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Posted: 05.30.2002 Don't piss off the postal employees
Look -- let me just state something up here at the top right quick. My blog is not a platform for slighted postal workers who don't happen to like that MSNBC.com article and my linking to it. If you have responses, please list them in your own blog and give me the link in my comments. Please do not put full-length articles in my comments. Comment links are there just for that...comments. Not for full-length newspaper editorials and/or sermons.
I never meant to tick postal workers off or imply that your service is not valuable to me in my daily life. I will quote my position so it is crystal clear. Beyond that, please write your own editorials in your own blogs in the future. Thank you! As stated in the comments of this entry: My problem is not the fact they are making the increase -- but rather, why they need it this time again so soon? I have never been to a post office in the entire Tampa Bay area (and Philadelphia before that and Mobile before that and Norman, Oklahoma before that) where I was not in a long line with several customers carrying several packages each. By comparison, the local UPS and FedEx offices are always dead. They have to be making money somehow. But where is it going is the question? I've seen too many national news "exposés" now to where I truly believe that a great deal of it is being mismanaged -- and rather than constant rate increases, budgetary house-cleaning might be in better order instead. It's about more than just 3¢. I don't even mind paying the upcoming 37¢ rate. Truth be told, I'd rather pay 40¢, end up with an even number, and have the USPS use the extra 3¢ to bail them out of "whatever" once and for all. The current system of management obviously isn't working somewhere down the line... It has nothing to do with postal workers to me -- but poor use of funds. You want to raise the cost of a stamp by 25¢ even -- fine. Hell, I wouldn't mind paying 75¢ to mail a letter, truth be told. It is not just about an extra 3¢ to me. But how can you expect me - or anyone - to not demand you be accountable for the money, and also for you to make it known just exactly what these "improvements" are that the extra money will be spent on? I had a postal worker reply in my comments that the rate increase wasn't being requested due to anthrax, yet the MSNBC.com article clearly stated it was. After all, you are a government agency and it is my money (even if it's not my tax money just to make it clear, and that's why I didn't state it as such originally) keeping you going.  Sorry about my Mom's actions Robyn, I hope we can get this all straightend out. :) ¤ ¤ credit: Kevin | 05.30.02 at 07:36 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ 'Tis ok. This is what happens when you let crazy liberals blog. ;-) People just need to respect "blog space" as personal living room space. I have the right to say whatever I please in my own home, and in my own blog. Whether or not people choose to agree with it is an entirely different matter... ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 05.30.02 at 07:41 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I just have to jump in here - link to the article, people, don't post it in someone's comments, sheesh! That being said, I realize that the postal employees are no doubt working their butts off, but that doesn't make me any less angry when I have to drive 30 miles to pick up my mail from my former roomate because despite my forwarding order, the post office doesn't always forward my mail. God forbid! (And yes, I know the difference between what is forwardable and what isn't thank you very much.) ¤ ¤ credit: nicole | 05.30.02 at 09:28 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Well said as usual, Robyn! :) -this ¤ ¤well maybe one of the reasons they are losing money is because of online bill paying. it is much easier to pay online and more and more people are starting to use this option and more companies are starting offer the service. and of course less letters are being sent as more people start using the internet. just because post offices seem packed doesn't meant that they still can't be losing money. in philadelphia the only time i'm in a packed post office is during a typical lunch hour or after work hours. ups and fedex usually aren't packed because they will pick up packages you want delivered, especially if you use them for corporate accounts (which is by far where they make most of their money). ¤ ¤ credit: renee | 05.31.02 at 12:34 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Very well said! Perhaps part of our postal rate increase should go towards all mail sorters and carriers taking and making an A in a geography course...apparently someone thinks Lithuania is in Taiwan as my letter to a penpal went there from Texas. And to those who don't like what Robyn writes on her own webspace...see that X in the top right corner, click it. ¤ ¤ credit: chris | 05.31.02 at 10:34 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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