GET ME A WHOPPER

I mean, who you gonna call? If McDonald's shorted you a fry, it's not like they care about your fries. But you call the competition, they can use that to better defeat McDonald's on the battlefield of ideas. That's not weird, that's just capitalism, lol.

P.s., it's so weird that the politicians most violently pro-capitalist, just can't seem to fathom that if no one is applying for a job, it means the job is being offered at too little pay, not that "no one wants to work" lol. What if wages on open job positions had to slowly increase till the job filled? It's almost like they want the people in these jobs to subsidize these jobs that are obviously being offered to the market, at sub market pay rates. But it couldn't be that, cause that sounds kinda commy to me, lol.

Apply for a job or convince a friend to apply. Stop ordering Amazon.

First, try to dull the cutting edge of your rage and frustration. Cry, roar, punch your pillow, take a nice hot shower to relax you & ease your emotions. Then, with a low-key, gentle voice, call your local police station, being patient, since they are understaffed, too. Report that you have mailed the form and payment for registration renewal as of X date but not yet received it. If, from now on, you drive with care and attract no attention, you should be okay. You might even get to know your local boys/girls in blue, which can be a huge advantage. Let them know you’ve done all you can to update, but a snag has occurred elsewhere. You might even want to call the DMV and ask if they’d send a substitute, pro-tem paper that would show your legal ownership and updated status. If you can combine errands, make an appt. & drive to the DMV & pick it up. Just .try not to be angry since our whole society is in a rough patch right now.

They are well aware of the dissatisfaction, believe it or not being contacted by a senator about poor service is (a weird) one of many ways customers file complaints. They are also aware of every single thing happening in office routes, are well aware of the shortages, and do their best to make current employees pick up the slack. As you can imagine, this pushes more employees out and the cycle continues.

Yea they made a big step changing how we fund our retirement, they aren't going to fix people not applying for jobs.

Congress regulates our retail/service prices and not much more. The post office is forced to keep prices lower than competitors, but we operate only on revenue and zero taxes, and not allowed to make a profit. Best thing they could do would be to let the post office be competitive in the market if you want to see wages rise. Although they're pretty good, I'm only five years in and make 70k per year plus benefits and 5% matching for the gov equivalent of a 401k.

The Federal government has struggled with staffing for years, it’s not just the Postal Service. USPS, USCIS, CBP, BOP, BP and TSA all have staffing problems for a variety of reasons, the most common being starting pay and terrible hours. I’m sure there’s more administrations that are hurting these are just the ones that I know about. So it’s common to be forced to do mandatory overtime which most people don’t want to do and this leads to more people quitting which leads to more mandatory overtime.

Most people would prefer a 9-to-5 job even if it pays a little less and don’t want to work weekends or mandatory overtime. Plus the Postal Service is stuck delivering heavy packages now because of the prevalence of Amazon, they’re doing more work for the same pay. I know a few part time mail carriers and they also have to worry about crazy rural people pulling guns on them despite them obviously delivering mail and getting yelled at by people because “they aren’t working hard enough.”

Also the postal jeeps don’t have functional heaters or any AC so it’s a real shit job for 7 months out of the year. So unless you’re willing to work extra hours, give up your Saturday and drive around freezing or sweating through your shorts maybe understand why people don’t want to do this job. I don’t know about you but I don’t feel like driving an ancient, heavy rear wheel drive jeep with all seasons and no functional heater in winter.