It wasn’t very expensive I remember. But what I was trying to get out is I don’t know if they’re trying to get rid of the Postal Service or make it so difficult or expensive to even send a letter. Just seems like another way for the government to be in charge of everything a little bit more. I got meals in the mail the other day.
I look forward to still getting all my junk mail on time.
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Are those seeds sent by an individual? Are they by company? There is a shortage of help. To be honest with you would you want to work in the summertime in one of those postal trucks with no AC.
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maybe there would be enough of us to do the mail, be better than how the postal system is for the most part. what are we to do if the mail system ends, will ups- fed ex pick things up or will amazon take over the mail too.? the state of mailing is becoming something they seem to want to phase out
People are standing in lines for those jobs
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I don’t know man. They’re a lot bigger than just mailbox and door-to-door delivery. Even for the delivery guys—Throw in govt benefits, a favorable pension for long term employees, and a bureaucratic process that makes it extremely difficult to be terminated…doesn’t sound too bad to me.
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30 plus years ago I took the test and scored top few percent but I didn’t have any military service or wasn’t a minority/female and what ever other groups were getting bonus points. Never stood a chance. So much for that “privilege”. I took the air traffic control test as well and was 98th percentile but same thing. Glad neither worked out in the long term. I make more and like what I do most days.
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Some from OG members are the ones I’m missing.
but they can deliver you the same pizza hut coupon and junkmail weekly eh
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Seven credit card offers three insurance agency offers but they want to slow it down for stuff we actually want !?
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I’ve had several packages of seeds go MIA. But all were seeds in coin flips in regular envelopes.
At this point I will only send first class package in a padded envelope just so I can have tracking to show what’s going on with it. Although they really don’t scan anything these days either.
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There gonna have to put some tape measures on the sorting floor to make sure the employees are actually moving.
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Everyone would be in a world of shit if the Post Office shut down. 
USPS delivers almost half of all Amazon packages… Fed Ex and UPS drop off packages to the post office they won’t deliver… Final mile delivery cost cannot be beat in rural areas. I do also believe our tax dollars go in the form of a loan that is actually paid back… Congress mandated they paid 50+ years of retirements upfront (thought it was 70), making them the only business in history to have to do such a thing… So if you actually read the P/L statements, all losses are due to Congress mandating these retirements be paid up front. The business makes plenty of money off Amazon, advertising, stamps, shipping, money orders and other things to stay open. It’s when you have too many chefs in the kitchen so to speak. It’ll be profitable in a couple years with the new PM, hate him or love him.
cant be any worse than brazil mail… 
so i hear
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Not in our area any more. The new blue trucks have hit. Some are white as there not enough Blue Prime trucks to handle it all.
Have you ever heard of the gov paing back a loan. Just look at what they did to SS.
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Yeah I would assume tax returns could be considered a payback loan!? Final mile delivery in rural areas is still being delivered by postal workers using their own vehicle… No electric car is gonna beat that. Not in the foreseeable future imho anyway.
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