Going Postal
Jun. 25th, 2025 04:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenI sent something to my sister by first class mail, and she was concerned because after well over a week, she had not received it. Then she let me know that it finally arrived on Friday the 20th.
I mailed a donation to the Center for the Study of Economics back in May, and recently exchanged emails with the Executive Director, asking why the check had not been deposited. He said that he had never received it, so I have now mailed a duplicate check.
These kinds of screwups with the Postal Service didn’t use to be common. Is it just chance that there have been two incidents of unsatisfactory service lately? Is the Postal Service getting worse due to sclerosis and laziness, without a political cause? Or are the problems which I have experienced the result of a deliberate effort by Trumpists to degrade operations, so as to prevent mail-in ballots from arriving, or at least from arriving in a timely fashion?
As the saying goes, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you.
I mailed a donation to the Center for the Study of Economics back in May, and recently exchanged emails with the Executive Director, asking why the check had not been deposited. He said that he had never received it, so I have now mailed a duplicate check.
These kinds of screwups with the Postal Service didn’t use to be common. Is it just chance that there have been two incidents of unsatisfactory service lately? Is the Postal Service getting worse due to sclerosis and laziness, without a political cause? Or are the problems which I have experienced the result of a deliberate effort by Trumpists to degrade operations, so as to prevent mail-in ballots from arriving, or at least from arriving in a timely fashion?
As the saying goes, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you.
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Date: 2025-06-25 03:37 pm (UTC)And yes, it has political cause. The republicans have been working towards destroying the post office for a couple of decades now. They passed a law forcing the PO to fully fund their pension plan, something that no other agency is required to do, and it eats a majority of their funding to no end. Why the dems haven't repealed that law when they are in office and in control of both houses, I do not know. They've had several opportunities.