The USPS vs its customers

[Goredho 17346]

Putting this here, because Trump has called all negotiated deals with the USPS into question which is resulting in a lot of upheaval in the shipping industry.  Obviously this harms stamps.com in the short term.  How often does a $3B company lose 50% of its value overnight?  Long term, however, it looks like the USPS cannot compete well against other shipping carriers in terms of time/efficiency and is going to just let its biggest customers walk away.  I don't see how the USPS does not lose in the end.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/investing/stamps-com-postal-service-deal/index.html
 

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New York (CNN Business)Stamps.com says it is ending an exclusive relationship with the US Postal Service, sending shares of its stock plunging more than 50%.

The company says Amazon is disrupting the shipping business, and it needs to do shipping deals with postal service competitors going into the future.

Amazon has popularized two-day shipping with its Prime service, and Stamps.com says its customers demand two-day shipping guarantees. FedEx (FDX), UPS (UPS) and DHL offer those guarantees. The Post Office doesn't.

"One of our nonnegotiable items is that ... we will no longer be exclusive to the USPS," said CEO Kenneth McBride in a call with analysts on Thursday evening. "USPS has not agreed to accept these terms or any other terms of our partnership proposal."

 

 

McBride said Stamps.com opted to discontinue its shipping partnership with the Postal Service so it can "fully embrace partnerships with other carriers who we think will be well positioned to win in the shipping business in the next five years."

more at the link

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26256]

I can do the next 5 pages of this thread in one post:

Poster One: "I hate the post office whenever I go there they fail to address me with deference and tell me I have to put an address on the box then they LOSE IT every time!" [x100 posters]

Poster Two: [putting down pipe after thoughtful pause] "I don't know, Old Bean, I've shipped 14,000 package via the USPS, and they get there quite promptly, sometimes even a day before I mail them." [x 5 posters]

Poster Three: "I delivered a package to your mom."

[thrillhammer 683]

21 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I can do the next 5 pages of this thread in one post:

Poster One: "I hate the post office whenever I go there they fail to address me with deference and tell me I have to put an address on the box then they LOSE IT every time!" [x100 posters]

Poster Two: [putting down pipe after thoughtful pause] "I don't know, Old Bean, I've shipped 14,000 package via the USPS, and they get there quite promptly, sometimes even a day before I mail them." [x 5 posters]

Poster Three: "I delivered a package to your mom."

your mom has never complained about my package.

[Anastasis 23394]

Something something your mom  backdoor delivery. 

[Llano Estacado 1257]

Guy 4 - The Overland Pony Express could deliver a message coast to coast in 10 days. A century later a man is walking on the moon. 50 years after that I can’t my super important widgets and whatever stupid shit my wife ordered from the distribution center to my doorstep in 2 days.

[TexArcher 37508]

Guy 5 - Hillary Clinton got her mail at a private mailbox instead of at her State Department P.O. Box and nothing worse has ever happened ever.

[Parliament 14133]

I've never given out this much pos rep in a CR thread.

[JohnnyRage 1617]

I'm unaware of Stamps.com. So that's a knock on them.

Yeah, the mailman suck, but you can't beat those prices.

[Incredulity 11565]

Wtf is stamps.com going to provide for other shippers?  They all have direct to consumer locations and robust web offerings.  They only exist because of the half ass quasi-govermental management of USPS.

[Goredho 17346]

This is not how I envisioned this thread going, but I like it almost as much as your mother’s liked the contents of my package.

[Anastasis 23394]

*mothers

[Llano Estacado 1257]

Guy 6 - WTF is stamps.com? (x2-4)

[RDCanecutter 26256]

4 hours ago, Parliament said:

I've never given out this much pos rep in a CR thread.

Negged.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4968]

8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

*mothers

And the grammar nazism makes an appearance. Speaking of Nazis, how did their postal system stack up against ours?

[Guest Lobo]

It didn’t fare well in the snow.  

[Bookman 4610]

This thread delivers.

[BrazilHorn 6576]

All the post office seems to deliver anyway is junk mail and catalogs. I’d gladly pay them an annual fee to not have them do that. That could be their new business model. Spam filtering 

[Your Mom 4796]

22 hours ago, thrillhammer said:

your mom has never complained about my package.

You package sucks. 

 

[JohnnyRage 1617]

14 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

All the post office seems to deliver anyway is junk mail and catalogs. I’d gladly pay them an annual fee to not have them do that. That could be their new business model. Spam filtering 

This guy does not used sex toy (fucks)

[BrazilHorn 6576]

7 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

This guy does not used sex toy (fucks)

Those come via courier. 

[Eggo 3974]

Guess I'll take this opportunity to scream at the heavens. Every week, the postman/postwoman dumps those stupid fucking Redplum ads in every mailbox and I really just wish they would save some trees because it goes directly into the recycling. They also deliver 5 Financial Times prints that are from 2 weeks ago on the same day. Apparently delivering a British newspaper on time is too hard for a San Antonio post office. /endrant

Edit: Buying/selling stocks based on insights from 2 week old FT is not recommended.

Edited February 24, 2019 by Eggo

[Brothahorn 10085]

So can I blame Trump or not for the shitty way the Post Office does business? That's all that matters.

[ohchaucer 1443]

But her mails!

[Henry Hill 3156]

I would not shed a tear if USPS went belly up in my lifetime. I’ve lost more packages, money and my sanity due to their gross incompetence than from any other organization.

[Your Mom 4796]

Pro tip... red plum, retail me not, and most of those other shitbag junk mail ads have an email address down in the fine print you can use to take you address off their list.  I have a few single retailers still sending me crap but I was able to get rid of the big ones. 

[Guest Lobo]

My local strip center is anchored by a USPS office, an always empty PetSmart, a Stein Mary, and a recently shuttered Radio Shack.  People complain about how much money the feds spend on postal staff, it ain’t at my location.   Always just two people there no matter the time of year or day   

i think May be living in the future.  

[Junior Miller 1502]

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

My local strip center is anchored by a USPS office, an always empty PetSmart, a Stein Mary, and a recently shuttered Radio Shack.  People complain about how much money the feds spend on postal staff, it ain’t at my location.   Always just two people there no matter the time of year or day   

i think May be living in the future.  

I see the Jews and Catholics finally kissed, made up, and consolidated.  

[Guest Lobo]

My bad, Stein Mary is the orthodox stripper that needs extra tips for an abortion.  Always with the money with her.  At least she talked management into Fish Friday’s at the club.  

[High Plains Drifter 10975]

On 2/24/2019 at 6:36 AM, Bookman said:

This thread delivers.

even on Sundays, unlike the post office.

[relapse98 634]

1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

even on Sundays, unlike the post office.

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

[Guest Lobo]

They are a strange bird.    even if I put my key into the community box to show that I am accessing the mail in my particular box while she still putting in the mail ,  she stops me and says I can’t touch anything .   

But on Sunday she’ll leave all of the neighbors Amazon packages with me if I’m playing out in the street with my daughter with the hopes that I’ll sort it all out later.  But on Sunday she’ll leave all of the neighbors Amazon packages with me if I’m playing out in the street with my daughter with the hopes that I’ll sort it all out later  

But I can’t grab the H-E-B circular in the red plum spam bundle if she still has so much is one other box open while I’m up there

[High Plains Drifter 10975]

5 minutes ago, relapse98 said:

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

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[RPM 26223]

1 hour ago, relapse98 said:

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

In metro areas, yeah. In the other 98% of the country, no.

[Keef 757]

If you don't know what stamps.com is, you clearly don't listen to podcasts.  

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

16 hours ago, Henry Hill said:

I would not shed a tear if USPS went belly up in my lifetime. I’ve lost more packages, money and my sanity due to their gross incompetence than from any other organization.