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DCRunningDiva
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 Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:28 Post subject: Poll/Not Poll: USPS
Do you think the United States Post Office will ever go out of business in our lifetime?
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:30 Post subject: Re: Poll/Not Poll: USPS
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | | Do you think the United States Post Office will ever go out of business in our lifetime? |
No, but stamps will be $10 each.
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:30 Post subject:
no, but it may be downsized considerably
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:33 Post subject:
They have been losing market shares for years, though.
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:38 Post subject:
They are trying to get into certified e-mail.
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:39 Post subject:
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | | They have been losing market shares for years, though. |
The USPS handles more packages in two weeks than UPS, FedEx and DHL handle in one year combined...
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:40 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | DCRunningDiva wrote: | | They have been losing market shares for years, though. |
The USPS handles more packages in two weeks than UPS, FedEx and DHL handle in one year combined... |
Where is the source for this statistic??? (seriously).
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:42 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | DCRunningDiva wrote: | | They have been losing market shares for years, though. |
The USPS handles more packages in two weeks than UPS, FedEx and DHL handle in one year combined... |
USPS also brings more crap to my mailbox every day than UPS, FedEX and DHL combined.
Quality > Quantity
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:43 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | andydp wrote: | | DCRunningDiva wrote: | | They have been losing market shares for years, though. |
The USPS handles more packages in two weeks than UPS, FedEx and DHL handle in one year combined... |
USPS also brings more crap to my mailbox every day than UPS, FedEX and DHL combined.
Quality > Quantity |
When we were on a WEEK vacation they ended up filling our box with so much crap that they couldn't stuff the real mail in there anymore. So, I had to go to the P.O. to pick up my mail. I threw away all but about 8 pieces of mail. UNBELIEVABLE amounts of CRAP!
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TriBob
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:46 Post subject:
My friend went to work as a mail carrier and had to do push ups when he called it junk mail. 
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:51 Post subject:
that junk mail is a gravy train of revenue
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:51 Post subject:
Dude. I love our USPS. They delivered over 150 packages for me this summer with only 1 mistake.
They delivered these boxes to Iraq within one week--and for only 7.70 a box--regardless of weight.
No one else does that.
Question: why does the usps sponsor Olympics and athletes?
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:52 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | that junk mail is a gravy train of revenue |
That's Bulk Mail!
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:52 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: |
Question: why does the usps sponsor Olympics and athletes? |
they are a business just like UPS and FEDEX
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 13:56 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: |
USPS also brings more crap to my mailbox every day than UPS, FedEX and DHL combined.
Quality > Quantity |
Not their fault.
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | | They have been losing market shares for years, though. |
They have, but they also couldn't handle the huge demand. They've been contracting a lot of our mails thru various couriers. I think they'll be around a long time.
Plus, their motto says:
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
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