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« on: November 21, 2014, 01:33:28 PM »

U.S. Postal Service Gets High Marks, VA Rated Poorly





http://www.gallup.com/poll/179522/americans-ratings-cdc-down-ebola-crisis.aspx
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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2014, 01:39:11 PM »

The ratings for IRS are fairly good considering they're a punching bag.
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2014, 01:41:26 PM »

In fact, except for the VA, only a minority have real beef with any federal agency listed.
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2014, 01:41:48 PM »

The ratings for IRS are fairly good considering they're a punching bag.

Just think how highly they would be rated if we let them issue transfer payments, rather than letting the glory hounds in the entitlement bureaucracies cut the checks.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2014, 03:16:27 PM »

USPS sucks
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2014, 03:20:22 PM »


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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2014, 03:24:28 PM »


DIAF.

Postal Workers!  True American heroes!

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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2014, 03:55:45 PM »

I know that the USPS has long been the butt of jokes, but the reality is that there is no cheaper or faster way to send a letter or package across the U.S. than your local post office. UPS and FedEx charge more for small packages. While the USPS can get a small box across the country in 2 days for under $10, UPS takes 5 days and costs over $10. And the dopes at UPS seem far more likely to damage or lose a package than the post office.
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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2014, 04:08:56 PM »

Yeah, my mother runs a small business where she mails a lot of packages, and she has always been incredibly satisfied with USPS and the employees that work for it. I think anyone who has the same experience with mailing a lot of things would agree.
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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2014, 04:37:32 PM »

I know that the USPS has long been the butt of jokes, but the reality is that there is no cheaper or faster way to send a letter or package across the U.S. than your local post office. UPS and FedEx charge more for small packages. While the USPS can get a small box across the country in 2 days for under $10, UPS takes 5 days and costs over $10. And the dopes at UPS seem far more likely to damage or lose a package than the post office.

As long as you ignore the cost of public funding, true statement.
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« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2014, 04:43:17 PM »

I know that the USPS has long been the butt of jokes, but the reality is that there is no cheaper or faster way to send a letter or package across the U.S. than your local post office. UPS and FedEx charge more for small packages. While the USPS can get a small box across the country in 2 days for under $10, UPS takes 5 days and costs over $10. And the dopes at UPS seem far more likely to damage or lose a package than the post office.

Who do you trust to deliver a package?  A well-paid government employee with a comprehensive benefits package?  (Half my family works for the USPS, and they all make good money and own homes) Or a wage slave in a brown getup who prays for the day he can find better employment get out from under the thumb of Mr. Boss Man, who could give any less of a **** about him? 
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2014, 04:44:56 PM »

I know that the USPS has long been the butt of jokes, but the reality is that there is no cheaper or faster way to send a letter or package across the U.S. than your local post office. UPS and FedEx charge more for small packages. While the USPS can get a small box across the country in 2 days for under $10, UPS takes 5 days and costs over $10. And the dopes at UPS seem far more likely to damage or lose a package than the post office.

As long as you ignore the cost of public funding, true statement.

USPS is funded entirely by stamp sales, and not a dime of taxpayer money has gone to operating the post office since 1971... you corporatist boob.
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2014, 04:57:39 PM »

IRS is my personal least favourite. They were a pain in the butt to deal with when I was doing 1040's; much worse than their Canadian equivalents.
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« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2014, 08:04:06 PM »

The ratings for IRS are fairly good considering they're a punching bag.

Except that for a large chunk of Americans, the IRS is an agency that actually gives them money once a year.
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« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2014, 08:41:47 PM »

1) Pleasantly surprised that the EPA is as popular as it is, despite the propaganda machine.

2) I wonder what the high percentage of "Fair" for NASA indicates? Is it people who think NASA should be doing more?

3) The CDC's high disapproval rating makes sense (Ebola scaremongering), but what the hell has the FDA done to piss people off recently?

4) I'm surprised the CIA isn't polling lower ... and I'm even more surprised they didn't bother to survey the NSA, given last year.
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« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2014, 10:08:47 PM »

The National Park Service is better than all of these folks. It does seem strange in 2014 that we have people to take pieces of paper and carry them from door to door, but whatevs. It provides a lot of good paying jobs, something our McCountry is desperately in need of.
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2014, 10:18:30 PM »

I'm a huge fan of our current FBI Director.
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2014, 10:20:17 PM »

USPS is funded entirely by stamp sales, and not a dime of taxpayer money has gone to operating the post office since 1971... you corporatist boob.

Please don't be so naive and gullible. It makes people lose faith in humanity, and it undermines the notion of NJ pubic education supremacy.
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« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2014, 02:27:12 AM »

If Americans hear about someone nailed by the feds for mail fraud to Mars, they will truly jump for joy.
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« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2014, 07:25:30 AM »

USPS is funded entirely by stamp sales, and not a dime of taxpayer money has gone to operating the post office since 1971... you corporatist boob.

Please don't be so naive and gullible. It makes people lose faith in humanity, and it undermines the notion of NJ pubic education supremacy.

Sigh. Where do you think the post office gets its funding?
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« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2014, 10:13:02 AM »

Sigh. Where do you think the post office gets its funding?

USPS is losing $2B every quarter, and borrowing money from the US Treasury to pay their pension and healthcare obligations. This has already led to numerous bills to dump USPS employees into the Medicare system. Perhaps Medicare is suitable for years of service after 1984, when the USPS started paying full FICA tax, but the older employees from the 50s, 60s, and 70s are not funded.

The public is funding USPS with loans that will never be repaid.
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2014, 10:18:46 AM »

USPS is funded entirely by stamp sales, and not a dime of taxpayer money has gone to operating the post office since 1971... you corporatist boob.

Please don't be so naive and gullible. It makes people lose faith in humanity, and it undermines the notion of NJ pubic education supremacy.

Hence... OPERATING costs.  Borrowing from the Treasury for healthcare/pension means we have to fix how we fund people's healthcare and pension, not guy the USPS which is still the cheapest and most reliable option for shipping.  Of course, in GOP-land, first step is to **** the workers by selling them off to whoever wants to make the whole thing for-profit based on some misguided principle about the profit motive itself.   
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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2014, 10:58:46 AM »

Worth pointing out that UPS and FedEx actually contract out a large portion of their "last-mile" delivery out to USPS.  If anything, the Postal Service is subsidizing these private operators (by relieving them from building a network in inconvenient rural places), or at the very least has proven itself to be trustworthy and efficient even and especially in the eyes of their private competitors.
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« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2014, 11:25:17 AM »

I wonder how many Americans think it was their agency who landed on the comet.
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« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2014, 11:42:12 AM »

Hence... OPERATING costs.  Borrowing from the Treasury for healthcare/pension means we have to fix how we fund people's healthcare and pension, not guy the USPS which is still the cheapest and most reliable option for shipping.  Of course, in GOP-land, first step is to **** the workers by selling them off to whoever wants to make the whole thing for-profit based on some misguided principle about the profit motive itself.   

So now that you've discovered at least $15B in public funding, which will probably double or triple after the impending Medicare bailout, you want to refocus the conversation on operating expenses? I admire your zeal, but your eyes have been opened.

In typical clueless American liberal fashion, you bash partial-privatization, though all of your socialist buddies at Deutsche Post and Posten AB have already privatized large portions of their systems.

Grow up quickly. Liberalism in the US is just regressive whining. The changes to make USPS sustainable are not the problem. The problem were the unrealistic promises made by incompetent political operators.
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