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If Australia is anything like the US, then the postal service has had little investment in infrastructure over the last ten years. Even though mail order use has shot up.
Here it's the typical stop funding the post office so you can say it doesn't work then eventually privatize it.
I'm mostly get upset that they make so many stamps. I want so many of them. But I can write that many letters. And I write a lot. They're making a Betty White stamp I had to promise myself not to get it
The post is privately owned in Australia by a for profit company called AusPost. They are infamous for paying their CEOs massive bonuses while hiking up prices and hiring poorly paid contractors to deliver impossible targets.
Oh so you're already living the dream.
Often feels like we're a testing ground for a random selection of the worst neolib strategies. Friends around the commonwealth echo this sentiment.
We used to have a real postal service run by the government. It used to be good secure work. It erodes in front of our eyes.
I have noticed this too. I keep telling Americans, if you want to know what's coming next, take a look at what Australian and UK media is saying.
Corbyn was the testing ground for the Bernie ratfucking.
"Don't let the cure be worse than the disease" was said by Scomo before it was said by Biden. So was "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."
Yeah the UK is fucking heartbreaking, I have a lot of family over there and the way the NHS has been gutted is literally killing people I love. Oh well dying empire go brr.
It is very heartbreaking and it's happening to Australian Medicare too.
Yup. We can only hope Xi will be merciful when he finally liberates our younger generations.
It's a good government job here in the states. Somewhat lower paying but you get benefits and retirement. So naturally the pot full of crabs that is the US wants to hand it over to capital so those lazy freeloaders can suffer like the rest of us. :)