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08-14-2020, 05:58 PM | #61 |
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The latest is that 10-13% of mail sorting machines (that each process over a million pieces a day) have been removed without explanation (or rather, the meaningless explanation of "equipment reduction") from dozens of major cities (on the one hand, all Dem strongholds, on the other, of course urban areas are where the machines are) and are being dismantled and destroyed despite functioning just fine. Also, dozens of blue mailboxes are being removed from the streets of NYC and Oregon due to insufficient use.
A firsthand account from a postal worker reports that he previously was given 2,000 pieces of mail per day to deliver, but with the re-organization and orders from on high to slow down processing, he's now getting between 200-600 per day. He's not working fewer hours, just delivering less mail than he's capable of right now. Mail that used to be sorted locally is now being sent to other cities and sometimes other states for processing, even if the delivery address is in the same city as it was posted from. Numerous other reports, especially from renters who pay by check and seniors who get their meds through the mail, say that deliveries that took 2 days in the past are now taking 14 (and they are consequently running out of important things like insulin, because their health insurance A. requires mail-ordering and B. doesn't allow filling in advance.) It's possible these are the inevitable growing pains of a restructure that will lead to more efficiency in the end. It's also possible this is deliberate. It should be noted that the majority of Amazon's deliveries are through the USPS. |
08-14-2020, 06:39 PM | #62 | |
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The amount of mail handled by the USPS is down by a third in this decade alone. It's not coming back, half of us pay our bills online now. I hope the USPS is offloading equipment and changing blue box routes. |
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08-14-2020, 06:43 PM | #63 |
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are you not done reading the rest, or did you just stop there?
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08-14-2020, 06:45 PM | #64 |
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Go fuck yourself
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08-14-2020, 06:47 PM | #65 |
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so to sum up your theory bad things are fake
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...381_story.html:
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With the caveat that obviously democratic voting strongholds tend to be population centers, so this is correlation but hypothetically not causation, people on twitter have overlaid that map with the pro-hillary margin in 2016: as one of the authors of the article pointed out on twitter: Quote:
all of which, again, i would say serves fundamentally to erode public trust in the voting process and muddy the election waters. unless its an inarguable blowout landslide victory for either side, neither side is going to have faith in any result. that scares the shit outta me.
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08-14-2020, 07:02 PM | #67 | |
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Like I said, it's entirely possible this is only step one of a larger process, and they'll be replaced with bigger, more efficient machines at the new designated hubs, and it ultimately will make sense for a letter to travel 500 miles away just to get sorted and travel back to the same city. But right now, at least, there are measurable delays and problems in a service that used to work. |
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08-14-2020, 07:11 PM | #68 | |
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08-15-2020, 07:33 AM | #69 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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A Rural Area with Moderate Politics near a Major USPS Processing Center.
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08-15-2020, 08:09 AM | #70 |
Read? I only know how to write.
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08-15-2020, 09:15 AM | #71 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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Undertrump?
Urbanetoad? |
08-15-2020, 11:57 AM | #72 |
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There's always an explanation, sometimes it is malice sometimes not; bad reporters just go with the narrative, good reporters ask more questions until they get to the explanation
https://katu.com/news/local/photo-ab...acing-old-ones |
08-15-2020, 12:03 PM | #73 |
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replace them when is an important question i think
"we asked them and they said don't worry about it" isn't a very satisfying explanation imo
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08-15-2020, 03:03 PM | #75 |
still says videotape
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The agency has focused in recent years on placing boxes in high-traffic areas such as shopping centers, business parks and outside grocery stores, she said, and removing them from low-traffic areas. ...
So do we move them to Amazon warehouses?
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