As a mailman I take pride in my work. We work hard and deliver thousands of pieces a day, in any condition. We have aging trucks, equipment, etc. The people are what make this job great! We just need a little help, the post office never lost money, we only made it by having efficient and affordable SERVICE. That’s what I hope people know is that, while you May get a package or mail piece incorrectly, but it’s only .01% of our daily deliveries for the day. Thank you to those who still support us to this day!
USPS is also very quick on international shipping i have been ordering some items from US and it arrives to Northern Europe in a week, while DHL can take three weeks.
most companies have done away with their pension packages. not the post office ! and the workers in my city are so rude it's unbelievable. they act like they're doing you a favor
We need to decide if the USPS is a business or a government public service, it's trying to be both. If it's a business then let it set the rates it needs to function. If a gov. service then pay the freight to keep it running.
USPS is something that Trump touched with his little dirty fingers and made it a political issue. Now that it is a political issue, there isn't going to be a logical and rational discussion. Now the discussion is whether USPS should or should not exist rather than how it should exist. Congress fucked USPS with 2007 bill, so they should bail them out or retire the law.
And to be fair it is a government public service. The USPS was never intended to operate at a profit. The goal was to be self sustaining while providing low cost shipping costs for Americans anywhere in the nation including territories and military installations.
@@estate-tidus1007 I've looked into it I send mostly letters and first class packages and since I dont have a massive output I can really qualify for any cheaper service/ cut price for volume like Amazon or other retailers it costs me around 55 cents to ship a letter anywhere in the us if I wanted ups or FedEx to do the same at minimum it whould cost around 9 dollars just for a letter and I do use ups for international shipping because for me personally they have a better track record and there is less hand offs to other shipping carriers but those are not frequent enough to support my business 95% of all my business requires us shipping and usps is the best and the cheapest I can get while still retaining a profit margin
I run a small business too. Maybe this is a time for readjustment. Trucking companies insurance rates doubled this year and a lot of them are closed/closing. But, a couple of fleet of vans and dependable workers in all states can replace them. A new private owned logistics service can easily rise from this (maybe even a few). The post office can downsize and the people can take ownership instead of being unemployed/underemployed. 🤔
If the USPS ceases operation a TON of businesses will fold and many more millions of people will suddenly be out of work--many many more than just the 600,000 current postal employees. It would be absolute INSANITY to allow the postal service to go out of business.Anyone who thinks that the USPS can just fold and everything will be ok AIN'T THINKING.
I hope it happens. I don't need or want USPS any more. If you lose several thousands of dollars in packages every year, you tell me what you will do. I don't get any mail at my address. I have gone to paperless billing, and I receive all packages by Fed-ex or UPS now. I removed my postal box off the house 6 years ago, and I don't miss it one bit! You enjoy getting you're packages destroyed, or sent back without a reason.
@@hollytimlick9470 you do realize that a lot of the time, your ups packages are handed off to the USPS for final delivery and that UPS and FEDEX only serve profitable areas and ignore all the rest (such as rural areas). They also don't send letters (most of the time) so you will have no way of getting official documents and notifications. It's foolish to say that you wish it would shut down as you ignore the fact that it is a public. Service that is meant to serve the American people no matter where you are!
@@nikkiiv9259 how is that foolish to say when 65% of my mail, packages and other contents are missing, lost stolen, dammaged, or ending up going back without my knowledge? USPS has done nothing but caused problems for me in the past 20 years, then ups, fed ex, and Amazon put together! Give me a f-ing break... When you go through the sh-t I went through, you would think twice about the USPS...
If Airline Companies, Chrysler, and General Motors back in 2008 got bailout money. There is no excuse to ignore something we have depended on longer before any other forms of transportation listed to give us mail. They're heroes and go through so much everyday. I salute you guys and thank you for your continued efforts.
Or the usps can get approval from congress to only fund future retirement accounts as needed and withdraw the money for pensioners never even born yet.Raise its rates competitively for fist class mail, quit giving amazon a sweetheart deal who's attempting to replace the usps with its own workers and drones anyways (so believing amazon will be with usps in the distant future is dreaming anyways) and as necessary have every other day mail delivery in the rural areas and stop with the overtime.Now Trump whos declared bankruptcy 6 times with his "big brain" is incapable of fixing it.
Jermaine Wright Go to about usps.com and set up an account. Then go to job search section and put in your state the jobs will show for your state. It is a long process when you apply for a drivers position (called a city carrier assistant or rural carrier assistant) they will ask you a few questions about your driving history you will have to take a virtual assessment exam and that’s it... then it’s a waiting game...good luck
The post office is the most affordable for mailing and package shipping. We should not politicize USPS during elections, and It hurts them. I want USPS to be saved.
I love what I do ! I wouldn’t trade it for any job! Being out there is not easy sometimes but I love working hard , and I’m thankful for all of those who support the service
No mention of the USPS Fairness Act that the House passed in February? This bill eliminates the ridiculous requirement of pre-funding their retirement pension fund. Somebody tell Mitch McConnell to bring the bill to the Senate floor.
The republicans literally made that law SPECIFICALLY to kill the postal service, no other company needs to fund their retirement 75 years in advanced 😡
But those who actually start working there or already work there are going to loose their pensions. And than, the narrative is going to be the same. "Its the Republican's fault" for cutting pensions.
Joseph Ybarra I don’t think that’s the plan, without the law I think they would fund pensions as slowly overtime as they come up by putting money away a little each year. In that case they would still have a profit and pay pensions/benefits. I’m glad you are also concerned that the workers get their benefits it’s just about the timeline of saving that money
@@28ebdh3udnav No, it would be the same as every other organization which pays a pension. Unless you know of another company lumbered with the same burden as Bush put on USPS-I certainly don't.
I'm a proud postal worker. I'm a clerk. The amazing thing about the USPS (United States Postal Service) is the organization was never designed to operate at a profit. The organization exists to deliver America's mail in all 50 states, military institutions, and U.S territories. If the organization is removed buying products online and shipping costs will increase decreasing discretionary income of U.S citizens which will be detrimental to the economy. We are the connective tissue of the nation ensuring all Americans can reach one another by by post.
The postal service is a public service. Not a profit hungry private organization. The USPS is for all the American people not for just the rich Americans.
@@lamarravery4094 This entire piece is a smearjob to destroy the post office thus why they kept showing its profir margins, nor ever even mention that delivering the mail is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
Postal workers are working unbelievably hard during this pandemic risking the lives of themselves and their families so people can get their stimulus checks,medications and other essential items. They deserve some appreciation for all they do instead of idiots always saying “ I pay taxes and that’s where your paycheck comes from” NEWS FLASH idiots the postal service is a self funded federal agency. Thank you to all of the hard working postal workers across America
@scott miller you find it Full of lies because you don’t know what your talking about lol you don’t know how the post office works you pay bills online but you still get mail get free shipping certified mail express packages priority packages etc etc the post office doesn’t just make money off of a simple mailed envelope
What needs to happen is the Senate bring the USPS Fairness Act to the floor for a vote, eliminating the required pre-funding of the retirement pension fund. That's what created this problem and that alone can fix it.
Republicans are counting on that because if everyone votes Republicans will never win. If they go out of business the cause will be the Trump administration that caused it. Some people in red states depending where you live get harassed they cast a blue ballot. It's why they vote by mail.
It makes no sense because Trump wants his little rascals to vote for him IN PERSON while he telling everyone who’s voting for Biden to use mail in voting, in which Trump is trying to get rid of so he could rig this election again
@@JPLMONEY23 it can easily be privatized. Companies like amazon can jump the gun and create their own postal service to fill the gap...making jeff Bezos even richer.
Just remember once the Postal Service goes into Privatization then the low cost to mail your letters is gonna increase to maybe $ 2 dollars. Once Jeff Bezos gets a piece of the Post Office and it becomes entirely Privatize then all the mailing and Packages that you all enjoy at low cost is gonna sky rocket to how ever they want to price it for profit
True. I was going to send a small package about a couple lbs to peru. Went to ups and wanted to charge me nearly $200 😨. Then went to usps. And they sent it out for like $40-50.
Not to mention the myriad public services the USPS provides that they must fund via sales... Like the postal inspectors, no other parcel shipping company is responsible for maintaining an actual police force
I am a rural carrier. Thanks for the video. It was concise and accurate. The background on the pension funds is not known or understood by people outside the USPS. By the way the bill that created the prefunding of pensions was a PPac bill backed by FedEx and UPS. This has been a long slow bleed that is coming to a head. We work hard to get you mail and packages delivered everyday. If the Post Office is dissolved it will cost people ten to twenty dollars to mail a letter with the competition. I hope I can work there for twenty more years.
That’s interesting 🤔. Maybe the government bill was a way of stunting growth of post office so they didn’t have too many advantages that keep other businesses from thriving. Other businesses are thriving but they are not necessarily stable. The post office is unaffected by the decline of stock market as it should be. It’s still the United States greatest connector. I wonder how things would change if it were funded 50 years in advance. Maybe it’s time to think it through again and see if trump could draft another bill to loosen up unused funds.
The post office should absolutely be bailed out like they did the banks it is an American Institution and it financially should be restructured so it doesn't happen again🐊🌴
Also worth noting that many military veterans get their medications delivered by mail. FedEx and UPS typically don't deliver outside of cities and adjacent suburbs, relying on USPS for the last leg of the journey; without the Post Office, any veteran who lives in a more rural area is going to have major problems getting medications delivered.. By the way, the Post Office actually employs roughly a 100,000 military vets, and about 60,000 black women.
Some of these Postal sorting facilities are governed by corrupt Postmasters and have too many thieves working in crime rings there stealing medications and checks. Here in Atlanta at the Crown Rd Postal Sorting Facility it is *_definitely_* corrupt.
I agree some people are just assholes that like to heavily overgeneralize, both political parties are deceiving people, we need to think and fight for ourselves.
I think that the post office does a pretty darn good job at getting mail to us, but a lot of companies are having trouble funding their pension requirements. The Social Security trust fund isn't in great shape either last I heard. The retirement age of 65 worked well when people were only living into their late 60s, but now people are living into their 80s and beyond. That's a good thing, but most pension plans weren't designed to deal with that. Congress and the President are going to have to come to some agreement on what can be done because we need the post office to be functional well past this September.
Ex Postal worker here, for what it's worth, USPS stopped paying into the mandatory 75 year retirement plan long ago. I believe we stopped paying into it in 2011
USPS is the root of the Americans culture. If President Trump get rid or not support the USPS it is killing the true value of Americans. As Americans, USPS has always been there for us. We love are mail carriers. They are through rain or shine, snow or blizzard, dry or windy, every weather conditions, our mail carriers were there. God Bless our front line service men and women of the USPS. Thank you
If you think the postal service isn’t necessary, wait until Amazon, FedEx and UPS dominate the market in delivering goods….all the little things will cost a lot more than they already do. As of now, those companies rely on USPS to deliver at a reasonable cost. Once their business model doesn’t include deliveries by the USPS, every little thing you send will cost a lot more to be shipped.
Wish the government postal services would at least break even. Reason they produce losses is actually due to defined benefit pensions, mail has declined but parcels have surged
I retired from there. After the service was allowed to make a profit was the beginning of the end. It’s a horrible place to work. Rife with incompetent management.
Lobbyists pushed to take portions of the USPS packaging and freight for decades. USPS was mostly left with the least profitable mail and parcels. Even though USPS delivers a huge portion of last-leg for their competitors - at a loss, because USPS is Constitutionally directed to deliver, whereas competitors aren't. Congress' Prefunding Mandate exists to choke the USPS out and chop it up to sell to the competitors - or, failing that, privatize it into massive profitability. Repealing the Prefunding Mandate, or even walking it back to 10yr instead of 75 would give the USPS back its own money that Congress stole. Billions in self-generated revenue. But instead, the White House installed three Privatizers within a year. When all it would take is modifying or repealing the Prefunding Mandate.
I survived 38 years in the PO I started when days off would be canceled while working sometimes 10-14 hours mandatory overtime. I walked on top of mail on the floor. I made money but I had no life, I worked as an Electronics Technician. I hated the job, and I had options to move elsewhere but I was CSRS Retirement, I retired in 2012
How about they remove the “last mile” delivery and just deliver to the town center again. I see no point in spending hundreds of $ to a single person in the middle of nowhere.
Why would they want to go backwards? The answer is to get rid of that stupid rule making them fund employees they don’t even have yet not gut their services so grandma and grandpa have to leave the farm in the middle of a pandemic to mail their electric bill check
@TheZoomerFarmer Exactly. Elderly and Veterans in Rural areas rely on the Post for medicine. It's like the White House wants these people dead or something :/
My local post office has been crazy busy since the corona virus started and with everyone about 6 feet apart the lines are super long so I figured they were doing well but luckily for me my items are usually prepaid so I walk past everyone and drop it off on the counter
As a postal employee. I can say we have not used taxpayer money since 82. We get our money paychecks from parcels and stamp sales thats why the post office is broke. But I'm glad to work as a package handler my wife a mall carrier for usps.We are one of the most trusted government entities. I hope it stays that way. Whatever politics you believe this is true.We work hard to get your mall to you on time.We work 7 days a week holidays weekends ect. Please remember this at the polls. When you vote November alot of peoples livelihoods depend on it. Alot of service men too.We do our best to service you rain or shine natural disasters. Whatever to get you your mail to you.We are not the bad guys the government media makes us out to be. Just people trying to provide for there families.
As a postal employee work in different craft over the years. I can tell that the postal service problem is not retirement pension funding but mismanagement. Postal service willing to waste millions of dollars for nonsense, post office never own any of the postal building. They pay more money to lease land for 10yrs more than the Land worth, they spend billions of dollars buying garbage trucks. Spent money on BS. Sometimes I ask my boss why does Post office spend money on this kind of nonsense they told me it's government money so shot up and do your job.
I'm a letter carrier. The United States Postal Services is *not* a business, and profit is *not the point*. DeJoy needs to go, and take his business-mindedness (really, trying to hobble the Service in order to privatize it) with him. Congress should fund the service, and implement a mail registry; the NALC, NRALC and APWU should cooperate to lobby for these things. And much more. To all who don't know: City letter carriers' starting pay was *cut* by nearly 30% as of November 2013, and has never been substantively increased. Rural carriers have suffered a similar loss in pay. It's atrocious.
@@BattleshipSailorBB63 yep. There will be consequences if USPS is privatized, then every delivery driver and their brother will have access to your mailbox. Right now if FedEx or ups uses a mailbox it is a $4000 fine if they are caught.
The post office is a public service, not a business. If it shuts down millions of people in rural areas, businesses and areas out of profitable reach from UPS and FedEx will be left without any service. If you want to see what happens when you only let only for profit companies operate service, look at the broadband gap in the US. WITHOUT THE POST OFFICE, WE CANNOT HAVE A DEMOCRACY, without the post office, we cannot be a country. It is the single most important organization in these United States and the most neglected, it saddens me to see us sink and neglect such an important organization in our daily lives. The USPS is a public service, not a business and should be treated as such.
Really unfortunate, I put in 35 years as a proud and respected letter carrier before the destruction began in 2006. One man destroying an American institution.
In 2010, the postmaster general’s salary authorized by Congress rose to $273,296. Potter stepped down as postmaster general in December 2010, at which time he was awarded $3.1 million in accumulated pension benefits, which he earned over a 32-year period in government service, as well as compensation for leave not taken, and outplacement assistance for a period of two years. In 2011, Potter was replaced by Deputy Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, whose salary in his first year stood at $267,840.
Sigh, I have quit ordering anything that must be shipped by USPS. My wife and I do a lot of our shopping online and USPS is just a headache waiting to happen. I never have issues with UPS or FedEx and didn’t have them all that often with USPS , but often enough that I had to bail. It’s not stuff that anyone is going to steal off your porch, it’s little things that would fit in your mailbox. Although, I did have them deliver a squat rack to the house three houses down from me. Fortunately they were people we knew and they walked down and let us know.
For anyone hired after 1984 there really are no more pensions. A Letter Carrier in the Federal Employees Retirement System gets the following: 1) An annuity that the workers pay into, around $22,000/year. 2) Social Security that the workers pay into. 3) Thrift Savings Plan, basically the government's 401k that the workers pay into. 4) Workers have to help pay for health insurance. So if the Letter Carrier is smart with their money they can have a decent Middle Class retirement. Over the course of 30-40 years there is a lot of wear and tear on the body also.
Shit for a business that can't pay their employees they sure do hire alot of people... im a clerk and the letters are slightly down but the parcels are up. We deliver FedEx ups and Amazon. We can barely get the mail up in time for the carriers. The problem with usps is nepotism within management bunch of friends and family with no business experience trying to make business decisions... i literally watched a pse the lowest position in the post office become a post master the highest position at the post office in two years because his dad was mpo of the district..
And the sex. Supervisors seducing young PSEs and sleeping with them, and when they get caught they don't get fired, they are either promoted or transferred to another city only to return in a couple of yrs, once the dust has settled. I agree, reform is needed in the management ranks, too many mid management jobs, they need to be abolished apparently the supervisors have time to be sleeping around, they're not busy enough.
I #standwithourUSPS I pray you guys can get that red tape lifted on the finances and get back to positivity. My business relies on USPS. Very reliable team
USPS isn't in debt. It generates billions in self-generated revenue. USPS >is< defaulting on Congress' Prefunding Mandate which steals its money. USPS isn't in debt, it's literally being robbed.
@@crushmonkey801 Yes it is, a few year back they wanted to be "Seperate" from the Fed, government, and when that happened they began to be in the red every year by 10 billion or more.
@@kad3e3 High comedy, friend. USPS would never want to 'Seperate' from its Constitutional duties. We existed before there was a United States of America, we're written into the Constitution. I don't know where you got the idea that we wanted or ever could 'Seperate' from our Constitutional Mandate. You could probably maybe read up on the Prefunding Mandate, though. Having to fund retirement for people who won't even be born for 40 years kind of puts a ding in the budget, lol
This is so sad I always see the mail people hard at work regardless of weather conditions. The ineptitude of our government is embarrassing and I'm not talking about just now but always.
Hold on a second here man you are telling me this started in 2006 by republicans and went through 8 years of a Democratic president but its somehow Trumps fault? Do you see how somebody could have a problem with that type of thinking?
I'm a 33 year postal retired loved the post office and what. I was doing retired now for quite..a few years and love my retirement check it's what I live on
This was the second part of this story. The first part was under Regan was to privatize packages so Fedex and UPS to grab business from the USPS to cripple it. The how to cripple is that UPSP and FEDEX are putting their losing deliveries that aren't profitable into the USPS system at postal rates, because they have to deliver at every address in the US no matter what the cost. Ask all those people who get letters for way under a dollar out in delivery runs that go for hundreds of miles. The only reason they didn't get first class mail was it was against the law for any private company to deliver it. The USPS funding for their retirement system 75 years into the future to finish the job so the Republicans can privatize the entire system and charge $5.00 a letter and so on. If the USPS was allowed to bank the money as any other company they would be profitable and solvent. Then the workers working for them wouldn't get the benefits. With it privatized it takes accountability out of the We the People so it can be controlled politically by a group without any stops on it. This BS was to stop now. Try this get a group of people and get a show of hands how many know when their mail comes or have been to a post office. Ask with a show of hands how many have been to a police station, fire station, or to city hall. There are only two government services that get 100 per cent show of hands is the USPS and Schools, actually maybe not schools some people have been home schooled. This shows you how important the USPS is important in people's lives. I'm fighting and my partner is in a ad on Facebook fight for the Post Office, I did one too, however, its not up yet. So I'm not asking to do something I'm not doing. Fight now to keep this for WE THE PEOPLE!
As a mailman I take pride in my work. We work hard and deliver thousands of pieces a day, in any condition. We have aging trucks, equipment, etc. The people are what make this job great! We just need a little help, the post office never lost money, we only made it by having efficient and affordable SERVICE. That’s what I hope people know is that, while you May get a package or mail piece incorrectly, but it’s only .01% of our daily deliveries for the day. Thank you to those who still support us to this day!
Affordability is why I ship what I need with USPS you guys are always smiling but stay safe and thank you!
Maybe when we get a decent president he or she will bail them out.
Maximum respect to all the mail people. I still find it incredible that mails come directly to my door.
USPS is also very quick on international shipping i have been ordering some items from US and it arrives to Northern Europe in a week, while DHL can take three weeks.
J Rod:well said
Keep working hard and be careful
with your finances. Always hope for the best.
So they have to have a retirement and pension fund for workers who haven't even been born??? No wonder they're in debt!
most companies have done away with their pension packages. not the post office ! and the workers in my city are so rude it's unbelievable. they act like they're doing you a favor
Yeah passed by Republicans in 05... so much for small government
Sounds more like sabotage to me.
Won't be surprised if UPS etc were "lobbying" the "honorable" congressmen involved
This happens to Sears.
Government plan what else is new
We need to decide if the USPS is a business or a government public service, it's trying to be both. If it's a business then let it set the rates it needs to function. If a gov. service then pay the freight to keep it running.
USPS is something that Trump touched with his little dirty fingers and made it a political issue. Now that it is a political issue, there isn't going to be a logical and rational discussion. Now the discussion is whether USPS should or should not exist rather than how it should exist. Congress fucked USPS with 2007 bill, so they should bail them out or retire the law.
It was successful at being both until the pension plan kicked in.
Le sigh.
@@cevcena6692 yep which was created as a means to weaken the USPS by lobbyists who'd love to break it up and privatize it.
And to be fair it is a government public service. The USPS was never intended to operate at a profit. The goal was to be self sustaining while providing low cost shipping costs for Americans anywhere in the nation including territories and military installations.
I run and own a small business and if usps dies then I'm completely out of business
Start a business account with UPS, it may be cheaper then you thought.
@@estate-tidus1007 I've looked into it I send mostly letters and first class packages and since I dont have a massive output I can really qualify for any cheaper service/ cut price for volume like Amazon or other retailers it costs me around 55 cents to ship a letter anywhere in the us if I wanted ups or FedEx to do the same at minimum it whould cost around 9 dollars just for a letter and I do use ups for international shipping because for me personally they have a better track record and there is less hand offs to other shipping carriers but those are not frequent enough to support my business 95% of all my business requires us shipping and usps is the best and the cheapest I can get while still retaining a profit margin
I run a small business too. Maybe this is a time for readjustment. Trucking companies insurance rates doubled this year and a lot of them are closed/closing. But, a couple of fleet of vans and dependable workers in all states can replace them. A new private owned logistics service can easily rise from this (maybe even a few). The post office can downsize and the people can take ownership instead of being unemployed/underemployed. 🤔
Josh USPS is 3-4 dollar shipping for me, UPS is 8-9 dollars. If I wanted to do online shops I’d be in debt also
Josh USPS can’t go government needs that service
If the USPS ceases operation a TON of businesses will fold and many more millions of people will suddenly be out of work--many many more than just the 600,000 current postal employees. It would be absolute INSANITY to allow the postal service to go out of business.Anyone who thinks that the USPS can just fold and everything will be ok AIN'T THINKING.
I hope it happens. I don't need or want USPS any more. If you lose several thousands of dollars in packages every year, you tell me what you will do. I don't get any mail at my address. I have gone to paperless billing, and I receive all packages by Fed-ex or UPS now. I removed my postal box off the house 6 years ago, and I don't miss it one bit! You enjoy getting you're packages destroyed, or sent back without a reason.
@@hollytimlick9470 you do realize that a lot of the time, your ups packages are handed off to the USPS for final delivery and that UPS and FEDEX only serve profitable areas and ignore all the rest (such as rural areas). They also don't send letters (most of the time) so you will have no way of getting official documents and notifications. It's foolish to say that you wish it would shut down as you ignore the fact that it is a public. Service that is meant to serve the American people no matter where you are!
@@nikkiiv9259 how is that foolish to say when 65% of my mail, packages and other contents are missing, lost stolen, dammaged, or ending up going back without my knowledge? USPS has done nothing but caused problems for me in the past 20 years, then ups, fed ex, and Amazon put together! Give me a f-ing break... When you go through the sh-t I went through, you would think twice about the USPS...
If Airline Companies, Chrysler, and General Motors back in 2008 got bailout money. There is no excuse to ignore something we have depended on longer before any other forms of transportation listed to give us mail. They're heroes and go through so much everyday. I salute you guys and thank you for your continued efforts.
Or the usps can get approval from congress to only fund future retirement accounts as needed and withdraw the money for pensioners never even born yet.Raise its rates competitively for fist class mail, quit giving amazon a sweetheart deal who's attempting to replace the usps with its own workers and drones anyways (so believing amazon will be with usps in the distant future is dreaming anyways) and as necessary have every other day mail delivery in the rural areas and stop with the overtime.Now Trump whos declared bankruptcy 6 times with his "big brain" is incapable of fixing it.
The problem is, is that they shouldn't have been bailed out. If you run your company badly, that's it. That's what happens, you're done.
No. Keep government OUT of private business!!! Government interference caused USPS to be in debt!!!!
Thank you ❤❤
the 'fall' of the usps is a manufactured crisis.
we need them now more than ever.
empire market and cannahome needs usps
@@n3wt just bought something on empire bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
M Detlef so you’re planning on emailing me my new lightbulbs?
NO, we don’t❗️ Time to move on from this travesty called USPS.
@M Detlef have you invented a transporter? kind of difficult to send medicine or a package "ELECTRONICALLY".
Just got hired as a USPS driver. Lets see what happens next month haha
When my mail get here?
It seems so hard to get a job there. Where did you apply? Did you put on your resume you had driving experience?
Jermaine Wright Go to about usps.com and set up an account. Then go to job search section and put in your state the jobs will show for your state. It is a long process when you apply for a drivers position (called a city carrier assistant or rural carrier assistant) they will ask you a few questions about your driving history you will have to take a virtual assessment exam and that’s it... then it’s a waiting game...good luck
How many hours do you usually work a week
Good luck
The post office is the most affordable for mailing and package shipping. We should not politicize USPS during elections, and It hurts them. I want USPS to be saved.
I love what I do ! I wouldn’t trade it for any job! Being out there is not easy sometimes but I love working hard , and I’m thankful for all of those who support the service
No mention of the USPS Fairness Act that the House passed in February? This bill eliminates the ridiculous requirement of pre-funding their retirement pension fund. Somebody tell Mitch McConnell to bring the bill to the Senate floor.
Oh please like that hack can actually get anything done
The republicans literally made that law SPECIFICALLY to kill the postal service, no other company needs to fund their retirement 75 years in advanced 😡
But those who actually start working there or already work there are going to loose their pensions. And than, the narrative is going to be the same. "Its the Republican's fault" for cutting pensions.
Joseph Ybarra I don’t think that’s the plan, without the law I think they would fund pensions as slowly overtime as they come up by putting money away a little each year. In that case they would still have a profit and pay pensions/benefits. I’m glad you are also concerned that the workers get their benefits it’s just about the timeline of saving that money
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@@28ebdh3udnav No, it would be the same as every other organization which pays a pension. Unless you know of another company lumbered with the same burden as Bush put on USPS-I certainly don't.
Exactly... it's a gift giving to the capital class. It's disgusting what the US government did.
I'm a proud postal worker. I'm a clerk.
The amazing thing about the USPS (United States Postal Service) is the organization was never designed to operate at a profit. The organization exists to deliver America's mail in all 50 states, military institutions, and U.S territories. If the organization is removed buying products online and shipping costs will increase decreasing discretionary income of U.S citizens which will be detrimental to the economy.
We are the connective tissue of the nation ensuring all Americans can reach one another by by post.
Don't' forget Post Roads. Tied the U.S. together from back before we were the U.S.
The postal service is a public service. Not a profit hungry private organization. The USPS is for all the American people not for just the rich Americans.
@@lamarravery4094 This entire piece is a smearjob to destroy the post office thus why they kept showing its profir margins, nor ever even mention that delivering the mail is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
The post office is a constitutional organization.
"Just five little numbers quick as can be" lol I literally lost it for some reason
Big UPS to all the postal workers!!🙌🙌 I’m a postal baby! My mom did 45 years and my dad did 47....❤️🙌 Thank you postal service👍
Considering UPS is currently sorting USPS mail now, yeah, it is Big UPS who is helping move usps mail, helping USPS do what they can't do..move mail.
Postal workers are working unbelievably hard during this pandemic risking the lives of themselves and their families so people can get their stimulus checks,medications and other essential items. They deserve some appreciation for all they do instead of idiots always saying “ I pay taxes and that’s where your paycheck comes from” NEWS FLASH idiots the postal service is a self funded federal agency.
Thank you to all of the hard working postal workers across America
@scott miller you find it Full of lies because you don’t know what your talking about lol you don’t know how the post office works you pay bills online but you still get mail get free shipping certified mail express packages priority packages etc etc the post office doesn’t just make money off of a simple mailed envelope
Once again. Thanks a lot Bush.
Vex T lmao the “both sides” argument for basically everything needs to die
@Vex T Let me guess, you voted Trump?
@@illegalalien6542 He probably did not
@Vex T agreed, i don't like to associate with either party, it causes voluntary ignorance.
Don't forget Susan Collins is there too. And now she's acting like she's a defender of the USPS as if she didn't know.
Im one of those who rely on the post office for a job
Sean Kayser Condolence for being effectively fired by Trump.
Thank you for your hard work!
Why doesn’t the government give money to the USPS ? they are essential to our economy!
Because they're sabotaging it, so that it can be privatized.
we already have other courier services why do we need this one in particular
I believe that Trump and others have a plan to bail them out using their personal investment money, making them equity owners in the USPS..
Michael Weedon because other couriers don’t ship to remote and unprofitable areas of the US. This actually affects more conservatives than liberals.
What needs to happen is the Senate bring the USPS Fairness Act to the floor for a vote, eliminating the required pre-funding of the retirement pension fund. That's what created this problem and that alone can fix it.
The problem is people keep wanting to treat USPS as a buisness when its really a public service
Bingo
It's a public service that fails. Stop or get it together.
@@erickgregoryful speak for yourself, just bc u have a lazy carrier doesn’t mean everyone else in the US is the same
@@erickgregoryful it fails because of dumbass ass republicans that go out of there way to destroy it.
My favorite person in town is my mail carrier, especially when I'm expecting a package. Very appreciative of the USPS.
Carriers are heroes
Thank you!!! I retired from the Post Office at the end of May after 35 years. It is so nice to
see people saying nice things instead of bashing us.
If they run out of mail, people won't vote...........hm.......
Republicans are counting on that because if everyone votes Republicans will never win. If they go out of business the cause will be the Trump administration that caused it. Some people in red states depending where you live get harassed they cast a blue ballot. It's why they vote by mail.
@@davidbrown8303 harassed? Lol
@@davidbrown8303 So true, the conservatard party is doing everything they can to steal another election
It makes no sense because Trump wants his little rascals to vote for him IN PERSON while he telling everyone who’s voting for Biden to use mail in voting, in which Trump is trying to get rid of so he could rig this election again
@@flywithhuddy 🎯🎯🎯
USPS has survived through recessions, depressions and inflation......and I believe it will survive again.
Not this time, I'm afraid. Trump is determined to privatize the postal service.
Too big to privatize.....not gonna happen.
@@JPLMONEY23 it can easily be privatized. Companies like amazon can jump the gun and create their own postal service to fill the gap...making jeff Bezos even richer.
Just remember once the Postal Service goes into Privatization then the low cost to mail your letters is gonna increase to maybe $ 2 dollars. Once Jeff Bezos gets a piece of the Post Office and it becomes entirely Privatize then all the mailing and Packages that you all enjoy at low cost is gonna sky rocket to how ever they want to price it for profit
You mean people will actually start paying the true cost of sending mail and packages.
@@m.i3612 why is it the governments job?
good thing we're in the digital age, packages are a different story though.
Very true. It will happen, and the crooked politicians will profit from it along with Bezos and Trump.
True. I was going to send a small package about a couple lbs to peru. Went to ups and wanted to charge me nearly $200 😨. Then went to usps. And they sent it out for like $40-50.
Not to mention the myriad public services the USPS provides that they must fund via sales... Like the postal inspectors, no other parcel shipping company is responsible for maintaining an actual police force
I am a rural carrier. Thanks for the video. It was concise and accurate. The background on the pension funds is not known or understood by people outside the USPS.
By the way the bill that created the prefunding of pensions was a PPac bill backed by FedEx and UPS.
This has been a long slow bleed that is coming to a head.
We work hard to get you mail and packages delivered everyday. If the Post Office is dissolved it will cost people ten to twenty dollars to mail a letter with the competition.
I hope I can work there for twenty more years.
That’s interesting 🤔. Maybe the government bill was a way of stunting growth of post office so they didn’t have too many advantages that keep other businesses from thriving. Other businesses are thriving but they are not necessarily stable. The post office is unaffected by the decline of stock market as it should be. It’s still the United States greatest connector. I wonder how things would change if it were funded 50 years in advance. Maybe it’s time to think it through again and see if trump could draft another bill to loosen up unused funds.
Post office aint going anywhere!
I wasn't aware that it was not until 1963 that the Post Office began the zip code (1:30); I thought it was earlier than that!
Big cities had simple numbered zones, but not the whole country
Bailouts for banks and big corporations but not for a government service, save the services available for everyone.
Here here!
The post office should absolutely be bailed out like they did the banks it is an American Institution and it financially should be restructured so it doesn't happen again🐊🌴
Also worth noting that many military veterans get their medications delivered by mail. FedEx and UPS typically don't deliver outside of cities and adjacent suburbs, relying on USPS for the last leg of the journey; without the Post Office, any veteran who lives in a more rural area is going to have major problems getting medications delivered.. By the way, the Post Office actually employs roughly a 100,000 military vets, and about 60,000 black women.
Some of these Postal sorting facilities are governed by corrupt Postmasters and have too many thieves working in crime rings there stealing medications and checks.
Here in Atlanta at the Crown Rd Postal Sorting Facility it is *_definitely_* corrupt.
Stop blaming and pointing fingers. why is everything always involve politics..... SAVE THEM! WE NEED TO SHIP OUT STUFFSSS
I agree some people are just assholes that like to heavily overgeneralize, both political parties are deceiving people, we need to think and fight for ourselves.
USPS is awesome and the world still needs them.
So government ruined a perfectly good business once again. What is new?
Julian Gomez yeah it’s a public service it’s not supposed to profit it’s NOT a business they want to MAKE it one
Julian Gomez is to turn a profit you should make it a business, therefore privatize it.
Postal Service is a 'Service', not a private business and needs to stay in place no matter what.
Not when they continue to lose billions every year.
I think my grandma is single handedly keeping them in business nowadays.
Wow the whole business that is like everywhere in the world
I think that the post office does a pretty darn good job at getting mail to us, but a lot of companies are having trouble funding their pension requirements. The Social Security trust fund isn't in great shape either last I heard. The retirement age of 65 worked well when people were only living into their late 60s, but now people are living into their 80s and beyond. That's a good thing, but most pension plans weren't designed to deal with that. Congress and the President are going to have to come to some agreement on what can be done because we need the post office to be functional well past this September.
Ex Postal worker here, for what it's worth, USPS stopped paying into the mandatory 75 year retirement plan long ago. I believe we stopped paying into it in 2011
work in a postal warehouse & right now it is crazy !
Crazy how, what’s happening at the plant you work @?
#Savethepostoffice
I like how they made the Postal Service seem like some sort of Illuminati-like organization.
maybe don't make them prepay employee retriments 75 years in advance which literally no other entity is mandated to do?
Even the world needs USPS since we're in a global world. Coming from a message from Canada
USPS is the root of the Americans culture. If President Trump get rid or not support the USPS it is killing the true value of Americans. As Americans, USPS has always been there for us. We love are mail carriers. They are through rain or shine, snow or blizzard, dry or windy, every weather conditions, our mail carriers were there. God Bless our front line service men and women of the USPS. Thank you
As a former USPS employee, I can only weep over the appointment of dejoy as PMG. He’s dedicated to ruining the Service.
They been hating on the Postal Service for years, will always be an essential necessity
If you think the postal service isn’t necessary, wait until Amazon, FedEx and UPS dominate the market in delivering goods….all the little things will cost a lot more than they already do. As of now, those companies rely on USPS to deliver at a reasonable cost. Once their business model doesn’t include deliveries by the USPS, every little thing you send will cost a lot more to be shipped.
Jesus we need to save the usps wtf
Long Boi ya I love usps I do priority mail all time and it ships fast af compared to shit ups
Ups and fedex isn’t equip to deliver billions of paper mail they are more of a package company.
Big news boys
Hi im a big fan
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Never expect the god to fawk around here.
Nothing but respect for the USPS and all USPS workers.
Wish the government postal services would at least break even. Reason they produce losses is actually due to defined benefit pensions, mail has declined but parcels have surged
@M Detlef partly.
I retired from there. After the service was allowed to make a profit was the beginning of the end. It’s a horrible place to work. Rife with incompetent management.
The post office is an example of doing it right.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! This is information every congressmen and citizen needs to know.
Lobbyists pushed to take portions of the USPS packaging and freight for decades. USPS was mostly left with the least profitable mail and parcels.
Even though USPS delivers a huge portion of last-leg for their competitors - at a loss, because USPS is Constitutionally directed to deliver, whereas competitors aren't.
Congress' Prefunding Mandate exists to choke the USPS out and chop it up to sell to the competitors - or, failing that, privatize it into massive profitability.
Repealing the Prefunding Mandate, or even walking it back to 10yr instead of 75 would give the USPS back its own money that Congress stole. Billions in self-generated revenue.
But instead, the White House installed three Privatizers within a year. When all it would take is modifying or repealing the Prefunding Mandate.
I survived 38 years in the PO
I started when days off would be canceled while working sometimes 10-14 hours mandatory overtime. I walked on top of mail on the floor. I made money but I had no life, I worked as an Electronics Technician. I hated the job, and I had options to move elsewhere but I was CSRS Retirement, I retired in 2012
How about they remove the “last mile” delivery and just deliver to the town center again. I see no point in spending hundreds of $ to a single person in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah that one change will save them...
Why would they want to go backwards? The answer is to get rid of that stupid rule making them fund employees they don’t even have yet not gut their services so grandma and grandpa have to leave the farm in the middle of a pandemic to mail their electric bill check
@TheZoomerFarmer Exactly. Elderly and Veterans in Rural areas rely on the Post for medicine. It's like the White House wants these people dead or something :/
"By 1923, all houses required a mail slot."
Underrated feature in American homes.
You either part of the problem or part of the solution USPS need to be preserved.
My local post office has been crazy busy since the corona virus started and with everyone about 6 feet apart the lines are super long so I figured they were doing well but luckily for me my items are usually prepaid so I walk past everyone and drop it off on the counter
This was very informative!
As a postal employee. I can say we have not used taxpayer money since 82. We get our money paychecks from parcels and stamp sales thats why the post office is broke. But I'm glad to work as a package handler my wife a mall carrier for usps.We are one of the most trusted government entities. I hope it stays that way. Whatever politics you believe this is true.We work hard to get your mall to you on time.We work 7 days a week holidays weekends ect. Please remember this at the polls. When you vote November alot of peoples livelihoods depend on it. Alot of service men too.We do our best to service you rain or shine natural disasters. Whatever to get you your mail to you.We are not the bad guys the government media makes us out to be. Just people trying to provide for there families.
Amazon just came up like *HeLLOOoOO*
As a postal employee work in different craft over the years. I can tell that the postal service problem is not retirement pension funding but mismanagement. Postal service willing to waste millions of dollars for nonsense, post office never own any of the postal building. They pay more money to lease land for 10yrs more than the Land worth, they spend billions of dollars buying garbage trucks. Spent money on BS. Sometimes I ask my boss why does Post office spend money on this kind of nonsense they told me it's government money so shot up and do your job.
USPS will make it through this year. It will never shutdown. Not now, not ever
I'm a letter carrier. The United States Postal Services is *not* a business, and profit is *not the point*. DeJoy needs to go, and take his business-mindedness (really, trying to hobble the Service in order to privatize it) with him. Congress should fund the service, and implement a mail registry; the NALC, NRALC and APWU should cooperate to lobby for these things. And much more.
To all who don't know: City letter carriers' starting pay was *cut* by nearly 30% as of November 2013, and has never been substantively increased. Rural carriers have suffered a similar loss in pay. It's atrocious.
Privatization of the u.s.p.s. would mean mail crime wouldn't be a federal crime.
A valid point I hadn't thought of! Stealing mail no longer a Federal crime = MUCH more mail theft even than we see now! o.0
@@BattleshipSailorBB63 yep. There will be consequences if USPS is privatized, then every delivery driver and their brother will have access to your mailbox.
Right now if FedEx or ups uses a mailbox it is a $4000 fine if they are caught.
The post office is a public service, not a business. If it shuts down millions of people in rural areas, businesses and areas out of profitable reach from UPS and FedEx will be left without any service. If you want to see what happens when you only let only for profit companies operate service, look at the broadband gap in the US. WITHOUT THE POST OFFICE, WE CANNOT HAVE A DEMOCRACY, without the post office, we cannot be a country. It is the single most important organization in these United States and the most neglected, it saddens me to see us sink and neglect such an important organization in our daily lives. The USPS is a public service, not a business and should be treated as such.
#SAVEOURMAIL
Really unfortunate, I put in 35 years as a proud and respected letter carrier before the destruction began in 2006. One man destroying an American institution.
the usps is the best way to ship letters and boxes ! when i order merchendise i always ask for it to be shipped by us mail
In 2010, the postmaster general’s salary authorized by Congress rose to $273,296. Potter stepped down as postmaster general in December 2010, at which time he was awarded $3.1 million in accumulated pension benefits, which he earned over a 32-year period in government service, as well as compensation for leave not taken, and outplacement assistance for a period of two years. In 2011, Potter was replaced by Deputy Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, whose salary in his first year stood at $267,840.
What happened to the other lady who usually narrates the rise and fall series
She was fired.
Jk idk
They may have payed her off, or she caught a cold.
She has COVID-19
thank you for this informative video..United States Postal Service is so underrated!
The postal service is not a business. It's a public service! A service just like police and fire departments.
I was carrier for a while. Literally worst job i ever had.
Thank you💯
The lady that literally throws my mail to door should watch this video.
What happens when USPS cant produce the assets to cover this ever-growing pension debt?
They create something like Covid-19
Low key company man deserves credit for this video idea
Sigh, I have quit ordering anything that must be shipped by USPS. My wife and I do a lot of our shopping online and USPS is just a headache waiting to happen. I never have issues with UPS or FedEx and didn’t have them all that often with USPS , but often enough that I had to bail. It’s not stuff that anyone is going to steal off your porch, it’s little things that would fit in your mailbox. Although, I did have them deliver a squat rack to the house three houses down from me. Fortunately they were people we knew and they walked down and let us know.
THANKS.
watches this video while knowing i have 10+ packages being shipped to me by usps
For anyone hired after 1984 there really are no more pensions.
A Letter Carrier in the Federal Employees Retirement System gets the following:
1) An annuity that the workers pay into, around $22,000/year.
2) Social Security that the workers pay into.
3) Thrift Savings Plan, basically the government's 401k that the workers pay into.
4) Workers have to help pay for health insurance.
So if the Letter Carrier is smart with their money they can have a decent Middle Class retirement.
Over the course of 30-40 years there is a lot of wear and tear on the body also.
How much does social security offer then, usually an annuity would make social amount less.
Get rid of the pensions, they are ridiculous.
People think Postal Workers work for the Federal Government. It's not run by the Federal Government, Just owned.
Shit for a business that can't pay their employees they sure do hire alot of people... im a clerk and the letters are slightly down but the parcels are up. We deliver FedEx ups and Amazon. We can barely get the mail up in time for the carriers. The problem with usps is nepotism within management bunch of friends and family with no business experience trying to make business decisions... i literally watched a pse the lowest position in the post office become a post master the highest position at the post office in two years because his dad was mpo of the district..
And the sex. Supervisors seducing young PSEs and sleeping with them, and when they get caught they don't get fired, they are either promoted or transferred to another city only to return in a couple of yrs, once the dust has settled. I agree, reform is needed in the management ranks, too many mid management jobs, they need to be abolished apparently the supervisors have time to be sleeping around, they're not busy enough.
I #standwithourUSPS I pray you guys can get that red tape lifted on the finances and get back to positivity. My business relies on USPS. Very reliable team
Their trucks are like oversized go-karts
Adam T they are fun to drive 🙂
@@crashfan123 I didn't know that! Wow
Outstanding analysis.
They're in debt because most of the funds are for pensions and some of the people at the very top are making more than congress and the senate.
USPS isn't in debt. It generates billions in self-generated revenue. USPS >is< defaulting on Congress' Prefunding Mandate which steals its money. USPS isn't in debt, it's literally being robbed.
@@crushmonkey801 Yes it is, a few year back they wanted to be "Seperate" from the Fed, government, and when that happened they began to be in the red every year by 10 billion or more.
@@kad3e3 High comedy, friend. USPS would never want to 'Seperate' from its Constitutional duties. We existed before there was a United States of America, we're written into the Constitution. I don't know where you got the idea that we wanted or ever could 'Seperate' from our Constitutional Mandate. You could probably maybe read up on the Prefunding Mandate, though. Having to fund retirement for people who won't even be born for 40 years kind of puts a ding in the budget, lol
I respect to the courier service and worker. They are the one who deserves an award.
This is so sad I always see the mail people hard at work regardless of weather conditions. The ineptitude of our government is embarrassing and I'm not talking about just now but always.
It's their duty. And most of them, a point of pride.
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night", friend.
Hold on a second here man you are telling me this started in 2006 by republicans and went through 8 years of a Democratic president but its somehow Trumps fault? Do you see how somebody could have a problem with that type of thinking?
But won’t the rise of e-commerce generate them money like never before? ... serious question! Lmk.
well amazon, the largest e-commerce platfrom, has its own last mile delivery service which is taking a ton of the post offices potential business
USPS takes a lot of Amazon's last mile delivery. Technically it's a partnership, thier business setup for parcel delivery is clunky
I'm a 33 year postal retired loved the post office and what. I was doing retired now for quite..a few years and love my retirement check it's what I live on
I retired from usps, the problem,bush put onus on them for retiree funding,pre pay,also it is too heavy topside,
This was the second part of this story. The first part was under Regan
was to privatize packages so Fedex and UPS to grab business from the
USPS to cripple it. The how to cripple is that UPSP and FEDEX are
putting their losing deliveries that aren't profitable into the USPS
system at postal rates, because they have to deliver at every address in
the US no matter what the cost. Ask all those people who get letters
for way under a dollar out in delivery runs that go for hundreds of
miles. The only reason they didn't get first class mail was it was
against the law for any private company to deliver it. The USPS funding
for their retirement system 75 years into the future to finish the job
so the Republicans can privatize the entire system and charge $5.00 a
letter and so on. If the USPS was allowed to bank the money as any other
company they would be profitable and solvent. Then the workers working
for them wouldn't get the benefits. With it privatized it takes
accountability out of the We the People so it can be controlled
politically by a group without any stops on it. This BS was to stop
now. Try this get a group of people and get a show of hands how many
know when their mail comes or have been to a post office. Ask with a
show of hands how many have been to a police station, fire station, or
to city hall. There are only two government services that get 100 per
cent show of hands is the USPS and Schools, actually maybe not schools
some people have been home schooled. This shows you how important the
USPS is important in people's lives. I'm fighting and my partner is in a
ad on Facebook fight for the Post Office, I did one too, however, its
not up yet. So I'm not asking to do something I'm not doing. Fight now
to keep this for WE THE PEOPLE!
Essential
Are you Essential? Let us know stud.
Defund the USPS