The Rise And Fall of USPS

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The United States Postal Service has been around for more than 200 years and is actually older than the United States. However, the organization that always makes it through rain, sleet, and hail may not make it through 2020. A law passed at the end of 2006, combined with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, has led to most of the post office's current woes. Here's why the post office is $160 billion in debt.
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The Rise And Fall of USPS

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@ATXBanditsFC 3 года назад

As a mailman I take pride in my work. We work hard and deliver thousands of pieces a day, in any condition. We have aging trucks, equipment, etc. The people are what make this job great! We just need a little help, the post office never lost money, we only made it by having efficient and affordable SERVICE. That’s what I hope people know is that, while you May get a package or mail piece incorrectly, but it’s only .01% of our daily deliveries for the day. Thank you to those who still support us to this day!

@erikgonzalez2278 3 года назад

Affordability is why I ship what I need with USPS you guys are always smiling but stay safe and thank you!

@davidbrown8303 3 года назад

Maybe when we get a decent president he or she will bail them out.

@anantathapaliya5514 3 года назад

Maximum respect to all the mail people. I still find it incredible that mails come directly to my door.

@lightened6445 3 года назад

USPS is also very quick on international shipping i have been ordering some items from US and it arrives to Northern Europe in a week, while DHL can take three weeks.

@DaneRates 3 года назад

J Rod:well said Keep working hard and be careful with your finances. Always hope for the best.

@telenelatelin8632 3 года назад

Government: we’re going to hamstring you’re ability to operate as a business USPS: we need a bailout! Government: no bailout! This is your own fault!

@seize3 3 года назад

Seems to me like they were dealt a shitty hand from the government that forced them to do stupid business decisions that led them in extreme debt

@billykobilca6321 3 года назад

It's disgusting what the republicans did in 2006

@arnavshah8131 3 года назад

@@billykobilca6321 2020*

@hse6144 3 года назад

No, it’s disgusting what Democrats do when they’re in charge. Just look at Detroit, thousands of government workers who put 30+ years into the system, only for the pension plan to be bankrupt due to miss management, corruption, and plain greed. Democrats don’t look out for the little people.

@hse6144 3 года назад

billy kobilca nothing wrong with forcing government to do what they promised. Can’t afford the pension? Then it should be discontinued, not kick the can down the road for 30 years and then say “sorry there’s no money in the plan”.

@shelbyw430 3 года назад

So they have to have a retirement and pension fund for workers who haven't even been born??? No wonder they're in debt!

@tina8796 3 года назад

most companies have done away with their pension packages. not the post office ! and the workers in my city are so rude it's unbelievable. they act like they're doing you a favor

@SmartChannel01 3 года назад

Yeah passed by Republicans in 05... so much for small government

@Brahmdagh 3 года назад

Sounds more like sabotage to me. Won't be surprised if UPS etc were "lobbying" the "honorable" congressmen involved

@tyfenix6955 3 года назад

This happens to Sears.

@time502 3 года назад

Government plan what else is new

@popetoby178 3 года назад

We need to decide if the USPS is a business or a government public service, it's trying to be both. If it's a business then let it set the rates it needs to function. If a gov. service then pay the freight to keep it running.

@MrGelowe 3 года назад

USPS is something that Trump touched with his little dirty fingers and made it a political issue. Now that it is a political issue, there isn't going to be a logical and rational discussion. Now the discussion is whether USPS should or should not exist rather than how it should exist. Congress fucked USPS with 2007 bill, so they should bail them out or retire the law.

@cevcena6692 3 года назад

It was successful at being both until the pension plan kicked in.

@azian510 3 года назад

Le sigh.

@Sablus 3 года назад

@@cevcena6692 yep which was created as a means to weaken the USPS by lobbyists who'd love to break it up and privatize it.

@brianschlicher59 3 года назад

And to be fair it is a government public service. The USPS was never intended to operate at a profit. The goal was to be self sustaining while providing low cost shipping costs for Americans anywhere in the nation including territories and military installations.

@BrandonHanson 3 года назад

If Airline Companies, Chrysler, and General Motors back in 2008 got bailout money. There is no excuse to ignore something we have depended on longer before any other forms of transportation listed to give us mail. They're heroes and go through so much everyday. I salute you guys and thank you for your continued efforts.

@Elizabeth-ej6ln 3 года назад

Or the usps can get approval from congress to only fund future retirement accounts as needed and withdraw the money for pensioners never even born yet.Raise its rates competitively for fist class mail, quit giving amazon a sweetheart deal who's attempting to replace the usps with its own workers and drones anyways (so believing amazon will be with usps in the distant future is dreaming anyways) and as necessary have every other day mail delivery in the rural areas and stop with the overtime.Now Trump whos declared bankruptcy 6 times with his "big brain" is incapable of fixing it.

@justinedse3314 Год назад

The problem is, is that they shouldn't have been bailed out. If you run your company badly, that's it. That's what happens, you're done.

@rockon8174 Год назад

No. Keep government OUT of private business!!! Government interference caused USPS to be in debt!!!!

@FoxGaming00 3 года назад

I run and own a small business and if usps dies then I'm completely out of business

@estate-tidus1007 3 года назад

Start a business account with UPS, it may be cheaper then you thought.

@FoxGaming00 3 года назад

@@estate-tidus1007 I've looked into it I send mostly letters and first class packages and since I dont have a massive output I can really qualify for any cheaper service/ cut price for volume like Amazon or other retailers it costs me around 55 cents to ship a letter anywhere in the us if I wanted ups or FedEx to do the same at minimum it whould cost around 9 dollars just for a letter and I do use ups for international shipping because for me personally they have a better track record and there is less hand offs to other shipping carriers but those are not frequent enough to support my business 95% of all my business requires us shipping and usps is the best and the cheapest I can get while still retaining a profit margin

@triedntrueiam 3 года назад

I run a small business too. Maybe this is a time for readjustment. Trucking companies insurance rates doubled this year and a lot of them are closed/closing. But, a couple of fleet of vans and dependable workers in all states can replace them. A new private owned logistics service can easily rise from this (maybe even a few). The post office can downsize and the people can take ownership instead of being unemployed/underemployed. 🤔

@AmazingJuniorBros 3 года назад

Josh USPS is 3-4 dollar shipping for me, UPS is 8-9 dollars. If I wanted to do online shops I’d be in debt also

@queen.kristal8395 3 года назад

Josh USPS can’t go government needs that service

@ericvulgate 3 года назад

the 'fall' of the usps is a manufactured crisis. we need them now more than ever.

@n3wt 3 года назад

empire market and cannahome needs usps

@MCrelationz 3 года назад

@@n3wt just bought something on empire bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ZaneDalton 3 года назад

M Detlef so you’re planning on emailing me my new lightbulbs?

@ghstbird3338 3 года назад

NO, we don’t❗️ Time to move on from this travesty called USPS.

@kennybinns6279 3 года назад

@M Detlef have you invented a transporter? kind of difficult to send medicine or a package "ELECTRONICALLY".

@thinkitthrough8555 3 года назад

If the USPS ceases operation a TON of businesses will fold and many more millions of people will suddenly be out of work--many many more than just the 600,000 current postal employees. It would be absolute INSANITY to allow the postal service to go out of business.Anyone who thinks that the USPS can just fold and everything will be ok AIN'T THINKING.

@hollytimlick9470 2 года назад

I hope it happens. I don't need or want USPS any more. If you lose several thousands of dollars in packages every year, you tell me what you will do. I don't get any mail at my address. I have gone to paperless billing, and I receive all packages by Fed-ex or UPS now. I removed my postal box off the house 6 years ago, and I don't miss it one bit! You enjoy getting you're packages destroyed, or sent back without a reason.

@nikkiiv9259 2 года назад

@@hollytimlick9470 you do realize that a lot of the time, your ups packages are handed off to the USPS for final delivery and that UPS and FEDEX only serve profitable areas and ignore all the rest (such as rural areas). They also don't send letters (most of the time) so you will have no way of getting official documents and notifications. It's foolish to say that you wish it would shut down as you ignore the fact that it is a public. Service that is meant to serve the American people no matter where you are!

@hollytimlick9470 2 года назад

@@nikkiiv9259 how is that foolish to say when 65% of my mail, packages and other contents are missing, lost stolen, dammaged, or ending up going back without my knowledge? USPS has done nothing but caused problems for me in the past 20 years, then ups, fed ex, and Amazon put together! Give me a f-ing break... When you go through the sh-t I went through, you would think twice about the USPS...

@brianschlicher59 3 года назад

I'm a proud postal worker. I'm a clerk. The amazing thing about the USPS (United States Postal Service) is the organization was never designed to operate at a profit. The organization exists to deliver America's mail in all 50 states, military institutions, and U.S territories. If the organization is removed buying products online and shipping costs will increase decreasing discretionary income of U.S citizens which will be detrimental to the economy. We are the connective tissue of the nation ensuring all Americans can reach one another by by post.

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

Don't' forget Post Roads. Tied the U.S. together from back before we were the U.S.

@lamarravery4094 3 года назад

The postal service is a public service. Not a profit hungry private organization. The USPS is for all the American people not for just the rich Americans.

@thejquinn Год назад

@@lamarravery4094 This entire piece is a smearjob to destroy the post office thus why they kept showing its profir margins, nor ever even mention that delivering the mail is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT

@chemicalcowpoke307 Год назад

The post office is a constitutional organization.

@luisv8413 3 года назад

Just got hired as a USPS driver. Lets see what happens next month haha

@Fran-rx6xd 3 года назад

When my mail get here?

@jermainemyrn19 3 года назад

It seems so hard to get a job there. Where did you apply? Did you put on your resume you had driving experience?

@teresaprajapati1153 3 года назад

Jermaine Wright Go to about usps.com and set up an account. Then go to job search section and put in your state the jobs will show for your state. It is a long process when you apply for a drivers position (called a city carrier assistant or rural carrier assistant) they will ask you a few questions about your driving history you will have to take a virtual assessment exam and that’s it... then it’s a waiting game...good luck

@MCrelationz 3 года назад

How many hours do you usually work a week

@Phil_Melone 3 года назад

Good luck

@Chromegrillz 3 года назад

The post office is the most affordable for mailing and package shipping. We should not politicize USPS during elections, and It hurts them. I want USPS to be saved.

@craftingforsanity7430 3 года назад

Postal workers are working unbelievably hard during this pandemic risking the lives of themselves and their families so people can get their stimulus checks,medications and other essential items. They deserve some appreciation for all they do instead of idiots always saying “ I pay taxes and that’s where your paycheck comes from” NEWS FLASH idiots the postal service is a self funded federal agency. Thank you to all of the hard working postal workers across America

@boogjefferson3793 Год назад

@@scottmiller2421 you find it Full of lies because you don’t know what your talking about lol you don’t know how the post office works you pay bills online but you still get mail get free shipping certified mail express packages priority packages etc etc the post office doesn’t just make money off of a simple mailed envelope

@connierogers2840 3 года назад

Big UPS to all the postal workers!!🙌🙌 I’m a postal baby! My mom did 45 years and my dad did 47....❤️🙌 Thank you postal service👍

@rhondapettyjohn7294 3 года назад

Considering UPS is currently sorting USPS mail now, yeah, it is Big UPS who is helping move usps mail, helping USPS do what they can't do..move mail.

@jerryduffin1358 3 года назад

"Just five little numbers quick as can be" lol I literally lost it for some reason

@jezielalbo3616 3 года назад

I love what I do ! I wouldn’t trade it for any job! Being out there is not easy sometimes but I love working hard , and I’m thankful for all of those who support the service

@jaketyler7088 3 года назад

No mention of the USPS Fairness Act that the House passed in February? This bill eliminates the ridiculous requirement of pre-funding their retirement pension fund. Somebody tell Mitch McConnell to bring the bill to the Senate floor.

@illegalalien6542 3 года назад

Oh please like that hack can actually get anything done

@K-Zone 3 года назад

If they run out of mail, people won't vote...........hm.......

@davidbrown8303 3 года назад

Republicans are counting on that because if everyone votes Republicans will never win. If they go out of business the cause will be the Trump administration that caused it. Some people in red states depending where you live get harassed they cast a blue ballot. It's why they vote by mail.

@frodriguez9702 3 года назад

@@davidbrown8303 harassed? Lol

@AnonymousAlcoholic92. 3 года назад

@@davidbrown8303 So true, the conservatard party is doing everything they can to steal another election

@flywithhuddy 3 года назад

It makes no sense because Trump wants his little rascals to vote for him IN PERSON while he telling everyone who’s voting for Biden to use mail in voting, in which Trump is trying to get rid of so he could rig this election again

@ilovejesuschrist992 3 года назад

@@flywithhuddy 🎯🎯🎯

@moisesmunoz3844 3 года назад

Once again. Thanks a lot Bush.

@cristiangonzalez6968 3 года назад

Vex T lmao the “both sides” argument for basically everything needs to die

@illegalalien6542 3 года назад

@Vex T Let me guess, you voted Trump?

@bentheg9793 3 года назад

@@illegalalien6542 He probably did not

@Lodus_music 3 года назад

@Vex T agreed, i don't like to associate with either party, it causes voluntary ignorance.

@michaelh4227 3 года назад

Don't forget Susan Collins is there too. And now she's acting like she's a defender of the USPS as if she didn't know.

@seanistheman7sk 3 года назад

Im one of those who rely on the post office for a job

@phoenix5054 3 года назад

Sean Kayser Condolence for being effectively fired by Trump.

@user-ti3vp9mt3z 3 года назад

Thank you for your hard work!

@xavierclayton9990 3 года назад

My favorite person in town is my mail carrier, especially when I'm expecting a package. Very appreciative of the USPS.

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

Carriers are heroes

@kimschubert61 3 года назад

Thank you!!! I retired from the Post Office at the end of May after 35 years. It is so nice to see people saying nice things instead of bashing us.

@McIntyreBible 3 года назад

I wasn't aware that it was not until 1963 that the Post Office began the zip code (1:30); I thought it was earlier than that!

@johnathin0061892 3 года назад

Big cities had simple numbered zones, but not the whole country

@FingeringThings 3 года назад

The problem is people keep wanting to treat USPS as a buisness when its really a public service

@leonidassparta2124 3 года назад

Bingo

@erickgregoryful Год назад

It's a public service that fails. Stop or get it together.

@spammyhammy9788 Год назад

@@erickgregoryful speak for yourself, just bc u have a lazy carrier doesn’t mean everyone else in the US is the same

@looseygoosey1349 8 месяцев назад

@@erickgregoryful it fails because of dumbass ass republicans that go out of there way to destroy it.

@ryanw7196 3 года назад

Not to mention the myriad public services the USPS provides that they must fund via sales... Like the postal inspectors, no other parcel shipping company is responsible for maintaining an actual police force

@stanleyshostak2737 3 года назад

I am a rural carrier. Thanks for the video. It was concise and accurate. The background on the pension funds is not known or understood by people outside the USPS. By the way the bill that created the prefunding of pensions was a PPac bill backed by FedEx and UPS. This has been a long slow bleed that is coming to a head. We work hard to get you mail and packages delivered everyday. If the Post Office is dissolved it will cost people ten to twenty dollars to mail a letter with the competition. I hope I can work there for twenty more years.

@Kelly-gw4cf 3 года назад

That’s interesting 🤔. Maybe the government bill was a way of stunting growth of post office so they didn’t have too many advantages that keep other businesses from thriving. Other businesses are thriving but they are not necessarily stable. The post office is unaffected by the decline of stock market as it should be. It’s still the United States greatest connector. I wonder how things would change if it were funded 50 years in advance. Maybe it’s time to think it through again and see if trump could draft another bill to loosen up unused funds.

@zzulm 3 года назад

Bailouts for banks and big corporations but not for a government service, save the services available for everyone.

@user-ti3vp9mt3z 3 года назад

Here here!

@JPLMONEY23 3 года назад

USPS has survived through recessions, depressions and inflation......and I believe it will survive again.

@lamarravery4094 3 года назад

Not this time, I'm afraid. Trump is determined to privatize the postal service.

@JPLMONEY23 3 года назад

Too big to privatize.....not gonna happen.

@emder2159 3 года назад

@@JPLMONEY23 it can easily be privatized. Companies like amazon can jump the gun and create their own postal service to fill the gap...making jeff Bezos even richer.

@prinprin3324 3 года назад

Why doesn’t the government give money to the USPS ? they are essential to our economy!

@medraut6599 3 года назад

Because they're sabotaging it, so that it can be privatized.

@michaelweedon4297 3 года назад

we already have other courier services why do we need this one in particular

@14kurtismiller 3 года назад

I believe that Trump and others have a plan to bail them out using their personal investment money, making them equity owners in the USPS..

@the7311 3 года назад

Michael Weedon because other couriers don’t ship to remote and unprofitable areas of the US. This actually affects more conservatives than liberals.

@jaketyler7088 3 года назад

What needs to happen is the Senate bring the USPS Fairness Act to the floor for a vote, eliminating the required pre-funding of the retirement pension fund. That's what created this problem and that alone can fix it.

@ketimeleah1409 3 года назад

Post office aint going anywhere!

@demolitionizer7686 2 года назад

Ex Postal worker here, for what it's worth, USPS stopped paying into the mandatory 75 year retirement plan long ago. I believe we stopped paying into it in 2011

@raffyv8460 3 года назад

work in a postal warehouse & right now it is crazy !

@Shiveone 3 года назад

Crazy how, what’s happening at the plant you work @?

@goodun2974 3 года назад

Also worth noting that many military veterans get their medications delivered by mail. FedEx and UPS typically don't deliver outside of cities and adjacent suburbs, relying on USPS for the last leg of the journey; without the Post Office, any veteran who lives in a more rural area is going to have major problems getting medications delivered.. By the way, the Post Office actually employs roughly a 100,000 military vets, and about 60,000 black women.

@willia3r 9 месяцев назад

Some of these Postal sorting facilities are governed by corrupt Postmasters and have too many thieves working in crime rings there stealing medications and checks. Here in Atlanta at the Crown Rd Postal Sorting Facility it is *_definitely_* corrupt.

@jaddyrose9318 2 года назад

They been hating on the Postal Service for years, will always be an essential necessity

@vk311z8 3 года назад

Just remember once the Postal Service goes into Privatization then the low cost to mail your letters is gonna increase to maybe $ 2 dollars. Once Jeff Bezos gets a piece of the Post Office and it becomes entirely Privatize then all the mailing and Packages that you all enjoy at low cost is gonna sky rocket to how ever they want to price it for profit

@agisler87 3 года назад

You mean people will actually start paying the true cost of sending mail and packages.

@Lodus_music 3 года назад

@@m.i3612 why is it the governments job?

@Lodus_music 3 года назад

good thing we're in the digital age, packages are a different story though.

@lamarravery4094 3 года назад

Very true. It will happen, and the crooked politicians will profit from it along with Bezos and Trump.

@a.c.guerra9850 3 года назад

True. I was going to send a small package about a couple lbs to peru. Went to ups and wanted to charge me nearly $200 😨. Then went to usps. And they sent it out for like $40-50.

@mistervacation23 3 года назад

I like how they made the Postal Service seem like some sort of Illuminati-like organization.

@bascal133 3 года назад

The republicans literally made that law SPECIFICALLY to kill the postal service, no other company needs to fund their retirement 75 years in advanced 😡

@28ebdh3udnav 3 года назад

But those who actually start working there or already work there are going to loose their pensions. And than, the narrative is going to be the same. "Its the Republican's fault" for cutting pensions.

@bascal133 3 года назад

Joseph Ybarra I don’t think that’s the plan, without the law I think they would fund pensions as slowly overtime as they come up by putting money away a little each year. In that case they would still have a profit and pay pensions/benefits. I’m glad you are also concerned that the workers get their benefits it’s just about the timeline of saving that money

@Medio99999 3 года назад

88⁸ it up it 8

@silversolver7809 3 года назад

@@28ebdh3udnav No, it would be the same as every other organization which pays a pension. Unless you know of another company lumbered with the same burden as Bush put on USPS-I certainly don't.

@billykobilca6321 3 года назад

Exactly... it's a gift giving to the capital class. It's disgusting what the US government did.

@mooslice5621 3 года назад

I think my grandma is single handedly keeping them in business nowadays.

@DonGetShiesty 3 года назад

Wow the whole business that is like everywhere in the world

@joyceberman180 3 года назад

I think that the post office does a pretty darn good job at getting mail to us, but a lot of companies are having trouble funding their pension requirements. The Social Security trust fund isn't in great shape either last I heard. The retirement age of 65 worked well when people were only living into their late 60s, but now people are living into their 80s and beyond. That's a good thing, but most pension plans weren't designed to deal with that. Congress and the President are going to have to come to some agreement on what can be done because we need the post office to be functional well past this September.

@brucez9023 3 года назад

Stop blaming and pointing fingers. why is everything always involve politics..... SAVE THEM! WE NEED TO SHIP OUT STUFFSSS

@Lodus_music 3 года назад

I agree some people are just assholes that like to heavily overgeneralize, both political parties are deceiving people, we need to think and fight for ourselves.

@52fordguy 3 года назад

Postal Service is a 'Service', not a private business and needs to stay in place no matter what.

@Yoyoyoyoskippy 3 месяца назад

Not when they continue to lose billions every year.

@mohammedsarker5756 3 года назад

maybe don't make them prepay employee retriments 75 years in advance which literally no other entity is mandated to do?

@teddyfurstman1997 3 года назад

USPS is awesome and the world still needs them.

@user-sy4yz5zf3h 3 года назад

#Savethepostoffice

@jm6289 3 года назад

So government ruined a perfectly good business once again. What is new?

@datboizamo1873 3 года назад

Julian Gomez yeah it’s a public service it’s not supposed to profit it’s NOT a business they want to MAKE it one

@mossyourlocalbleachbottle2098 3 года назад

Julian Gomez is to turn a profit you should make it a business, therefore privatize it.

@silascochran9705 3 года назад

The post office should absolutely be bailed out like they did the banks it is an American Institution and it financially should be restructured so it doesn't happen again🐊🌴

@stellablue1271 3 года назад

This was very informative!

@peteflannery6550 3 года назад

As a former USPS employee, I can only weep over the appointment of dejoy as PMG. He’s dedicated to ruining the Service.

@kimbroughjim 3 года назад

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! This is information every congressmen and citizen needs to know.

@maxgamboltv9940 3 года назад

This is amazing

@yeathatsright1034 3 года назад

Thank you💯

@WildDisease72 3 года назад

Wish the government postal services would at least break even. Reason they produce losses is actually due to defined benefit pensions, mail has declined but parcels have surged

@Lodus_music 3 года назад

@M Detlef partly.

@ruzzelladrian907 3 года назад

"By 1923, all houses required a mail slot." Underrated feature in American homes.

@trite1 3 года назад

Nothing but respect for the USPS and all USPS workers.

@linuslam80s 3 года назад

Even the world needs USPS since we're in a global world. Coming from a message from Canada

@edlightman6947 3 года назад

the usps is the best way to ship letters and boxes ! when i order merchendise i always ask for it to be shipped by us mail

@nickshowsstuff435 3 года назад

My local post office has been crazy busy since the corona virus started and with everyone about 6 feet apart the lines are super long so I figured they were doing well but luckily for me my items are usually prepaid so I walk past everyone and drop it off on the counter

@Reixuria 3 года назад

i misread for Ups wondering bc thats seen daily or a couple times a week?

@EmpireOfEdits 3 года назад

Amazon just came up like *HeLLOOoOO*

@DJSLANKMAN 3 года назад

Jesus we need to save the usps wtf

@DJSLANKMAN 3 года назад

Long Boi ya I love usps I do priority mail all time and it ships fast af compared to shit ups

@queen.kristal8395 3 года назад

Ups and fedex isn’t equip to deliver billions of paper mail they are more of a package company.

@niknik1390 3 года назад

USPS is the root of the Americans culture. If President Trump get rid or not support the USPS it is killing the true value of Americans. As Americans, USPS has always been there for us. We love are mail carriers. They are through rain or shine, snow or blizzard, dry or windy, every weather conditions, our mail carriers were there. God Bless our front line service men and women of the USPS. Thank you

@simplyamazing8902 3 года назад

thank you for this informative video..United States Postal Service is so underrated!

@samantharae5877 3 года назад

Privatization of the u.s.p.s. would mean mail crime wouldn't be a federal crime.

@BattleshipSailorBB63 3 года назад

A valid point I hadn't thought of! Stealing mail no longer a Federal crime = MUCH more mail theft even than we see now! o.0

@samantharae5877 3 года назад

@@BattleshipSailorBB63 yep. There will be consequences if USPS is privatized, then every delivery driver and their brother will have access to your mailbox. Right now if FedEx or ups uses a mailbox it is a $4000 fine if they are caught.

@phoenix5054 3 года назад

How about they remove the “last mile” delivery and just deliver to the town center again. I see no point in spending hundreds of $ to a single person in the middle of nowhere.

@ericenright6192 3 года назад

Yeah that one change will save them...

@bascal133 3 года назад

Why would they want to go backwards? The answer is to get rid of that stupid rule making them fund employees they don’t even have yet not gut their services so grandma and grandpa have to leave the farm in the middle of a pandemic to mail their electric bill check

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

@TheZoomerFarmer Exactly. Elderly and Veterans in Rural areas rely on the Post for medicine. It's like the White House wants these people dead or something :/

@SleazyE08 Год назад

If you think the postal service isn’t necessary, wait until Amazon, FedEx and UPS dominate the market in delivering goods….all the little things will cost a lot more than they already do. As of now, those companies rely on USPS to deliver at a reasonable cost. Once their business model doesn’t include deliveries by the USPS, every little thing you send will cost a lot more to be shipped.

@leedee4968 3 года назад

Excellent info 😎

@smokey-smore 3 года назад

watches this video while knowing i have 10+ packages being shipped to me by usps

@katough 3 года назад

The post office is an example of doing it right.

@officialspaceefrain 3 года назад

The lady that literally throws my mail to door should watch this video.

@letterey5781 3 года назад

yes

@3lbUniverse 3 года назад

The postal service is not a business. It's a public service! A service just like police and fire departments.

@JohnBrix2022 3 года назад

#SAVEOURMAIL

@mosh101 3 года назад

As a postal employee. I can say we have not used taxpayer money since 82. We get our money paychecks from parcels and stamp sales thats why the post office is broke. But I'm glad to work as a package handler my wife a mall carrier for usps.We are one of the most trusted government entities. I hope it stays that way. Whatever politics you believe this is true.We work hard to get your mall to you on time.We work 7 days a week holidays weekends ect. Please remember this at the polls. When you vote November alot of peoples livelihoods depend on it. Alot of service men too.We do our best to service you rain or shine natural disasters. Whatever to get you your mail to you.We are not the bad guys the government media makes us out to be. Just people trying to provide for there families.

@tsianinavibranietsova4087 3 года назад

In 2010, the postmaster general’s salary authorized by Congress rose to $273,296. Potter stepped down as postmaster general in December 2010, at which time he was awarded $3.1 million in accumulated pension benefits, which he earned over a 32-year period in government service, as well as compensation for leave not taken, and outplacement assistance for a period of two years. In 2011, Potter was replaced by Deputy Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, whose salary in his first year stood at $267,840.

@mccallyoung8152 3 года назад

What happened to the other lady who usually narrates the rise and fall series

@louisratatoulielinson 3 года назад

She was fired. Jk idk

@14kurtismiller 3 года назад

They may have payed her off, or she caught a cold.

@pacluv 3 года назад

She has COVID-19

@knucklestheechidna5718 5 месяцев назад

I was carrier for a while. Literally worst job i ever had.

@markbosky 3 года назад

USPS isn't a for-profit business. The net benefit of subsidizing parcel delivery helps U.S. citizens and small-businesses alike.

@adamchurvis1 Год назад

Outstanding analysis.

@adriancoates462 3 года назад

Shit for a business that can't pay their employees they sure do hire alot of people... im a clerk and the letters are slightly down but the parcels are up. We deliver FedEx ups and Amazon. We can barely get the mail up in time for the carriers. The problem with usps is nepotism within management bunch of friends and family with no business experience trying to make business decisions... i literally watched a pse the lowest position in the post office become a post master the highest position at the post office in two years because his dad was mpo of the district..

@lamarravery4094 3 года назад

And the sex. Supervisors seducing young PSEs and sleeping with them, and when they get caught they don't get fired, they are either promoted or transferred to another city only to return in a couple of yrs, once the dust has settled. I agree, reform is needed in the management ranks, too many mid management jobs, they need to be abolished apparently the supervisors have time to be sleeping around, they're not busy enough.

@JackDenmo 3 года назад

Big news boys

@hororfights338 3 года назад

Hi im a big fan

@PHCuber 3 года назад

Lol hi

@karenmatthews7217 3 года назад

Lol

@kevindao1103 3 года назад

Never expect the god to fawk around here.

@cat_daddy 3 года назад

Really unfortunate, I put in 35 years as a proud and respected letter carrier before the destruction began in 2006. One man destroying an American institution.

@bryanmitchell5728 3 месяца назад

I retired from there. After the service was allowed to make a profit was the beginning of the end. It’s a horrible place to work. Rife with incompetent management.

@flynnharper358 3 года назад

You either part of the problem or part of the solution USPS need to be preserved.

@WildDisease72 3 года назад

What happens when USPS cant produce the assets to cover this ever-growing pension debt?

@Lockeys-vk5qz 3 года назад

They create something like Covid-19

@shaungorham9743 2 года назад

THANKS.

@MrSirlulzalot 8 месяцев назад

I have received monthly medications for 12 years through the us postal service. I can only recall 3 times the packages were not cut open and then taped back before I received them.

@cantfindneutral 3 года назад

At least they still use those little chevy box trucks, those are iconic.

@imjody 3 года назад

Funny you mention this -- those trucks actually ALL need to be replaced very soon, as they are all quite old at this point. I wonder how USPS is going to manage that one with their $160 billion debt. Sheesh, that's bad.

@lukeWiz44 3 года назад

I second Jodys comment. There also weren't made by chevy, but by Grumman-Olsen, dubbed the LLV (long life vehicle).

@Omar-em7rl 3 года назад

@@imjody they were only suppose to last for 24 years, (2009). they are now at 35 years, way overdue with no replacement in sight, mechanics hate these cars, most are running on good luck charm at this point. iconic yes, i even appreciate every single one i see still, but it's days are numbered with USPS having a junkyard for these to take parts off of to keep others running still. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV (fun fact, USPS vehicles don't have standard license plates)

@tomlehr861 3 года назад

I retired from usps, the problem,bush put onus on them for retiree funding,pre pay,also it is too heavy topside,

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

Lobbyists pushed to take portions of the USPS packaging and freight for decades. USPS was mostly left with the least profitable mail and parcels. Even though USPS delivers a huge portion of last-leg for their competitors - at a loss, because USPS is Constitutionally directed to deliver, whereas competitors aren't. Congress' Prefunding Mandate exists to choke the USPS out and chop it up to sell to the competitors - or, failing that, privatize it into massive profitability. Repealing the Prefunding Mandate, or even walking it back to 10yr instead of 75 would give the USPS back its own money that Congress stole. Billions in self-generated revenue. But instead, the White House installed three Privatizers within a year. When all it would take is modifying or repealing the Prefunding Mandate.

@carlstaszak5612 3 года назад

For anyone hired after 1984 there really are no more pensions. A Letter Carrier in the Federal Employees Retirement System gets the following: 1) An annuity that the workers pay into, around $22,000/year. 2) Social Security that the workers pay into. 3) Thrift Savings Plan, basically the government's 401k that the workers pay into. 4) Workers have to help pay for health insurance. So if the Letter Carrier is smart with their money they can have a decent Middle Class retirement. Over the course of 30-40 years there is a lot of wear and tear on the body also.

@Kelly-gw4cf 3 года назад

How much does social security offer then, usually an annuity would make social amount less.

@Amandaxt25 3 года назад

Their trucks are like oversized go-karts

@crashfan123 3 года назад

Adam T they are fun to drive 🙂

@Amandaxt25 3 года назад

@@crashfan123 I didn't know that! Wow

@skizztrizz4453 3 года назад

Me watching this dreading going to my USPS plant in an hour. 😂😂😂😂

@d4ljosh859 3 года назад

On God

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

Go to your Steward and grieve the PMG's Arbitrary and Punitive breach of the Contract :D

@raulmartinez356 3 года назад

Low key company man deserves credit for this video idea

@rickyramirez3483 3 года назад

Interesting info!

@monseflores3284 3 года назад

This one made me sad. 😕

@patrickk6128 3 года назад

Essential

@HighSpeedNoDrag 3 года назад

Are you Essential? Let us know stud.

@mikef4077 3 года назад

As a postal employee work in different craft over the years. I can tell that the postal service problem is not retirement pension funding but mismanagement. Postal service willing to waste millions of dollars for nonsense, post office never own any of the postal building. They pay more money to lease land for 10yrs more than the Land worth, they spend billions of dollars buying garbage trucks. Spent money on BS. Sometimes I ask my boss why does Post office spend money on this kind of nonsense they told me it's government money so shot up and do your job.

@hafiymusyrif2368 2 года назад

I respect to the courier service and worker. They are the one who deserves an award.

@KDOG9720 2 года назад

Sigh, I have quit ordering anything that must be shipped by USPS. My wife and I do a lot of our shopping online and USPS is just a headache waiting to happen. I never have issues with UPS or FedEx and didn’t have them all that often with USPS , but often enough that I had to bail. It’s not stuff that anyone is going to steal off your porch, it’s little things that would fit in your mailbox. Although, I did have them deliver a squat rack to the house three houses down from me. Fortunately they were people we knew and they walked down and let us know.

@28ebdh3udnav 3 года назад

They're in debt because most of the funds are for pensions and some of the people at the very top are making more than congress and the senate.

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

USPS isn't in debt. It generates billions in self-generated revenue. USPS >is< defaulting on Congress' Prefunding Mandate which steals its money. USPS isn't in debt, it's literally being robbed.

@kad3e3 3 года назад

@@crushmonkey801 Yes it is, a few year back they wanted to be "Seperate" from the Fed, government, and when that happened they began to be in the red every year by 10 billion or more.

@crushmonkey801 3 года назад

@@kad3e3 High comedy, friend. USPS would never want to 'Seperate' from its Constitutional duties. We existed before there was a United States of America, we're written into the Constitution. I don't know where you got the idea that we wanted or ever could 'Seperate' from our Constitutional Mandate. You could probably maybe read up on the Prefunding Mandate, though. Having to fund retirement for people who won't even be born for 40 years kind of puts a ding in the budget, lol

@ZebraFacts 3 года назад

Do you really want a private company to handle your personal mailings? Private companies have stockholders and CEOs that they have to satisfy. Not you, the public. They have competitors that they will deliver to. How will those competitors feel about that? USPS employees protect your mail because that is their job. None of them care a bit about stock holders.