As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial catastrophe, John Oliver discusses why the service is so important, what brought it to this point, and what we can do to help.
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"My favourites are spimpson sponge bob
That FOX show was called "Myths, Lies and Complete Stupidity" how did the Last Week Tonight crew not a make a joke about that?
Making them pay pensions is good right?
Not to the extent and degree to which they are forced while also being blocked in every direction when they try and make more money
To quote SNL’s Madame Vivelda: “Stamps. You ask everyone in your life to buy stamps. And they do. And you say ‘TAKE THAT, POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DE JOY!!!’” “Why do I know the full name of the postmaster general in 2020?”
i cant be the only one who googled the swastika in the FedEx logo
Im an agronomy major in Canada and Post Canada (nation post, equivalent to USPS) has chicks in the mail everyday. We have few hatcheries. All they do is incubate the eggs and the day the chicks are born they vaccinate them, box them up and hop! they go in the truck and are delivered to farms all over. I visited the hatchery that produces over 50% of the poultry in my province and Post Canada trucks are in their driveway at 6 every morning ready to deliver. That's when I understood how it was legal and necessary to allow this still.
Whoops biden won the election so I guess we can trust the postal service again No I do not believe the election was stolen Im just annoyed by the inconsistency
The Post Office in my opinion sucks and has no understanding on how to get mail to the right party. It took 4 days to go from NC to Jersey City, NJ. then sent to Metro NY, set for 2 days the sent back to NJ, Newark. Stay in Newark for 2 days and now it's moving to somewhere. What the hell is going on? This is not the first time this has happen.
Denmark lost our postal service to Sweden Postnord that gouges people
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love John Oliver
Is it worthwhile to declare a national emergency for fema trailers or something of the sort be deployed? Possibly a way to have evictions removed or not reported? It's not fair to take a person's home its not fair to enact laws that are not enforceable. Would it be be deemed in the era of pandemic to declare an emergency use of housing fema? Or suggestions?
12:24 A joke, criticizing a joke, by criticizing the joke he is holding.
John no mess, you guess, we gotta help the usps! Hire me
I can't find the article but didn't trump once say he hated email and people should use the us postal service?
Did you save the UPS thanks to the 7 million viewers buying stamps?
I bet Jeremy Renner is wondering how he caught a stray bullet on an episode about the postal service
what's the fed ex swastica joke?
The American obsession with making everything for profit is sad and digusting
please upload high resolution picture of stay up late by brian swords, i'm want to use it as wallpaper for my computer, please please please. I love that painting.
I got FedEx, UPS, American Shipping Company
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2:00 can we just address the fact that you can MAIL BEES
Postal service in any country in the world is the best and least expensive option compared to private carriers like UPS, Fedex and DHL who are a bunch of ripoffs!
You think mailing live animals is weird? It used to be legal to mail people. I once read an article in Smithsonian Magazine where they interviewed a woman who, as a girl, had been mailed to her aunt for a visit, as it was cheaper than train-fare. She literally rode in the baggage car. Mailing people was outlawed somewhere around World War II.
Scuti is right. You could hire more postal workers and still get great delivery ON TIME. Why wait six days for mail delivery? Why not AM and PM service with letter carriers sorting and processing the AM run and then going home and the second shift delivering the PM run? The next shift sorts and processes and the first shift delivers the mail and the fourth shift works postal locations. Round the clock. 😒
And bees.... the USPS will mail live bees as well
Its the post office, its not a business. It doesnt “go broke” thats like saying the military is going broke. Ugh. No, its underfunded. Not going broke.
It's like kneecapping an olympic marathon runner and then complaining about them being a bad athlete.
The thing is, my mother actually has an entire two sheets of the stamps. This is why i love her
John, I recently became a member of the Postal Service as is my father who has been working there for 22 years. This video slightly worried me when clicking on it because I was afraid of realizing my workplace was corrupt when in actuality it’s the opposite. Speaking from experience, it is a fantastic place to work, and I truly hope I can get some time there to let my dad retire because he has truly worked his tail off for over two decades. Thank you for bringing this to light and I genuinely hope this can garner some kind of change
Um where the hell can i buy that rock
"But real businesses can't lose billions every year." cough Uber cough -$8.5B net income last year
Makes me glad that "Doctor D" David Schultz once slapped that rat crap out of John Stossel.
"Real businesses can't lose billions every year." Sample of US government bailouts to "real" businesses: Bear Sterns: $29 billion Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: $200 billion General Motors: $50 billion American Express: $3 billion Citigroup: $45 billion AIG: $67 billion
Postman helps bury neighbourhood dogs...... 🤔 I have suspicion,
Geese are demons, and you know it
I dont get it...Australian post office is hugely profitable...and how is USA post office not profitable...the answer is the government is trying to kill it thats why.
Omg what is Sierra on an episode of LWT ahahah love it
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...so let me get this straight, the USPS is broke, which is a federal service, but the government would much rather bail out airlines and banks, rather than bail out an actual essential business that provides services to literally everyone...huh?
I want "EAT SHIT BOB" stamps now.
All the big mail carriers would love a slice of bulk mail, extremely profitable but they all recoil in horror at providing a universal, low one cost service that the USPS provides.
15 years, in 15 years America Will have A cloaps to some extend, maybe not nation ending, but enough for Them to get Theis finger out.
John, I recently became a member of the Postal Service as is my father who has been working there for 22 years. This video slightly worried me when clicking on it because I was afraid of realizing my workplace was corrupt when in actuality it’s the opposite. Speaking from experience, it is a fantastic place to work, and I truly hope I can get some time there to let my dad retire because he has truly worked his tail off for over two decades. Thank you for bringing this to light and I genuinely hope this can garner some kind of change
I worked for USPS doing data entry about 5 years ago and found out how much of a mess it was then. They kept trying to recruit mail carriers but no one wanted to sell their soul and work 60-80 hours a week for not even 40 hours of pay. They are overworked and money is extremely mismanaged. They brag way too much about not using tax dollars since 1980. It's really so sad because if they went under, we'd all be fucked. People don't know all the services that they actually perform.
stamps.com is a part of, rather than competition to, the usps...? i thought it was the other way 'round...
Fuck the usps. Privatize that shit. Private takeover let em buy it. Been losing money since forever. Johnny Oliver appeals to the uninformed.
Is John Oliver planning to recreate the 12 days of christmass through the USPS?
Stossel Fans Anonymous
You know its kinda funny, i read a lot of fantasy stories. some are better some are worse. But basicly you can, most of the time, extract some of the lessons in the fantasy world to improve the real world. But then again you here this Story here and its basicly Going Postal by Terry Pratched, sure you have no Golems and Banshees in the USA but the rest is basicly the same. For evryone how knows the story already, for the sake of comparison Trump is Gild (without his smarts), for evryone who does not know the Story i can only recommend it and the rest of TP. books.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...so let me get this straight, the USPS is broke, which is a federal service, but the government would much rather bail out airlines and banks, rather than bail out an actual essential business that provides services to literally everyone...huh?
Still needs to correct himself as the USPS is NOT apart of the federal government.
United STATES Postal Service
@Kweldon3 It isn't tho
It is tho
THEY CAN"T RAISE IT! THERE'S A FUCKING LAW YOU DUMB, DUMB MORON!
I missed the stamps, just another thing about 2020 I hate
Prescient
You should make a danberry Connecticut stamp lol
Dear Mr. Oliver, I find myself blown away by seeing, quite possibly for the 1st time in my life, a human being who ACTUALLY KNOWS the answer to the question 'why is this all happening' ... Teach us!
Congress has FUBAR the postal service big time for a long time. It is congress that created the crazy accounting rule but also wont let prices rise to what is needed and also wont let tiny Post offices already near a bigger one close up.
very bad service lost 4 parcels 3 of which I managed to find in a nearby warehouse 1 I can’t find a form where my parcel doesn’t load, terribly without responsibility who will answer where is my parcel for $ 65, the tracking says it was delivered but I didn't receive it !! why the status was delivered if you delivered it to some unknown where
Me: I'm immune to advertising USPS 80s commercial: Me: 👀👀👀 dino stamps? 💕💕💕👀👀👀
listen, john is almost always correct but when he called that mail lady a national treasure, he hit the nail on the goddamn head
These stupid micro naps are gonna save me unfortunately. And yea idk what the fjuck I was thinking
stossel is a dipshit
Dear Sir / Madam, My Order Tracking number: LZ680799518US On September 22, I bought an Item for my Uncle. When I Tracked the Item on USPS, tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?tLabels=LZ680799518US it only states: Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility. I had been seeing this message for 3 weeks already and there has been no further Updates, I only see this Message. The USPS did not states Currently Where my Product is. Can you kindly Find Out for me: 1: Currently, Where Exactly is the Item ? It still has not arrive in Singapore since September 22. 2: When Would It Arrives in Singapore ? Please kindly reply to me as soon as possible. I look forward to receiving your reply soon. Thank you. From; Miss Estella Yeo
Literally selling rocks.
Omg I'm a stamp collector and nothing has ever made me want to collect stamps less than that ad.
:0 Sierra Schultzzie? In a Last Week Tonight video!? I wonder if she’s seen this 🤔
the biggest problem with email vs. the postal service is that you cant send a goose through email. 9:12
going bad meek mill
Oh my god, you don't have banking at the Post Office??
Trump's ability to be incompetently wrong regarding so many things will never cease to amaze me.
Okay just because the US is particularly good at capitalism doesnt mean we need to integrate it into ever aspect of our lives. Have you seen the extra fees from fedex and ups? Btw that I can get email claim is total bs. Most mail is now packages.
Wait why did they take away postal savings?
This episode hits different after all the recent bullshit that's been going on.
The thing I love about John is that if he sees something adorable, odd or funny he buys it.
Now I need sweatpants with Xpresspost stamped across the ass.
USPS is the only thing that fucking works in America
The Postal Service is a complete and utter failure because they promote UNQUALIFIED people to management positions. They bully and make their workers lives (especially Letter Carriers) miserable. They cannot retain CCA's because they made the Letter Carrier job too overwhelming for new hires. They are so stupid and arrogant, they have no clue how to run a business. Why on Earth would a "delivery" business make the "delivery" job a task so insurmountable with overburdened routes and complicated work procedures? That's the REAL reason you are not getting your mail.
This should be pinned to the top of comments
FUCK YOU JOHN STOSSEL!!!!!
Wow, for once I actually agree with John's suggestions.
So far all the usps workers I have met have been real Gs.
Here, Switzerland, the government would close down and die well before any postal services. That is one essential thing that makes us a civilization. Not a heard of bison with a mental disability.
I just lost my grandma to cancer this month and that goose joke fucking got me. Thank you John.
If I woke up in the Jurassic and saw stegosauruses, I have to say my first thought would be that the fossil record has even more gaps than we thought since we don't have evidence of them showing up until the cretaceous. And then I'd panic about social distancing.
Save the Post office!
What I don’t get is, why can’t basic problems be fixed first, like people dying out of no healthcare. No- clearly better business minded postal services are the REAL reason the you know who voted for the you know whom.
I like the expanding of services Idea. I want my letter carrier to deliver me my weed and for him to legally smoke some of it on his routes. He totes deserves it!
"quarantine brain" is a very cute way to say "effects of traumatic experience"
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for a country so developed, its astonishing that the idiots didn't continue postal banking services once it was implemented ..
Has Trump sued him yet?
Fuck you John Oliver
50 years, 🤔 I thought they gad to pay 75-99 years a head??🤔
The U.S. Postal Service is essential
My dad is a postmaster and he has been working late because of this dumb shit 😭😭😭
John Oliver is a clueless piece of shit. That bitch has no idea about my country. Who in the hell died and made this annoyance so special? That said...I will continue to watch oliver just for the entertainment value. Not that I would name a sewage treatment plant after him. USPS was hurtin long before President Trump was inaugurated. So go and fuck yourself soetoro.
You should notice how the people behind Trump fumble around nervously while he talks about the postal service
I love how he's angry that the post office won't collect a fair rate from Amazon, but he doesn't see the flaws in his stupid tax cuts to these same companies 🙄
I am an Aussie and now I want to help the US portal service.
Dont be so easily manipulated
Can't believe its still legal to mail living animals vast distances ....the heat and lack of oxygen would near kill them....and even if they miraculously survived that there's always the elemental risk....or the chance that horrible nasty accidents could happen plus the fact that they could be ie crushed or falling out of vehicles etc and so many other horrible awful possibilities that shouldnt happen.... CANT.....just cannot... believe that its still legal and possible/available etc to do something that should've been outlawed long since the 50s ended,...talk about reversal of/going backwards to the past...and back toward what should NOT exist today.....in a civil advanced 21st century advanced world...talk about MAGA ....this is what they want to return to....a backward time.... except them and their Trump loving cronies...they don't even fucking HAVE TO.....its STILL FUCKING HERE!!!!....🤦🏼♂️🙄🤷🏼♂️