We’re Broke …
“USPS Could Run Out Of Funds Within A Year Without Congressional Action: Postmaster General“
Here’s an idea: Quit giving discounts to bulk mailers. Charge extra for all that non-solicited bulk advertising crap no one wants anyway.
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Yes.
People should file a class action against the PO for making them have to deal with trash mail.
We have to go to the mailbox and get it, then throw it out, then pay someone to haul the trash away. How is this retardation legal?
Our mail service has become so unpredictable that we just don’t rely on it any more. Anything important that needs to be mailed is taken directly to the post office. Christmas, Birthday, and Anniversary cards from my sis in North Carolina show up 2 – 3 weeks late.
SHUT IT DOWN!
Mr. President Donald Trump,
A direct question: Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? And on what basis was this dangerous decision made?
Did you calculate the collateral damage before pulling the trigger? Did you consider that the first to suffer from this escalation will be the countries of the region?
The people of this region also have the right to ask: Was this your decision alone, or did it come under pressure from Netanyahu and his government?
You have placed the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Arab nations at the heart of a danger they did not choose. Thankfully, we are strong and capable of defending ourselves, and we have armies and defense systems protecting our nations. But the question remains: Who allowed you to turn our region into a battlefield?
Before the ink dried on the Board of Peace initiative that you announced in the name of peace and stability, we now find ourselves facing military escalation that threatens the entire region. So where did those initiatives go? And what is the fate of the commitments made in the name of peace?
Most of the funding proposed for those initiatives came from the region itself, and from Arab Gulf states that contributed billions of dollars on the basis of supporting stability and development. These countries have the right to ask today: Where did this money go? Are we funding peace initiatives or financing a war that puts us at risk?
More dangerously, your decision does not only threaten the peoples of the region but also the American people, whom you promised peace and prosperity. Today, they find themselves in a war financed by their taxes, with costs — according to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) — ranging between $40–65 billion for direct military operations, and potentially reaching $210 billion including economic impacts and indirect losses if the conflict lasts four to five weeks. Even Americans themselves are being sacrificed in a war they have no stake in.
You also violated your promises not to get involved in wars and to focus only on America and place it as your top priority, as you ordered foreign military interventions during your second term that included seven countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, and Venezuela, in addition to naval operations in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. You ordered more than 658 airstrikes abroad in your first year of rule, which is equivalent to the total number of strikes during Biden’s entire term, whom you previously criticized for dragging the United States into foreign wars.
These numbers have strongly reflected on your approval ratings among Americans, which declined since the start of your second term, dropping by 9% within 400 days.
These figures clearly show something: Even within the United States, there is growing concern about being dragged into a new war and about putting American lives, the economy, and the future at risk unnecessarily.
True leadership is not measured by war decisions but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward peace. If these initiatives were launched in the name of peace, then we have the right today to demand full transparency and clear accountability.
1:59 PM · Mar 5, 2026
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Ghostsniper, You asked, (A direct question: Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? And on what basis was this dangerous decision made?). Answer BIBI and he is surrounded by neocons. His advisors do not give a care about America. Neither do his so called religious advisors. Pawns of evil all of them.
I had a telephone conversation with my postmaster several years ago in which I requested/demanded that any mail not specifically addressed to me not be deposited into my rural mailbox. The reply was in the negative. I therefore am required to? collect and subsequently burn 95% of the “mail” deposited into my rural mailbox. This is. of course, utterly absurd.
And contributive to “global warming”, since I simply place all of this fucking unwanted garbage into a plastic bag and put it into my wood stove to be reduced to its realistically smallest possible composition to put into the local landfill.
Nothing about this makes any sense at all.
There are some pretty “rural” folk around here that are content to let the world go to hell in a handbasket if that’s it’s choice. They take the door off the mailbox and never deal with it. Or, they just get rid of it completely. Depends on your situation I suppose.
We have a mail lottery in our HOA. I think the dood just shoves whatever in whichever box and lets the neighborhood walk it over to the actual address. The mail should not be gubmint run. Privatize it or let it die.
Things don’t change. 50 years ago my father complained that the most expensive postage on the mail in his box was on the letter he put there himself ….. discounts for volume of things no one wants. Great logic. An idea … how about government ‘businesses’ being prohibited from competing with private ones …. what’s the ‘advertising’ budget for the USPS?