From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: USPS (Was: Question about Clinton's "didn't inhale" remark)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:03:33 GMT

<In article <barrett.712247509@cc.gatech.edu> barrett@cloudgen1.gatech.edu (James Barrett) writes:
<ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
<><In article <45552@shamash.cdc.com> paul@svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) writes:
<><   rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

<><   >king@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (Jonathan King) writes:
<> < Well, let's think about this for a minute. The Postal Service comes
<> <  pretty close to paying for itself and it does a good job compared to
<> <  other countries postal systems. 
<>	On which planet, please? In the U.S. (on Earth), the
<>	Postal Service has never paid for itself, has cut service
<>	year after year and is slower than the Italian postal
<   >	service.
 <
<  Huh?  The USPS gets no taxpayer money, so if it isn't supporting itself,
<   where does it's support come from?

	Huh? Is the position of "Postmaster General" still a
	Federal position or not? 

	Please support the assertion that the USPS gets no money
	from taxpayers.

	Note, btw, that USPS has a monopoly on 1st class
	mail, protected by the Federal government. 
	US Post Offices are Federal property.
	Postal employees are Federal civil "servants".
	
	If the USPS is an "independent company", how can
	I set up such a company, please, with a guaranteed
	market, armed men to squelch any competition,
	and so forth?

<   ><Per item mailed it does pretty good
<   ><   compared to private industry (like UPS) in terms of lost mail, etc.
<   >	Huh? I have NEVER heard of any parcel sent via UPS being
<   >	lost; on the other hand, a postcard from UPS sent to
<   >	my Post Office box took 5 days to travel 1,000 yards
<   >	not too long ago. 

 <  You must be deaf, then.  
	
	The ability to read the cancellation date on a 
	postcard does not require the use of ears (at least,
	outside of Georgia....).

<UPS drivers are heavily encouraged to be as fast as 
<   possible and when they can cut corners, they certainly do.  

	Not in my experience.

<They 
<   *routinely* ignore call tags because UPS gets paid regardless of whether
<   the item is picked up or not and the drivers simply write "customer refused
<   to give item" on the sheet without going anywhere near the pick-up site.
 
	Not in my experience.

<  (I work for a company which does warranty repair service through UPS 
<   delivery.)  I have certainly seen UPS lose many, many parcels.


	Tell me, if your company is displeased with UPS, why
	not switch services? Try Airborne or Federal Express;
	you have a choice, exercise it!
	
	And if your company is displeased with the 1st class
	mail services of the USPS......too bad!!


<James C. Barrett (barrett@cc.gatech.edu)| "I'm speechless...               
<Georgia Tech College of Computing       |      I am without speech." - George

	Neat name for your company; "Georgia Tech".
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