Do You Live in BFE? Do You Enjoy Sending and Receiving 'Snail' Mail? Well, the USPS Won't Shut Down - Polidicks

[quote=WLTZ NBC 38] [TABLE="width: 900"] [TR] [TD][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Kg9T5.jpg[/IMG][/TD] [TD]Washington, D.C. (CNN) - The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is backing off a previous plan to shut down thousands of rural post offices. Last summer, the agency said it was looking to close or consolidate 3700 post offices. The new plan would keep most of the smaller post offices open, but with shorter hours. USPS officials announced the strategy on Wednesday. "We're discontinuing the process we've applied to the 3,700 post offices and we'll begin a new process that gives communities the option to maintain their post office with reduced window service hours. And we believe this will result in very few post offices being closed in rural America," explained Megan Brennan, COO of USPS.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] The move is in response to a backlash against the massive closures. In addition, the agency plans to force thousands of employees to shift to part-time hours from their current full-time positions. The changes are expected to save $500 million a year.[/quote] So, can we all have a collective "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay?"

yay

I am glad. Sure, you might hate "snail mail," but I find traditional paper letters and the like infinitely more useful than email or something similar.

USPS is amazing and much faster than I ever thought. It's like $5 2 day shipping most of the time.

Excellent. I'm sick of making a delivery to Bumfuck Avenue, Nowhere and discovering that the address only says "Nowhere" because the only post office for 20 miles is in the town of "Nowhere", and addresses on Bumfuck Avenue are automatically assigned to Nowhere regardless of distance. If all the rural post offices close, all those Nowhere addresses that are 20 miles outside of the town of Nowhere will get folded into the next closest metropolitan area with a surviving post office. Or, you know, we could just use zip codes for everything.

Personally I hate USPS. Mainly due to them being slow as fuck.

[QUOTE=valkery;35896486]I am glad. Sure, you might hate "snail mail," but I find traditional paper letters and the like infinitely more useful than email or something similar.[/QUOTE] Not to mention exciting.

It's kind of obvious we're in an economic problem when we have to keep obsolete forms of communication and business models alive just so people can keep their jobs.

[QUOTE=Groat;35901147]It's kind of obvious we're in an economic problem when we have to keep obsolete forms of communication and business models alive just so people can keep their jobs.[/QUOTE] It's a necessary service, not just to keep jobs. It's not as obsolete as everyone thinks. It may get so in the future, but right now it's still going.

In case anyone didn't know, BFE=Butt-fuck Egypt.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;35896705]Personally I hate USPS. Mainly due to them being slow as fuck.[/QUOTE] USPS got me my Kindle Fire (with Amazon's free shipping) 2 days after I ordered it (despite a projected delivery date about a week into the future)

USPS has been pretty good with me. Never really had any issue, UPS and fedex have lost more packages then USPS from my experience. Plus USPS does not really give me issues when I'm shipping firearms.

[QUOTE=icantread49;35903940]USPS got me my Kindle Fire (with Amazon's free shipping) 2 days after I ordered it (despite a projected delivery date about a week into the future)[/QUOTE] USPS took 5 days just to get a small package over 3 states.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;35905484]USPS took 5 days just to get a small package over 3 states.[/QUOTE] Choose a decent shipping option.

[QUOTE=Groat;35901147]It's kind of obvious we're in an economic problem when we have to keep obsolete forms of communication and business models alive just so people can keep their jobs.[/QUOTE] Say that whenever you order a package online. Little envelopes aren't the only thing they deal with.