I carried mail for 25 years and for the most part I didn't look I wore new uniforms to work like the woman in the video. This videos are always shot on clear bright sunshiny days walking into a nice clean business. Try showing some the sloppily dressed carriers I see today, while they carry in some depressed crime ridden area.
Because no mail has ever been lost by or stolen from the US Postal Service. Seriously though, they don't get any tax dollars. The only reason they're having problems is because the Postal Workers Union and Congress won't let them close up branches, reduce delivery schedules, and lay off excessive employees. They are required by Federal Law to deliver mail six days a week, even though they generally only have enough mail volume for three days to be necessary.
@CL0N3PA7R0L Understand that small businesses use the mail, and having them wait four days out of seven to transact business, or get paid, is a lousy idea. As I explained on the video post, our own Republican congresspeople, dependent on rural conservatives, stopped closing distribution centers because they whined those voters had to wait 1 day.
@jpeter4333 If they reduced the days they deliver First Class mail, it would most likely be delivered Monday, Wednesday, Friday as this would cause the least amount of problems. They'd probably still be delivering premium mail services (like Next Day) on other days since that mail is actually profitable and they must remain competitive with companies like UPS and FedEx. If you want to keep the same options available as now they need tax money, otherwise they need to be able to self regulate.
@achzdck: Sorry to break it to you, but the U.S. Postal Service is not funded, subsidized, or supported by our TAX DOLLARS. Please do your homework before you start bashing.
The USPS subsidizes junk mail and even UPS uses them once the package gets in a local market because its cheaper. If you don't understand free markets, you probably don't vote for Ron Paul, and you are probably the reason everything is failing.
Corporate fascism going after more good jobs with benefits as usual. Endless corporate fascist propaganda media machine running 24/7, blaming all the horror endlss fake reasoned wars that bankrupted the country along with tax breaks for the rich elites while blaming unions, teachers, firefighters, cops, utility workers, auto workers makeing 60k a year taking thier kids to the dentist and eye doctor, yeah thats what bankrupted the usa, not the corporate fascits elites no no they are the goodones
the only thing keeping the PO rolling is the spam the grocery stores bulk mail your asses. how about we save some trees, cut these slacker jobs down to 3 days a week, cut lifetime entitlement funding.
I like how we're supposed to care about big companies when there in trouble, but when they doing good they couldn't give two shits about us. I got an idea Postal Service, increase the price on stamps, yeah that will fix your problems....on sec let me finish this Email.
How about all the trees cut down and all the pollution that the mail trucks create? Fuck mail, my computer uses less power than a light bulb. Does the USPS use less power than a light bulb? I think not.
The 2006 Law, The Postal Enhancement Act... is the reason the postal service is even running in the red. The Law says every year up front the USPS has to put 6 billion into retirement funds, that do not need that much money every year.
FedEx and UPS are a for profit service, and the USPS are not. The U.S. Postal Service sends packages and mail cheaper then the for profit Federal Express.
The word Federal in FedEx is deceiving, just like the FED and how it is a private corp.
The only good thing with postal systems is that they deliver items that could never be e-mailed, like clothes bought online. But just wait until we get e-teleportation, that's gonna bring down the postal systems completely.
Notice how on both commercials..... the mail men were black...... what the hell kind of message are they trying to send? I guess we'll find out in 8 - 10 business days.
1) Not only can you get viruses in your physical mail, but also bacteria (ok ok, I'm not super serious here, but it could happen, and then you could only wish that it was a computer virus instead), and (2) I'm pretty sure it's very rare that you interact with your mailman, and even rarer that the interactions are as nice and friendly as the one in the ad.
How is someone going to get a virus from a business related email?
This advertising is clearly aimed at computer illiterate people who are afraid of the internet. These types of people are likely the few people still using mail to actually communicate. Who do they think they're going to "convert" with this?
I carried mail for 25 years and for the most part I didn't look I wore new uniforms to work like the woman in the video. This videos are always shot on clear bright sunshiny days walking into a nice clean business. Try showing some the sloppily dressed carriers I see today, while they carry in some depressed crime ridden area.
wlangley88 1 month ago
The Gaslight Anthem ftw!! :D
finkster82 3 months ago
wohoo! Go gaslight :D but dont get too famous. because then, I cant stand so close to brian ;)
miera1029 4 months ago
0:30
The Gaslight Anthem - Casanova, Baby!
Check it out.
JohnZackarias 4 months ago 8
Because no mail has ever been lost by or stolen from the US Postal Service. Seriously though, they don't get any tax dollars. The only reason they're having problems is because the Postal Workers Union and Congress won't let them close up branches, reduce delivery schedules, and lay off excessive employees. They are required by Federal Law to deliver mail six days a week, even though they generally only have enough mail volume for three days to be necessary.
CL0N3PA7R0L 5 months ago
@CL0N3PA7R0L Understand that small businesses use the mail, and having them wait four days out of seven to transact business, or get paid, is a lousy idea. As I explained on the video post, our own Republican congresspeople, dependent on rural conservatives, stopped closing distribution centers because they whined those voters had to wait 1 day.
jpeter4333 5 months ago
@jpeter4333 If they reduced the days they deliver First Class mail, it would most likely be delivered Monday, Wednesday, Friday as this would cause the least amount of problems. They'd probably still be delivering premium mail services (like Next Day) on other days since that mail is actually profitable and they must remain competitive with companies like UPS and FedEx. If you want to keep the same options available as now they need tax money, otherwise they need to be able to self regulate.
CL0N3PA7R0L 5 months ago
gaslight on the second commercial!!!!!!
mikeytubesock 5 months ago 2
@achzdck: Sorry to break it to you, but the U.S. Postal Service is not funded, subsidized, or supported by our TAX DOLLARS. Please do your homework before you start bashing.
redforlife22 5 months ago
Hey guys, if we don't start using mail again. Trees will gain sentience and overthrow humanity.
EmperorOfMars 5 months ago
loser, government run loser
Panchee123 5 months ago
lololollol the USPS is pathetic, let it suffer and die off
mrhockey50 5 months ago
@mrhockey50 fuck you bro thats not cool
alex4011 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Some people want young white females to mix with non-white males.
I made a one-minute video highlighting a very tiny sample of race-mixing advertisements.
I love white people, and I am opposed to race-mixing. But I do not hate non-whites.
If you click on my name “autumntree2011” highlighted in blue below this comment, you can watch my video.
(I'm not a fan of Hitler or KKK.)
autumntree2011 5 months ago
The USPS subsidizes junk mail and even UPS uses them once the package gets in a local market because its cheaper. If you don't understand free markets, you probably don't vote for Ron Paul, and you are probably the reason everything is failing.
gotitans999 5 months ago
It kind of sucks to see the usps going out of business, now we will have no choice but to use filthy privatized services to ship anything.
airgear87 5 months ago
USPS: I don't wanna die!
matiaspage 5 months ago
Yes now you can get spam mail delivered personally by an asshole face to face.
wishdj 5 months ago
enjoy your antrax and bombs
animes25 5 months ago
@animes25 antrax lol u sound like a fucking indian or something lololol
alex4011 5 months ago
I give the US POSTAL SERVICE my highest rating.
- Ted Kazinsky
the82spartans 5 months ago
Corporate fascism going after more good jobs with benefits as usual. Endless corporate fascist propaganda media machine running 24/7, blaming all the horror endlss fake reasoned wars that bankrupted the country along with tax breaks for the rich elites while blaming unions, teachers, firefighters, cops, utility workers, auto workers makeing 60k a year taking thier kids to the dentist and eye doctor, yeah thats what bankrupted the usa, not the corporate fascits elites no no they are the goodones
chuck3377 5 months ago
the only thing keeping the PO rolling is the spam the grocery stores bulk mail your asses. how about we save some trees, cut these slacker jobs down to 3 days a week, cut lifetime entitlement funding.
1Guitarslayer 5 months ago
I've never had google drop my email on the ground, break up all the contents, and deliver it to the wrong person two weeks late.
Bulldog22031 5 months ago
Ah, but how many people would rather work for Gmail than a government bureaucracy?
Propaganda at its finest.
beauch 5 months ago
I like how we're supposed to care about big companies when there in trouble, but when they doing good they couldn't give two shits about us. I got an idea Postal Service, increase the price on stamps, yeah that will fix your problems....on sec let me finish this Email.
PeterjohnsonLAWL 5 months ago
1 mail = 50+ trees cut down
1 email = 1 tree cut down for power.
iToasterman 5 months ago
@iToasterman what is 1 mail? lmaoooooo do mean like 1 letter? 1 envelope? wtf is 1 mail lmaoooo
alex4011 5 months ago
@alex4011 ... yes your the oly one who cant understad that
iToasterman 5 months ago
Many people don't have internet and can't get mail. Anyone here thought of that hm?
MiguelAMX1 5 months ago
It takes 1 second to get an email not 5 days to get a piece of paper
homeron2000 5 months ago
How about all the trees cut down and all the pollution that the mail trucks create? Fuck mail, my computer uses less power than a light bulb. Does the USPS use less power than a light bulb? I think not.
pyromcr 5 months ago 2
The mail man forgot to flip up the little red flag, my inbox never forgets.
valur8230 5 months ago
As Wheatley recently demonstrated at DEF CON, your refrigerator CAN in fact be hacked. BreakYourWIndow.exe.
GLaDOSsMailerDaemon 5 months ago
The 2006 Law, The Postal Enhancement Act... is the reason the postal service is even running in the red. The Law says every year up front the USPS has to put 6 billion into retirement funds, that do not need that much money every year.
FedEx and UPS are a for profit service, and the USPS are not. The U.S. Postal Service sends packages and mail cheaper then the for profit Federal Express.
The word Federal in FedEx is deceiving, just like the FED and how it is a private corp.
aaamerican2 5 months ago
this is so embarrassing.
hopefully this is their last attempt before killing themselves
Eitan4092 5 months ago
It is time to end the U.S.postal monopoly and privatize the U.S. postal service.
quizerry 5 months ago
Why is a failing government entity spending money on advertising to promote their image? No wonder they are running a a loss for so long.
TheYoungTurdz 5 months ago
The only good thing with postal systems is that they deliver items that could never be e-mailed, like clothes bought online. But just wait until we get e-teleportation, that's gonna bring down the postal systems completely.
ZoldierrZzz 5 months ago
Depressing and pathetic
dudeinthesea 5 months ago
Stupid commercial.
MrLeovdmeer 5 months ago
Let's stop cutting trees down. Time to accept that our prior need for the USPS has changed and we need to alter the way run the program.
icareyoushouldtoo 5 months ago
i wont get killed by a bomb mail with email.
XRockVstarI499 5 months ago
email doesn't kill trees :)
demonwx10 5 months ago
@demonwx10
"Kill" is an exaggerated word, trees aren't alive as humans. But yes, e-mail does not contribute to deforestation. ;)
ZoldierrZzz 5 months ago
Email never cost me money
oxboxtox 5 months ago 4
A email has never given me anthrax
Kprokid06 5 months ago
Mail is dangerous and risky because people you don't know handle your letter and might have diseases and infect the person you send the letter to!
I say bring back the carrier pidgeon!
Skyburnbright 5 months ago
Notice how on both commercials..... the mail men were black...... what the hell kind of message are they trying to send? I guess we'll find out in 8 - 10 business days.
b34tls4ever 5 months ago 3
@b34tls4ever brilliant.
theigoraraujo 5 months ago
Email is delivered in seconds VS days.
Email costs $0 to send, regardless of the message size
Email can send video, sound, pictures (no need to print or burn them in order to send)
Email can be sent to multiple recepients at once
Email is goof for environment (no paper)
Email can be received anywhere (no need to be home)
Email doesn't clutter my table
Email is more personal (since only the recepient can get it, not any tenant at the address)...
Should i go on?
bathellfire 5 months ago 5
I hope that everyone who created these ads dies of testicular cancer. The USPS is clearly evil and must be destroyed.
AdmiralGilgamesh 5 months ago
The post office delivers all of the things I order off on amazon. I also like to send letters occasionally- why so many anti-mail comments?
ubiquitousfacts 5 months ago
EIGHTH
matmanv2 5 months ago
pretty sad...
Derevirn 5 months ago
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BillBard 5 months ago
Well, I won't get anthrax from my email...
MrThePwnisher 5 months ago 24
1) Not only can you get viruses in your physical mail, but also bacteria (ok ok, I'm not super serious here, but it could happen, and then you could only wish that it was a computer virus instead), and (2) I'm pretty sure it's very rare that you interact with your mailman, and even rarer that the interactions are as nice and friendly as the one in the ad.
LunchAnderson 5 months ago
what is this *mail* that they keep mentioning? Is it like e-mail?
coldblood66 5 months ago 16
How is someone going to get a virus from a business related email?
This advertising is clearly aimed at computer illiterate people who are afraid of the internet. These types of people are likely the few people still using mail to actually communicate. Who do they think they're going to "convert" with this?
Skyburnbright 5 months ago
Those are pretty sad commercials.
stephenstudios 5 months ago