Posts Tagged ‘mail’

USPS BS


Tuesday January 23rd, 2018   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 5:45am PST   •   0 Comments

On Thursday, December 28, 2017, a Los Angeles publication mailed me a check via the United States Postal Service. I received the check on January 18, 2018, a full 21 days after it had been mailed, so the cost worked out to just pennies a day. On the other hand, in 21 days I…
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The Postman Always Defaults Twice


Monday October 1st, 2012   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 12:30pm PDT   •   7 Comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently defaulted on a $5.6 billion mandate to pre-fund retiree health benefits, the second time in two months the federal government postal “service,” has failed to deliver. In August it failed to make a $5.5 billion retirement prepayment slated for last September, which Congress conveniently deferred. So the USPS…
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