I’m a big fan of their new duck trucks. Saw one the other day and it made me smile.
something to be reinvented
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The new trucks that are designed far better than the old ones? Half As Interesting on YouTube has a great video on those.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Those remind me so much of The Busy World of Richard Scarry! I love them, with their little mustache blinkers.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They need to paint one like a duck for the lolz
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They look like Beavis and Butt-Head characters to me, also we apparently had to recall several due to the wheels on specifically the right side of the truck falling off. Needless to say you’ll still see the on life support LLVs for a while
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The cool thing about the postal service is that they will deliver anything no questions asked.
Top bun from a McDonald’s hamburger? no problem!
Asbestos condoms? You got it!
Several slices of 9 year old moldy balogna? Hell yeah buddy!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The cool thing about the postal service is that they will deliver anything no questions asked.
Having shipped packages via USPS before, I cannot confirm they don’t ask questions, they specifically asked to make sure I wasn’t shipping chemicals or explosives.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I know it means hazardous chemicals, but I find the idea of “does your package contain molecules” chuckle-worthy. Probably something a surreal world post office would say.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Were the bologna and the asbestos condoms at any point related?
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The asbestos condoms keep your shlonger safe from all the gross stuff on the balogna when you stuff it into a toilet paper tube to bake a makeshift fleshlight.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
USPS used to ship children. smithsonianmag.com/…/brief-history-children-sent-…
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“Hey, can you place my vote, please? My taxes have already paid for it.”
Current administration:
“Nah. The wanna-be dictator says no, and our top guy is corrupt as fuck…”Spezi@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
My wifes vote was held up in “customs” when she voted from abroad. It never arrived and it was also to late to send a new vote. Why a letter would even go to customs is beyond me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i’m from the bay area in california. i went to college in utah (please don’t start i know i was an idiot. i still am an idiot (thanks mitch) that’s how i know) and my absentee ballot would reliably arrive the day after the election. i tried having it sent to my parents and having them mail it to me in a nondescript envelope and it arrived on time. HUH I WONDER WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THE POST OFFICE IN UTAH, since that didn’t happen to me when i had my california absentee ballots sent anywhere else.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Easy, it’s the difference between a service and a business. War is a business, run by profiteers who charge $1000 to produce and deliver a hammer or a toilet seat, whereas historically the postal service was a pure need met by the government and subsidized by the people, but seen previously as such a critical means of transferring critical information, news, it was necessary to prop up the entire economic system by transferring contracts, documents for business, government, personal dealings, so it had to function and the cost was not a consideration, gouging wasn’t dreams of, and it piggybacked on all the major and newest modes of transportation. Today greed and political malfeasance has intentionally spread the idea that the postal service should be profitable, for some to kill it off or raise prices to enrich their own investments in competition, for some to damage voting by mail, for some to further sow distrust in reliable government services to convince the masses that the government is entirely incompetence and untrustworthy to run such programs to further privatize various industries.
It was cheap because capitalists relied on it to enrich themselves. Now they can do their business in other ways cheaper, so they can do what they always do - raise prices, enshittify it, strip the parts and sell them off once people lose faith in it, then use their corporate monopolies that provide the same services to gouge the populace that previously paid pennies for the same services.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Fuck. They’re up to $1.70 already? I think I still have some left from when I paid like fifty cents.
Spezi@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
If they never expire, they would have been an amazing investment opportunity to stock. Imagine paying fifty cent today and still beeing able to send them to all the remaining 4 countries left worldwide when prices go up to 253.72 Trumpjuniordollars in 2056. Or you can trade them for bread.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They don’t expire. Thats why they’re called forever stamps
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
a buck seventy to take some paper to Oshino Hakkai? What about a small child weighing under fifty pounds?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
State: Hey, can you mail out this ballot postmarked by the state to a resident in the same state that isn’t on a special federal government list?
USPS: No.
Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Well this made me frown like grumpy cat…thanks
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Don’t kill the messenger.
We live under a fascist regime that is dismantling itself to protect it’s power over us.
HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
USPS is one of the many things that still makes me feel a large rush of civic pride in these dark times, among museums and libraries, firefighters, and good community spaces(parks, bike trails, hiking areas, etc).
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They skip many rural communities.
Fuck the USPS.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I bet many will downvote me. They don’t know… No, they actually don’t care.
City live is so nice, they don’t care.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“How could people vote for Trump?!”
This is how.
I’ve never done it… But I get it now. You people don’t fucking care. USPS fucks us over, and they tell everyone they always deliver. They don’t.
THEY FUCKING DON’T.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
There have raised prices 3 times this year ands shipping has nearly doubled in a year. Not usps fault, but they are not the cheapest option anymore. For regular people you are all going to start paying $12 a package soon.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
In order to hire someone. They have to find that person’s entire pension. The next 75 years of income has to be available because Republicans think this will gut the post office
It’s honestly still astounding you can ship something almost anywhere even if it is “$12”
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They actually repealed that in 2022. I’d guess the problem has to do with the destruction of mail sorting machines during Trump’s first term and a decline in people mailing letters.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Heh. Same.
miraclerandy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok, but unrelated to the post office, is this the actress from Game of Thrones? The lady who first marries King Joffrey?
_chris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The post office is not supposed to be a business
Stop treating it like a business
It’s a government provided service (gasp, a social service!) so citizens can communicate.
No wonder they want to take it away from us.
dan@upvote.au 2 weeks ago
It’s the same with public transit. Some people think the government shouldn’t invest in it because it won’t be profitable, but… it’s not supposed to be. It’s a public service, just like libraries, firefighters, parks, public schools, road maintenance, etc. That’s literally what taxes are for.
Mardukas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s crazy. I mean even if you are against taxes and everything it is a shared pool if resources. What are we supposed to with it if not pay for these things? Pay for the salaries of politicians that do not utilise these resources? All the time you hear from these people what the government should not be spending tax payer money on but you rarely hear anything about what the money should be spent on.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s because public transport isn’t always profitable that it needs subsidy, because the indirect effects of a mobile population are extremely beneficial.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The USPS needs to take a long, hard look at their Money Order, and pivot toward basic consumer banking. They were the first widespread service for money transfers. They need to return to that core competency. They should issue checking accounts and bank cards (rivaling Visa and Mastercard) for anyone who wants one. They should provide fee-free basic consumer banking services to the general public.
At this time, their operational model is “advertising platform” that happens to occasionally provide delivery services. Their reason for continued existence is bulk mailing. They aren’t a government service. They are a de facto business. They fund themselves, and they produce a revenue stream for their sole shareholder, the US Government. If they were actually a government service, they would be publicly funded, and junk mail would be broadly prohibited.
The USPS is currently a garbage delivery service. Neither snow, nor rain, nor uBlock Origin stays these ad peddlers from littering “Or Current Resident” with their stamped trash. They should shift their focus to parcel delivery, and consumer banking.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The whole ‘run government like a business’ idea usually entails running it into the ground. It’s just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nobody’s really willing to have this conversation. Much like the TSA, the USPS is a jobs program. The bulk mail justifies the ongoing maintenance expenditures on the mail sorting equipment that will be unnecessary if we stop pushing so many Valpaks and predatory “I want to pay cash for your house” mailers. And a lot of people who process the mail will be out of a job, and a good chunk of people who deliver the mail will be out of a job, and the remaining carriers will have a radically different job as the load is lightened and they would have to travel much further distances on their routes to justify a full day’s wage, but the economics of traveling that far start to raise questions about whether 6 day a week delivery to every address is a reasonable burden for the USPS to shoulder… presumably management would be unaffected.
This will all be in limbo til the nation is ready to talk about what work and life look like in a world where we’re all pretending to need to work 40 hours a week to live. And with the state of mass media as it is, the citizens don’t really get a say when it comes to what we’re talking about this week. Ironically, the USPS is well positioned to reach its customers and get the ball rolling… but taking a stance on the right to life would be deemed political.
_chris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d argue that is what it became, not what it started as or should be.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My dad (a conservative) works in usps and thinks that there’s no way they’ll go after them.
He gets fed up saying how DMV workers are so slow and disrespectful and them glazes up his work in the dmv saying that their agency is the one that gets overworked the most.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There’s a potential future where we could get rid of the DMV. Like we could simply require insurance through AAA or whatever. If you can’t get insured by any branch, then you shouldn’t drive.
Cops should have to get malpractice insurance too. Issuance is a good solution to a lot of stuff.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
You might wanna tell him they’re on elons hit list (iirc)