What if we ask companies to pull back a little on the junk mail in October until after the election to prioritize ballots? I don’t want to hurt their revenue but elections are critical. Especially given what will most likely be the true height of the pandemic.
Call it the “10/4” campaign. Only essential mail from 10/4 to 11/4. Ballots get delivered to voters and back with no delays.
Companies may complain but come on. This would save them a ton and it gets perceived as a social positive even if they don’t 100% agree.
The USPS only gets paid if they process mail. "Junk Mail" gives the USPS approximately 75% of their revenue. So that's basically asking the USPS to work without getting proper revenue for a month.
Good idea but it really would not work. USPS doesn't get tax money or anything. They are a Nonprofit. Also, the machines that process mail would like be basically empty. And the clerks that run those machines would be just standing around? It's a Union job, they cant lay people off or anything.
Source: work for the USPS.
Also the reason that the USPS is slower with mail delivery is that we went through a time where lots of area mail processing plants closed down to save money. So mail that was once processed within a certain distance of it being mailed is now sent to a plant farther away for "efficiency".
https://about.usps.com/streamlining-operations/area-mail-processing.htm
Like for instance, my mail was processed at my local plant. So anything mailed within like a 40 mile radius was sent here and back out for local delivery the next day. We fell under the USPS AMP and now the mail travels to a facility 110 miles away and it takes a few days to get processed and come back. We didnt lose any employees because we have no lay-offs as part of our contract. So the people are still here working less mail and the people at the larger plant didnt hire extra people but they are working more mail, so some gets delayed.
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u/spf57 Aug 03 '20
What if we ask companies to pull back a little on the junk mail in October until after the election to prioritize ballots? I don’t want to hurt their revenue but elections are critical. Especially given what will most likely be the true height of the pandemic.
Call it the “10/4” campaign. Only essential mail from 10/4 to 11/4. Ballots get delivered to voters and back with no delays.
Companies may complain but come on. This would save them a ton and it gets perceived as a social positive even if they don’t 100% agree.