• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    5 days ago

    It’s nice that they take good care of the senator. Meanwhile I had a city house near the top of a long hill and I had to get a PO Box to get my mail consistently because my postman didn’t like walking up that hill and would regularly skip our street.

    • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I have a regular order for a box of wet cat food from Amazon. Sometimes Amazon shipments come through the United States postal service and whenever that happens I get a note on my mailbox saying that my mailbox is full and they couldn’t deliver the cat food.

      There is a box next to the mailbox for deliveries that none of the other delivery drivers seem to have difficulty finding but USPS has never, not once not ever, put the cat food into that box. They just put a note saying I need to go to the post office to pick it up.

      I’ve gone to the post office with pictures to ask them why they don’t put it in the box and they say they’re only supposed to put it in the mailbox, but a mailbox that could accommodate the box of cat food would not be a regulation mailbox.

      So it really does come down to the whims of whoever you’re working with.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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    They are massively overpriced and antiquated in structure. Their failures are why Amazon exploded and collapsed brick and mortar retail. A lot of small businesses are not viable because of them.

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      How does mail being problematic make people want to order more things by mail?

      “Mail so janky I don’t even want to go to the store no more!”

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      They reported a loss of 9 billion last year and 9.5 billion in ‘24. The agreement with Amazon is deteriorating. They are expected to deliver mail 6 days a week on time with no money now.

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        It’s a public service, it’s not supposed to be motivated by profit.

        By “reported a loss” I think you mean, “the public service cost”

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          The “lost” revenue is because they are forced to pay for future employees who wont be born in the next 30 years.