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TexasTowelie

(111,316 posts)
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 08:04 AM Sep 2017

U.S. Rep. Bill Flores: Postal service should have been better prepared for disaster

Some mail service resumed in ZIP codes that begin with 778 Thursday, but U.S. Rep. Bill Flores (R) of Bryan says that the inconvenience to businesses and residents should have been rerouted in the first place.

Aside from calls from constituents looking for ways to help the Harvey-ravaged coast, Flores said his office has received many calls from Brazos Valley residents upset that post offices closed.

Flores says he doesn't blame these constituents. The postal service, he says, should have better prepared for Hurricane Harvey and kept its promise to use Bryan as a backup processing center when it moved the service to Houston a few years ago.

USPS began sending all mail to a processing plant in north Houston in 2011 and shut down the Bryan processing center in 2012, citing potential savings of $4 million each year by outsourcing processing.

Read more: http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/u-s-rep-bill-flores-postal-service-should-have-been/article_5f9f0530-e378-5cfd-b0be-0359a3693d72.html

Once again we see that outsourcing has its pitfalls.

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U.S. Rep. Bill Flores: Postal service should have been better prepared for disaster (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP
Well I guess they should not have had the Post Office swallow a poison pill! Dustlawyer Sep 2017 #1
For the Star Trek analogy, TexasTowelie Sep 2017 #2

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
1. Well I guess they should not have had the Post Office swallow a poison pill!
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 08:15 AM
Sep 2017

These idiots have limitless suck!

TexasTowelie

(111,316 posts)
2. For the Star Trek analogy,
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 08:23 AM
Sep 2017

Auxiliary Control has been eliminated on all Federation starships by the Republicans for the sake of operating efficiencies and The Ferengi say it costs too much, but we're worried about the Republicans being in collusion with the Russians?

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