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Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Date: January 28, 2009 10:35PM

Personally, I see nothing wrong with the Postal Service going to a five-day schedule....

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/postal_service/index.htm?postversion=2009012820


...The fucking idiots in Congress, though, especially the Republicans, won't give the Postal Service the leeway to do it because of some old blue-haired bitch that lives in their home district who will raise shit about it.

Fuck them! If your day is so monotonous that you look forward to the mail, spend some more time with your 18 cats, granny!

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 28, 2009 10:40PM

>>>the Postal Service going to a five-day schedule


I support this. It immediately saves money and sets a path for modernization.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: RESton Peace ()
Date: January 29, 2009 02:31AM

the two days off should be monday and tuesday, that way we have theoretical capability to use some kind of postal entity 7 days a week.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: January 29, 2009 09:10AM

Look at the bright side of this. There will a drop in "going postal" incidents.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Date: January 29, 2009 09:13AM

496 Wrote:
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> Look at the bright side of this. There will a drop
> in "going postal" incidents.


Naw. The guys will have more time on their days off to shop for ammunition.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: January 29, 2009 10:13AM

There was discussion of Tuesday being a lower-volume day. I'd like to see Sunday and Tuesday be the two non-delivery days so you still wouldn't go more than one day without getting mail.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: January 29, 2009 10:18AM

I insist, no, DEMAND, that I receive my advertisements, coupons, and credit card applications twice a day, 7 days a week.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: HIJACKER ()
Date: January 29, 2009 10:38AM

They should've made this change ages ago.

In fact, why not just have Mail Delivery/Pickup on Friday's and Monday. This would be to the best interest on Personal and Business Needs and cut and save even MORE money.

If you want your letter there quicker, then you can use services from FedEx, UPS, or Courier of your choice

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Nothing But Netflix ()
Date: January 29, 2009 10:49AM

It would suck for Netflix users, that's for sure. Add +1 to your 3-day turn around for movie deliveries.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: January 29, 2009 11:01AM

I have a problem with no Tuesday mail. Since its a business day, you're going to see a LOT of people get slapped with late fees on utility bills, credit cards, and other accounts because the mail wasn't delivered to the creditor on that day - even though the bill was due that day.

While there is a lot of on-line bill paying going on, some refuse to do Internet payments.

I also agree with the Netflix loss.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Date: January 29, 2009 11:10AM

I guarantee Congress won't go for this, regardless of how much sense it makes.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: January 29, 2009 11:38AM

ITRADE Wrote:
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> I have a problem with no Tuesday mail. Since its
> a business day, you're going to see a LOT of
> people get slapped with late fees on utility
> bills, credit cards, and other accounts because
> the mail wasn't delivered to the creditor on that
> day - even though the bill was due that day.

The same could be said for any day. One could argue that they missed getting their bill to somewhere in time for a Monday deadline because Saturday pickup went away.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Nothing But Erol's Video ()
Date: January 29, 2009 12:03PM

Consumer advocates would have a field day with this one.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Stupid liberals... ()
Date: January 29, 2009 12:20PM

Stop whining and pay for your own goddamn mail. It is a program for SPENDING CUTS. Get it thru your thick liberal head already.


WashingTone Locian Wrote:
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> I guarantee Congress won't go for this, regardless
> of how much sense it makes.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Irrelevant Conservatives ()
Date: January 29, 2009 01:09PM

The word "leadership" cannot follow the word "Republican" anymore, so kindly go back to the little place where you came from called Failure.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: January 29, 2009 02:34PM

So I guess we have teh Dems to thank for the $1,000 checks that will be issued to anybody who obtains a taxpayer ID number (including any illegal alien - regardless of whether he did any work or not or paid any taxes or not).

Your new guvmn't at work.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Why?Wanna Stalk Me ()
Date: January 29, 2009 02:48PM

If the post offices are closed on Saturdays, wouldnt that extend the due date by at least a day on most of our bills??? I am in.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Date: January 29, 2009 02:57PM

ITRADE Wrote:
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> So I guess we have teh Dems to thank for the
> $1,000 checks that will be issued to anybody who
> obtains a taxpayer ID number (including any
> illegal alien - regardless of whether he did any
> work or not or paid any taxes or not).
>
> Your new guvmn't at work.


So I guess the government should deny checks to legitimate people with ITN numbers? Or should we spend millions in government dollars to make sure the illegals don't get the checks?

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: January 29, 2009 02:58PM

no.


many credit cards have rolling due dates (20 days after closing or 25 days after closing); the due date falls on a weekend. You'd better be sure that your payment gets into their mail system on a business day, because they don't apply the credit on a weekend. By having no mail delivered on a business day, you guarantee late payments.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Mofo ()
Date: January 29, 2009 09:30PM

Since 2001 the price to mail a letter has raised five times from 34 to 42 cents. The incompetent fucks still lose money.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: Bob ()
Date: January 30, 2009 02:59AM

Mofo Wrote:
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> Since 2001 the price to mail a letter has raised
> five times from 34 to 42 cents. The incompetent
> fucks still lose money.


I'd like to see you deliver a physical item across the country for less than 42 cents. :P

Actually, though, the internet probably has a little bit to do with the costs going up and the postal service barely making it anyway. The reason they CAN ship a letter across the country for 42 cents is because they rely on there being millions of those letters. As the volume goes down, the cost-per-item shoots up.

That's why the postal service and their unions are the biggest defenders of junk mail. Without junk mail, they'd have almost no reason to stay in business.

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Re: Postal Service May Go to Five-Day Service
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: January 30, 2009 07:21AM

Well, they rely on that and the fact that there are a lot of letters that go from Falls Church, VA (22046) to Falls Church, VA (22041). Same price as a letter from 20036 to 92101.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2009 07:21AM by ITRADE.

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