Is the postal slowdown affecting you?

[Ford850]

The career delivery % is down to less than 70% and rapidly decreasing Only career employees receive full benefits. Carriers are divided into 2 categories - city and rural carriers. They are governed under separate union contracts. All city carriers use postal vehicles and do not get paid an allowance. You can tell the city carriers because they wear a uniform. Rural carriers may or may not use postal vehicles, depending on their situation. If they use their own vehicles, they are paid allowances, based on the measured distance of their route. The USPS is currently having a difficult time retaining new carriers. In some areas, it is under 25% retention after their initial training.

Interesting. Thanks!

 

[lilranch2001]

And 10, 11 and 12.




What's not allowed on TBN:



-Discussion of political topics


https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/news-feedback/375499-forum-rules.html

I wish idiot post police was disallowed

 

[lilranch2001]

Yes, and this one is deliberate and intentional by someone we can't talk about here for reasons we can't talk about here.

Says he who is always policing everyone else

 

[Bird]

Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars - Portland Press Herald

I've often wondered whether the chicks were still being sent via USPS. It USED TO BE that if chicks arrived at a Post Office and could not be delivered or picked up within a certain amount of time, the local postmaster could sell them for almost nothing. In my pre-teen years, my Dad bought our baby chicks that way every year from the Ardmore, OK, Post Office. As a result, some years we had white chickens, some year red, some years speckled, etc.:laughing:

 

[rswyan]

USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines, Emails Show

 

[5030]

In a nutshell, NO.

 

[Tinhack]

I've often wondered whether the chicks were still being sent via USPS. It USED TO BE that if chicks arrived at a Post Office and could not be delivered or picked up within a certain amount of time, the local postmaster could sell them for almost nothing. In my pre-teen years, my Dad bought our baby chicks that way every year from the Ardmore, OK, Post Office. As a result, some years we had white chickens, some year red, some years speckled, etc. :laughing:

We used to get ours at the 5&10. They were too dirty for the drug store. Wasn't much else in town but the police building, a couple of bar/eateries and a gas station that I remember. A lot of empty buildings even way back then. They were still recovering from the Depression. I think the PO gave strays to the chicken farms up the road outside Heavener, OK.

 

[rswyan]

DeJoy ordered USPS to remove 671 mail sorting machines by end of Sept, including 24 in Ohio, 11 in Detroit, 11 in Florida, 9 in Wisconsin, 8 in Philadelphia and 5 in Arizona

"We are not to reconnect any machines that have previously been disconnected" USPS employees were told

Twitter

 

[rswyan]

In a nutshell, NO.

No ... what ?

 

[Ford850]

After Covid-19 hit us in the spring, I used to joke that the USPS should be advertising they are the safest courier because any virus from the sender that was on the packages or envelopes would be dead by the time they delivered it. Doesn't seem as funny now.

 

[dragoneggs]

No ... what ?

Just answering the OP's question.

 

[lilranch2001]

I would have assumed as SMART as he is he should have been able to figure that out on his own.......

 

[Mat4644]

Facts posted on USPS official website. They must need to keep the outdated machines in case everyone stops using the internet.



Letter delivery has been going down since 2001. Package delivery is going up. They don't need outdated letter processing machines. They need more advanced package processing like Amazon to be profitable.

 

[dragoneggs]

I would have assumed as SMART as he is he should have been able to figure that out on his own.......

Isn't he the one that just posts links other people's thoughts? :confused3:

 

[lilranch2001]

I am not sure what you mean

But he is REAL smart, just ask him!

 

[rswyan]

Just answering the OP's question.

Could be ...

Many possibilities ... given that there are 130+ posts to this thread ...

 

[Jstpssng]

I've often wondered whether the chicks were still being sent via USPS. It USED TO BE that if chicks arrived at a Post Office and could not be delivered or picked up within a certain amount of time, the local postmaster could sell them for almost nothing. In my pre-teen years, my Dad bought our baby chicks that way every year from the Ardmore, OK, Post Office. As a result, some years we had white chickens, some year red, some years speckled, etc.:laughing:

I've been getting my chicks that way for years, but this year was my last. I get a phone call at 3:00 PM on the day they are supposed to arrive, telling me that I can go pick them up at the distribution center 120 miles away. At that point I had worked all day and didn't feel like driving 5 hours, so they arrived the following day, cold. I fed them warm sugar water but lost 8 out of the 26 I had ordered.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars - Portland Press Herald

I saw that in the news. I checked tracking on one of my orders that has been late for a while. The shipper did the shipping label on August 6, and the projected delivery date is August 24. The PO picked it up in LA, then for some reason the PO sent it to Sparks, NV, then back to LA, then back to Sparks, NV before shipping it to Medford, OR and Eugene, OR. It's not alive, so the only damage is that I have been waiting for 2-1/2 weeks for a package to get 1100 miles up I-5, which should have taken 2 days.

If it were a box of baby chicks, they would be long dead. I feel for the farmers. Apparently priority mail doesn't mean anything any more.

 

[5030]

I saw that in the news. I checked tracking on one of my orders that has been late for a while. The shipper did the shipping label on August 6, and the projected delivery date is August 24. The PO picked it up in LA, then for some reason the PO sent it to Sparks, NV, then back to LA, then back to Sparks, NV before shipping it to Medford, OR and Eugene, OR. It's not alive, so the only damage is that I have been waiting for 2-1/2 weeks for a package to get 1100 miles up I-5, which should have taken 2 days.

If it were a box of baby chicks, they would be long dead. I feel for the farmers. Apparently priority mail doesn't mean anything any more.

Roger-Wilco on that.... Fud-Ex is just as bad. Bought a new Android Galaxy. Shipped from Indy, Fed-Ex Express Saver. Landed in Chicago. Shipped to Boston, Mass, then to Columbus, Ohio, back to Indy (where it started from) then to Maumee Ohio and then to Saline, Michigan and then to me. Fud-Ex didn't make squat on that delivery and if that was chicks, they would have croaked too. Took 12 days from Indy to me via 1/2 the country. Totally amazing. Glad I didn't need it asap. least it arrived intact. I've had Fud-ex shipments that looked like they played basketball with them.

 

[two_bit_score]

Not one bit. Everything seems to be right on schedule.