That's awesome

@Beans in Toasters Yeah XD Even if he didn't get what Gavin was trying to get at with his end of the argument.

I think Amazon one was better

I’m 3 years late to this but as a mailman I don't understand how people mark something as delivered when they don’t actually deliver it

Be the change By going to Twitter.

I'm on board with this. Gus for Postmaster General!

I bet if that happened he would make about 75% of the workers cry

USPS has a laundry list of problems right now, and a lot of it has been inflicted by Congress or its leadership. A few small changes and they’d be fine.

Then they should up their prices to cover those pay checks?

The USPS isnt a hot mess because they pay their employees too much. In fact the apathy leads me to believe the opposite. Your package/mail int getting delivered because of the guy physically delivering the package/mail not the admins stressing over financials.

@@BrightNightmares they are not allowed to raise prices and they are critically underfunded

They're required to find numerous benefit programs FOR THE NEXT 75 YEARS. No private company has to do this, only our govt service. They can't raise prices to fund it. Blame Congress and Louis dejoy for sabotaging our postal service, the same postal service that handles mail-in election ballots. Crippling the USPS means crippling our elections, that's why it sucks.

It was shit years ago it's not a recent thing

Well yeah the bill was passed in 2006 its been a decades long project to privatize mail the only reason most people get mail is because of usps once their gone good luck getting anything as even Amazon and ups still use usps to finish delivering packages.

Did you get the controller though? I'm hoping you were able to get it from the "mailbox" in the grass lot.

And yet it's still shit

There has to be. If not it would be a huge undertaking with so many podcasts to go through.

I think every business is hit or miss when it comes to employee quality. In both my previous and current fields there were great employees and employees who every day I wondered “how have they not been fired for gross incompetence yet?”

well that makes me curious, have you ever heard about the story of a guy by the name of Rob Dahm concerning what happened between him and UPS?

I did too, most of the drivers are just lazy assholes who get paid more for doing less

The trick with Amazon is to use your oldest or busiest account. If your dad hardly ever orders anything than use yours or someone's else's account that's used all of the time. I had a $3,000 order that was shipped to the wrong address by my mistake, and the Amazon employee said they'll cover the 3k no issue whatsoever. I told him that's a big relief off my shoulders and he went on to talk about how active/long my account was in use, so it's no big deal. He told me there'd be issues if it was a new account. That's my first major Amazon purchase too even though I had it active for 6 years at that time.

That’s happened to me too! Did you get the boxes out okay?

@@SteveTAGamer yeah thanks for asking. I had to ask neighbors to help. They way it's set up is that they open the entire front with a key and put the mail in each respective slot. They close and lock it and we have the individual key to our own mailbox which is small

Oh good! And of course the mailboxes are set up to easily get things in, but the mail carriers forget the individual doors are smaller.

@@SteveTAGamer yeah I appreciate your concern I feel the pain

This RTAA is definitely hitting a bit differently now that there’s legitimately a danger of the USPS failing, yeah. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gus changed his mind since this RTAA

If anything the USPS needs more funding so they can actually deliver effectively, turns out paying people less for the same job doesn't make it get done faster or better.

I say let a few private businesses take over and compete with each other. I find that government run businesses tend to become inefficient I would rather pay $5-$10 a month to know that my package is and mail is being handled properly then the mess we have now of getting other people mail and someone else getting your mail.

It should be private it’s never been good nor will it ever. Gus is right.

Maybe if they didn't suck they wouldn't go out of business

Were they not obtainable nearby I'm guessing? But good thing they last a while lol.

@@Matisyahuwu It was those Krispy Kreme ones

You’re preaching to the choir with me. My mail is lucky to show up on the same week that it’s promised. As for UPS, I’ve got a driver that always makes sure I get my packages.

Same. I sell on eBay all the time and I’ll defend the USPS till the day I die. So much cheaper then other services and they have never lost or damaged a package despite me shipping like 250 items.

It's not just TX

No it didn't, fuck them.

Million or Billion?

Billion

Operating costs were 22.3 billion in the 2nd quarter 2020 and revenue was 17.8 billion. So 4.5 billion for the service in Q2 2020. The pentagon spends that in 2 and a half days.

Because they're fucking terrible

They are basically not allowed to make a profit. They’re shipping rates are capped by law which is why they are much much cheaper then competitors. Honestly think it’s a fine service to subsidize as they are able to deliver to more locations then any other service seeing as they don’t have to make a profit and mail can be incredibly important for stuff like prescription drug deliveries.

Your comment reminds me that I'm *still* missing a gift card my work mailed to me before Thanksgiving. The replacement card that was mailed before Christmas is also missing.

And it's a horrible idea lol. Cost me $70 to send my buddy a PS5 I bought him through FedEx. Post Office would have been $13

​@@smurphy2983and yet usps will lose it

True, but read into the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and you can understand how it was Congress that kneecapped them.

​@@SteveTAGamerthey were shit before then too