Well either you haven't been paying attention or you have a short memory. There is this little thing how the USPS is loosing a bit of money,
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/1440224/usps-reports-159-billion-loss-asks-congress-for-help

And the bit where they cut out Saturday mail delivery...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/06/1738249/us-postal-service-discontinuing-saturday-mail-delivery

Yea, other than that your doing fine. Package delivery is up everywhere, especially now during the holidays, but mail delivery is way down everywhere all year long. Things are going to change.

Unless you want to take away a few guns, then that is all they care about.

The best thing for Zawi to do is probably just call it a loss. They have done the chest thumping and legal threats and probably have gotten most units back. Going to court would probably cost more time and money than the value of the PS. Offer anyone that did send their units back a gift card to reward honesty for a decent amount so no one would think that they would have been better off keeping the PS. The next step is getting your shit together so that it doesn't happen again.

I really have no idea where you get the abandoned mail thing from. My first house I had I only checked the mail once a month so I can pay my monthly bills. Unfortunately the previous owner gave to many charities and received lots of mail from them soliciting more funds. PETA, UNICEF, Child sponsorship, SPCA, Cancer society, March of Dimes, if you can think of it, he probably gave to them at some point. When my box was full, the mail man just crammed more junk mail in there. I swear he was probably punching the mail just to get it in there some days. Anyway, I really have no idea why you think mail would be declared abandoned for sitting there for a few days. Most people just check their mail on the way home from work anyway.

Theft is always a possibility but the reality is that it is not really a problem. Yes there is more mail in once location but it's locked in small groups. By passing the master lock gets you 10 mailboxes. You need to repeat again for another 10. In these rural areas you are going from an unlocked box at the end of a driveway to a locked box down the road at a high traffic area. Theft is really not a concern.

Those are packages. While package delivery is up, letter volume is way down. Over all the post office is still making less money.

Do you guys hear that? That is the sound of Canadians not flipping out and loosing their shit and calling for the end of times due to reduced service.

It's quite a pleasant sound up here in Canada, unlike the noise Americans made a short while back.

No, that is how you justify your arrogance and and why you act so condescending. No true understanding of whats going on, you just simplify everyone as kids wanting free stuff. I bet when you saw the title you got so hard thinking about screaming "double standards" at the users and how morally superior you think you are.

I considered at this point explaining everything but frankly it would fall of deaf ears.

HA HA HA HA. Nice in theory but that is assuming you have intelligent teachers that know how to dissect something. Most can only follow the lesson plan as indicated and only will if it comes with an answer key.

An infallible God just means he dropped a tree on your car and crushed the fuck out of it for a reason. God wants me to make an insurance claim and buy a new car. It's good for the economy!

If accident rates go way down, so do the pay outs they need to make. They could probably stand to lay off a few agents with less work to do. Don't worry your pretty little head, the insurance companies are going to be just fine.

Or acts of god. Or stupid people around your parked car. "Hey! A baseball, hold my beer and watch this..."

Wow, it's like you're going out of your way to be wrong. San Francisco's systems were so well set up and secured from anyone screwing around with them that they operated just fine without intervention with anyone. They feared that they couldn't fix anything if it was shut down but nothing broke. He refused to divulge the passwords to just anyone and the only person he would give them to was the mayor. Only when the mayor finally showed up to see him did they get the passwords. Also once they were back into the system did things start fucking up.

I know reading the article is not required to post, as evidence of the entirety of Slashdot, but they specifically state, in the first damn line of the frigging article, they spent over a decade addressing and solving that problem.

This is what immediately springs to mind. There are two possible scenarios. Either the safety of everyone is being completely ignored due to paperwork and politics, or 90% or the staff is completely unnecessary to provide that safety. I'm sad about either scenario.

That was a road to nowhere. They built a road in Alaska to nowhere that was meant to go to a bridge but they already decided to not build the bridge there. The paper work for the road contract was signed and to far gone that no one was smart enough to figure out how to cancel the contract so it was just easier to build the road.