Tootfinder

The US Postal Service has an animal welfare problem
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5334999-usps-transporting-live-animals/

Shipping rates for USPS go up today... that coupled with one of the more expensive components for the products I sell going up almost 30% is not great news for me.
https://news.usps.com/2025/07/14/usps-adjusts-prices/

MAGA people are like petulant children.
"Senator Rand Paul tried to force the U.S. Postal Service to auction off its entire electric fleet, all 7,200 zero-emission trucks and over 14,000 charging stations currently being installed in post offices "

I have notice that around here USPS mailboxes have been modified so that they only have a rather thin slot for the insertion of thin envelopes.
No more pulling open a flap on the mailbox and mailing things like ink-jet recycling envelopes or USB flash drives. For that you have to go to an actual physical post office and wait in line for a clerk.
We've been deJoyed again (even after he is gone his is the gift that keeps on taking.)

Trump and GOP's tax bill would sell off USPS's brand-new EVs (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p34#a250621p34

The federal government raised the price of stamps on Sunday.
The price of first class forever stamps is increasing by 5 cents, rising from 73 cents to 78 cents, according to Senior U.S. Postal service representative Marti Johnson.
It will also cost more to send a postcard in the United States -- that's going to run you 62 cents, up from 56 cents.
An international postcard went up by 5 cents to $1.70.

Cost of higher stamp prices now in effect, USPS says: Here's how much
The cost of stamps has gone up. A senior U.S. Postal Service representative called the jump a "rational and realistic approach."

Parliamentarian: Senate GOP Can't Force USPS to Scrap EVs | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/senate-gop-usps/2025/06/23/id/1216057/

"The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction."
Megabill Would Trash $10B In New USPS Electric Trucks - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/megabill-would-trash-10b-in-new-usps-electric-trucks/

Thanks, Republicans, for fucking up the USPS so bad that it takes OVER TWO WEEKS for registered mail to get to its destination.

I normally don't obsessively refresh package tracking, but I've been watching my new #vinyl #record doing donuts in the USPS parking lot a few states away for a week.
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