Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Featured Replies

Putting this here, because Trump has called all negotiated deals with the USPS into question which is resulting in a lot of upheaval in the shipping industry.  Obviously this harms stamps.com in the short term.  How often does a $3B company lose 50% of its value overnight?  Long term, however, it looks like the USPS cannot compete well against other shipping carriers in terms of time/efficiency and is going to just let its biggest customers walk away.  I don't see how the USPS does not lose in the end.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/investing/stamps-com-postal-service-deal/index.html
 

Quote

 

New York (CNN Business)Stamps.com says it is ending an exclusive relationship with the US Postal Service, sending shares of its stock plunging more than 50%.

The company says Amazon is disrupting the shipping business, and it needs to do shipping deals with postal service competitors going into the future.
Amazon has popularized two-day shipping with its Prime service, and Stamps.com says its customers demand two-day shipping guarantees. FedEx (FDX), UPS (UPS) and DHL offer those guarantees. The Post Office doesn't.
"One of our nonnegotiable items is that ... we will no longer be exclusive to the USPS," said CEO Kenneth McBride in a call with analysts on Thursday evening. "USPS has not agreed to accept these terms or any other terms of our partnership proposal."
 
 
McBride said Stamps.com opted to discontinue its shipping partnership with the Postal Service so it can "fully embrace partnerships with other carriers who we think will be well positioned to win in the shipping business in the next five years."

more at the link

 

 
  • Popular Post

I can do the next 5 pages of this thread in one post:

Poster One: "I hate the post office whenever I go there they fail to address me with deference and tell me I have to put an address on the box then they LOSE IT every time!" [x100 posters]

Poster Two: [putting down pipe after thoughtful pause] "I don't know, Old Bean, I've shipped 14,000 package via the USPS, and they get there quite promptly, sometimes even a day before I mail them." [x 5 posters]

Poster Three: "I delivered a package to your mom."

21 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I can do the next 5 pages of this thread in one post:

Poster One: "I hate the post office whenever I go there they fail to address me with deference and tell me I have to put an address on the box then they LOSE IT every time!" [x100 posters]

Poster Two: [putting down pipe after thoughtful pause] "I don't know, Old Bean, I've shipped 14,000 package via the USPS, and they get there quite promptly, sometimes even a day before I mail them." [x 5 posters]

Poster Three: "I delivered a package to your mom."

your mom has never complained about my package.

Something something your mom  backdoor delivery. 

Guy 4 - The Overland Pony Express could deliver a message coast to coast in 10 days. A century later a man is walking on the moon. 50 years after that I can’t my super important widgets and whatever stupid shit my wife ordered from the distribution center to my doorstep in 2 days.

Guy 5 - Hillary Clinton got her mail at a private mailbox instead of at her State Department P.O. Box and nothing worse has ever happened ever.

I've never given out this much pos rep in a CR thread.

I'm unaware of Stamps.com. So that's a knock on them.

Yeah, the mailman suck, but you can't beat those prices.

Wtf is stamps.com going to provide for other shippers?  They all have direct to consumer locations and robust web offerings.  They only exist because of the half ass quasi-govermental management of USPS.

  • Author

This is not how I envisioned this thread going, but I like it almost as much as your mother’s liked the contents of my package.

4 hours ago, Parliament said:

I've never given out this much pos rep in a CR thread.

Negged.

8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

*mothers

And the grammar nazism makes an appearance. Speaking of Nazis, how did their postal system stack up against ours?

It didn’t fare well in the snow.  

This thread delivers.

All the post office seems to deliver anyway is junk mail and catalogs. I’d gladly pay them an annual fee to not have them do that. That could be their new business model. Spam filtering 

22 hours ago, thrillhammer said:

your mom has never complained about my package.

You package sucks. 

 

14 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

All the post office seems to deliver anyway is junk mail and catalogs. I’d gladly pay them an annual fee to not have them do that. That could be their new business model. Spam filtering 

This guy does not used sex toy (fucks)

7 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

This guy does not used sex toy (fucks)

Those come via courier. 

Guess I'll take this opportunity to scream at the heavens. Every week, the postman/postwoman dumps those stupid fucking Redplum ads in every mailbox and I really just wish they would save some trees because it goes directly into the recycling. They also deliver 5 Financial Times prints that are from 2 weeks ago on the same day. Apparently delivering a British newspaper on time is too hard for a San Antonio post office. /endrant

Edit: Buying/selling stocks based on insights from 2 week old FT is not recommended.

Edited by Eggo

So can I blame Trump or not for the shitty way the Post Office does business? That's all that matters.

I would not shed a tear if USPS went belly up in my lifetime. I’ve lost more packages, money and my sanity due to their gross incompetence than from any other organization.

Pro tip... red plum, retail me not, and most of those other shitbag junk mail ads have an email address down in the fine print you can use to take you address off their list.  I have a few single retailers still sending me crap but I was able to get rid of the big ones. 

My local strip center is anchored by a USPS office, an always empty PetSmart, a Stein Mary, and a recently shuttered Radio Shack.  People complain about how much money the feds spend on postal staff, it ain’t at my location.   Always just two people there no matter the time of year or day   

i think May be living in the future.  

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

My local strip center is anchored by a USPS office, an always empty PetSmart, a Stein Mary, and a recently shuttered Radio Shack.  People complain about how much money the feds spend on postal staff, it ain’t at my location.   Always just two people there no matter the time of year or day   

i think May be living in the future.  

I see the Jews and Catholics finally kissed, made up, and consolidated.  

My bad, Stein Mary is the orthodox stripper that needs extra tips for an abortion.  Always with the money with her.  At least she talked management into Fish Friday’s at the club.  

1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

even on Sundays, unlike the post office.

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

They are a strange bird.    even if I put my key into the community box to show that I am accessing the mail in my particular box while she still putting in the mail ,  she stops me and says I can’t touch anything .   

But on Sunday she’ll leave all of the neighbors Amazon packages with me if I’m playing out in the street with my daughter with the hopes that I’ll sort it all out later.  But on Sunday she’ll leave all of the neighbors Amazon packages with me if I’m playing out in the street with my daughter with the hopes that I’ll sort it all out later  

But I can’t grab the H-E-B circular in the red plum spam bundle if she still has so much is one other box open while I’m up there

5 minutes ago, relapse98 said:

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

Themoreyouknow.gif

1 hour ago, relapse98 said:

And yet, the post office does deliver on Sundays. I get Amazon packages delivered via USPS on Sunday all the time.

In metro areas, yeah. In the other 98% of the country, no.

If you don't know what stamps.com is, you clearly don't listen to podcasts.  

16 hours ago, Henry Hill said:

I would not shed a tear if USPS went belly up in my lifetime. I’ve lost more packages, money and my sanity due to their gross incompetence than from any other organization.

 

 RipeGlumFirecrest-size_restricted.gif

Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.