As a new Postmaster General with ties to FedEx assumes control of the agency, postal workers and their customers are bracing for either scenario, especially as corporate America weighs in.

Rick Wallace, 77, voted for Trump and supports his cost-cutting agenda, to a point.

“There are government programs that I’d like to see discontinued or cut back, especially those that don’t affect me,” said the retired Scottsbluff firefighter. “But the ones like the Postal Service, yes, we count on them.”

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    “There are government programs that I’d like to see discontinued or cut back, especially those that don’t affect me,”

    And this right here is the problem, you geriatric piece of shit.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I have a rural address.

    USPS already is broken for my community. They won’t delivery at all off the paved highway. We have a line of mailboxes.

    The issue is that the mailboxes are constantly broken into, so we all also have a PO Box. P.O. Boxes are not cheap.

    My mailbox no longer exists to prevent packages from accidentally getting delivered to it.

    If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

    • esa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      16 days ago

      If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

      The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn’t really want to pay for stuff where they don’t directly benefit. In “me first” politics, rural populations are screwed.