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Rural Post Offices Closing
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Not that I’m affected by what changes are afoot with the US postal service but coincidentally I just received, in the mail, a card from Canada Post announcing the launch of a new “MyMail” initiative. Supposedly this will allow me, if I so choose to subscribe, to log into a new MyMail account to see what’s coming in the mail for me and who the sender is. Kind of like on-line tracking but for ordinary mail, or a preview of what will soon be in my physical mailbox at my house.
Not quite sure I see an immediate benefit to this but I do wonder about down-the-road implications such as… “…dear subscriber, you now have three pieces of letter mail in our system. For your convenience, please select from the following depots where you would like to collect your items, or for a modest fee we can deliver them to your home address….
Maybe I’m just being pessimistic, but I do wonder how this will roll out in the not too distant future.
Not quite sure I see an immediate benefit to this but I do wonder about down-the-road implications such as… “…dear subscriber, you now have three pieces of letter mail in our system. For your convenience, please select from the following depots where you would like to collect your items, or for a modest fee we can deliver them to your home address….
Maybe I’m just being pessimistic, but I do wonder how this will roll out in the not too distant future.
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Our local post office, serving perhaps 500 households had stopped sorting mail several years ago. The mail is sorted at the post office at the county seat about 18 miles distant where the rural carrier picks it up and delivers any collected mail. The local post office is open for counter service for limited hours on weekdays. We have not noticed any reduction in the quality of service resulting from this change.
Transit times for mail is typically only one or two days and parcels sent from the west coast often are delivered in two or three days. Rather remarkable when you think about it.
Transit times for mail is typically only one or two days and parcels sent from the west coast often are delivered in two or three days. Rather remarkable when you think about it.
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This is typical for us, also. Recently, however, I've had two deliveries end up stalled in someplace they should never have been. The most recent has spent the last 3 days in Roseville, east of Sacramento. I called the toll-free number today to open a ticket. Now it appears to be in Cincinnati, OH! Also note the loop from City of Industry to Sacramento (400 miles), then back to City of Industry and back to Sacramento. It's now been a full week, and by my calculations it has travelled over 3500 miles and it has yet to make the 590 miles from Chino to me. I'm told the current Post Master General was appointed for his business acumen. I wonder how many businesses he bankrupted.
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The current Postmaster General was a political appointee. Business acumen was not required.
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It's happening here as well. Our post office was closed for months now.
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When one thinks about the history of the USPS, one has to admire the role it played to bringing civilization to the frontier of the 1800's. Countless settlers depended upon the USPS to connect them with civilization back East. Mail order houses like Montgomery Wards and Sears and Roebuck sent much needed goods to customers via the USPS. It was possible to mail your kids to relatives through an oversight in the postal service regulations. To this day, live chicks are delivered to rural customers by the USPS.
It is unfortunate that our politicians didn't fully understand the significance of the of the postal system to the well being to the country, both past and present, when it chose to privatize it.
It is unfortunate that our politicians didn't fully understand the significance of the of the postal system to the well being to the country, both past and present, when it chose to privatize it.
I can find no evidence that the Post Office is anything other than a government organization though privatization has been proposed many times.
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yes, I saw that. De Joy, (No Joy) is doing everything he can to destroy the service. I watched him in a hearing, and he said it was studied, when asked for the data, he had none. Even though he had been asked before the hearing to provide it. He thought the service currently was great, and on time most of the time. Most get delivery in 2 days, but the service level promised he said was 4. So therefore they could afford to move the post offices further to save money. My service is averaging 7 days for a package. I don't know where the 2 comes from, or the 4.
Everytime I watch him I feel like he is lying and laughing at us.
After living in rural areas, I feel for all of you that are affected and outraged by the government/USPS level of concern. Even in large population centers the service has deteriorated. A couple of years ago (maybe longer) they Post Office announced that mail previously delivered overnight in the greater Houston area would now take 3-5 days. They made sure it would take that long. A distribution center had mail backed up for months because they started an equipment upgrade and THEN discovered that the equipment that was ordered wouldn't fit the available space.
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