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  • The Akward moment when de two top comments are the same .-.

  • Fuck USPS, slow as hell. No wonder people use UPS, or FedEx. Period

  • The postal system in my country, to say the least, sucks. This is very interesting!

  • What kind of moron allows both top comments to be exactly the same. And I'm here from the band Postal Service.

  • maryland to california how many processing places does it go through?..omg next time im definite going to use the ups and just pay the extra money to get it there faster

  • lol he is specific at 7 bazillion people at the beginning

  • i hate when the 2 top comments are the same.

  • @SupriorJovHD Why?

  • What bar code do they put on lost packages?

  • 0:20 ... Wait, did he just throw that?

  • @lovefromzoo Yep! Pieces of shit aren't they

  • @lovefromzoo Of course

  • @lovefromzoo Yes he did

  • I wonder where my stuff is.......The box arrived empty in Florida and I sent it from Keansburg New Jersey with 6 pounds and 11...Any idea if I can recuparate it? I did Not ensure it But I was NOT EXPECTING for it to get lost

  • i hate usps. they lost my stuff. I will kill them

  • ...@ 0:15 the first step is to fuck up your package as much as possible!...owait im sorry thats the UPS & FEDEX asshole delivery guys!...

  • I HAVE 4 FUCKING DAYs LEFT UNTIL my project is dUE OMFG and my package is at the far end of the state im at the end. *epic music*

  • Thanks for the behind the scenes from the USPS! I was just curious for the visual.

  • nobody works at the postal service. they are too many lazy troublemakers and unnecessary overtime rip off overtime rip off repent

  • Here is how mail should work. Advertisements or other junk mail is against the law. Daily Advertisement comes in an envelope packet. Self coupons come in an envelope packet. Weekly Advertisement comes in a packet also whether book or not. Yellow pages are now yearly business telephones and addresses. It's against the Law to list peoples telephone numbers without their consent. Those looking for people need to go to The Department of Social Service.

  • @heartlessvietboy USPS has the right to send you junk mail you have the right to not revieve mail USPS is on the merge of going bankrupt and i think i can take some junk mail to fund them also when you go to yellow pages on line and you find your number it clearly says "Is this you? Would you not like your number listed?"

  • People have complained of receiving unwanted calls from telemarketers. We need to simplify things and make it straight forward.

  • damit i hope my package gets here

  • wow they aren't very gentle with envelopes and packages, are they?

  • thats how that works

  • thumbs ups if you are watching this because you are waiting for a package

  • @NewYork50343 yes sir!!!!

  • Im watching this because i need it for my english class lol...

  • they broke my package assholes

  • SEVEN BAZILLION, holy shit, that's a big number!

  • Guys i need your help, someone from america has shipped my hdpvr to britian 4 days ago and he yesterday he said he is going to cancell it can he do that, it was sent first class postage btw

  • lazy bastards.. fuck better do your job and send me my package or I will bombard your e-mail system

  • @HenneyToh lmao

  • wow, i just sent a ps3 without bubble protection and then saw how they throw a similar box!!!

    good thing i put no returns accepted!!!

  • Mail thrown at 0:22 is not lost forever

  • So... the point is how the USPS works... they are to lazy to fucking WALK to where they need to put a package or somthin... they THROW IT FUCKING MLB STYLE... I swear to fucking god that if my game is damaged one fucking bit....

  • It's interesting how mail gets processed then shipped to our house.

  • FUCKING USPS is delivering my stratocaster guitar, these fuckers had better not damage it!

  • if you dont like the fact that the parcels are thrown and say they are damaged USE UPS!!! U will come running back when u see their prices-or maybe we can raise the cost of the 44c stamp so they can hire more help to hand deliver your precious package you dumb ass!

  • How long does it take for a package to reach New Zealand from Texas? How much would it cost? the package is less than a pound if that helps. Thanks

  • It's amazing.

  • USPS takes sooooooo long to deliver even the smallest of packages

  • ‹(•¿•)› WINNING ‹(•¿•)›

  • lol buzziliun

  • Never order from UPS they destroyed every single one of my packages

  • I've been waiting two weeks now for my package and still nothing

  • I love how they are throwing all those packages. 0:22

  • 2 days? LOL more like 2 weeks.. >_<

  • the reason why the price of package shipping is going up in april is to "Accomodate the regulars" that get paid 25+ dollars an hour to stand around and take their good ole time working the mail.

  • i work for usps and i can tell you 98% of the reason why your letter arrives damaged is because it jams in their 20+ year old machines. As for the packages i dont know why it would be damaged, because of throwing them that could be.

  • wow. im never using usps. i'll just drive my package to wherever the FUCK I NEED IT. jerks. ):

  • my package better not get lost

  • I put a hidden camera on my package... 

  • thumbs up if you are watching this because you're waiting on a package

  • @101elchuy I logged onto youtube just to thumbs up your comment.....I WANT MY PACKAGE!!!!! But im not impatient =)

  • @101elchuy mine got lost and USPS won't refund me.. I'm disputing it still o.O

  • 0:17 nice treatment of a persons mail just throws it.

  • So they throw my shit around like that! They sure don't look organized. They must hate their jobs.

  • HOLY SHIT they is chucking around my new laptop right now

    FUCK YOU USPS

  • i had a tracking number and the fuckers said it cant be tracked so why the fuck do i have a tracking number for .

  • watch shaq shoot for a 3 pointer at 00:21 !

  • I used to work at USPS process center and mail labeled "fragile" is treated no different than any other kind of mail in the facility

  • How can that machine read everybody's crappy handwriting? Sometimes I can't even read the shit and it's my own address on the envelope.

  • @tombstoner79 0:32

    The machine reads the barcode.

  • "A day or two later"

    HA!

  • Earth's Population: 6.7 billion

    People a day who post letters (according to Martial Brain): 7 bazillion

    lolwut

  • yeah you 4got the part where they harass their employees 24-7

  • @bertoradzio you got that right!!!!

  • omg they keep stealing my netflix

  • Lol @ the highest rated comments!

  • Never got a movie I ordered. :(

  • the postal service is a worthless piece of $hit organization. no wonder they are hemorrhaging money, they treat their employees like fecal matter.

  • The guy at 0:22 was like "this envelope probably doesn't need to get anywhere so let's throw it away"

  • :22 AIR MAIL

  • dame they worst then ups

  • @carlosforelife not exactly...

    they may throw things around but wait til you see ups

  • its pretty fast for 1st class, O__O the letter i sent got to the destination in 3days

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  • I Wish My mail came in two days it takes to weeks to get here

  • @armandogarcia4 because when the "stupidvisors" i mean supervisors dog the employees to run the mail faster like they are in a prison, then they slow the process down purposely to piss off the supervisors thats why it takes so long to get your mail!!

  • It's time to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

  • @simontimon2 It’s already privatized all of the shipping is done through UPS, Fedex, and all of the private air carriers they need to do what they did back in the old days. There is a difference between the private companies and the account that the post office has, Post office has a non profit account where as the privates companies have a profit account that means you can buy their stock. This is what happens when you subcontract! Tell congress to stop out sourcing the post office.

  • Well it hasn't been totaly privatized.

  • Title: "How the U.S. Postal Service Works" well... it doens't work...

  • Pause at 0:12....priceless.

    This video just proves my suspicion as to those fuckers thrashing that laptop of mine around...

  • @clubcar98

    0:21

    yea

  • wtf they throw the box what if it was important item

  • LOL @ everyone shocked over them throwing parcels. It's not just USPS; EVERY shipping entity does it. UPS, FedEx, they all throw. That's why you are expected to pack your parcels properly and they even sell materials for you to do it. Or you can insure it. People need to realize they are not the only person in the world sending/receiving parcels; if they had to pussyfoot with every single parcel that crossed their path, the stuff would never get to their destinations.

  • Moan,moan,moan.Every piece of mail gets damaged and lost!! Im sorry that you lot are all perfect.

  • i ordred a limited edition truck model and im using usps, they better not damage the model or imma want to go kick their asses.

  • haha 7 Bazillion haha

  • Fuck USPS and UPS

  • these motherfuckers. today i just found out a bracelet i mailed to my girlfriend didnt come, instead she received a torn package and the letter i sent her. FUCK THESE LIMEY COCKSUCKERS

  • @DictatorBooby cant send a bracelet through a letter machine. its too thick and will jam! you should put it in a small box with your letter and send it through as a parcel.

  • The USPS overall, does a real good job.

  • @ben524524 did you have to tell them its a cat or did you just make some stuff up? I want to mail my cat somewhere too...

  • @ben524524 really you shipped your cat? lol

  • lmao there even toss stuff in the video that means its true they treat your packages like a football

  • Delivery of mail from doorstep to doorstep. Not bad for 44 cents.

  • omg....so they throw my packages...no wonder! those assholes!

  • i should ship some nitroglycerin, see how they like tossing that around... lol

  • It is illegal to ship nitro or other dangerous chemicals - Douche!

  • i know that, its just a joke, gosh

  • oh no.. my dulcimer's gonna get thrown before it arrives in singapore:(

  • Good to know my packages of 300$ + get thrown across the warehouse.

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  • wow, about 7 bazillion people a day, that's a lot! Thank you for the informative video howstuffworks

  • no wonder shit is damaged..see them throw it?

  • @br549turd Thats the norm.

  • @br549turd Yeah, I totally agree. You think as fast as the mail goes, if it says "Fragile" on it, they will actually see it? Then would they actually care if they did see it?

  • @br549turd FedEx an UPS does the same thing

  • Priority isn't sent First class - its the other way around - First class often gets 'upgraded' to Priority handling, because its simple not cost effective to have a separate, slower processing stream for the First class. And if you want to send a heavier item cheaper, and there's no rush, check Parcel Post.

  • so that's how my package got damaged. the guy just throws it

  • I got a question. I mailed liquids from California to Missouri via Priority Mail Large Flat Rate BOX. It took 14 days to get to the destination. When I called I was told "last update: package in transit." When it did arrive, it WAS NOT in the PMFRB I originally sent it in; it was in a normal brown box. One of the liquid bottles was missing too....what could have happened?

  • @Chris21799 If it was in a normal brown box, and something was missing. Then one of the units of liquids was damaged, or leaked in transit. It was isolated, and then repackaged, with the leaking/damaged unit discarded.

  • What this propaganda video dosent show you is how the USPS rips off its customers...

    What you didnt see is that the USPS charges customers far more for PRIORITY MAIL...And the customers think that Mail gets special treatment...WRONG it goes into the same mailbag as 1st class mail.

    THEY MIX THEM TOGETHER...that means I could pay far less for 1st class and get my box there at the same time.

    Im not making this up...I worked there for 14 years..Ive seen It first hand...They do It DAILY...

  • 1st class mail has a WEIGHT RESTRICTION. You can't send anything that's 14 ounces or more through 1st class. That means pretty much anything you can buy in a store short of movie/ game discs has to be given a -ahem- "service charge" for the likelihood of item taking up more space and needing human intervention to route the item. USPS is only cheap for light items. Don't bother sending anything heavier than 3-4 pounds via USPS.

  • They do that to push the Priority rate on the unsespecting customer...

    For the people who send things under 14 ounces.....

    It goes into the same mailbag...All of these small boxes get sorted on a SPBS Machine..and I worked on one of those..

    The first class IS in there with the priority..its such a sham..you might be suprised to find that almost every day I would find EXPRESS mail in with the priority too...

  • @hentaiseeker 13 ounces, not 14 ounces. Get your facts straight ;)

  • yea they do just throw your boxes around. they dont care. they hate their job

  • Maybe you should watch films of postal workers from the early 1900's. They are throwing parcels too. The system is setup that way and its been done for over 200 years.

  • If you look up "Going Postal Rain Man" you'll see another reason they hate their job.

  • notice how they are tossing packages not letters like a piece of toy. really now

  • HowStealingworks:

    They steal your money by force (taxes) and use it to create a system that "competes" with private companies by taking the money they steal even though they are 2.8 Billion dollars a year in the red to create a system that is slower. And when they screw you over with thieving employees, lousy service and no real recourse (they can't be sued) you get to pay for it again (next years taxes).

  • right on

  • @boneyfreak2004 the post office is not funded by our tax dollars.

  • Beware of those postal money orders because those employees will steal them and wash them and change your name on them so they can cash your money order.

  • The us postal service ripped me off 5yrs ago and i'am still fighting them i have a lawsuit against them.

  • Beware thieves work at the us postal sevice.

  • STOP STEALING MONEY ORDERS

  • the thieves always get caught

  • STOP EMPLOYEE THIEVES

  • WHAT A BUNCH CROOKS AND THIEVES

  • Send a registered letter from-Europe and your letter could get stuck in a U.S. postal depot so, (hey!).2 weeks later you consult the USPS site to find where it is using the tracking number and (hey!) you discover that it got to the U.S. in 2 days. (European services are efficient.) So you ring up USPS from Europe and,(hey!) they tell you that it's in the USA but don't know where......and (hey!).....ask you to enquire at your local post office in......... Europe!

    Hey???????????????

  • I am telling this is really frustrating situation. The worst part is talking to those workers on the phone. They say what I already have in my hands 'tracking confirm' other than that "I don't know..." That's the answer.

    arghhhhhhh

    We gotta find the mail!!!!!!!!!

    It's the most important mail in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!USPS!!!!!

    govern yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Frustrating as hell. I'm waiting for a misplaced 15 pound package arriving from Germany. Nobody knows where its at. My guess is it's sitting against some post office door propping the door open so those lazy assholes don't have to exert themselves to open a door. Degovernmentalize the postal system and all those scumbags that hang on to those jobs will be no more and the system will self improve over a short time.

  • yes, I had such wasting time for days...when I gave up it was found at the local po. I hope you get your mail soon. It is a hassle. It terrified me to see others mail was all crooked and messed up. I was so lucky to have the mail in 20days.

    Good luck to you.

  • get this i was tracking my order the package went 100 miles from my destination than shipped to my city. They wasted time buy not going to the city on there route. the completely skipped me and done a complete circle. I'm in Illinois the package went from Chicago to st. Louis Missouri than to me in central Illinois .

  • Yeah I love how you can track it from the country of origin. Then if you are lucky you'll see what city in the USA it arrived at. After that, the postal workers are too lazy to scan the item each time it changes hands. So why do we pay for an obviously broken service? I smell class action litigation to make the USPS make some changes.

  • how the USPS works? They don't. They are lazy overpaid pieces of shit and there are many thieves among them. If you don't insure your items you may just lose your ass because they take care of their own and even though you know the USPS stole your package, they won't do anything about it.

  • you must be one of those sorry ass postal workers I speak of. Do your damned job with pride or let someone else have it. Once you are on the street in the soup line you'll realize you should have done your easy ass high paying job with pride. Now Piss off

  • 0:21 he trew a package at the sorting box

  • im martial brain, and THATS how stuff works

  • No wonder my mail gets lost.

  • @manaphyfan no joke.

  • @manaphyfan That's what I said! This is insane! We need a better system! This is utter chaos! No wonder so much mail is lost!

  • i used to get lots of pkgs in the mail some came crushed..why? u think it was the postal peoples fault..nope! its the people that pkg them. i also work at the post office now..i can tell which ones arent pkg so well and those are handled easier..but if i did that to all of them..mail would be delayed..so use peanuts and bubblewrap it will save your valuables..

  • the US Postal Service should be abolished. Its a federal government thug gang. Return mail delivery to the private sector, maybe allow FedEx or UPS or whatever other business that emerges in the free market to compete for mail delivery - get the government out of it, who knows what they're doing? Maybe tracking every letter you send, etc. Abolish it. Also abolish the Federal Reserve. And vote Ron Paul 2012.

  • Wow. That's a highly educated view point there. I hope all Ron Paul supporters aren't like this.

  • what if it was just trash

  • that guy in the begining just threw a package!!!!

  • wow, I love how they treat the boxes.

    just toss and throw them around.

    so much for the "Fragile" stickers.

  • i was thinking the same thing! im scared to send things now!

  • LoL So True

  • Yeah, thanks for throwing my shit around, explains my mail always looks beat up.

  • smoke meth, ho

  • they are fuking gay it said its ship resident evil 5 in 4-6-09 and its 4-9-09 fking annoying UPS u suk mess things im sueing u

  • USPS is the fastest. I always get things USPS if i can XD

  • if you read these posts you can tell who is a supervisor and who is a real workerlike mail handlers and carriers and clerks....

  • thats why i use FEDEX for my company. and sometimes they are cheaper than usps when there are the heavier packages.

  • No one is cheaper than the USPs and your Fed Ex can not deliver a letter 3000 miles to your door for 42 cents!! Best bargain in the country.

  • actually FedEx and UPS are both cheaper than USPS when shipping a packag 10lb and above. I ship a lot electronics. i would know.

  • Uhhh, no they don't. I work for the USPS and I know that it's WAY cheaper to use us. Use flat rate boxes, man. The box costs like 5 dollars (give or take) and you can put whatever in them and the postage doesn't change. I've sorted packages that wiegh 50Ibs but only cost $11 dollars to ship. Go flat rate! Also, UPS and FedEx don't ship on holidays or the weekends. Guess who does. Man, they need to put me in advertising or something.

  • actually i ship volumnous things that won't fit in flat rate boxes. why would i need weekend delivery for. thats how things get stolen...

    why would they put you in advertising? theres no advertising in usps. maybe there marketing???

  • Your stuff wont ship in the large flat rate boxes? Oh well.

  • lol

  • yep when i was part time flex i was delivering those express pkgs on holidays and sundays

  • Flat rate sucks ass. All the boxes are too small to be useful. That 50lb package is not impressive when a lot of the time the heavy packages are also large. Examples:

    Desktop system. Wii/PS3/Xbox 360. Computer motherboard. LCD TV. Ironic how a 15 pound PS3 costs more to ship than a 50 pound weight stuck into a flat rate box.

  • agreed. everything i sell on amazon i ship through usps.

    i also find usps to be more reliable than ups or fedex.

  • amen to that!

  • lol I know what you mean

  • i worked on the machines called MICR reader. the machine works so fast one guy alone cant feed.  the guy at the end collecting mail is called A SWEEPER.

    u have to remember zip codes.