Rand Paul to rural Americans - F you

In some cities USPS delivers on Sunday, too. I'm in Denver and had an Amazon package delivered last Sunday.

Is USPS delivering on Sunday?
Yes. The Postal Service currently delivers Priority Mail Express and certain Amazon packages on Sundays. Due to increased package volume, we are expanding the types of packages that will be delivered on Sundays.

She says she practices (or did practice) family law. I’m totally willing to accept that. I also want to point out ... I have lots of lawyers in my family. For the most part, they are pretty black & white thinkers. 

sabrinae, I know you’re a lawyer and lots of others here are, too. Nuthin’ personal intended. Just my experience with trying to get certain attorneys of my own acquaintance to look a little outside the box.

Just because mail comes on a Tuesday doesn’t mean that what you are expecting will come that day. Its not like you can just order something and say “deliver on Tuesday” and it will be here next Tuesday. What if it gets to the PO Monday and they didn’t have time to process it so now it comes the next delivery day, which is several days away? And basically any thing that you order or are expecting to get by mail will arrive several days later. Many people wouldn’t be ok with that, regardless of where they live.

I think changing the mindset that the post office needs to run on very limited funds while we spend all kinds of money on billionaire tax cuts and military spending is the first thing that needs to happen.

BINGO!

I will concede that the particular relative I’m speaking of here had a long career as a deputy DA (although a liberal one).

And in vitro fertility medications can be sent via USPS. A plan that was provided a month in advance (cheaper alternative than local) and if delayed for a week or two, then that cycle is null and void.  Thousands of dollars lost.

Who still gets paper checks in the mail? SSDI and the VA haven't issued paper checks since 2013. If someone doesn't have a bank account they get a pre loaded debit card. I would imagine it works the same way with welfare recipients. I haven't had a paper check from an employer in over 25 years. Even when I did get paper checks, they were never mailed, my manager handed them out to each employee.

I get royalty checks in the mail. Now admittedly, it’s only twice a year and they are teeny-tiny. But I also get refunds from overpayments to businesses/doctors/dentists, my kids get birthday gifts (card w/ check) from older people in the family, my mom gets checks from a trust, my kids have a few shares of Disney stock and get whatever those shareholder payments are called (my brain has deserted me), etc. etc. etc.

So maybe not from most regular jobs, retirement checks, tax refunds, etc., but money does come in the mail from time to time. It’s nice to be able to actually rely on the U.S. mail when needed.


ETA my local AAA just sent me a check for $16 and change for some kind of rebate because everyone is staying home more and not commuting daily. They did the same thing in the spring but credited the account that time. For some reason, this time they sent everyone a check. (The accompanying letter said so.) 🤷‍♀️  Money does show up in the mail from time to time.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Uhm we do.  All of our farm income comes in the form of a check delivered the good old USPS. We deal with half a dozen different processors and not a single one of them does any sort of electronic payment. And it should come as no surprise that only a handful of our bills can be paid online. So once again we rely on USPS. I suppose it goes without saying that we are rural and we have apparently chosen to give up certain conveniences for this profession.  Should I mention that our internet sucks also or is that just part of our deal too?

So I don’t think I saw this mentioned skimming the thread but how exactly does paying bills and deadlines work in this proposed method. See above... very few of our bills can be paid online (using the crap internet we have).  So if you usually get a statement with a due date in 1-2 weeks what happens to those terms when you have to account for limited delivery to get it to me and limited delivery to send it back. And before you tell me to just go to the post office. Our post office is actually open less than a standard 8 hour business day and closes for 90 minutes during the open hours. Saturday you get a whole 90 minutes in the morning. In our area, we have fantastic USPS service. Well at least we did before the latest shenanigans. 

Hi. I live in a rural area. I already don’t get mail delivered to my house.

Your bright idea isn’t so bright.

I would agree with you on criminal defense, I was mostly thinking prosecution side. Although the older defense guys, especially the former prosecutors can be pretty black and white. But, on the other subject — I want my mail! I live in rural Appalachia; if you slow down/cut back mail service it’s going to cause major problems for a lot of people. Mail delivery is the only way to get many things unless your willing to drive 2 hours or more to shop.

I’m curious what would happen if they said “you live in a city. There are just too many people so we can only deliver your mail once or twice a week. Sorry.”

CNN... link

“Fact check: Fox News hosts, other conservatives wrong that Social Security doesn't mail any checks”

From the article...

”Facts First: The Social Security Administration never completely stopped mailing out paper checks. While 99.1% of Social Security recipients now receive their money via direct deposit, that remaining 0.9% equals 549,818 people receiving checks, according to official data published by the Social Security Administration for this month.

"Nearly 850,000" paper checks go out from the Social Security Administration every month if you include the Supplemental Security Income program, said Social Security Administration spokesman Mark Hinkle. (Supplemental Security Income provides money to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes and few resources.) Hinkle said that, if you consider both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, the breakdown is 98.8% direct deposit, 1.2% checks.”

My son gets a paper check monthly (during the school year) for his dependent education benefits from the VA. He uses that money to pay rent and buy food.