Socialized Medicine, as demonstrated by Socialized Mail Delivery.

[Harry Dresden]

maybe they need a scale that prints out weight as a bar code.

Maybe they need to put some of those postoffice employees into those Point of Sale Stations.

The Post Office is operated as a social program and not a business... and as a consequence, it's an albatross that is being subsidized to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year, by the US Taxpayers. It should be shut down or the Union should be shut out, so that it can be managed as a business.

The Post Office is perhaps the MOST "audited for efficiency agencies" in existence.
All one has to do is go and observe the Supervisors watching the clerks like a hawk.
In so far as an entity increasing our taxes, any entity that pays it's employees minimum wage and trains them how to apply for Food Stamps, Welfare and Medicaid is just as much a cause.

But honestly... look who's inspecting them for efficiency... the least efficient organization on earth.

Put it this way, few of those working for the USPS, have a future at Fed-Ex or UPS.

why would anyone working for the PO want to work for Fed-x or UPS?......

Not only would such a person not want to... They're technically unqualified to do so, given their demonstrated limitations in the attitude and skills required by UPS and FedEx.

oh really?....we are so unqualified to do their jobs that both companies have the PO deliver a good portion of THEIR parcels the last mile as they call it....why would they trust us unqualified idiots to do that?....when the UPS driver or Fed-X driver wants to know if someone stills lives at a certain address, who do you think they ask?...why dont those much more qualified people know who lives where?...and remember Fed and UPS do not have to sort the mail at the office and put up their routes,even with automated mail it still takes about an hour in the office to do this,then pull the route down in route order,load your undersized vehicle,something else the other 2 do not have to do and then go out and deliver the stuff all in 8 hours,which is getting harder and harder to do,especially at Christmas and election time........delivering is a breeze compared to having to put up mail not in order at the office and get it out on the street......unless you have done this job you have no idea what you are talking about keys.....i can do fed or UPS,and they can do what a carrier does,but i dont know if they would want to...

 

[Harry Dresden]

The Post office will pick a letter up at my house in NJ and deliver it to my cousins house in California for under 50 cents

There isn't a private company that would deliver a letter across town for 50 cents

The same device on which you posted that would-be "contribution", will send a letter to your cousin, and do so virtually instantly, at no additional charge whatsoever.

Let's be honest here... The need to send personal correspondence through a post service, is long gone.

and yet there are still millions of cards and letters at Christmas,Father and Mothers day,birthdays.....and still millions of letters going business to business as well as to residential homes....yep its long gone......

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Freight is freight. "Here's a trailer we want delivered to X". Even the USPS can get that done.

 

[jillian]

I had to run to the post office today and when I got there I found this line. You're only looking at the few people closest to the counter, there were 30+ people behind the camera.

So I post this to social media... and the comment you see above, was offered by a Post Office 30 year man, who is incapable of seeing the problem, for what it is.

you should probably blame that on the wingers' sequester. you're right. that should stop.

now run along. we don't have socialized medicine. the ACA isn't socialized medicine.

damn, you bleed stupid.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

The Post office will pick a letter up at my house in NJ and deliver it to my cousins house in California for under 50 cents

There isn't a private company that would deliver a letter across town for 50 cents

The same device on which you posted that would-be "contribution", will send a letter to your cousin, and do so virtually instantly, at no additional charge whatsoever.

Let's be honest here... The need to send personal correspondence through a post service, is long gone.

and yet there are still millions of cards and letters at Christmas,Father and Mothers day,birthdays.....and still millions of letters going business to business as well as to residential homes....yep its long gone......

LOL! So ... You exist to deliver Christmas cards?

Grab a clue... You're screwed.

 

[jillian]

The Post office will pick a letter up at my house in NJ and deliver it to my cousins house in California for under 50 cents

There isn't a private company that would deliver a letter across town for 50 cents

The same device on which you posted that would-be "contribution", will send a letter to your cousin, and do so virtually instantly, at no additional charge whatsoever.

Let's be honest here... The need to send personal correspondence through a post service, is long gone.

and yet there are still millions of cards and letters at Christmas,Father and Mothers day,birthdays.....and still millions of letters going business to business as well as to residential homes....yep its long gone......

you know how they embellish their stories.

just saying.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

you should probably blame that on the wingers' sequester. ... .

ROFLMNAO!

So sequestration causes the USPS to refuse to man their POS stations?

LMNAO! You people truly are helpless.

In greater nature you're what is otherwise known as FOOD!

 

[Harry Dresden]

The republican Congress forced the USPS to, over 10 years, fully fund its retirement program for the next 75 years. That's not "spend 75 years putting money in the bank," it's "have 75 years' worth of money in the bank within 10 years."

It's drained the USPS' operating funds to the point where it can barely function. The good news is that the timeframe will be up in a few more years and the USPS will be able to go back to normal.

Why did Congress do this? To force privatization of mail delivery. Somebody stood to make a shitload of cash from that.

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

The republican Congress forced the USPS to, over 10 years, fully fund its retirement program for the next 75 years. That's not "spend 75 years putting money in the bank," it's "have 75 years' worth of money in the bank within 10 years."

It's drained the USPS' operating funds to the point where it can barely function. The good news is that the timeframe will be up in a few more years and the USPS will be able to go back to normal.

Why did Congress do this? To force privatization of mail delivery. Somebody stood to make a shitload of cash from that.

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

You're implying that management is the enemy... When in reality, this in truth, the issue is not management, it's the union that has tied the hands of management.

Such deceit is a core trait of left-think, Left-think is the species of reasoning that governs socialism.

 

[rightwinger]

The republican Congress forced the USPS to, over 10 years, fully fund its retirement program for the next 75 years. That's not "spend 75 years putting money in the bank," it's "have 75 years' worth of money in the bank within 10 years."

It's drained the USPS' operating funds to the point where it can barely function. The good news is that the timeframe will be up in a few more years and the USPS will be able to go back to normal.

Why did Congress do this? To force privatization of mail delivery. Somebody stood to make a shitload of cash from that.

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

You're implying that management is the enemy... When in reality, this in truth, the issue is not management, it's the union that has tied the hands of management.

Such deceit is a core trait of left-think, Left-think is the species of reasoning that governs socialism.

Actually it is the meddling of Congress that is the problem

Forcing the Post office to pre-fund retirement for 75 years
Forcing them to keep open unprofitable offices and unprofitable routes in remote areas
Preventing them from closing on Saturdays

Then Congress threatens to shut them down because they are unprofitable

 

[Harry Dresden]

Now... over the half hour I was in there... there was easily 50 people in line when I got there and when I left it was probably close to 100... with people waiting in line OUT THE DOOR... standing in the sun. How many saw that line and drove on by is anyone's guess.

Seven people ahead of me... Two people working the counter... the guy on the Left was still serving the same guy that was there when I got there, when I left.

My bill was $17.00 to ship a package to NY.

So... easy math indicates that TODAY, that post office had the opportunity, the equipment, facility and personnel to produce an easy $3400/hour.

Which, due to pure incompetence, it instead earned $272/hour.

And THAT folks is the net result of socialized: ANYTHING.

maybe they need a scale that prints out weight as a bar code.

Maybe they need to put some of those postoffice employees into those Point of Sale Stations.

The Post Office is operated as a social program and not a business... and as a consequence, it's an albatross that is being subsidized to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year, by the US Taxpayers. It should be shut down or the Union should be shut out, so that it can be managed as a business.

not the unions fault the way its run......blame your congress....and prove the tax thing....

Harry

Why is it they no longer have stamp machines in the lobby?
Was it the unions?

It is pain in the ass to have to spend 20 minutes in line just to buy a book of stamps

RW that was the big question all of us carriers had when they took them out,and many a customer had the same question.....ready for the stupid answer we got?....because they did not want to maintain the machines and it was part of their cost cutting.....they said you can now buy stamps elsewhere for the same price... the guys who used to maintain the machines said these machines did not have high maintenance.....so the PO gives the supermarket a discount on the stamps they buy so the market can sell them to you at the regular price and make a small profit....so how did that benefit the PO?....in the 80's we had a Post Master appointed from the private sector named Preston Tisch, a billionaire who owned CBS i believe at the time....this guy was the only PM that i can recall who worked out a contract with the Unions without going into binding arbitration....anyway Congress wanted him to cut costs of operating,no problem he said and presented them with a plan....congress said no....you need to cut window services....Tisch said you dont cut things that affect the public,you let us cut things inside that we will work around.....he was over ruled and resigned a few months later saying something to the effect of its hard enough to have to run a business that can make money and yet HAVE to hopefully break even,i cannot work with a bunch of people micromanaging me,who know next to nothing about what goes on in this business...so he resigned and then the board of gov's promoted some postal big shot to the job who also did not last that long and he retired....the PO does not care about customer service....if you get treated good its because of the workers in your PO not middle or upper management,they can give a rats ass....

 

[rightwinger]

Now... over the half hour I was in there... there was easily 50 people in line when I got there and when I left it was probably close to 100... with people waiting in line OUT THE DOOR... standing in the sun. How many saw that line and drove on by is anyone's guess.

Seven people ahead of me... Two people working the counter... the guy on the Left was still serving the same guy that was there when I got there, when I left.

My bill was $17.00 to ship a package to NY.

So... easy math indicates that TODAY, that post office had the opportunity, the equipment, facility and personnel to produce an easy $3400/hour.

Which, due to pure incompetence, it instead earned $272/hour.

And THAT folks is the net result of socialized: ANYTHING.

maybe they need a scale that prints out weight as a bar code.

Maybe they need to put some of those postoffice employees into those Point of Sale Stations.

The Post Office is operated as a social program and not a business... and as a consequence, it's an albatross that is being subsidized to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year, by the US Taxpayers. It should be shut down or the Union should be shut out, so that it can be managed as a business.

not the unions fault the way its run......blame your congress....and prove the tax thing....

Harry

Why is it they no longer have stamp machines in the lobby?
Was it the unions?

It is pain in the ass to have to spend 20 minutes in line just to buy a book of stamps

RW that was the big question all of us carriers had when they took them out,and many a customer had the same question.....ready for the stupid answer we got?....because they did not want to maintain the machines and it was part of their cost cutting.....they said you can now buy stamps elsewhere for the same price... the guys who used to maintain the machines said these machines did not have high maintenance.....so the PO gives the supermarket a discount on the stamps they buy so the market can sell them to you at the regular price and make a small profit....so how did that benefit the PO?....in the 80's we had a Post Master appointed from the private sector named Preston Tisch, a billionaire who owned CBS i believe at the time....this guy was the only PM that i can recall who worked out a contract with the Unions without going into binding arbitration....anyway Congress wanted him to cut costs of operating,no problem he said and presented them with a plan....congress said no....you need to cut window services....Tisch said you dont cut things that affect the public,you let us cut things inside that we will work around.....he was over ruled and resigned a few months later saying something to the effect of its hard enough to have to run a business that can make money and yet HAVE to hopefully break even,i cannot work with a bunch of people micromanaging me,who know next to nothing about what goes on in this business...so he resigned and then the board of gov's promoted some postal big shot to the job who also did not last that long and he retired....the PO does not care about customer service....if you get treated good its because of the workers in your PO not middle or upper management,they can give a rats ass....

Makes no sense to me

It is frustrating standing in line behind some lady sending all her Christmas packages out when all I want is to buy a book of stamps that takes about 15 seconds of the clerks time. I know some supermarkets sell stamps but I have to wait in line to find out if they do or not and I am trading a post office line for a supermarket line

Seems they could automate much of what the postal clerk does. Have self serve where I can weigh the package and automatically print out the right postage.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Freight is freight. "Here's a trailer we want delivered to X". Even the USPS can get that done.

the PO dont deliver trailers....wont fit in the truck....why dont you say the real reason they do that?...

 

[Harry Dresden]

The Post office will pick a letter up at my house in NJ and deliver it to my cousins house in California for under 50 cents

There isn't a private company that would deliver a letter across town for 50 cents

The same device on which you posted that would-be "contribution", will send a letter to your cousin, and do so virtually instantly, at no additional charge whatsoever.

Let's be honest here... The need to send personal correspondence through a post service, is long gone.

and yet there are still millions of cards and letters at Christmas,Father and Mothers day,birthdays.....and still millions of letters going business to business as well as to residential homes....yep its long gone......

LOL! So ... You exist to deliver Christmas cards?

Grab a clue... You're screwed.

im retired so what happens with them is no longer my problem....so how come you did not mention the millions amount of mail that goes from business to business?...i thought this mailing things was long gone?...grab a clue yourself....

 

[ogibillm]

maybe they need a scale that prints out weight as a bar code.

Maybe they need to put some of those postoffice employees into those Point of Sale Stations.

The Post Office is operated as a social program and not a business... and as a consequence, it's an albatross that is being subsidized to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year, by the US Taxpayers. It should be shut down or the Union should be shut out, so that it can be managed as a business.

The Post Office is perhaps the MOST "audited for efficiency agencies" in existence.
All one has to do is go and observe the Supervisors watching the clerks like a hawk.
In so far as an entity increasing our taxes, any entity that pays it's employees minimum wage and trains them how to apply for Food Stamps, Welfare and Medicaid is just as much a cause.

But honestly... look who's inspecting them for efficiency... the least efficient organization on earth.

Put it this way, few of those working for the USPS, have a future at Fed-Ex or UPS.

I love UPS; I can order 6-10 delivery on Amazon and still get my package in 1 day.
I hate FedEx; they'll hold the package in the truck outside my house until day 6.
All three use each other to handle the load.
I don't know why you feel the USPS is so inefficient.
GW's Congress screwed them with the 75 years crap.

LOL! I can't see a way to get through to you, that which the photo in the OP demonstrates in inescapable terms.

Yes, it demonstrates that despite occasionally long lines the post office offers a valuable service at a reasonable rate

 

[ogibillm]

Now... over the half hour I was in there... there was easily 50 people in line when I got there and when I left it was probably close to 100... with people waiting in line OUT THE DOOR... standing in the sun. How many saw that line and drove on by is anyone's guess.

Seven people ahead of me... Two people working the counter... the guy on the Left was still serving the same guy that was there when I got there, when I left.

My bill was $17.00 to ship a package to NY.

So... easy math indicates that TODAY, that post office had the opportunity, the equipment, facility and personnel to produce an easy $3400/hour.

Which, due to pure incompetence, it instead earned $272/hour.

And THAT folks is the net result of socialized: ANYTHING.

maybe they need a scale that prints out weight as a bar code.

Maybe they need to put some of those postoffice employees into those Point of Sale Stations.

The Post Office is operated as a social program and not a business... and as a consequence, it's an albatross that is being subsidized to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year, by the US Taxpayers. It should be shut down or the Union should be shut out, so that it can be managed as a business.

not the unions fault the way its run......blame your congress....and prove the tax thing....

Harry

Why is it they no longer have stamp machines in the lobby?
Was it the unions?

It is pain in the ass to have to spend 20 minutes in line just to buy a book of stamps

You can buy stamps all over. Online. In stores. Atms. Why go to the post office just for that?

 

[Sallow]

The republican Congress forced the USPS to, over 10 years, fully fund its retirement program for the next 75 years. That's not "spend 75 years putting money in the bank," it's "have 75 years' worth of money in the bank within 10 years."

It's drained the USPS' operating funds to the point where it can barely function. The good news is that the timeframe will be up in a few more years and the USPS will be able to go back to normal.

Why did Congress do this? To force privatization of mail delivery. Somebody stood to make a shitload of cash from that.

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Democrats "raided" the pension fund?

Do you just make this bullshit up as you go along?

 

[Harry Dresden]

The republican Congress forced the USPS to, over 10 years, fully fund its retirement program for the next 75 years. That's not "spend 75 years putting money in the bank," it's "have 75 years' worth of money in the bank within 10 years."

It's drained the USPS' operating funds to the point where it can barely function. The good news is that the timeframe will be up in a few more years and the USPS will be able to go back to normal.

Why did Congress do this? To force privatization of mail delivery. Somebody stood to make a shitload of cash from that.

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

You're implying that management is the enemy... When in reality, this in truth, the issue is not management, it's the union that has tied the hands of management.

Such deceit is a core trait of left-think, Left-think is the species of reasoning that governs socialism.

so keys you seem to imply that you know how the PO operates....how long have you worked there?....have you ever been on a work room floor?.....the Unions have nothing to do with how the PO wastes the money they make.....these assholes bought land here in the Anaheim hills and built a facility on it for the 92808 zip code people a growing area in 2001....all in all they spent 10 million on this building and land.....during the downsizing of the last few years they decided this nice new building was no longer needed,the people here can drive the 7 miles to the 92807 building,even though the 08 office made money,lots of customers in a wealthy area.....they sold the whole thing 3 years ago for 4 million.....they made out on that deal....the unions were fighting to save the place.....Diane Feinsteins husband made out though....the only people who know who wastes money in this place are the workers and who is responsible,i have witnessed so many jobs in management that are useless and not needed and these people are making 70-90 thousand a year walking around with a clip board and have nothing to do with helping the mail flow,its just a job created for someone,and that person will do whatever to justify their job and why its so important....thats management not the union....and im not saying the Unions are not responsible for certain things that happen,but they dont control what the PO wastes money on....i can go on for 2 pages on the stuff i have seen in my 33 years there....how about you keys,what have you seen?...

 

[ogibillm]

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

You're implying that management is the enemy... When in reality, this in truth, the issue is not management, it's the union that has tied the hands of management.

Such deceit is a core trait of left-think, Left-think is the species of reasoning that governs socialism.

so keys you seem to imply that you know how the PO operates....how long have you worked there?....have you ever been on a work room floor?.....the Unions have nothing to do with how the PO wastes the money they make.....these assholes bought land here in the Anaheim hills and built a facility on it for the 92808 zip code people a growing area in 2001....all in all they spent 10 million on this building and land.....during the downsizing of the last few years they decided this nice new building was no longer needed,the people here can drive the 7 miles to the 92807 building,even though the 08 office made money,lots of customers in a wealthy area.....they sold the whole thing 3 years ago for 4 million.....they made out on that deal....the unions were fighting to save the place.....Diane Feinsteins husband made out though....the only people who know who wastes money in this place are the workers and who is responsible,i have witnessed so many jobs in management that are useless and not needed and these people are making 70-90 thousand a year walking around with a clip board and have nothing to do with helping the mail flow,its just a job created for someone,and that person will do whatever to justify their job and why its so important....thats management not the union....and im not saying the Unions are not responsible for certain things that happen,but they dont control what the PO wastes money on....i can go on for 2 pages on the stuff i have seen in my 33 years there....how about you keys,what have you seen?...

To be fair most people feel that way about middle management in everywhere, owing mainly to a lack of understanding about what they do

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yes... That's because the Democrats, specifically the unions have raided the USPS Pension fund for decades and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. So... given the absurd obligations to which the USPS has conceded, having a funded pension is essential to the pensions of the thousands of 50 year olds that retire from the USPS every year.

Now... with that said, the photograph shows THE PROBLEM. Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available... where those people standing in line waiting for more than a half hour to exchange THEIR MONEY for shipping services... the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer, who's paying those salary and pensions... from BOTH ENDS.

Despite having PLENTY of people to man those Point of Sale stations available..
they dont have plenty of people to man those stations....the only clerks that can take money are ones who have been vetted and ok'd by the inspection service..
the Post Office Management has created an environment which wholly disregards any sense of responsibility to their employer
90% of the people i worked with were very responsible to their employer....its not their fault if postal middle management sucks...

Hmm... That's something a socialist would say

how is what i said here socialist?...care to explain that?...

You're implying that management is the enemy... When in reality, this in truth, the issue is not management, it's the union that has tied the hands of management.

Such deceit is a core trait of left-think, Left-think is the species of reasoning that governs socialism.

Actually it is the meddling of Congress that is the problem

Forcing the Post office to pre-fund retirement for 75 years
Forcing them to keep open unprofitable offices and unprofitable routes in remote areas
Preventing them from closing on Saturdays

Then Congress threatens to shut them down because they are unprofitable

Forcing them to keep open unprofitable offices and unprofitable routes in remote areas
i believe that was something mandated years ago that every zip with a certain amount of people will have a local PO....profitable or not....
Preventing them from closing on Saturdays
this is very debatable thing....if they closed on Saturdays,every Monday would be like a day after a Holiday,because first class and priority mail keeps on moving internally and stops at the routes,and if there is a Monday Holiday it is even worse on tues.....overtime Tuesday and Wednesday would be pretty high....so would they be saving money?...and there are some things that would still have to be delivered like meds and time sensitive things....and we found that many small businesses want their Sat mail for various reasons......