Re: QRP Quarterly Mailing
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That the problem with all gov't run enterprises: There's no incentive to be efficient. Indeed, it's the opposite. When I was in grad school, a friend of mine went to work for a new agency in DC that had about two dozen workers. He wrote to me about 4 months later and told me his boss told all the workers NOT to process anything in their IN boxes. The work piled up for a week when there was a "surprise" visit from the GAO in responses to their manager's request for more personnel. He got the additional workers.
Your status in DC is a function of the number of people under your control, meaning there is no incentive to keep costs down. The agency: The EPA, which now has over 16000 employees.
Jack, W8TEE
On Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 12:34:35 PM EDT, Andrew, W5AWS via groups.io <w5aws@...> wrote:
At least with QRP there is a good chance that one's transmission results
in successful communication.
Louis DeJoy is responsible for degradation of the post office. Under his
tenure as postmaster general, he reorganized operations to supposedly
make them more efficient. He has conflicts of interest that make it
worth his while to destroy or privatize the post office, driving
business to companies with which he is associated.
A lot of local mail sorting is now centralized at distant locations, so
a letter that is destined across town has to go to a processing center a
long way away. I sent a letter to an international destination, it never
made it out of the country, returned to me as undeliverable; I had to
hand it in again at my local post office for another attempt. Just last
week, I had a letter destined across town returned to me marked
undeliverable; I telephoned the recipient to check that he was still
alive then handed the letter in to the post office desk clerk yet again.
On April 29, I sent a registered letter internationally with return
delivery notification. It reached the processing center in Coppell, TX,
on April 30 at 1808 hrs where it has remained for the last seven days.
For about the same cost, I could have sent it in a FedEx envelope and
had it reach its destination by now, if not sooner.
As you may imagine, in future I won't be using USPS for anything important.
Andrew, W5AWS.
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