Postmaster general covers his ears from House Republican questioning during Oversight hearing

[Timber Rattler]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5032688-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-congressional-hearing/

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy covered his ears during a congressional hearing as Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) repeatedly pressed him on oversight of the Postal Service.

McCormick during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Tuesday told DeJoy that he does not get an “A grade” when it comes to his leadership of the U.S. Postal Service.

“You were graded by the United States people, and they don’t use your service anymore,” McCormick said.

“That is not true,” Dejoy said as McCormick continued over him. “Our office is growing.”

“You are responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the lack of accountability,” McCormick said as DeJoy interjected with, “This Congress is responsible for it falling apart. I am trying to fix the Postal Service.”

DeJoy told McCormick, “You’re talking to yourself” before covering his ears.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl7Gfvzav3c

That guy is a real piece of work, acting like a child.  I know that here in rural Southcenntral Pennsylvania, the postal service has all but collapsed, especially for small businesses.  And UPS is not much better.

[verga]

What is he 6 years old?

[Smokin Joe]

FIve years ago, coming off the town doubling in size in 5 years, the USPS here was reliable. You could practically set your watch by them. If you mailed it, it would get where it was sent in a timely fashion.
There were 'in town' and 'out of town' boses in the P.O. accessible 24/7 for outgoing mail. 'In town' mail went across town in a couple of days, max.

No more.

I have had payments cross trails, with the prior month's payment coming in after the next month's payment (thankfully with a long associated vendor, or it could have been a real mess). The first payment was over six weeks in transit.
I have had items not get delivered in a timely fashion (like the above, but items coming to me, also).
A letter mailed to a recipient across the street from the mailbox travels a minimum of 500 miles before it gets to the recipient (to Bismarck and the sorting center and back), and the 'plan' is to move the Bismarck sorting center to Fargo, which would add another 400 miles to that trip. A piece of mail would travel 900 miles to cross the street.

Small wonder my distant vendors are paid over the phone, and payments for the local ones are dropped off in person or put in drop boxes after hours.

[Bigun]

FIve years ago, coming off the town doubling in size in 5 years, the USPS here was reliable. You could practically set your watch by them. If you mailed it, it would get where it was sent in a timely fashion.
There were 'in town' and 'out of town' boses in the P.O. accessible 24/7 for outgoing mail. 'In town' mail went across town in a couple of days, max.

No more.

I have had payments cross trails, with the prior month's payment coming in after the next month's payment (thankfully with a long associated vendor, or it could have been a real mess). The first payment was over six weeks in transit.
I have had items not get delivered in a timely fashion (like the above, but items coming to me, also).
A letter mailed to a recipient across the street from the mailbox travels a minimum of 500 miles before it gets to the recipient (to Bismarck and the sorting center and back), and the 'plan' is to move the Bismarck sorting center to Fargo, which would add another 400 miles to that trip. A piece of mail would travel 900 miles to cross the street.

Small wonder my distant vendors are paid over the phone, and payments for the local ones are dropped off in person or put in drop boxes after hours.

If you mail a crosstown letter (same zip code) here it has to make a 200 mile journey before being delivered. How efficient is that?

[Smokin Joe]

If you mail a crosstown letter (same zip code) here it has to make a 200 mile journey before being delivered. How efficient is that?

Five hundred, here, and they are pushing to make it 900.

I can't make sense of it.

[DefiantMassRINO]

USPS delivery has been most unreliable for me during Summer, especially in July.

In July 2020, I order proof sets from the US Mint.  They never arrived.  When I inquired, the US Mint said they were returned attempted home delivery failed 3 times.  When I checked the USPS tracking website, the items never left the USPS processing center of origin.  The US Mint delivered them to the USPS.  The USPS did nothing with them, and later returned them to the US Mint as failed 3 delivery attempts.

In July 2024, I orderer used music CD's off eBay.  After a couple of weeks of waiting, I checked the USPS tracking web site, they were still sitting in the USPS processing center of origin.  I contacted the seller via eBay.  The items still sat in the processing center.  After the 4th week, I complained to eBay itself and things finally got moving.  After the seller had dropped the items off at USPS processing center, they sat there for 5 weeks until I got eBay involved.

[Lando Lincoln]

[Bigun]

U.S. Postal Service Recommends New Competitive Prices for 2025

Today, the Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for Shipping Services price changes to take effect January 19, 2025. The proposed adjustments were approved by the Governors of the USPS this week.

The change would raise Shipping Services prices approximately 3.2 percent for Priority Mail service and Priority Mail Express service, 3.9 percent for USPS Ground Advantage and 9.2 percent for Parcel Select.

Although Mailing Services price increases are based on the consumer price index, Shipping Services prices are primarily adjusted according to market conditions. The governors believe these new rates will keep the Postal Service competitive while providing the agency with needed revenue. As we previously announced, the Postal Service will not be raising prices in January for our Mailing Services. ...

[DefiantMassRINO]

So the USPS is using a La Cosa Nostra service tier model.

Sure, you could send it First-Class Mail, and it possibly might arrive in your lifetime ... Or, you could send it Priority Mail or Priority Mail Express and know that it will probably reach its destination before you die.

It would be a shame if your Christmas cards got lost behind a mail sorting machine.

[Smokin Joe]

So the USPS is using a La Cosa Nostra service tier model.

Sure, you could send it First-Class Mail, and it possibly might arrive in your lifetime ... Or, you could send it Priority Mail or Priority Mail Express and know that it will probably reach its destination before you die.

It would be a shame if your Christmas cards got lost behind a mail sorting machine.

Something like that happened here. We had two blizzards, about a week apart a couple of years ago. The mail sorters could not make it in to work for days. What did they do? By the way the mail was eventually delivered, they shoved the pile off into a corner, and picked at it when that day's new mail went through. (instead of prioritizing the backlog and letting the new stuff coming in be a couple days slower getting through).

Payments that I sent were six weeks getting delivered, coming in two weeks after the subsequent month's payment. Between stopping payment on 2K worth of checks, late fees, and one 'tendered payment was not negotiable' fee for one of the stopped payment checks, $2 worth of stamps cost me $120.
God only knows what havoc it wrought as house payments, car payments, credit cards, and the like got all messed up, but collectively, I'd wager it cost people a fortune.
I learned. Five vendors are handled otherwise, and that is six stamps a month they will never sell me.

[verga]

If you mail a crosstown letter (same zip code) here it has to make a 200 mile journey before being delivered. How efficient is that?

Grew up just outside Buffalo NY. Each town had at least one small post office. Drop off a local delivery it was there the next day. 35 years ago they closed most of them. Had 2 Large post offices. Drop off a letter for local delivery, it went from Buffalo to Rochester, back to the Larger Buffalo branch. 3 day minimum for local delivery.   

[Bigun]

Grew up just outside Buffalo NY. Each town had at least one small post office. Drop off a local delivery it was there the next day. 35 years ago they closed most of them. Had 2 Large post offices. Drop off a letter for local delivery, it went from Buffalo to Rochester, back to the Larger Buffalo branch. 3 day minimum for local delivery.

Thirty years ago, we had one post office here and local mail got delivered the next day 99.44% of the time now everything goes to Houston and back before it gets delivered. Most often, that takes 3 days or more (often many more). It makes not one lick of sense to me. I've quit using the Post office for anything.

I think the picture posted above is perfectly illustrative of the problem.

[Free Vulcan]

This admin is run by lunatics, numbnuts, screwballs and apparently little children too.

[DB]

Thirty years ago, we had one post office here and local mail got delivered the next day 99.44% of the time now everything goes to Houston and back before it gets delivered. Most often, that takes 3 days or more (often many more). It makes not one lick of sense to me. I've quit using the Post office for anything.

I think the picture posted above is perfectly illustrative of the problem.

Across the board (not just the USPS), even with new technology, service is poorer today than it has been in decades. The USPS first class mail volume peaked in 2001 and has declined by more than half since then.

[Cyber Liberty]

U.S. Postal Service Recommends New Competitive Prices for 2025

Oh!  Some usage of the word "Competitive" that I was previously unaware of!

[Bigun]

Oh!  Some usage of the word "Competitive" that I was previously unaware of!

 

People who live in government funded monopolies do not understand the words "Competition" and "Efficiency".

[DB]

People who live in government funded monopolies do not understand the words "Competition" and "Efficiency".

Government Efficiency is an oxymoron. Government always consumes other people's resources.