And The Ocho.

This story is fucked up enough without having to fashion new angles out of whole cloth.

I haven’t seen anyone saying it’s good and proper that the guy was physically assaulted by law enforcement. If those people existed, absolutely fuck them. Saying he should have just gotten off the plane while simultaneously agreeing that the asshole cops who dragged him off are pieces of shit? Yeah, that I’ll agree…

Oh, gotcha. Could you use MyUSPS with your PO box to get notifications for incoming packages? My zip code somehow doesn’t offer MyUSPS, so I don’t 100% know the fine details of how it works in practice.

Customer service is there on Sunday, specifically and exclusively for Amazon. It’s completely understandable not wanting to waste prime Sunday time dealing with a problem that will solve itself the following day.

They should be scanning the packages as either delivered to parcel locker or available for pickup/notice left. Or are you saying package scans aren’t included in real mail notification (the service that tells you there’s mail in your PO box?

There’s a Contact Us option on USPS.com and Amazon has a direct line to USPS customer service. Let the post office know when that happens. Sunday deliveries are performed by carriers out of a central hub in the area, so the carriers delivering a given route tend to be different every week. The post office can’t fix a…

I know it seems like complaints go into the void, but your local post office can’t fix a problem they don’t know exists. There’s a Contact Us option on USPS.com. Let your post office know when that shit happens. If nothing else, it creates a paper trail, and that helps if there’s a bad carrier who needs to be…

I can think of two ways it could be of use. Say you’re expecting a credit card. The company told you it should be delivered in 7-10 days. Day 11, and it’s still not there. As it stands today, there’s nothing any party can do unless your missing card gets activated. There’s no reasonable way to track letter mail, so…

Presorted standard, yes. That’s the “junk mail.” Presorted first class is still, y’know, first class, and so it’s probably at least worth a look.

Yes to the first part, no to the second. Service level is set in stone regardless of finances. The second, though, misses the mark. USPS isn’t taxpayer supported; it’s funded 100% through sale of postage.

I think that exact thing is why we should be especially careful in propagating these fact-adjacent tweetstorms. There is a lot of evidence that there is fire under all the smoke about Russia, but getting critical facts wrong helps to undermine the truth. If you’re laying the foundation for a house, it doesn’t matter…

I wasn’t much of a fan of Seth during his SNL tenure, but man has he been on fire since the election. He has perfectly filled the void left by Stewart and Colbert of “funny person I agree with being shitty about a president I dislike.”

The most disappointing thing about Trump winning the election (and for fuck’s sake, he did legitimately win) is that liberals are following the same road map the conservatives did after Obama. We have the advantage of opposing an administration that is actively and openly aiming to make life worse for like 96% of the…

No, that’s not how any of it works. USPS isn’t taxpayer supported. Congress doesn’t “give” them anything. Almost all of the financial difficulties USPS is currently facing exist because in 2006, Congress passed a law that, among other things, mandated that USPS fund retiree healthcare benefits for 75 years. They were…

Not really. The main features of Priority Mail are tracking and included insurance. This adds neither to first class mail. This will just let you know that letter mail is being sent to your address. I’m guessing the images being sent will be captured by the sorting facility that feeds mail to the local post, so in…

I get your point, but it’s not factually correct. The post office is legally required to deliver the mail they’re paid to deliver. They aren’t allowed to destroy mail a company sent to you because you don’t want it.

I have no idea how I missed those. Sorry for the spam.

If there’s sensitive personal information on the outside of the envelope, the problem is with the sender.

It’s not monetized, and it’s not data they collect. The sorting machinery scans the mail anyway, this just sends you that scan.