Daniel
Member
I know that for several years USPS has not been my top choice for sending packages, it has pretty much been my only one. I have not had enough problems to remember them specifically. A torn open package and lost items once in a great great while, and maybe a couple of completely lost packages. But concerns that "Things" will change is always on my mind.
I am not a postal worker but I am a government worker and I can tell you that using any argument that has to do with financial since is a total waste. I do not make the decisions on how we get things done. I just follow the decisions that have been made. I live every day surrounded by financially ridiculous situations. Trust me, reasoning that points out that it is a waste of $5.00 does not go far when I know I have two fork lifts setting in the back room that get a combined use of 3 hours a month. but they are both necessary even though they cost over $100 a month just in routine maintenance. By the way I move most freight around with a hand truck that cost $90 and sees about 5 hours a day in use. maintenance is a shot of grease in each wheel once a year, if I remember. And this is a very tiny example of the waste. a resent fairly normal one was ordering Custodial supplies for a new 6 story building on campus. total coast over $150,000.00, after these supplies and equipment had already been purchased the decision was made to contract the custodial services. non of the equipment was ever used or returned. it now sets taking up room in one of my warehouses. It will eventually be used over the next 5 to 10 years. but if items worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are ignored, what chance does $5 have.
I am not a postal worker but I am a government worker and I can tell you that using any argument that has to do with financial since is a total waste. I do not make the decisions on how we get things done. I just follow the decisions that have been made. I live every day surrounded by financially ridiculous situations. Trust me, reasoning that points out that it is a waste of $5.00 does not go far when I know I have two fork lifts setting in the back room that get a combined use of 3 hours a month. but they are both necessary even though they cost over $100 a month just in routine maintenance. By the way I move most freight around with a hand truck that cost $90 and sees about 5 hours a day in use. maintenance is a shot of grease in each wheel once a year, if I remember. And this is a very tiny example of the waste. a resent fairly normal one was ordering Custodial supplies for a new 6 story building on campus. total coast over $150,000.00, after these supplies and equipment had already been purchased the decision was made to contract the custodial services. non of the equipment was ever used or returned. it now sets taking up room in one of my warehouses. It will eventually be used over the next 5 to 10 years. but if items worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are ignored, what chance does $5 have.
