I have a different take on this...perfect example of why post offices are not banks. Until reading this thread, I had no idea anyone ever went to the post office to cash a money order. And I suspect the clerks being lectured behind the counter had the same thought in their mind.
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They USED TO provide services, Real services.
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Do I get to rant about entitled boomers now?
I had received multiple (maximum value of a USPS MO is $1K) USPS money orders for an online sale. Before shipping the purchased item off via USPS, I asked the clerk to check/verify the veracity of the USPS money orders that I received payment with. She looked at me like I had three heads.
Wait until you buy a USPS money order, mail it with USPS and USPS loses it in transit. The mother of all storms.
Like it or not we are quickly becoming a cashless society.
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After a 35 year career involving the delivery and installation of banking equipment, vaults, etc. I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that the majority of bank branches have more cash in the ATM than they do in the branch. The vaults are mainly for safe deposit boxes. Depending on the bill configuration the standard four cassette ATM can hold several times the amounts you posted above.
In the '80's I did 90% of my "business" in cash. Today, the pool hall and gun shows are about it. I could use debit at the pool hall but the waitstaff loves them some cash and most weekday afternoons we are the only customers until 3:30 "work over/ beer thirty." Joe
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Anybody here willing to pay double the current rate for shipping and postage so the post office can afford to hire and pay for enough competent staff?
Asking as a former postal carrier
Starting wages are just above minimum wage, no retirement for the first 2 years, tops out at $32/hrs after 12+ years, and mandated overtime in excess of 70 hrs/week, regardless of how it impacts your family to be working 12-14 hour days, 6-7 days a week.
You can't buy a house or raise a family on USPS wages. At some point the older generations are just going to have to start spending more if you want the service you think you are entitled to.
Asking as a former postal carrier
Starting wages are just above minimum wage, no retirement for the first 2 years, tops out at $32/hrs after 12+ years, and mandated overtime in excess of 70 hrs/week, regardless of how it impacts your family to be working 12-14 hour days, 6-7 days a week.
You can't buy a house or raise a family on USPS wages. At some point the older generations are just going to have to start spending more if you want the service you think you are entitled to.
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Same^^^^^^^^. And now you can get cash bank on a debit card transaction at the USPS. The cashier at my small one person “rural” PO told me people sometimes clean her out first thing in the morning.
As a retired postal employee, this thread is bad for my self esteem
I was taught that any job worth doing, was worth doing well. I really don't think that competence has much to do will how much one is getting paid. It is about hiring people with a good work ethic. BTW, there was only one really incompetent employee at my local USPS. The other ones have been very good. I haven't seen the incompetent one working the counter in a very, very long time.
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You expect competent people to work a career that, at the top of the pay scale requiring a decade of service....doesn't even pay well enough to buy a house or raise a family?
Are you nuts?
Cheap
Fast
Good.
America decided USPS's mission was the first one, the other two, not so much.
Hence,
You get what you pay for.
A million dollars in $100 bills weighs 22.2# so a billion would weigh 22,200# or 11 tons and a trillion in $100 bills would weigh 11,000 tons and load about 500 semi trailers.
Between the 8 years from 2008 and 2016 government debt added the equivalent of 4,000 semi trailers in $100 bills, between 2016 and 2020 they upped their game and created the same amount in just 4 years and they almost kept the same pace between 2020 and 2024 for a grad total of adding the equivalent of 12,000 semi trailer loads of $100 to the economy. What many do not know is state and local governments owe almost as much. News flash, reality is that most of "the money" only exists on computer chips and we are already basically a cashless society. Go to you bank and ask for $20,000 in cash and even if you have far more than that on deposit it is highly unlikely they will give it to you.
If a printing press made 10 sheets, each with 10 $100 bills per second. it would produce $10,000 per second and $600,000 per minute and $36,000,000 per hour 36 million per hour x 24 hours per day means $864 million per day and $315, 360 million per year, so 3 of them printing 24 hours a day every day non stop could ALMOST print a trillion dollars per year and a dozen of them couldn't print $100 bills fast enough to keep up with the additional debt added year period since 2016.
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