Here we go
"Breaking news: #Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil." #USPS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/
@GottaLaff
My husband & many others will be out of jobs. All these firings are going to cause a depression. And people bitched about the price of postage etc. It's going to go way up after this.🤬
@Callalily or maybe his job will be even more protected and easier.
Federal employees have been dealing with more and more crud over the years, complaining more and more but not getting any relief.
We'll see what happens, but this might be for the best for so many employed by the federal government.
Just what I said. Federal employees have spent what feels like decades complaining about mismanagement and trying desperately to bring attention to it, but the press just wasn't really interested in covering it.
We were around watching people get fired that we actually needed on hand while people that we didn't need got hired, resources spent on things that didn't support project goals, and general mismanagement at all levels.
Finally people are noticing that federal employees are watching a train wreck of an organization, so maybe now we can finally fix some of the stuff that we've been desperate to fix for all these years.
This stuff isn't new to us. Yes, some of our colleagues turned blind eyes to it, and a whole lot of politicians weren't interested in it at all, but what we're finally seeing is public recognition of stuff that's been going on for a long time, that went unaddressed for all those frustrating years.
@volkris Oh I see what you were saying. I thought you were supporting privatization at first. @Callalily
@GottaLaff really we've been at the point where we (me and people I work with) don't know how this is going to be resolved, but it can't continue like this.
Year after year there have been more administrative roadblocks to us completing our work, and this is something we've heard from other federal workers throughout other departments throughout the executive branch.
If for some reason the executive branch can't manage itself properly, well, privatization would be better than the ineffectual, and downright toxic, situation we've been in.
If the branch is simply too large and sprawling to manage effectively, well, let's hope we can get some reform to actually manage things well so it doesn't come to that.
