Why This Rural Wyoming Town's Mail Was Sent 104 Miles Away 

Exactly,

It was converted to such like Congress is supposed to issue the coin not the Fed.

Yet it has been doing just that since its inception, so much that when the Government runs short of its uncontrolled spending it dips into the USPS coffers to fund even more B.S. You really should pay attention as this is common sense that's been talked about numerous times over the last couple decades, with politicians threatening to shutter the service, then the postage rates have to increase to keep it in service. Kind of like when they raise minimum wages and the big bad evil corporations offset the cost onto the customers, the Post Office does just the same and always has! Government workers Want allot of $$$ for their entitlement including crazy amazing benefits packages, so they can either steal it from you in the form of "taxes" or they can provide a service that makes a revenue and pay those wages themselves.

They are not supposed to treat you like a burden when you have to go inside a USPS brick and mortar. Like DMVs, sour attitude is an employment requirement. 🤣

​@@FM19MONTHI've never experienced that. Perhaps it is a *you* problem.

Unfortunately they are believing the trump and GOP lies. They have no idea it's because trump hired DeJoy because he wants to screw up the mail-in votes. I'm a liberal and moved to a very small rural town last year, and the only thing on the radio stations around here is Fox, which says very little about trump and his crimes, but says a lot of lies about Dems. The people out here don't use the internet much, so the news they get is hand fed to them from Fox. That's why it's so many of the rural folks that are in the trump cult, because they've been targeted and spoon fed his corrupt BS.

So what you're saying is don't vote.

they won’t listen man. They’re too busy watching Fox News and Truth Social. These are good people but they’ve been brainwashed to hate.

@@stickjohnny no, they said vote for the one that screws ya, but calls ya the next day 😂

Both parties are screwing over the voters.

That made me inwardly cringe. It screams “I don’t care whether I’m actually serving the people”

​@@Window4503💯🎯💯 to both of you.

The window to get Dejoy out is maybe a few months. If Trump wins in 2024 and Dejoy isn't out of there by the end of the lame duck period, we're stuck with him for at least another 5 or 6 years. I fully expect the Democrats and centrist Republicans to fumble this despite the fiery rhetoric from Ossoff, Collins, Manchin, etc. APWU and NALC rank and file are trying to mobilize a movement to stop the consolidation but union leadership is lagging behind and have a frustrating habit of lobbying Democrats and "moderate" Republicans instead of trying to build a workers' alternative.

ARREST HIM!

There is more to the DeJoy story. Republicans blocked democratic nominees to the Board of Governors for the USPS for a long time. Eventually Biden got his picks through and it was hoped that they would remove DeJoy. But the new appointees were from the rich and powerful and had businesses and investments, so DeJoy preemptively gave contracts to their financial interests and companies. Then they didn't have the votes to remove him.

Biden can't fire him. Only the USPS board can fire him... and they were mostly appointed years ago and they can't be fired by the president, either.

Out of a cannon

Biden cannot fire him. Google is free.

Yup. USPS will now be under their own health benefit separate (PSHB)from the rest of the federal employees (FEHB).They claim it will save the postal employee money by lowering premiums. 🙄

Or it was to avoid needing a tax payer bailout

If they really wanted the post office to make a profit they would allow it to function as a non profit bank as it did before, update the equipment properly by taking a portion of funds away from military contractors to fund needed modernization, and allow the post office to fly mail like they did years ago. These corrupt asshats are breaking the post office's legs and then telling it to run. They all need to be removed for corruption.

Exactly! I was surprised the 75 year funding mandate wasn't mentioned. This immediately created debt making it appear that USPS was a drain on taxpayers.

​@@TheMysteryDriverno, it would probably be best if you just don't speak on things you know nothing about. use the taxpayer are not going to suffer for this in the beginning but you will in the end once they force this on us and then what are you going to do blame Dems?

its called enshitification

That's why you dont contract with anything unless it's sent certified. They try to steal your private credit without making it a taxable event.

@@georgekassab2241 , Naw, this is called "Theft of Commons" Enshittificaiton is that tech monopoly problem. But it is definitely s**tty

But just *think* of the profits* to be made! *in major cities, small towns and rural areas are on their own

@@georgekassab2241 it's deliberate deprecation with a view to privatisation

Because the people who partake are at the very top of the totem pole....

The Constitution was written with the assumption that dueling was legal. That's how this sort of thing was stopped before.

Bro, right

💯 LBJ knew why that happens - "If you convince the lowest white man he's better than the best black man, he won't notice you picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Because the country has always been corrupt, you're just seeing it with New eyes

Biden left all kinds of Trump policy in place

It wasn't just to prevent mail in ballots. The right has been attacking the post office for decades. Their donors can't charge people outrageous fees if the constitution guarantees the postal service.

It's not just mail ballots. They've been attacking the postal service for decades. Their donors can't charge outrageous fees if the guaranteed service continues.

This is why Biden will lose 2024. What a shame.

@@BittyVidsYou are just wrong. Painfully wrong but clearly you didn’t watch the video. Biden cannot remove DeJoy. Only the USPS Board of Governors can. Biden can appoint 4 Board members to start but can’t add more (who would remove DeJoy) until other Board members leave. Information is your friend @Bittyvids.

NeoLiberalism One on One. EVERYTHING must make a personal profit or enable more personal profit. This is the core tenant of the philosophy.

The Post Office was making a profit until Republicans in Congress decided that they had to put 70 years worth of retirement into a fund for each worker. This threw them into the red. This is intentional to show they are not working so he can privatize it. DeJoy owns stock in other private companies that deliver packages. The more he cripples the Post Office the more money his other investments make.

The post office is very profitable!! But Congress passed the PAEA in 2006 and the USPS has to fund employee medical and benefits 75 years in advance! About 3 Billion dollars a years lost from operations financing. Why?? In the early 2000s the USPS was testing electric vehicles. At one point (hard to find the news clip) USPS held a glowing press conference announcing that it had the finances and was going to upgrade the postal fleet to new electric vehicles! Very shortly lobbying pressure from the oil industry and auto makers resulted in the USPS financial base being wrecked by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) legislation!

You meant 101. I wish you knew things

You sound rural and dumb

Bet his business coach was Dick Cheney!

Sadly the appointment is like judges, it is a life time appointment

Trump put his in, so mail- in votes , would be affected....it is working. My local PO, in Aurora Colorado ,is one block east of me. They have not done sorting for a couple of years.

The president can't fire the postmaster general. That's a rule they changed in 1971, when the USPO was reorganized into the USPS and the postmaster general ceased being a member of the president's cabinet. Only the Board of Governors can hire and fire, and they're likely getting kickbacks from him, so they won't fire him.

The post office is very profitable!! But Congress passed the PAEA in 2006 and the USPS has to fund employee medical and benefits 75 years in advance! About 3 Billion dollars a years lost from operations financing. Why?? In the early 2000s the USPS was testing electric vehicles. At one point (hard to find the news clip) USPS held a glowing press conference announcing that it had the finances and was going to upgrade the postal fleet to new electric vehicles! Very shortly lobbying pressure from the oil industry and auto makers resulted in the USPS financial base being wrecked by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) legislation!

He cant

Google is free you know. Biden can't fire him.

The postmaster general is now appointed by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, not appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate.

DeJoy can only be fired by the USPS Board of Governors, like Dbunik said, and Trump also installed a lot of his cronies there as well. Biden is appointing decent people to it, but can only do it when one quits, so it's slow going. Couple that with how the Postmaster General has no term limit, and here we are.

@@dbunik44 Alright. What's necessary to replace the Board of Governors?

Biden should have done a lot of things he didn't do! Like deal with immigration!

There is more to the DeJoy story. Republicans blocked democratic nominees to the Board of Governors for the USPS for a long time. Eventually Biden got his picks through and it was hoped that they would remove DeJoy. But the new appointees were from the rich and powerful and had businesses and investments, so DeJoy preemptively gave contracts to their financial interests and companies. Then they didn't have the votes to remove him. He is the final blow to..... The post office is very profitable!! But Congress passed the PAEA in 2006 and the USPS has to fund employee medical and benefits 75 years in advance! About 3 Billion dollars a years lost from operations financing. Why?? In the early 2000s the USPS was testing electric vehicles. At one point (hard to find the news clip) USPS held a glowing press conference announcing that it had the finances and was going to upgrade the postal fleet to new electric vehicles! Very shortly lobbying pressure from the oil industry and auto makers resulted in the USPS financial base being wrecked by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) legislation!

The US military makes a profit by giving Uncle Sam enormous leverage over foreign countries, pushing them to act in US interests rather than their own. It's a worldwide protection racket.

...left in place by Biden... hmmmm🤔

@@na72687 From Fortune Magazine, “President Biden doesn't have the power to remove him from his post, despite how badly the agency is struggling. “Get used to me,” DeJoy said in February 2021. The postmaster general is appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service-and can only be dismissed by this group, not the president.” This is the problem. People are informed and assume Biden is responsible, he isn’t and can only slowly (4 to start) appoint members to the Board of Governors. He can’t appoint more until more Board members leave.

Joe Biden employee.

@@na72687 Because Biden is also neoliberal right wing human garbage.

​@@na72687why be so proud of being so ill-informed and ignorant of basic topics?

I got hired on as a Rural Carrier Associate. After they cut my pay and hours, they wanted me to somehow buy 2 suitable delivery vehicles. My take home pay after taxes, insurance, and Union Dues is 0. They also wanted me to recklessly drive in my personal vehicle. They had me do City Carrier Assistance (and amoung other things) jobs. Union told me that they offer 0 protection.

it is standard practice to limit the part time emplyee's to 2 hours a day so they don't have to pay benefits.

I've had packages held up for inspections a lot this year. They are just old action figures. Absolute joke these days.

this is because there is no longer testing for job applicants. The quality of new employees is not as high as it was when there was extensive testing. Also entry level pay has not kept up with inflation creating a large turnover

I agree, it's a service provided by the government. It should be equal for all who live in the country, wether you live in the city, or rural. It's enshitification ( lol new word) can impact the economy for sure. For profit delivery services suck and wind up putting packages in the USPS to get it delivered anyway when they fail.

Thank you for your service

Boy, I sure wish you were wrong.

Nothing to do with Congress. Trump appointed him and neither Congress or President Biden has authority to fire him, only the Board of governors can fire him. Very frustrating!!!

I live in ft worth area, in a large apartment complex and i know from personal experience that they will deliver NOTHING to any ones door at apartments here. Thats why i hate it when i order off amazon and they decide to use USPS, most of the time USPS just instantly rejects it and sends it back.

Same is happening here in my town. USPS will never deliver to the door. I only get a missed delivery notice and have to go pick them all up on my own. I think eventually they may resort to that entirely. I hate using USPS and wish that we had the option to choose what service the merchant uses to deliver our packages. I would use UPS every time, they are the only ones that deliver on time and to the door.

The postal service is to deliver to the door. There is too many lazy postal workers that want a pay check and not do the work.

​@tenafleming7199 the routes are SEVERELY overburdened in a lot of areas and a lot of carriers are working 10-12 hours a day 6-7 days a week. Also, no, they do not deliver oversized parcels to the door in apartment complexes, as the delivery point is the mail center, not each and every door, and the carrier doesn't get paid to go to the door. Apartment complexes should have a mail room that locks so large packages can be left there.

@@TheAudraReins yes we do get paid to go to the door.

Follow the money, alot of fat GOP cats are going to be lining up their pockets.

All those sorting machines removed sorted letters. Since 2001, letter volume is down literally 50%. Yet not a single letter sorting machine had been decommissioned until Dejoy came in.

The beginnings of Project 2025. Talk to ALL your elected officials, demand DeJoy be fired, and demand they protect government agencies in 2025.

@HergerTheJoyous You are absolutely correct. Destroy USPS then say "See, it needs to be privatized."

it's not, & he knows it, but he doesn't care. his mindset is profit, not the customers & employees' quality of life.

It's not about service, it's about engineering the greatest profits - not for the service, but for cronies.

You didn't see that fat surface shipping contract? Major improvement right there. (ahem) Depending on a certain point of view. Like Dejoy's.

A Trump appointee who Biden did absolutely nothing to remove. We need fresh leadership willing to deal with the hard stuff. That why I'm voting for RFK Jr.

@@dao8805 He literally can't remove DeJoy. The president is only able to appoint a postmaster general, and only when there is an opening, they can't fire them though. Only the Post Office board can do that, and they are firmly on DeJoy's paycheck.

@@silverwing5254 Biden left at least one seat on the board open for a long time after he was elected. He should have made filling it a priority and making it clear that his intent was to get DeJoy removed. He should have been applying pressure to every member of the board during his entire term; that is what presidents do all the time when they want something done. And he should have been applying the pressure publicly to make it even more effective and tighten the noose around these stooges. It's called leadership and Biden has fallen down on the job.

@@silverwing5254 Biden left at least one of the vacant seats on the Board of Governors open for a long time after he was elected. He should have made it a priority to fill that seat and publicly make it very clear that he wanted DeJoy out. He could have kept up the public pressure on the other members, citing the lackluster performance, cuts in hours and locations and destruction of postal property as reasons to oust DeJoy. That is what a leader does. Presidents use public pressure all the time to get what they want. Biden launched an attack on Syria in his first month in office and within a mere 37 hours of taking the oath of office he ordered the use of federal agencies to pressure social media to sen-sore RFK Jr. If Biden wanted DeJoy out he would have found a way to do it. The truth is that he is complicit in the move to privatize the Post Office, which is included as a mandate in the Constitution. He took an oath to uphold the Constitution but has failed on multiple counts. Biden should have been working for the American people instead of depriving Americans of their constitutional right to free speech, unlawfully authorizing an attack on a foreign country and facilitating the privatization of our constitutionally mandated postal service. Biden is a complete tool of the establishment., as much as Trump is. That's why I am voting for RFK Jr.

Do you not listen the president doesn’t appoint postmaster

I have given up sending gifts to relatives in the mail. It's too much of a hassle and costs too much.

Louis "the Glitch" DeJoy

well remember back in 2020 DeJoy literally just ordered all the sorting machines to be SMASHED, destroyed-- then ignored a court order to stop...he is a multiple felon on the job who has done untold damage yet the arch-craven reaganite Biden refuses to lift a finger against him

Bullsh!t

There is more to the DeJoy story. Republicans blocked democratic nominees to the Board of Governors for the USPS for a long time. Eventually Biden got his picks through and it was hoped that they would remove DeJoy. But the new appointees were from the rich and powerful and had businesses and investments, so DeJoy preemptively gave contracts to their financial interests and companies. Then they didn't have the votes to remove him.

Accountability is the opposite of what the employees of the usps believe

I was going to work for them but they said I wouldn't be full time for 5 to 6 years.... Yea I got to eat now. It really sucks what we've done to the USPS. Just another fück up from our country.

The USPS hasn't recieved a single dollar in decades, they were profitable for generations, the problem is under Bush they passed a law requiring the USPS to prepay the next generation of retirement benefits, something NO OTHER BUSINESS IN THE WORLD is required to do It was designed to bankrupt the postal service and its working

it ain't even really underfunded it's that the GOP required them to be able to fund the full pension amounts of employees that ain't even been born yet, literally-- a hudnred years into the future... uknow because GOPniks care ssssooooooooooooooo very much about workers and their retirement....

​@@prismpyre7653A lot of people don't know that.

Probably so DeJoy and his cronies can get bigger paychecks and bonuses.

How could one kill a constitutionally mandated institution? Just failed to grasp the issue as a foreigner.

@@erkinalp The US constitution is not rigid, it can be changed and if you sabotage it enough you can push the notion that it's a failure and so shouldn't be funded anymore. That's what the Tory's in the UK are doing right now with the NHS.

That's not really his plan, but of Republicans in general.

That's the opposite of what you suggest.

Yes, private businessmen have no concept of government service, only of profitability

Too late, money and magats are involved. 🥾⬇️🪱

To many legal issues that's why. 99.9 percent of people don't know the power of the post office.

USPS is broke actually

Trump already broke it by hiring DeJoy to break it. It's already broken. We have to now go in and fix that mess, just like all of the other messes that trump got America into for his selfish greed.

99.999999% of all mail I get is junk mail and maybe bills. Email is what has killed snail mail

100%. Everything is becoming monetized. And it's disgusting. If it keeps up, civilization will eventually completely crumble with that mentality. Eventually it will only be the 1% that will survive. They'll have loads and loads of money and cars and many huge houses, but there will be no more services, and no more people to "serve" them because it will have all crumbled beneath them. Just AI and the 1%. That is the road they are driving us down, at a very fast pace.

Like you but you do not qualify as a 🎁. Just unwanted. 🤡🤡

You don't need a post office in every middle of nowhere town of 1000 people

@@jonathanjones3126 so uneducated

@lopoa126 education has nothing to do with it. You never addressed what I said..... the only things really sent by snail mail are maybe bills, maybe meds, irs and state/federal stuff and the rest is junk mail. Email does vastly more communication faster, cheaper and better. Usps needs a major overhaul to not bleed vast sums of money, this means alot of post offices get closed and postal workers lose jobs.

@@jonathanjones3126 Packages are shipped by USPS. The USPS is profitable. It just has to fund pensions 75 years in advance for employees who arent even born yet.

@@jonathanjones3126 Up here in Canada, one way they subsidize the postal service is by making them the official entity delivering legal cannabis from the province's online marketplace. Perhaps the US can think about doing that!

I've worked for the PO for almost 20 years in three different states. I disagree with most of what you're saying. Seems kind of odd, doesn't it?

​@@doesntmatter4195 As a postal employee since 1980 I would like to know what you disagree about. I have seen management slowly destroy the USPS since 2000 and DeJoy accelerate it since 2020. The public often thinks they "don't care" until they need the service and it fails. Mail delivery has kinda been taken for granted for 250 years

Usps desperately needs the funds to operate and have a positive cash flow

Dejoy does not set the cost of postage. That is set by the Postal Regulatory Commission. Which is not even a part of the USPS. Which by the way is currently 2 Democrats, 1 Intendent, and 1 Republican.

Because clerks don't have enough time to sort. Some mail is not sorted in time. The supervisors are graded on how much mail is in the building so they will dispatch unsorted mail to a random location so it isn't counted against them

Usps employees just don't care, it is nearly impossible to be fired. They can cuss out customers to their face, steal mail, whatever they want and have a job for life

This one is easy to explain. It may cost more for them to ship just your package that way, but this is more cost-efficient for the Postal Service. The more mail they can stuff into the same vehicles, the lower the "unit price" is. This translates to a lower cost for the Post Office customers.

@@moonman239 Not that much thought goes into it I assure you

From Fortune Magazine: “President Biden doesn't have the power to remove him from his post, despite how badly the agency is struggling. “Get used to me,” DeJoy said in February 2021. The postmaster general is appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service-and can only be dismissed by this group, not the president.” President Biden appointed 4 members when he took office but can’t appoint more until other Board members leave. It’s idiotic but this is how it works.

@@stephencronin304 This is why I hate this damn system. DeJoy is obviously corrupt and breaking the post office on purpose and Democrats act like nothing can be done because it's against the rules. Well then change the f*cking rules. You are letting the system be purposefully ruined by people who don't care about the rules. You need to get aggressive to maintain the integrity of the government functioning. That's why the court system is screwed, why zealot politicians are successfully ruining healthcare for millions of people, and most agencies are so underfunded they only function properly half the time at best. We need another FDR to root the corruption out and not give a shit about what enemies they make. Declare a state of emergency because that's exactly what we're in at this point.

@@stephencronin304 Omg, who makes these laws? Meanwhile regular, upstanding folks lose their jobs at the whim of corporations if they even smell a few dollars that could be gained by laying off their good employees. DeJoy is another narcissistic cult boy who only cares about money, and has no issues of completely killing off our postal system. So sad.

@@stephencronin304 Here's the thing, Biden could have picked 4 board member's that would have kicked him off, they just need a majority, but he didn't...

Because trump packed the board and then congress has stalled on vetting replacements

@@Germankipp 5 of the 9 are Biden-appointed. 2 are Donnie’s. 2 are vacant.

@@Germankipp 5 of the 9 governors are Biden’s, with 2 vacancies and 1 coming up on December 8.

Their pockets got greased by the capitalist pigs so they don't care about people anymore

The 'no layoffs' is a gloat. When employees are laid off, their employers must pay (some portion of unemployment benefits). Doing it this way absolves USPS from having to pay for laying employees off. Also, note that if an employee quits, they are typically not entitled to unemployment compensation. It's a capitalist win all around.

@user-ps2nn5pj4g There is no capitalism as far as the USPS is concerned: it's a state-owned monopoly, more in line with fascism than capitalism.

@@seriouslyshortofnormal925 Ah, ok. So how do you explain all of this maneuvering to maximise profits and cost workers their livelihoods, then?

@@user-ps2nn5pj4g Capitalism doesn't have a monopoly on greed

​​@@seriouslyshortofnormal925is it a monopoly when UPS, FedEx, DHL and others compete against it?

Actually since the 70's, NO TAX DOLLARS are paid into USPS.

Bingo 🎯

Because of short staffed. Nobody wants a job where you are treated like a slave and forced to deliver in a truck that has no heat or ac and breaks down every other day.

There have been a lot of temporary weekend rural driver positions popping up in my area. Always have to supply your own vehicle tho. Not exactly a cheap job just to get a foot in the door.

Good idea! Google the Board member's contact info and tell them to fire DeJoy

Your vote had consequences. The lgt agenda, allowing kids and adults to change genders, open borders, high prices and more.

Yes, voting for Trump. Go scream at the sky.

Not just this region but almost all rural America. Just sad

"No matter which candidate wins, we all lose..."

​@@ArtistBrianSheffield Trump appointed Dejoy as Postmaster General

My thoughts too- the enormous carbon output here is terrifying

So do you want the PO to spend more money they don't have to buy some vehicles, so your son doesn't have to be inconvenienced by going down there to get his window replacement coupons and the flyers to vote for this person or that person?