Buddy have you even heard of the Cato institute?
Privatize the Postal system, Abolish a Monopoly
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Buddy have you even heard of the Cato institute?
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
No, but I feel like you're going to tell me about it.
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
The business I run mails 5 - 50 packages a month.
I have to physically go to the post office because the postal workers are not consistently competent enough to understand how to process online services like Stamps.com or other digital services like the shipping I can print from Amazon.
If I use digital post services to print postage, my return rate and my damaged product rate increases. This is not a fault of Stamps.com but rather the postal service mishandling the packages processed via modern technology, or them not understanding how to do something and guessing and screwing up my mail order as opposed to basic postage and process which they are familiar with. Basically, its a training issue at this stage. In years to come it will perhaps be resolved.
I need to be able to in-person walk them through how to ship (domestic) process (media, so that it does not come into contact with perishables or chemicals) 'do not bend' (cause if you don't explicitly request an item stamped do not bend they are not liable for bending it, etc etc) oterwise they fk my package up.
If I label the package correctly at home and they are confused for whatever reason they will either guess or return it (making the shipment late) or the package will just magically disappear to save them the headache. Whatever the case, mailing it using digital postage means It will be mishandled or misfiled or mailed incorrectly at a 2 - 5% higher rate (a huge difference when mailing a 100s of items)
As a person thats at the post office 10x a month... The post office is terrible.
I have to physically go to the post office because the postal workers are not consistently competent enough to understand how to process online services like Stamps.com or other digital services like the shipping I can print from Amazon.
If I use digital post services to print postage, my return rate and my damaged product rate increases. This is not a fault of Stamps.com but rather the postal service mishandling the packages processed via modern technology, or them not understanding how to do something and guessing and screwing up my mail order as opposed to basic postage and process which they are familiar with. Basically, its a training issue at this stage. In years to come it will perhaps be resolved.
I need to be able to in-person walk them through how to ship (domestic) process (media, so that it does not come into contact with perishables or chemicals) 'do not bend' (cause if you don't explicitly request an item stamped do not bend they are not liable for bending it, etc etc) oterwise they fk my package up.
If I label the package correctly at home and they are confused for whatever reason they will either guess or return it (making the shipment late) or the package will just magically disappear to save them the headache. Whatever the case, mailing it using digital postage means It will be mishandled or misfiled or mailed incorrectly at a 2 - 5% higher rate (a huge difference when mailing a 100s of items)
As a person thats at the post office 10x a month... The post office is terrible.
Yagirlcheatinonus
Icon Poster
I love working for usps
Yagirlcheatinonus
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Or you can just go online and schedule a package pickup. Your carrier will pick up your package right from your doorstep scan the package and you can track the destinations online....
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
Thats what stamps.com is, only stamps.com is less time consuming and more efficient.
Its not a problem of coordination. I have a scale. I can weigh and issue the correct postage myself (Media mail is always tracked, by the way).
The issue is the likelyhood of the package to be mishandled increases when its mailed in a manner outside the norm.
Its a handling issue as well as a processing issue due to poorly trained employees.
Darth Nubian
I bought my first Ki from my baby momma brother
USPS is a job program for veterans and their families. It's never going to be privatized. When I worked there supervisors were making six figures and spent most of their day playing bid wisk/tunk/spades. I wasn't mad though, got plenty of family who have caked off of the post office
Broke Wave
The GOAT
we should privatize everything except the military 
The market
The market
Type Username Here
Not a new member
Not everything should be for-profit. USPS is fine, even if it loses money. The DOD loses a shyt ton of money but no one blinks an eye.
Things like DOD, USPS, NASA and other agencies shouldn't be concerned with breaking even or making a profit.
Can someone explain to me why they should?
Things like DOD, USPS, NASA and other agencies shouldn't be concerned with breaking even or making a profit.
Can someone explain to me why they should?
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
we should privatize everything except the military
WHY NOT BOMB BROWN PEOPLE AND MAKE A PROFIT AT THE SAME TIME, BROTHER?
Broke Wave
The GOAT
I never considered it that wayI guess that's why some of us are makers and others are takers
I would have never thought of something so... efficient
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
I'M GOING TO SHORT THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE MARKET AND MAKE A KILLING MAKING A KILLING, BROTHER!
I guess that's why some of us are makers and others are takers
I would have never thought of something so... efficient
You know what would be a dope idea? What if we privatized the private sectorwe should privatize everything except the military
The market
Broke Wave
The GOAT
You know what would be a dope idea? What if we privatized the private sector
the efficiency