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angryxyouth

(325 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:17 PM Mar 2025

DOGE is in my local post office

I was just speaking with my mail carrier. We are in Philadelphia PA. He said DOGE wants to cut 48 hours out of his one small post office which was understaffed to begin with. That is six people losing their jobs in South Philadelphia. And that’s happening all over the city and all over the country probably to a greater extent.

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DOGE is in my local post office (Original Post) angryxyouth Mar 2025 OP
Fucking bastards. 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #1
I'm told that passing the CR gab13by13 Mar 2025 #2
I just sent Senator Schumer an email. Harker Mar 2025 #13
Elon Musk is Satan in human form. Initech Mar 2025 #3
How Many DOGE People Are There?...... global1 Mar 2025 #4
I wonder the same thing. defacto7 Mar 2025 #10
And what kind of security clearance do they have and how deeply slightlv Mar 2025 #18
I seem to remember reading that he was planning to hire 200 people. Lonestarblue Mar 2025 #11
Joe Gebbia, who is one of the billionaire founders of Airbnb just joined DOGE. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #16
I refuse to use airbnb mwmisses4289 Mar 2025 #22
I read DeJoy is planning to . . . peggysue2 Mar 2025 #5
DeJoy cut himself. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #24
Links? orange you glad.... Mar 2025 #6
Actual conversations between people are seldom online Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #8
I'm assuming you're referring to me. angryxyouth Mar 2025 #27
Not you, the person right above my post, who asked for a link. That person didn't get that it was a conversation. Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #29
Sorry I meant to post to the one above. angryxyouth Mar 2025 #30
Delibert destruction so people will complain about 'poor service', then privatize Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #7
Uh huh orangecrush Mar 2025 #9
My office so understaffed we got 50 pages cpamomfromtexas Mar 2025 #12
SO GLAD CHUCK +9 ENDORSED THIS FUCKING SHIT. Maru Kitteh Mar 2025 #14
Here too Cirsium Mar 2025 #15
Unfortunately a lot of USPS employees are magas. dameatball Mar 2025 #21
That won't reduce the federal deficit because the Post Office is self-supporting. pnwmom Mar 2025 #17
The postal workers in my area are already understaffed, Quiet Em Mar 2025 #19
Mess with the Post Office and Social Security SCantiGOP Mar 2025 #20
We went on a wildcat strike in 1970. Nixon tried sending the army in to do our jobs. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #23
Photograph those Doge criminals and post them. GreenWave Mar 2025 #25
I just got a letter, delivered today, that was mailed February 25. It came from sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #26
No wonder Rebl2 Mar 2025 #28

Harker

(17,401 posts)
13. I just sent Senator Schumer an email.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 01:14 PM
Mar 2025

If he follows my suggestion this time, I'll have two new senators very soon.

global1

(26,390 posts)
4. How Many DOGE People Are There?......
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:24 PM
Mar 2025

It seems like they are everywhere all at once.

I thought Elon was working with a small crew?

defacto7

(14,160 posts)
10. I wonder the same thing.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:35 PM
Mar 2025

Who the hell are these people and why are they following orders?

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
18. And what kind of security clearance do they have and how deeply
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:14 PM
Mar 2025

have they been vetted to be all up into our personal info and business. This has to stop... but how???? Hubby now suggests it won't stop until a bomb is dropped on the important buildings in DC. I'm afraid to agree with him.

Lonestarblue

(13,223 posts)
11. I seem to remember reading that he was planning to hire 200 people.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:37 PM
Mar 2025

All of them ignorant of government and dedicated to destroying it.

OMGWTF

(5,012 posts)
16. Joe Gebbia, who is one of the billionaire founders of Airbnb just joined DOGE.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:06 PM
Mar 2025

I had booked an Airbnb in Toronto for this August and just tried to cancel it but the fkers were going to keep my $200++ deposit. Whaddabunchabullshit! I have had hosts cancel on me for no reason which left me scrambling to find an alternative. Hotels don't do that. I will NEVER use Airbnb again and I travel a lot.

peggysue2

(12,381 posts)
5. I read DeJoy is planning to . . .
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:27 PM
Mar 2025

Cut at least 10,000 nationally from the Postal Service.

Because what the public is crying for is privatization.

angryxyouth

(325 posts)
27. I'm assuming you're referring to me.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 04:46 PM
Mar 2025

I’m pretty much always online on DU at least once a day since God knows how long. But I don’t always sign in which probably isn’t good, and I almost never post because it’s just an echo chamber for the most part. There is no link because it what is an actual conversation between me and my mailman this morning. There is going to be a protest and he told me the dates and I forgot them but when I find out what they are again I will post them. The reason I don’t post a lot is because years ago I got freaked out when one of my posts ended up on the right wing site about some Judge died.

Attilatheblond

(8,274 posts)
29. Not you, the person right above my post, who asked for a link. That person didn't get that it was a conversation.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 07:27 PM
Mar 2025

Don't get freaked out.

angryxyouth

(325 posts)
30. Sorry I meant to post to the one above.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:47 AM
Mar 2025

I could’ve swore that the post was questioning my integrity, and how often I post or how long I’ve been on DU. But I don’t see it now. Thanks for the hug.

Attilatheblond

(8,274 posts)
7. Delibert destruction so people will complain about 'poor service', then privatize
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:29 PM
Mar 2025

Create a problem, put a 'solution' in place, profiteering up the kazoo and even worse service.

cpamomfromtexas

(1,471 posts)
12. My office so understaffed we got 50 pages
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 01:06 PM
Mar 2025

Of questionnaires from social security delivered late and 3 days deadline to return to social security.

Cirsium

(3,358 posts)
15. Here too
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 01:23 PM
Mar 2025

Cutting staff, shorter hours, much longer delivery times, etc. It's a nightmare.

Tried to talk to the local postmistress about it. "Well there is a lot of fraud and waste" she says.

pnwmom

(110,190 posts)
17. That won't reduce the federal deficit because the Post Office is self-supporting.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:06 PM
Mar 2025
https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/do-my-tax-dollars-pay-postal-service

(They claim it's in a deficit mode by calculating pension costs 75 years into the future.)

SCantiGOP

(14,664 posts)
20. Mess with the Post Office and Social Security
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:32 PM
Mar 2025

Best way I can think of to totally alienate the MAGA base, which is an older and more rural demographic.

Ping Tung

(4,137 posts)
23. We went on a wildcat strike in 1970. Nixon tried sending the army in to do our jobs.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:53 PM
Mar 2025

Sorting and delivering mail are not as easy as many think.

In the end we won. Double our pay. Got straight hours instead of split hours. Got our unions recognized.

In every poll the USPS is at or near the top of popular public service.

The reality was that Nixon heard a lot about undelivered bills and worse unpaid bills from the capitalists.

Unfortunately for the bosses bills were sent by snail=mail not "on line".

Fortunately for workers a lot of us were students trying to pay for college by working the swing shift (3pm -12pm) so we go to classes.

sinkingfeeling

(57,200 posts)
26. I just got a letter, delivered today, that was mailed February 25. It came from
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 03:31 PM
Mar 2025

Boston and I'm in central Illinois. I had called the company to complain at 9:30 this morning and the customer rep sent it as an email. So, of course, it finally came today

That's a traveling rate of 54 miles a day. I think the Pony Express did better.

Rebl2

(17,398 posts)
28. No wonder
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 04:53 PM
Mar 2025

I get my mail a day or two late. It shows up in my informed delivery, but it isn’t in my P.O. Box until a day or two later. Our local office usually has one or two clerks and one is usually busy with passports. What gets me is it’s a fairly busy PO. They always used to have two-three clerks until about five years ago.

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