Hey fuck you buddy

yeah the usps is one of the most efficient businesses in the nation

@usps-official, you’re about efficient and we’ll liked as the IRS. If you weren’t so heavily subsidized by the Fed, you’d be outta fucking business. Please go away you twats!

We regret to inform you that the delivery of your anime body pillow has been delayed. 

Please be patient with us.

“ In the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the Postal Service won a hard-fought legislative battle, at some cost, to put its funding permanently off budget. Congress agreed that mail delivery was a self-financing business whose operations should not be scaled up or down depending on national budget considerations. “

https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/federal-budget-treatment-postal-service

Very good info in the above link. ^^^

The reason why the USPS has gotten such a bad reputation as of late is because, I think, of two major issues. 

First, the leadership refused to embrace the increase of electronic mail, and rather than get ahead of the technology curve, it chose to stay behind and lost all kinds of revenue and circulation, and are still trying to catch up.

Not that they ever will, because second, because of the GOP and their fetish of privatizing any and all government operations, set in motion legislation to force the USPS to bankrupt itself (so that it can be sold off to private interests, of course) by demanding that it fund its pension plan 75 years in advance! 75 years!!! No business requires that much foresight and pre-funding, but the GOP saw it as the perfect way to pave the way for a more “efficient” (read: privatized, for-profit, and innately with reduced availability dependent on income) postal service.

The USPS is the victim here - both of its own lack of foresight and of elements trying to kill it. But despite all that, it’s still here, so that’s something, at least.

Consider also; the USPS is the backbone of Legal Document Delivery. Need to send payment for that coveted, fully anatomical, VERY EXPENSIVE anime body pillow to ‘Frisco and be reasonably sure it gets there? Send it Certified Return Receipt. The receipt card you get back from the USPS IS LEGAL PROOF THAT THE PACKAGE YOU SENT, (your payment) WAS RECEIVED. If drooling privatization RepCons successfully kill The USPS, Fedex (or Whoever gets the contract) can deliver your check to a hog farmer in Yugoslavia & be, like, ‘Oops!’ Worse? ‘Pillow Pleasures Inc.’ could GET your check, claim they never did, and refer you back to Fedex who Does not. Will not. And will never give a fuck about you. 'Have fun filing your Class Action suit!’ (MAYBE we’ll deliver THOSE documents… To Dubai!)

If the Postal Service is running less than efficiently right now it’s because the Republicans in Congress are trying to kill it by starving it of support through this inane 75 year requirement.

Also, CONGRESS HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE POSTAL SERVICE RUNNING WELL. ARTICLE I, SECTION 8.

So the GOP is shirking their Constitutional obligations by fucking with the USPS. If the Founding Fathers were alive they’d be beating the Republicans with their canes.