#defund usps

[sassmill]

My regency dress pattern shipped from Bad Ischl has safely made it through customs in New York, from Austria to the US in under a week 😌

[bananarchy4ever]

update: sold

[angelsndragons]

okay so as a federal worker, i tell you this not to make you panic but to give you time to do what you need to do:

it's the holiday season. in addition to the federal holidays, federal workers build up leave throughout the year. the longer you've been with the federal government, the more leave you accumulate. this time of year, many federal workers will be taking their "use or lose" leave, aka the leave they've accumulated that's over the 240 hour cap you can carry into the next calendar year.

that means if you have any renewals or want to apply to anything that requires the federal government, DO IT NOW. many departments are already understaffed but this time of year? yeah, skeleton crews are the norm.

please be patient. you can check in every week or two to see where your stuff is but please be patient. many of us are going to be working our butts off in the next three months to ensure your stuff gets done. but we're only human. if you have an agency number, calling is often better than emailing. yes, even if you have to wait on the line for a while.

notaries can be extremely backed up. if you have an appointment which requires a notary's signature, make sure that you have every single thing ready the second you walk in. you don't want to have to come back.

understand that the ship of state turns slowly. we do have a lot of mechanisms in place to keep things from falling apart completely HOWEVER this time the Executive Leadership is directly coming at us with the intention of fully dismantling certain departments. chief on their list that i've seen is the department of education. if you have a special needs child in a special ed program or are one yourself, check to see who's funding the program (feds, state, local, etc) and plan accordingly. if the feds pull out their money, you need to know who's handling the gap and what happens if it can't be filled. that goes for other programs like housing.

if the republicans control the house, senate, and white house, expect them to defund everything you care about. the only spending i can see them increasing is the department of defense and border patrol. everything else? huge budget crunch. if you think the government is slow now, is unresponsive now, oh boy, just you wait. this will send a shock wave through the economy - the feds are huge spenders in many areas (sometimes the only thing keeping places afloat). much of the government is too big and unwieldy to dismantle all at once (particularly the pieces entwined with big business) but that doesn't mean they can't launch giant holes into the things they really hate. plan accordingly.

the fda director will try to ban sending abortion pills in the mail. plan accordingly. does this step on the usps' toes? yes. do they care? nope, republicans have been trying to privatize them for years. plan accordingly.

if you want to know the baseline fuckery you'll be expected to deal with, the department of veterans' affairs was shadow run by marvel executives for two years last time. i'm not joking. the white house is going to bypass any pretense of confirming executive leadership by making every single one of them "acting director of such and such." those don't require congressional approval.

if you're a dreamer and you've applied for some kind of federal relief, i would advise you to be extremely careful. your information is in a federal database and the republicans want to round up everyone of latino descent. they've already confirmed that they want to deport whole families irrespective of citizenship to "stop family separation."

stay calm and plan accordingly.

[mugiwara-lucy]

I find it ironic how Vance was talking how women don't trust him or Trump (Harris has a THIRTY TWO POINT LEAD amongst Women) but THIS came out NO LESS than a week later:

So....his way to get women to trust him is to.....defund Planned Parenthood? And PP helps with not just Abortion Healthcare but it provides basic health care to millions of women, including birth control, cancer screenings & STI testing. Also keep in mind that Trump said he will delegate women's health to RFK JR:

While you all sit on that horror, here is the link below to register to vote along with the deadlines varying by state! Also, your own vote isn’t enough! Get as many people as you can to vote for Kamala be it your friends, cousins, parents, grandparents, old friends from high school and college, coworkers, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, stepchildren (if they’re 18 and over) and the list goes on and on but every vote counts! ALSO PLEASE check your registration DAILY because MAGA WILL purge your voter registration!!!

And early voting has started! And if you don’t wanna vote on November 5th, Early Voting is another option! Like I said get as many people as you know and try early voting that way you can avoid MAGA fuckery on November 5th! Here’s the link down below listing the dates by state:

And Mail in Ballots are ANOTHER option I highly recommend!! And like I said get as many people as you can to take advantage of this option! BUT if you decide to go with Mail In/Absentee Ballots; PLEASE mail your ballots at the ACTUAL USPS office!! That way MAGAts won't fuck with it.

And if you’re an American who lives overseas; PLEASE use the option of voting overseas since I know every country other than North Korea, Russia and China do NOT want to see Trump’s stinky ass back in the Oval Office! Here’s a link below:

But note he said he's going to EARN Women's trust not say anything about apologizing or making amends for the disgusting shit he's said about women; i.e. "Childless Cat Ladies", being disgusted by teachers without children and the list can go on and on.

But Vance, if you see this, just know the way you get trust back after losing it (if you can) is to make amends by bettering yourself and not making the same mistakes again.

What you are is disingenuous and you want to get back what you lost. And P.S: You're gonna get a reckoning come ROEVEMBER! FUCK YOU AND FUCK TRUMP!!

[construction-cat]

Union construction is so cool and based but why do all these assholes gotta be talking about abolishing term limits and defunding USPS come the fuck on man

[bananarchy4ever]

sold.

[chemicalico]

no guys you don’t understand we need to defund social security and nasa and the epa and the fda and usps and department of education and housing projects and amtrak and local libraries. so that we can spend more money on weapons designed to kill civilians

[singerin]

I mean yes to all of this but also.

The mail is not really functioning again. That deliberate sabotage by those trying to defund the USPS continues to fuck with the mail system. A lot.

Four years ago the then-president of the United States sabotaged the United States postal service in an attempt to steal an election. The only reason this even made sense is because his party was denying the pandemic, so the other party was the only one urging its voters to vote by mail. Sometimes I think we don't appreciate enough how crazy that was.

[mugiwara-lucy]

Now while we've done GREAT with Early and Mail In Voting; I'd like to talk to the men in my audience.

Every though we're all on the same page I need us all to understand something; especailly if you happen to be a MAGA MALE that follows me.

This picture basically sums up what I'm about to say:

IF Trump wins and we get Vance (Because based on what happened Monday, it's obvious he will NOT last four years), Vance will no DOUBT pass a Nationwide Abortion Ban and he's also talked about DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Now assuming he does all that and what the picture says above.......I'm sure we all enjoy using Sex Toys, Condoms and having our own versions of Sex and the City. Should Trump/Vance win? Say goodbye to having Recreational Sex/Oral Sex/Using Contraceptives and Sex Toys and even WATCHING PORN.

The Republicans want a Christian Theocracy where we all live a Conservative Ronald Reagan bullshit society where we all wait until Marriage to have Sex or risk having a baby since basically the restraints will be banned and IF that happens; you're gonna find VERY LITTLE if ANY women will want to have sex anymore. ESPECIALLY if there's NO WAY to prevent us from being pregnant if we don't want too. And I know Trump and Vance said they're gonna delegate the responsibility of women's health to RFK Jr but....NO. I'll talk about that tomorrow. But anyways.....

The ONLY solution to avoid this Gilead/Handsmaids Tale fuckery nightmare is to V-O-T-E BLUE DOWN THE FREAKING TICKET!!!! Here is the link below to register to vote along with the deadlines varying by state! Also, your own vote isn’t enough! Get as many people as you can to vote for Kamala be it your friends, cousins, parents, grandparents, old friends from high school and college, coworkers, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, stepchildren (if they’re 18 and over) and the list goes on and on but every vote counts! ALSO PLEASE check your registration DAILY because MAGA WILL purge your voter registration!!!

And early voting has started! And if you don’t wanna vote on November 5th, Early Voting is another option! Like I said get as many people as you know and try early voting that way you can avoid MAGA fuckery on November 5th! Down below is a list of dates by state:

And Mail in Ballots are ANOTHER option I highly recommend!! And like I said get as many people as you can to take advantage of this option! BUT if you decide to go with Mail In/Absentee Ballots; PLEASE mail your ballots at the ACTUAL USPS office!! That way MAGAts won't fuck with it.

And if you’re an American who lives overseas; PLEASE use the option of voting overseas since I know every country other than North Korea, Russia and China do NOT want to see Trump’s stinky ass back in the Oval Office! Here’s a link below:

So in short; the moral of this post?

Vote Blue down the ticket or your Girlfriend will be your hand and the bottle of lotion on your desk.

[3gremlins]

i know it's not completely their fault (our government has been infested with libertarian ghouls for so long and they keep defunding/undermining public services) but ugh usps is such a frustrating service to deal with. like their website is horrible and if you're trying to find where the fuck a piece of mail is, it just leads you around and never lets you actually contact a person about it.

i'm annoyed because i put patreon reward packages in the mail on the THIRD and at least one of them still hasn't even shipped (or appears not to have been so it hasn't been scanned) and they've all been really delayed and the usps site is like "your only recourse is to contact the original shipper" and i'm like FAM I AM THE ORIGINAL SHIPPER AND YALL ARE MAKING ME LOOK FLIGHTY WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS PACKAGE (which has irreplaceable original art in it? like yeah i can make this person another painting if need be but it means the original one will be lost. i do have scans but a print is not the same) !?!? it's at least insured but i'm sure they'll fight me if i am eventually able to put a claim in (i don't even want a claim, i just want it to have been scanned/sent to where it was supposed to be sent)

also they keep making me input the tracking number and then telling me i can't submit an inquiry to find the mail until it receives another scan which is the whole reason i'm pretty sure it's lost??

(i had to go to another post office location to drop these off and while im not positive it's a factor- could also be that it's november and the holiday capitalism machine is starting to rev up which always slows the us mail a lot- i am also never going to that other post office again lol)

[duranduratulsa]

Dear corrupt democrats, liberals, snowflakes, election board members and workers and USPS...we know you all collided to rig and steal this election. There's more than enough proof of it. You will not get away with this. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will never enter the White House. You have until January 2nd 2021 to turn this election over to the rightful winner, President Donald J. Trump. Failure to do so will result in the 2nd American Revolutionary War. You have been warned. #election2020 #electionfruad2020 #ElectionFraud #democrats #liberals #socialism #millennials #snowflakes #ELECTIONBOARD #ElectionOfficials #usps #StolenElection2020 #stolenelection #trump #Trump2020 #TrumpTrain #JoeBiden #kamalaharris #americanrevolution #2ndamericanrevolutionarywar #2ndamericanrevolution #TakeBackOurCountry #TakeBackOurGovernment #eitheryouworkforthepeopleoryouregone

[mr-double-downer]

where is my urbanmech

[calibu]

i just realize i never shared this

i have an entire google doc filled with petitions ranging from defunding the police, lgbtq+ rights, justice for victims of sex trafficking, world issues, and much more

i would highly appreciate it if you could take some time out of your day and sign some petitions, they shouldn’t take more than a minute

i worked very hard to make this document accessible and easy to navigate

also if you have any additional petitions you would like me to add, any resources, or any critiques, please let me know

[harringtown]

writing a dystopian novel right now is actually writing something that becomes less and less dystopian with each passing day

[resonanteye]

defunding the USPS is completely evil

FedEx: shits on my box, stomps on my box, kicks it, dumps gasoline on it, throws one of my chickens into the back of the van UPS: whispers at my front door “is anyone home” as quietly as possible before leaving a “we missed you!” note, tries to gaslight me into thinking my address doesn’t exist USPS: sets my package down gently where it’s not visible from the road, knocks on the door and kisses me directly on the mouth

[seafoamplant]

I know all the slow Nevada jokes are very funny but just taking an educated guess without actually looking it up, I bet there's a reason its going slowly. A sad, upsetting reason