Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
I don't begrudge my mail carrier as an individual, but I hate the USPS more than any other (quasi-)Federal agency.
There is nothing I get from the USPS that is urgent enough to justify daily delivery. It's almost all the crap unaddressed mail and the addressed junk mail from people who purchase mailing lists. Plus Christmas cards, and replacement credit cards. And I travel a lot, so the mailbox fills up and I have to go 5 miles away to get my mail at a one-window regional facility that is open 10-4 M-F and finally started being open 9-12 Saturday. And if I'm traveling a couple of weekends in a row, fuck me too bad, they'll just return my mail to everybody and tell the world that I vacated my property.
I'd be willing to PAY them the same rate as a small PO Box (so about $10/month) to have a service with weekly delivery similar to garbage collection, no junk mail, and a 90-day hold instead of a 30-day hold. I would just get a PO Box in the next town over (2 miles), but too many financial services firms insist on being able to deliver to a street address, even though I have e-billing for everybody. At one point before e-billing was common, I had a UPS Store box (so a street address) when our office was across the street from one, but then stuff like insurance companies thought I was a Chicago resident. So when we moved offices, I cancelled it.
I'd pay even more money for a truly virtual service that put labor into scanning, storage, and selective delivery instead of bombarding me with a bunch of crap that is going straight to the recycling bin or the shredder. There are companies out there that do that, but not ones that can do that and let me retain my home address for postal mail.
The entire workflow for postal mail is fucked, because nobody wants to cut postal employee jobs for fear of pissing off the relevant unions. As a result, fuck mail carriers.
OK THEN..... i didnt read all of that, but basically the gist is that since chet coppock's fur coat doesnt get anything important/ish in the mail regularly that we all should not get mail delivered to us 6/7 days a week just because CCFC doesnt get any important mail?
or is this simply a service where CCFC can opt out of his daily mail and go get it whenever? cuz man, even tho i might not necessarily get important mail every day, i sure as hell like to know the option is there. it makes me feel good about living in a society where i gotta foot the bill for welfare queens and their cadillac babies and etc.
BUT IF CHET COPPOCK'S FUR COAT DOESN'T NEED THE MAIL EVERY DAY, DAMMIT, WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SHIT BECAUSE WE'RE WASTING MONEY WHEN THE ARCHETYPE SAYS SO.
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