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Unfortunately there is no bulk mail rate. Third class mail is lower cost because it is either: presorted (so it should ostensibly save the postal service on the labor to sort it), discounted for non-profit companies, or is “Every Door Direct Mail” (EDDM) which requires no sorting because it isn’t addressed. EDDM is also often if not usually sent straight to a post office via a third party so it never goes to a sorting plant. Third class mail also doesn’t receive the return service which all first class mail does.

The rate on it should be increased, but they do receive a lower level of service and sometimes save the postal service on the labor to deliver it.

My ethos? I’m not sure what you mean. The postal service is messed up from the inside pretty bad. I think I explained my view on that part.

Do you mean my opinion on the supposed imminent doom of the organization? That’s just hype if you ask me. You cut the service, people will die. The postal service delivers medicine and supplies to people in rough areas who need it. I doubt even the cronies in government now would let that happen, not to mention the economic calamity that would come from it happening. The postal service is like the 2nd or 3rd largest employer in the country.

People worry about privatization, but the postal service is in the constitution. Even if the current administration has no respect for the ancient toilet paper, it would be risky for any outside party to invest in taking it over when they could be booted by whatever administration that follows.

The postal service is run by morons. The entire system runs on hierarchy where everyone lies to the person immediately above them because their expectations are unrealistic or impossible. Then every interaction between hierarchy levels is inherently hostile and some jobs in the service exist solely to write up the paperwork to get someone in trouble because the postal service only ever uses sticks and never carrots.

There’s a staggering amount of do-nothing jobs that exist just to make things harder for other workers. For example the postal service hires nurses. For quick, in house medical service? No. So someone with a medical background can arbitrarily decide if a signed doctor’s note, from a doctor, on their letterhead, is valid or not. There’s the safety crew too. What do they do? Oh it’s their job to make sure everyone is wearing USPS approved shoes, wearing seatbelts, and parking correctly. That almost makes sense except most of the time they just sit in their cars all day and only occasionally decide to hide in random places and write up employees for small infractions.

The postal service needs congress to get rid of its insane law forcing the organization to fund pensions 75 years in advance and then it needs to get rid of the thousands of useless middle management jobs.

The UN is struggling financially and this report makes the claim that there’s too many meetings and reports that no one reads. They said their most popular reports get 5000 downloads and 1 in 6 reports gets less than 1000 downloads.