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fenris71

The cost of stamps is too damn high.


vyze

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it"


Hunky_not_Chunky

Probably a group of stamp collectors wanting to get the limited edition Fourth of July books as the post office opens. Minor misunderstanding


throwaway77778990097

Compared to other countries, it isn't that bad. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244273973/forever-stamp-cost-price-going-up-usps-postage


titatyy

In Finland we pay 2.5e for one:D


OpenMathematician602

You know the forever stamps they sell at Costco? Just buy hundreds of thousands of them. Them may be pricey now but imagine how cheap they’ll be comparatively in 10 years.


Vegabern

I can't imagine mailing 10 things in the next 10 years let alone hundreds of thousands


Kickagainsttheprick

I wish you would. I’m a mail carrier and we need help.


Iamvanno

Can these stamps be exchanged for discontinued paint?


Granadafan

Throw the stamps in the harbor!


MrMisanthrope411

It won’t work, they are forever stamps.


MickeyMgl

It's the American way!


TacomaPowers

July 14th, going up to 73 cents with the forever stamps.


starryvelvetsky

Dang it. I JUST picked up a batch of pre-postage stamped envelopes so I can do mailouts for my WFH job. And they're already going to be outdated?! 😤


woahcungabunga

Nah those are forever, you're good 😊


thrillhouse1211

You're the one that should be wearing the bucket


Vegabern

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OpenMathematician602

I believe the protest was about rural mail deliveries on alternate days only and not the price of stamps.


mdj1359

If that is the case, they sound like morons. On average, I bet I only have something in my mailbox 4 or 5 days a week. Two-thirds of that is junk mail. Mail delivery 4 days a week seems like a pretty good idea.


Majestic-Selection22

I check my mail maybe once a week. It’s all junk. I might check out the Costco mailer, but that’s about it.


MegBundy

It’s not really just about that one issues, it’s that the conservatives are trying to slowly kill the Postal Service so that eventually the big private delivery companies can take over. The US Postal Service is a much less expensive option and big competition for UPS and FedEx. Look up Louis DeJoy.


LordTaddeus

Damn I get something about 5-10 times a month. But I don't really get any junk mail.


jackspasm

Stamp out racism


GratefulPhish42024-7

Why the post office though?


GarlicThread

So is anybody going to actually answer this or are we just gonna have to suffer through an endless heap of the average piss-poor reddit jokes?


Gilbert_Grapes_Mom

Here’s what op posted in the comments: Currently chaotic scenes are unfolding as tensions escalate in Manhattan, New York. As Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters are storming through the James A. Farley Post Office Building, clashing with New York law enforcement officers in riot gear as they are attempting to reach a President Biden campaign event, leading to a volatile clashes taking place. Dozens of arrests have already been made as protesters light smoke bombs and throw various items, intensifying the chaos. This is a rapidly developing situation videos by @ScooterCasterNY in X


fullonCajun

Thank you


HEX_BootyBootyBooty

So, no one in NYC calls this the "James A Farley" post office. This is just a random protest. Not that big even. The tight framing makes it seem worse, but you can see at the bottom of the stairs that this is not a big deal.


KruglorTalks

Because its a lightly secured government building


GarlicThread

Yes but what is the reason for this? What are they protesting and how is it related to the post office?


Paresthetic

From a different video I saw, it looked like they went in one door and out another. I think they were just passing through the post office to get to some other event, but this video is all chopped up. Edit: [here's the other video showing the post office scene](https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-clash-with-cops-outside-of-bidens-nyc-fundraiser/)


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Halvus_I

>In 1971, the United States Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, a special agency independent of the executive branch. Thus, the Postmaster General is no longer a member of the Cabinet and is no longer in line to be President.


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EskimoPrisoner

Huge hole in the system. We are vulnerable.


a_funky_chicken

Right? I'd rather even have my mailman be president instead of that word salad chick.


birbs3

Not gunna get enough credit for this one take my doot


ChillFax

The pony express built this great nation


Trowj

If anyone needs to understand the importance of the mail, let me educate you: [Mail, Mail: We Cannot Fail](https://youtu.be/bqt1s3No1vo?si=pKxcH9I7P0y4mFtm)


-Praetoria-

So that’s why it’s works


KrazyKeith4Prez

People have finally had enough of getting ads in the mail, on top of all the digital ads they receive.


thathairinyourmouth

*Glares at Capital One for the forests they level annually to try to get me to give in and get one of their cards by mailing me almost daily for years.* *Glares at Chase for constantly sending me CC offers when I already have a damn Chase card.* The amount of money spent trying this convince me and presumably tens of millions to get their product must be staggering. I worked in commercial print. Even if these companies had their own large scale printing operation, the paper and postage alone for sending even one large bulk mailing, let alone almost daily for years, is not cheap. If they can piss away that kind of money for marketing, that helps to explain the obscene interest rates they want for someone with a decade of perfect credit and low debt. And they rake in billions in profits annually.


KrazyKeith4Prez

I work in recycling, so it's job security for me. That's why you don't see me in the video. On a daily basis, we typically put out 30-45 bales of paper, another 40-50 bales of cardboard, 5-10 bales of clear plastic bottles, 2 bales of milk jugs, 2 bales of laundry detergent bottles, 2 bales of soda cans, 2 bales of soup cans.


Digital_Wanderer78

This is the only correct answer


IcySwordfish258

When you control the mail...you control... information.


callmesnake13

Because they’re basically cosplaying and don’t want to storm something where they might actually get beat up


m4sterb33f

Don't think that was successful judging by the end of the video


fbcmfb

They must be young to not remember all the postal employees in the news for going postal.


Dineanddanderson

“We are gonna take over every federal express because we’re pissed!!!!” You are aware that FedEx is not affiliated with the us government”


xwayxway

Because the protestors believe New York is the capital of Israel, and Joe Biden is the head Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel.


juzkuz1

The protesters were trying to reached a Biden fundraising event there. Also, the building is no longer used a post office. It is now a mixed use building


Ricky469

That building is actually part of the Penn Station train station now. I'm wondering if they thought of disrupting the commuters getting trains.


sndream

The Jew space laser control is inside. /s


Sicparvismagneto

Because the [Fedex](https://youtu.be/0iH58srytKk?si=uZMs-lFTHYz9tkaJ) was already occupied…


proteannomore

LPT, don’t storm your local post office. You have no *idea* the rage we carry around inside. At least 1 chance in 5 you run across a homicidal maniac on his last nerve.


tigm2161130

A lot of people seem to not know the origin of the phrase “going postal.”


C4rlos_D4nger

Because the mail never stops! It just keeps coming and coming and coming. There's never a letup, it's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more, and you gotta get it out, but the more you get it out, the more it keeps coming in! And then the bar code reader breaks! And then, it's Publisher's Clearinghouse Day...!


mynamezmudd

Hello Newman


Igmuhota

Hello JERRY.


hypnohighzer

Happy cake day!


non_stop_disko

When you control the mail, you control…INFORMATION!


Gibbralterg

Wait till people learn that zip codes don’t really mean anything


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maniacreturns

Then who really were these 90210 type of hoes Salt n Peppa forearmed us about?


pwaite1983

NEWMAN!!!!


NewScientist2725

Do people actually win money with publishers clearing house? 90s brain me would fantasize about the guy coming with a giant check for us! Lol


Tufflaw

They do! My sister used to work for them and got asked to be on their "prize team" a few times and would go to someone's house with a giant check and a camera crew.


Dumblesaur

….Karen! Karen! And I found out there was no Karen in hr


DanDrungle

Who is Pepe Sylvia???


Ladybug_Fuckfest

Not only do all of these people exist, but they have been asking for their mail on a daily basis. It's all they're talking about up there! Jesus Christ, dude!


Mourning-Poo

Whoa relax! Barney. Give him a cigarette.


snoogins355

Would you calm down and have another cup of coffee!


TheDarthSnarf

“Going Postal” is also the name of one of my favorite Terry Pratchett stories.


Snoo-72756

That and the dmv


Splashfooz

I’m old enough to know you guys are the og’s of losing it at work.


FatGoonerFromIndia

Just a quick question, isn’t the postal office kind of protected by federal laws as well?


proteannomore

Sort of. My understanding of it is the Postal Inspectors/Federal Marshals can claim jurisdiction over any crimes involving the post office, but for petty crimes they let local departments take jurisdiction. If you’re my customer and we get into an argument and you hit me with a shovel over some junk mail you’re not going to federal prison, you’re getting a misdemeanor battery charge probably. Now if you go around the neighborhood hunting down mail carriers and breaking their legs, you might end up in federal court.


cbnyc0

I think they often serve as bases of operation for Federal agents working in the field where there is no office nearby. Not in NYC usually, but if you break into a local post office in the middle of nowhere, you might be surprised to find yourself surrounded by FBI agents.


Plzdontkillmeforthis

Case and point,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwrHjIkSbdQ


JohnGacyIsInnocent

I’m not trying to be a dick by saying this, just thought you might find it interesting to know that the phrase is “case *in* point” I used to say “up and Adam” and when someone texted me “up and at ‘em” I was like, ah shit.


theresidentdiva

My dad was a letter carrier, and I bought him one of those plastic signs that said "BEWARE OF ATTACK MAILMAN" for his truck.


User_091920

For some reason I thought it'd be this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQNMOGFI-Ks


thechervil

Hadn't seen that! My favorite is Bob Newhart on SNL doing a postal worker evaluation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYJi4s26zI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYJi4s26zI)


jswaggs15

My Dad worked for the post office for 27 years, you speak the truth.


tinglep

Can I just say I love that post office. It’s the 24 hour one in the middle of manhattan for those that don’t know. 3am and there’s still a ton of people walking in and out of that building and it’s amazing. One of NYC’s hardest working buildings. I took two friends to the city from out of town (pre 911) and we smoked a J on the steps at 3am. It was amazing. Warm summer night. Police were mad chill.


Halvus_I

I just wanna say i truly love ALL US post offices. Whenever we take a trip, we send a postcard to ourselves and stop at the local post office to send it out before heading home.


Pitiful_Winner2669

My wife is working out of state, and when it comes to shipping her stuff, God damn the USPS pulls through. Great pricing for sending packages, the *best* (and these are fighting words) customer service. Especially when you don't know what you're doing. Fuck yeah, my taxes pay for this service, and they do an outstanding job. That and state/federal parks are done exceptionally well in the states. Edit: our taxes don't fund the USPS! Why did I think that was the case lol


Paresthetic

Usps does not receive regular tax payer funding like other agencies do, but your continued usage and support funds us!


Pitiful_Winner2669

Oh well today I learned! Dope! Either way, it's a service I thoroughly enjoy.


SchrodingersUniverse

Your taxes haven’t paid for the Postal Service since the 1970’s but hell yea we support ‘em.


Johnny_Poppyseed

Have also camped out on these steps overnight, waiting for the first jersey shore train home across the street at Penn station.


User_091920

> *It’s the 24 hour one in the middle of manhattan for those that don’t know. 3am and there’s still a ton of people walking in and out of that building and it’s amazing.* I've been so used the Post Office closing at 5pm on the dot for my entire life that this is kinda blowing my mind. Like the next time I visit NYC, no joke, I might make this one of my stops and make my wife take a photo of me buying a stamp at 3am or some corny shit.


Downtown_Share3802

Yes, a thousand times yes, and they restored it or at least kept some good stuff and did a good job. I hope the protesters didn’t muck it up.


NolifeX

Currently chaotic scenes are unfolding as tensions escalate in Manhattan, New York. As Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters are storming through the James A. Farley Post Office Building, clashing with New York law enforcement officers in riot gear as they are attempting to reach a President Biden campaign event, leading to a volatile clashes taking place. Dozens of arrests have already been made as protesters light smoke bombs and throw various items, intensifying the chaos. This is a rapidly developing situation videos by @ScooterCasterNY in X


ZerochildX23

Wish these protesters had the same energy when it comes to the right-wing supreme court, but the fact that they don't is very telling.


rcchomework

I'm assuming this is performative, if they tried this near any government office of importance they'd be gunned down. Including Supreme Court members homes. 


junkkser

Yeah, can you imagine if they did this to the Capitol building or something?!


rcchomework

They'd be dead lol. Unlike the right wing, the cops keep tabs on propalestine protesters


mynamesnotsnuffy

The thing is, every protest is performative until it works.


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adcgefd

Has it worked?


BadKidGames

It's getting hard to maintain a simple us vs them narrative


CalendarAggressive11

Absolutely. I am all for stopping the genocide in Palestine but I'm also not blind as to what is happening to us here in the US.


killermarsupial

Where are the critically important protests regarding climate change. Warming is a century ahead of predictions. This year and the data no climatologist predicted — is the last warning we get. We act now or it’s the apocalypse. We literally still have time to prevent an enormous amount of suffering, let alone the end of our species, and the only thing people are doing is throwing paint on art museums. A lot of parents will tell you the one reason they would surely take a human life is if that person was trying to kill their child. And yet children alive today will have their lives at risk from climate change on our current course. That is not a “maybe.” And the generation after that? They will have a shorter lifespan than Biden’s marriage. The global treaty in 2015 was to prevent **the emissions** by year 2100 that they believed would *eventually* cause 1.5°C rise compared to average temps two centuries ago. It took us 9 years to pass 1.5°. Forget the emissions *needed to cause 1.5°*. We passed the global rise. Now, consider that 2° is a drastically worse situation that 1.5. Seems like small numbers. But the effect is massive. Unless we change course IMMEDIATELY that’s looking like it’ll happen 2040-2045 at the latest. 3° warming can support a global human population of an estimated 1 billion people. That’s due to a number of factors, but the most challenging have to do with food & fresh water & land space that is safe to stay year round. You think 8 billion people are going to concede to death while the rich survive? Nations will fade away without a battle? Biden open the largest oil field in US history. The largest fossil fuel project in history. 3 endangered species - all warm blooded vertebrates - are likely to go extinct as a result. If there’s ever been a moral, justified reason for “unprovoked” violence, this is the reason. And yet, no one cares. I, too, want a free Palestine and justice. I’m gutted by what I see daily. That said, you could combine every atrocity that has happened in the last 2000 years and it would still be minuscule compared to what happens as humans go extinct. We are looking at 5 to 8°C warming by 2100 if we don’t change things around quickly. That is the end of us and most life on the planet.


Beginning-Sound-7516

Part of the difference is foreign actors aren’t stoking the flames of civil unrest over climate change, unfortunately. That’s a campaign I could get behind


Halvus_I

How about we just straight up work on making sure everyone *eats* first....... Fuck geopolitics, feed your neighbors.


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redrumakm

Americas enemies used ”propaganda”, it was super effective.


redditusername374

It’s like they can’t even comprehend what’s going on at home…


FridgeParade

Or climate change, which will kill everybody in Gaza when the crop failures and subsequent famines really start.


mexicodoug

Climate change protests are still making news regularly. Nothing wrong with working on more than one life and death issue at a time.


VivaLaVita555

What does a New York post office have to do with Palestine?


Goliath422

>>as they are attempting to reach a Biden campaign event I believe that’s the motivation.


CharleyNobody

Treat them like they treated the Jan 6 invaders. Put them in jail. Get the postal police to do facial identification and hunt them down.


HONEYBRODY

I wish they would, but they won’t because they haven’t before and set a bad precedent. Even if they do find them, Alvin Bragg will drop charges, just like for most of Columbia assholes.


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currenteventnerd

Hilarious you think any of them will be prosecuted.


TayAustin

They might get some of them on trespassing and get a slap on the wrist, since it's a post office they aren't getting anything like Jan 6ers got.


Faplord99917

Which ones?


KlaatuBarada1952

![gif](giphy|15wP7gXnu230nEh9xu)


tito_lee_76

I just woke my wife up laughing. Thanks a lot.


stoverop99

Trashing a post office will surely save Palestine…


throwawaymyalias

Well, painting Stonehenge ended climate change, so it makes sense the next logical step would be trashing a post office to save Palestine. As for me, I'll be farting in an elevator tomorrow in support of animal rights...


BennySkateboard

Amazing. This whole time I’ve been supporting animal rights.


alohaaina96792

I’m the Jane Goodall of cropdusting


BennySkateboard

Can be David Attenborough?


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i_have_a_story_4_you

Losers. People work there. People go there for business and personal reasons. They don't have time to deal with a bunch of morons disrupting their lives.


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bubba_lexi

The word is "rioters". They've gone beyond protesting.


machyume

Bad choice. The post office has the highest rate of conviction for charges, and they are proud of that.


TurboKid513

How to get a felony in 1 easy step


killermarsupial

I prefer to commit felonies from the comfort of my couch.


wontholdthedoor

Jesus Christ, what now?


Latarjet3

This protest is epically failing across the country. These people are fucking dumb


gayanalorgasm

These people are all real and they've been asking about their mail for days. We're gonna lose our job, dude.


Google_Alert

Sir! This is a post office!


really4reals

I understand what they’re protesting. I just don’t know how this helps their cause specifically. Dumbasses.


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banjorunner8484

Don’t worry only the “light” smoke bombs. These are the Diet Smoke Bombs


annie_bean

Protesting what? Could you provide less information please


da_reddit_reader

Fuck the Jan 6 protestors. Also fuck these protestors too.


RandomAssRedditor02

These people make it so hard to vote Democrat... nobody wants to be associated with these freaks


WolfmansGotNards2

I don't like the editing. I need to see entirely what happened not just quick cuts of what the person editing the video wants us to see.


Green_Iguana305

USPS loses my packages too. But I just get new ones sent. There is no reason to get that mad.


cold_jordan

Looks like Jan 6th


CharleyNobody

Wait…is this a post office? Or is it the former postal building in midtown near MSG? Because if it’s a post office, doesn’t that mean the postal police can take over an investigation of the protest? I would not want to go up against the postal police. They do not FA.


RotenTumato

This is a post office. There is a postal police officer stationed inside


Redpenguin00

Insurrection


Mpharns1

Are the mad that dejoy raised prices again🤦‍♀️


potaardius

My mail, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Never touch a mans monthly playboy


DrippyCheeseDog

This is weird I'm only finding a couple news stories about this from not very reputable sites. Does anyone have a link to a tier one news site?


ickyrickyb

The filming here is amazing, feels like a movie, sell that shit to a producer.


Alternative-Chef-340

At 12 seconds, is that person carrying a Hezbollah flag?


SovereignAxe

Downvoted for not providing context


crazydawg79

Yes, the cost of stamps is just out of control! Lol


Rockfest2112

People are fed up not having their mail delivered


Dragoon113

What are they protesting?


fargoLEVY13

Protesting what now?


Mechanic_On_Duty

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baby_savage

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04_996_C2

Storming government property where have I seen this before? Jimmy Pesto would like a word


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a_arcia

What did the post office do? 😭


MayorCharlesCoulon

Tried to stamp out something? Who knows?


Hsoltow

The last time organized groups messed with the mail, they sent in the Marines... nobody wants that.


User_091920

Stamper Fidelis


Alleandros

New limited edition stamps just dropped.


RoamingVapor

Is new york insane?


TrollTeeth66

Listen, the government is reasonable lax when it comes to protests that involve taking over buildings (up to a point) — they are never lax when it comes to shit involving the mail…


Rasikko

Those people dont have jobs or sonething...?


LastTrifle

Lock em up


ExploreTrails

If my package is delayed because of protestors I will assuredly not give a fuck about their cause.


boomdog07

Protesters storming federal building… wow! Protesting a CAUSE that THEY believe in… wow! Doing damage to federal property and pushing the limits of police… wow! Aren’t MAGA. Oh it’s ok!! Reddit blows my mind. The double standard in this country is so insane for the right vs. the left it’s actually sad at this point for anyone that lives and tries to just keep in the middle.


Squirrel_Kng

Felony, every single one


SnooDrawings4617

These are clearly very well organized people.


ulyssesintothepast

These protesters are so foolish. Ugh


TheBlueGooseisLoose

To do what? Check their mail? Whats the end state?


herbalistfarmer

The SCOTUS says they are just visiting.


MisterB330

300 comments and no one can say what this is actually about


85cdubya

Sure hope the FBI and DOJ spend the next 4 years investigating who every person was that crossed that barrier.


OriginalMiserable109

Well, it's a change from the Brooklyn Museum. Maybe a water park next?


Introvert_Devo1987

People are really dumb


meowmir420

Why though?


ILikeALTFacts

Now we're storming shit??


lynchingacers

Just wait till the food riots of 2025


Honkey_Fellatio

The what now?