The U.S. Postal Service hopes to save $3 billion a year through a series of changes reflecting greater reliance on streamlined regional networks.
    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Somebody ask how much revenue their corporation’s IT dept generates. Then, ask the executives if they’d be fine if servers crashed, critical payment systems failed, and (God forbid!) their laptop stopped working…

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      The government as a whole shouldn’t have to worry about it. Republicans think the government should be run like a business when it is nothing like a business.

      They think that it is like a business because it provides services and a business does too and they equate paying taxes with paying for restaurant food. It’s utter nonsense.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    83·
    3 months ago

    Government is a service. An expense. Nobody says the military is unprofitable.

    We don’t have enough money for public Healthcare or even just mail, but we always have room for more fucking bombs!

    • P1nkman@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      How else are the oligarks who owns the majority of stocks in the weapons manufacturing industry going to take even more wealth from the general population? Line. Must. Go. UP!

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    3 months ago

    In layman’s terms, they wanna move carriers to sorting facilities to cut down on cost for shipping mail to local offices. This could cause carriers who live in the towns the deliver in, like myself, to drive upwards of 45 minutes to an hour away to a sorting facility (this number is based on what my office’s situation would be, could vary office to office). After clocking in and sorting our routes, we would then have to drive back that same amount of time to town to deliver, then drive that far back to return to office.

    You can see the issue here, sure you’re cutting on transportation costs to local offices, but you’re now spending a lot more on carriers fuel in the already inefficient mail trucks to drive back and forth to their routes. We wouldn’t get compensated for the milage and time going to and from the new office and it would lengthen our days because of the new drive time. That being said, if that drive time is accounted to our routes, our routes are supposed to be adjusted to 8 hours total time for normal mail volume. Now you’re adding that much time, you gotta cut deliveries per route. Now you have to add more routes to compensate, which means paying more salaries to cover said routes. Sure it’s good for us as carriers because routes need readjusting anyway, but is not the cost saving measure they think it is.

    Edit: Another idea they’ve had is create regional delivery offices where 3 or more towns are in a single building, but this can cause the same issue, and in some regions it may not be possible due to the distance between offices in highly rural areas such as the Great Plains.

    TLDR: will cause more problems than it solves.

    Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      3 months ago

      I knew in my heart this would end up wasting money rather than saving, and would make life hell for employees. Thank you for explaining how it would happen. I hope it gets the same analysis in the news, and gets dropped as the bad idea it is.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 months ago

    Fuck DeJoy with something hard and sandpapery. This dude is scum, any plan he has for the USPS is aimed squarely at damaging it and privatizing essential public services.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    OK, now show me the monetary losses from the military and tell me how we are trying to fix that. I’ll wait.

    • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Exactly.

      Stop treating the USPS like a business and start treating it like a government service.

      Fund the Postal Service.

  • ulkesh@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    I mean they got rid of the drop boxes that we could drive up to, because DeJoy is a piece of shit.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    12·
    3 months ago

    Finally, slower mail. The one thing that was keeping the Post Office from being profitable was how fast the mail got sent.