Page 1 of 4

No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:33 pm
by Fuzz_Pi
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/09/20 ... =webmail12

Fuck.

I had no idea the USPS was in any kind of trouble. We gotta love them, they bring us our pedals

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:34 pm
by Mudfuzz
Fuzz_Pi wrote:Fuck.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:56 pm
by Tigerbass
I know my local USPS makes a killing just from my pedal habit! :lol:

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:09 pm
by snipelfritz
Actually they don't make any money. That's the problem.

I love how Fox & Friend love to use the USPS as the epitome of gov't inefficiency. Have you ever been in a McDonalds lately? Seriously, come to the one in my town. They're obscenely slow and they mess up my order all the fucking time. I don't live in a shitty area, this isn't some ghetto-ass Micky-D's where you need to get buzzed into the bathroom, this is white economic conservative heaven.

When you want to make a profit, the easiest way to do so is to cut the payroll(i.e. fire people) so you run your stores on bare minimum staffing leading to shitty ass service, unhappy customers, less income, less profit.

INCOME GODDAMMIT! YOU CAN SAVE EVERY CENT THAT YOU CAN GET A HOLD OF BUT WHEN YOU LET THE WELL RUN DRY YOU'RE S.O.L.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:18 pm
by Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.
yea i dont think they are raking in the profits. have u ever compared USPS prices to UPS/FEDEX/DHL/etc?

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:07 pm
by Gunner Recall
Anything that keeps USPS afloat is fine by me...fuck UPS.

I don't even trust UPS to deliver the cables I just ordered from MF in one piece.
I was watching a UPS dude unload a truck while stuck in traffic last week, he was just kicking boxes out the back of his truck onto the street :mad:

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:15 pm
by Schlatte
We don't have saturday delivery here in austria... we never had... it's the weekend.. y'know...

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:51 pm
by Fuzzy Fred
A lot of people complain about USPS, but I trust them more than any other carrier :idk:

I gots to have me my pedals son!

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:52 pm
by devnulljp
I've never lived anywhere with Saturday mail delivery, and I've lived in a lot of places.
You guys are totally spoiled.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:04 pm
by nad
I used to get mail on Sundays, until a few months ago. I guess they did that for 60 years to appease the Seventh Day Adventists in the town.

We also have rocket fuel in the water supply. I've always assumed that was some sort of revenge for the Sunday mail thing.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:17 pm
by Christopher
snipelfritz wrote:Actually they don't make any money. That's the problem.


why should a government agency be expected to turn a profit?

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:24 pm
by devnulljp
Christopher wrote:
snipelfritz wrote:Actually they don't make any money. That's the problem.


why should a government agency be expected to turn a profit?
This is usually hard to explain to Americans, raised as they are on free market fantasies.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:46 pm
by Psyre
I am American and so can you.....

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:49 pm
by D.o.S.
devnulljp wrote:
Christopher wrote:
snipelfritz wrote:Actually they don't make any money. That's the problem.


why should a government agency be expected to turn a profit?
This is usually hard to explain to Americans, raised as they are on free market fantasies.


Hey, us coastal elitists don't appreciate your whitewashing of our culture like that.

Re: No more mail on saturdays?

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:56 pm
by magiclawnchair
the usps brought me a box of pedals on xmas day! that was a saturday last year! :!!!:

it would be missed but i could probably use to go two days with out coupons, credit card apps and bills... :idk: