Was it on purpose? I’m sure politician buddies hate that people still have job they can get a pension with, when instead they could be taking that tax payer money and buying children on islands
They don't need more money. Mail volume is down 47% since 2000. Employees should be less than half, but its not even close. They keep employing people that are not needed and that don't do the job right. They constantly deliver the wrong mail and it happens all the time.
I wrote this in response to a comment concerned about shutting down the USPS before midterm elections, but the comment I was responding to is now dead so I'm posting top-level:
I don't think Biden really undid the America-last saboteurs that Grump installed in his first term, so they've had plenty of time to make themselves at home. The obvious play is to selectively hold back ballots based on the prognostications of the Party's surveillance databases (including voter roll data extorted from states). Presumably even if they're caught, they'll claim federal immunity from state laws about election tampering - the same as they've done in every other instance where they've blatantly attacked states.
So it probably makes sense to show up to the polls in person. If you're worried about possibly facing intimidation from ICE (SS) and the Poor Boys (SA), it makes sense to send in your ballot and then show up in person to the polls anyway to make sure they've got you down as already having voted.
As far as the USPS's problem itself, the obvious answer is to repeal the legislation intended to strangle it with debt, and simply fund it like any other public infrastructure. We don't see articles about highways needing to shutdown because they're unable to take on more debt. Rather we recognize their existence generates diffuse hard-to-account-for value and fund them with public money.
Given the senseless attacking of Iran (which doesn't seem to be enough in Russia's interest to have prompted it, oil prices notwithstanding), I think it's probably better modeled as countries with Epstein-style kompromat on Trump vs countries without kompromat on Trump. Not even deliberately attacking per se, but rather because Trump is an old man angry at the world and wanting to create some kind of legacy. And the countries that have kompromat are much better protected from his negative-sum "deals".
Of course it's not just Trump but all of the enablers and supporters who have themselves given up on our society, and work overtime to pull comforting signals out of the noise of his incoherent ramblings and actions. The best I can tell, the main draw seems to be something like if our country is going into the dustbin of history, then they're at least going to choose who gets to push it in. (in line with more specific narratives that at least some supporters would own up to, like a religious fundamentalist desire for an apocalyptic holy war)
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 27.5 ms ] threadI don't think Biden really undid the America-last saboteurs that Grump installed in his first term, so they've had plenty of time to make themselves at home. The obvious play is to selectively hold back ballots based on the prognostications of the Party's surveillance databases (including voter roll data extorted from states). Presumably even if they're caught, they'll claim federal immunity from state laws about election tampering - the same as they've done in every other instance where they've blatantly attacked states.
So it probably makes sense to show up to the polls in person. If you're worried about possibly facing intimidation from ICE (SS) and the Poor Boys (SA), it makes sense to send in your ballot and then show up in person to the polls anyway to make sure they've got you down as already having voted.
As far as the USPS's problem itself, the obvious answer is to repeal the legislation intended to strangle it with debt, and simply fund it like any other public infrastructure. We don't see articles about highways needing to shutdown because they're unable to take on more debt. Rather we recognize their existence generates diffuse hard-to-account-for value and fund them with public money.
i don’t totally see a downside of it not existing
putina is scum but this is the greatest intelligence coup in world history (so far)
Of course it's not just Trump but all of the enablers and supporters who have themselves given up on our society, and work overtime to pull comforting signals out of the noise of his incoherent ramblings and actions. The best I can tell, the main draw seems to be something like if our country is going into the dustbin of history, then they're at least going to choose who gets to push it in. (in line with more specific narratives that at least some supporters would own up to, like a religious fundamentalist desire for an apocalyptic holy war)