I'm not surprised. I had a similar experience ordering some items from an artist in upstate New York in separate shipments. They languished for days in Rochester, and didn't get to my house in Connecticut until at least two days past the original delivery date.
I have a better one. I ordered a couple of books on eBay. The shipping showed a tracking number had been issued. Okay, I wait the seller required 20 days to get the books which never showed up. I requested a refund and got it from the seller. I ordered the books from another seller and got them in less than a week. Fast forward two months, the first shipment of the books shows up... I donated them to a veterans home.
Hot Rod brought us a few critters in her early years but later, when she was already like 15, she brought a hummingbird into the house. It wasn't dead though so I put it in a shoebox for an hour with some sugar water, took the box outside and the hummer flew away.
The big money in privatizing the Post Office is not in the distribution operations.
Much of that is already done by private contractors and large mailers. I work for the later, we make junk mail and get discounts if we move it to local distribution centers.
Once upon a time PBS and NPR actually were great sources of info and even good times. Until the governing boards were packed with political dicks by the Bushes.
Would you believe PBS used to carry ad-free viewing? No ads. Great while it lasted. Now PBS advertises cars, insurance and medicine for boomers. Democracy Now showed up and that vacuum was filled.
NPR spotlights something called "Marketplace" which, to me, is just Wall Street Journal Lite. The host of that is charming, engaging, earnest and young. I actually like him! But he is the mouthpiece of capitalism. ON NPR!
Fortunately the Denver area has another public radio station which features jazz, R&B on Friday nights and is stright up Latin on Sundays.
Aww, long ago when I lived in DC and Dan Tangherlini was in DC government he read a blog post of mine complaining about his department to his staff! (I was, er, a little dramatic.) He’s a good guy and a good person to be cleaning up the mess at USPS.
I'd still like to know how many mail-in ballots were in the locked cage filled with (I think) 300,000 pieces of undelivered mail, that post office goons (which I didn't know were a thing until last year) barred a sitting congressperson from seeing. Probably that's all been incinerated now, another crime let go by the wayside...
I've had utility bills take 11 days to go 70 miles. We often receive bills after their due date. Our rural banks are far too stupid to effectively deal with automatic withdrawals (we have to count our money every time we leave a drive-up window, and it's often wrong). So now we've got to continually call companies to get our late charges revoked. And guess what? Our post office (the largest of five in the county) got shut down three months before the election. We're a liberal enclave in a hardcore right wing county. Meanwhile, neighboring right-wing shitholes with >100 people have a functioning post office....where we now have to drive to pick up our late mail.
It was a grossly obvious attempt at election fixing. DeJoy should get jail time.
For every step the progressives try take forward, the Refuckingpublicans firmly take two steps back.
The USPS should include the FCC and the protection of all other infrastructure involving transmission of goods and information. </my_take>
If only the government could sue the fuck outta his lousy ass for impeding the operations of the USPS.
That was the idea. The GOP has been trying to fuck over the USPS for a good 40 years now. They've wanted to privatize it because it is a money maker.
I'm not surprised. I had a similar experience ordering some items from an artist in upstate New York in separate shipments. They languished for days in Rochester, and didn't get to my house in Connecticut until at least two days past the original delivery date.
I have a better one. I ordered a couple of books on eBay. The shipping showed a tracking number had been issued. Okay, I wait the seller required 20 days to get the books which never showed up. I requested a refund and got it from the seller. I ordered the books from another seller and got them in less than a week. Fast forward two months, the first shipment of the books shows up... I donated them to a veterans home.
Hobbs!! was a maniac for his first 8-10 years but he’s mellowed out at 13. He still hunts every day but rarely engages in other combat besides that.
Hot Rod brought us a few critters in her early years but later, when she was already like 15, she brought a hummingbird into the house. It wasn't dead though so I put it in a shoebox for an hour with some sugar water, took the box outside and the hummer flew away.
WTF
Perhapsfershure.
The big money in privatizing the Post Office is not in the distribution operations.
Much of that is already done by private contractors and large mailers. I work for the later, we make junk mail and get discounts if we move it to local distribution centers.
It's the prime real estate in hot downtowns.
"It was DeJoy and the investors in his competing delivery business."FIFY.
Once upon a time PBS and NPR actually were great sources of info and even good times. Until the governing boards were packed with political dicks by the Bushes.
Would you believe PBS used to carry ad-free viewing? No ads. Great while it lasted. Now PBS advertises cars, insurance and medicine for boomers. Democracy Now showed up and that vacuum was filled.
NPR spotlights something called "Marketplace" which, to me, is just Wall Street Journal Lite. The host of that is charming, engaging, earnest and young. I actually like him! But he is the mouthpiece of capitalism. ON NPR!
Fortunately the Denver area has another public radio station which features jazz, R&B on Friday nights and is stright up Latin on Sundays.
Aww, long ago when I lived in DC and Dan Tangherlini was in DC government he read a blog post of mine complaining about his department to his staff! (I was, er, a little dramatic.) He’s a good guy and a good person to be cleaning up the mess at USPS.
I'd still like to know how many mail-in ballots were in the locked cage filled with (I think) 300,000 pieces of undelivered mail, that post office goons (which I didn't know were a thing until last year) barred a sitting congressperson from seeing. Probably that's all been incinerated now, another crime let go by the wayside...
Didn't see the exact numbers, but it was Rep. Wasserman Schultz who was denied entry - https://www.nbcnews.com/pol...
I've had utility bills take 11 days to go 70 miles. We often receive bills after their due date. Our rural banks are far too stupid to effectively deal with automatic withdrawals (we have to count our money every time we leave a drive-up window, and it's often wrong). So now we've got to continually call companies to get our late charges revoked. And guess what? Our post office (the largest of five in the county) got shut down three months before the election. We're a liberal enclave in a hardcore right wing county. Meanwhile, neighboring right-wing shitholes with >100 people have a functioning post office....where we now have to drive to pick up our late mail.
It was a grossly obvious attempt at election fixing. DeJoy should get jail time.