Funny how today is the first day we've gotten any political fliers in my office, and the same day I see this. Didn't take very long at all for a Magat to assault one of us over the election, and I guarantee it won't be the last.

Those goddamn Cloud People launching their attacks on the American way of life! It's an act of war!

/s

Retaliated against is a funny way to say killed

The catalyst for this shitty timeline we're in

Dicks out, lads

In layman's terms, they wanna move carriers to sorting facilities to cut down on cost for shipping mail to local offices. This could cause carriers who live in the towns the deliver in, like myself, to drive upwards of 45 minutes to an hour away to a sorting facility (this number is based on what my office's situation would be, could vary office to office). After clocking in and sorting our routes, we would then have to drive back that same amount of time to town to deliver, then drive that far back to return to office.

You can see the issue here, sure you're cutting on transportation costs to local offices, but you're now spending a lot more on carriers fuel in the already inefficient mail trucks to drive back and forth to their routes. We wouldn't get compensated for the milage and time going to and from the new office and it would lengthen our days because of the new drive time. That being said, if that drive time is accounted to our routes, our routes are supposed to be adjusted to 8 hours total time for normal mail volume. Now you're adding that much time, you gotta cut deliveries per route. Now you have to add more routes to compensate, which means paying more salaries to cover said routes. Sure it's good for us as carriers because routes need readjusting anyway, but is not the cost saving measure they think it is.

Edit: Another idea they've had is create regional delivery offices where 3 or more towns are in a single building, but this can cause the same issue, and in some regions it may not be possible due to the distance between offices in highly rural areas such as the Great Plains.

TLDR: will cause more problems than it solves.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

Damn, I remember watching RvB when it was still just cropped gameplay footage with the reticle visible on the screen. I have the Blu-ray box set of seasons 1-10 and the Chorus Trilogy. After Monty died everything kinda started going downhill. Final nail in the coffin I guess.

Another reason to resort to an older shitbox without these "smart" features. Most of them have a modem always calling back home and even if you remove the fuse giving it power it'll just put the car in limp mode or throw big error messages and yell at you to see the dealer.

I grow tired of this technological dystopia

I've used the old trucks in New Mexico, 140°F in the trucks wasn't uncommon in the summer. It was a relief to get out of it and cool off a bit. AC will be great.

Door dash: "Sorry about your negative experience, here's a $1.27 refund on your $46.77 order. Also, don't forget to send flowers to your dasher's hospital room!"

Use the Heisenberg method, bite a lamp cord with your teeth, use the ends to cause a short burning the zip ties and burning the piss out of your wrists. You're then free to go hide your methylamine at your car wash.

Right there with you buddy, 13TB and growing. Self hosted media servers are the best.

It's not just the lack of VRAM, it's also Nvidia and their stupidity lowering the bit bus for lower tier cards compared to the last gen counterparts.

Yeah Michaelsoft we get it, you own the OS not us. Now quit doing this shit before you get slapped with more anti-trust lawsuits.

Ravioli, ravioli

What's in the pocketoli

This is not entirely accurate, business reply mail can be parcels as well. Brother and HP ink returns are 2 I can think of off the top of my head. So we see packages with those labels on there all the time. The company will pay the postage automatically through their account (if they're large enough to do BRM they have an account) and just get the mail delivered. Honestly I don't know of anyone at the PO that would say something about it, we'd just laugh like "well we're getting paid for it regardless lol"

It wasn't just blue boxes, he also shut down sorting machines, slowing mail processing in another attempt to delay mail-in ballots. Luckily we weren't sending these off to get sorted at the plant and would take them to the town hall directly which probably helped circumvent a lot of late ballots. Can't say this was done in every office but in my local area I know we did that.

Edit: a word

I'm using the free version of Sync for Lemmy now, I don't see any ads. Maybe because my phone has the adguard server as my DNS server and it's just blocking them all?

How atrocious are they when not using adguard?

Because the device you bought is just a gateway for the company to access the real product, you. You're paying them so they can access your information.

The sad reality of today.

I've worked in 120° heat and it's not fun. Especially when you go back in the truck and it's 140° and the "cooling fan" just turns the truck to a convection oven.

Oh good, so over half my Steam library

Speedrun tip: just completely remove your windshield with a sledgehammer to remove the ice

You won't buy a Ford because it'll rat you out to the cops

I won't buy a Ford because they're dog shit vehicles

We are not the same

Yeah it's basically a convection oven on wheels with the little rinky dink fan installed in them

Thank you for circling the largest photo, my eyes didn't know where to go #bless 🙏

No they have bigger priorities, like retroactively demonitizing and removing videos that used to be just fine under the new ruse of "making everything more kid friendly" when we all know it's to make it more advertiser friendly

Yup, we're the product to them. I even deliberately use an older version of the app before they added those TikTok like videos in the search area because I get better music suggestions than the new version.

The app is nearly impossible to use to just find new music now. Discover Weekly has been a joke for ages too.

I've been doing the FBI Surveillance van one for years. 50 is the 5G band and I have 24 as the 2.4G band.

The medical examiner will get a glitter bomb when he cuts you open for autopsy

Election mail is supposed to be handled locally, especially when it gets closer to the election. We separate the ballots and bypass the sorting facilities and bring them to the local town hall/voting location. This was the usual process for the last 2 offices and presidential elections I worked through for this very reason, especially when DeJoy shut down sorting machines.

The delays are still a concern for many reasons, but as long as local post offices handle ballot delivery locally it would help minimize late ballots.

That being said, what do I know? I'm just a lowly cog in the machine.

A lot to unpack here but I'll just focus on this;

the place that mass shootings in the US began

The term "going postal" is what they're referring to.

Yes, I'm 6ft and have to hunch over in the back of the LLV, or squat down while re-sorting packages. The inner compartment door is one of the best things about the LLV since the heaters suck and it helps keep the heat in the cabin, plus the ease of access.

I haven't gotten to use one of these new trucks because I'm in a smaller office which will likely be one of the last to get them but they did try and get us the newer Metris vans which are horrible. No inner compartment door so you have to constantly get out and no adjustability to the mail tray.

You wouldn't dare

DJ Khaled voice : another one

My gaming desktop has a 5950x, I can run virtual machines and all games just fine. No reason to upgrade.

My Plex server runs an Intel 10400, handles everything I throw at it just fine. No reason to upgrade.

My home theater PC runs a Ryzen 1700 and again, runs just fine. No reason to upgrade.

I think the newest CPU in my house is either my Steam Deck's APU or the one in my PS5.