many facilities across the country. The Postal Service, instead, relies on the revenue it generates from the sale of stamps, products, and services to fund its operations.
Do my tax dollars pay for the Postal Service?
There are plenty of things on Amazon that have free shipping even if you don't have Prime.
But that's really not the point. With the mail, you pay to ship it, not receive it. Amazon could easily have a reverse Prime for people like Joel who want to send lots of letters. No stamps required.
They could. Easily.
You have faith that Bezos is going to make a decision that doesn’t make him money?
So no one “pays”for it? Someone “pays for it….the customers ultimately pays for it …..but it ain’t free!
Because the cost of shipping is built into an inflated product price.
And Amazon isn’t going to deliver a letter in 2-3 days from Montana to Iowa for 73 cents that the sender will pay.
Good grief.
I went to google and did a search for what percentage of people are government employees in country. I checked about 30 countries. The world average is about 18%.
They're going there anyway. Any extra revenue without extra cost is a good thing.
Why dismantle a system that has been in place for a long time and pay Amazon to do it just to say there are less federal employees?
Doesn't seem like a situation that benefits anyone.
Doesn't seem like a situation that benefits anyone.
Didn’t say they turn a profit…but for the most part they are the one government agency that pays its own way. Yes I know from time to time the government bails them out..not much different than other companies unfortunately.
Not sure how much of a service they provide these days. They deliver stuff to one box that goes directly into another container that we pay someone else, of our own pocket, to take away.
But if do not believe me and love the post office so much, I would assume you believe them.
“But, beginning in the 1970s, the Postal Service largely stopped receiving any taxpayer money. Postal operations are instead funded by sales to you, the postal customer. Now it depends almost entirely on sales to keep the lights on.”
Is the Postal Service a business or a public service?
Things are mailed all the time. We have a whole ass mail department at my work that has USPS pick-up/deliveries twice per day.
So you’re fine paying more for private industry, imposing absolute unrelenting standards upon their employees. In the form of “deliver this in a hurricane or you’re fired” as opposed to any sort of humane standard.
Yeah. We have to agree to disagree.
Dude. It’s not about any belief.Didn’t say they turn a profit…but for the most part they are the one government agency that pays its own way. Yes I know from time to time the government bails them out..not much different than other companies unfortunately.
Not sure how much of a service they provide these days. They deliver stuff to one box that goes directly into another container that we pay someone else, of our own pocket, to take away.
But if do not believe me and love the post office so much, I would assume you believe them.
“But, beginning in the 1970s, the Postal Service largely stopped receiving any taxpayer money. Postal operations are instead funded by sales to you, the postal customer. Now it depends almost entirely on sales to keep the lights on.”
Is the Postal Service a business or a public service?
www.uspsoig.gov
It’s about knowing that when my mom sends me a card, or anything. All she has to pay is postage. And likewise.
I normally accidentally throw letters and cards away. There is 20 different things in that box, everyday, that I just grab and turn around and drop in the the next container I come to.
Unless I am expecting something like one if the car registrations…I got better things to do than sort through all that crap.
No they’re not. Amazon delivers from 100 or so warehouses to customers. There isn’t a warehouse in Big Sky or Algona, so Amazon would have to add 2 trips - and additional costs - to pick up and deliver that letter to a warehouse, if not two, and then that customer.
Good grief.
You missed the post where Trad said Jeff Bezos would aquire all the post offices, All the sorting facilities and all the vehicles and possibly keep any postal employees that wanted to make the move to Amazon mail, I’m sure as generous as Jeff is he would also pick up all the healthcare coverage and honor all the pensions.
Soooo…let me get this straight…you think it’s “wrong” that the entire federal govt of the United States employs fewer than half a million more workers than Walmart. Are you stupid or something?
Looks like DOGE needs to work with Walmart. No way do they need that many workers.
You realize that is only an average of 307 employees per store.
And out of that number is also all the non store workers …buyers, etc….and with that same number of people also run the second largest online store in the country.
Which is why there are many more state and local government workers than federal workers.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/econ/g24-aspep.html
Attending a “hickory tournament” 3/1 here…had a chance to play “hickories” in Scotland a decade ago but declined. Letter writing is an important art of communication that is going tge way of cursive writing, I fear.Still playing with hickory shafts too?
