• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Monday, May 19, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Way Off The Grid

US Postal Service Admits It’s Just Standing Around Without Much to Do

by Adam Utley
in Way Off The Grid
Print Print
US Postal Service Admits It’s Just Standing Around Without Much to Do
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article

WASHINGTON – In response to Congressional grilling about the need for a $9 billion bailout for the United States Postal Service, postmaster general Derrick Donahoe confessed that, given the internet, the USPS is now better thought of a “crucial museum artifact” than a profit-making agency. Still, he added, “we really need that $9 billion or our national mail menagerie will close.”

The USPS, a national institution since Benjamin Franklin was installed in 1775 as the first postmaster general, may close for good by year end. Last year the post office lost $8 billion. This year the agency will lose more than $9 billion. “We suspect that much of the money was lost in our sorting machines,” said Donohoe, but some of it was used “to keep us warm in winter.”

USPS Inspector General James Williams blames the losses on rude customers and “this thing called the interweb.” Williams explained that the postal service “gives and gives and gives, sometimes with long lines, but we still give, and yet snooty customers turn their backs on us and click a mouse to pay their bills. How disloyal is that?”

In Congressional testimony, Donohoe explained that email, online bill pay, online postage, and YouTube cat videos have taken away much of the postal service’s traditional work. During hearings, Senator Rob Begich (D-MI) asked Donohoe “well, what exactly, then, does the USPS do day-in and day-out?” Donohoe admitted things were a bit slow and the employees spend much time “shifting their weight from one foot to the other.”

Donohoe he has been working feverishly to cut costs. He plans to eliminate mail delivery on Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, and second and fourth alternating Fridays of the month. Congressional defenders argued that dropping Sunday mail would be too radical a change for most of the country.

Donohoe also promised to close 3,700 postal locations, especially in rural areas where fewer people read. Currently, the post office has 31,000 outlets, down from 38,000 a decade ago. He also announced that the office space needed for workers to shift their weight from foot to foot is significantly less than in previous decades. He planned to rent the extra office space to print newspapers.

The president of the American Postal Workers Union, Clint Jameson, objected that the postal service needs to provide new rubber floor mats for the new weight-shifting duties. “It’s just despicable the conditions the USPS expects our people to work under.” Jameson explained the current rubber floor mats compress only 1/8 of an inch compared to new mats which give as much as a 3/8 of an inch. The mat improvement would cost $9 billion.

In response to Congressional critics who called for an immediate shutdown, Donohoe explained that an immediate closure would probably lead elderly Americans to riot in the streets. AARP representative, Stanley Mueller, asked the committee where the committee proposed senior citizens would “be able to collect their scam financial offers if not through the post office? You can’t find high quality scams online.” Senator Daniel Brown (R-AK) asked Donohoe to consider using postal workers to train senior citizens in use of the internet. Donohoe said that plan would cost $9 billion to implement. An August Pew-Mutual poll found that 93% of high school students have never stepped inside a post office and only 4% could use the words “postage stamp” in a sentence.

At an emotional moment in the proceedings, Donohoe explained that $9 billion was very little. “For example, the secret war against Libya currently costs the U.S. $2 billion per day. If we cut that war short by just five days, we’d have more than enough to bailout the postal service.” The committee mumbled amongst themselves for a few moments, and then the chair, Thomas Levin (D-CA), explained that such a move might encourage Muammar Gaddafi to invade and “steal all our postage stamps.” Senator Clair Prior (R-OK) suggested instead that the USPS should consider “mounting a concerted military action against the United Parcel Service or FedEx. That might be a more reliable source for funding.” Donohoe agreed to take that move under advisement.

Congressional critics suggested that instead of a $9 billion bailout to keep the USPS museum running, Donohoe should consider laying off more than his proposed 120,000 workers. The USPS currently employs 574,000 workers, second only to Wal-Mart in employees. Senator Daniel McCain (R-WI) proposed that Donohoe consider laying off 500,000 postal workers. Upon further questioning, Donohoe conceded that “realistically, it wouldn’t be too difficult if just I, myself, and three other workers took on the responsibility for delivering all the U.S. mail.” He said his feet would get sore, but he insisted he was a team player and could get the mail delivered by Fridays of every week. The committee clapped in unison. The committee chair declared that to be the rescue plan.

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

UFO Sighting

UFO Sightings In U.S. Most Likely To Appear Off-The-Grid

by Off The Grid News

UFO sightings occur in Wyoming more than any other state. UFO sightings in some states almost never happen. Florida, for example,...

Way Off The Grid: Obama to Require Middle Class To “Spread The Toys Around” to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

Way Off The Grid: Obama to Require Middle Class To “Spread The Toys Around” to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

by Jared Tatis

Editor’s Note: Way Off the Grid is a satire feature of Off the Grid News. While the articles in this...

Way Off the Grid: CIA Complains of Intrusive Governmental Snooping by FBI

Way Off the Grid: CIA Complains of Intrusive Governmental Snooping by FBI

by Emily Posey

Editor’s Note: Way Off the Grid is a satire feature of Off the Grid News. While the articles in this...

Next Post
Making the Transition from Consumer to Producer

Making the Transition from Consumer to Producer

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

This Brilliant New Plan May Finally Stop The NSA’s Spying

This Brilliant New Plan May Finally Stop The NSA’s Spying

14 Terrific Tips For Sensational Summertime Gasoline Savings

14 Terrific Tips For Sensational Summertime Gasoline Savings

The Stunning Way Facebook Can Manipulate The Public To Defeat Trump (Or Cruz)

The Stunning Way Facebook Can Manipulate The Public To Defeat Trump (Or Cruz)

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.