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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
On the end of USPS 1st Class Saturday delivery:
Or at least a decent job. But no Saturday delivery here either.
Same here. Frankly, I don't care about Saturday deliveries. Parcel integrity, that's a different story.
Re:A better job (Score:5, Insightful)by ArsonSmith (13997) on Sunday February 10, 2013 @01:27AM (#42848257) Journal
And I'd rather the oposite. don't bother dropping shit off at my house Mon-Fri I wont be at home. How about just Saturday/Sunday delivery. Cut costs that much more.
Rock & A Hard Place (Score:5, Insightful)by longbot (789962) <longbottle.gmail@com> on Saturday February 09, 2013 @04:48PM (#42845571) HomepageIf we let the USPS operate as they should (a taxpayer-funded government agency) then they wouldn't have to worry about financial solvency, and we could get mail every day of the week.
There are plenty of other things we could do, too. Like toss out all those union fucks making $35/hr and hire twice as many people from the welfare pool at a reasonable living wage. They'd have jobs, and we'd cut costs.
The big problem isn't really that the USPS isn't government funded, it's that congress requires them to over-fund the pension fund for postal workers. When the postal union agrees with the USPS, you can bet it's true.
Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09, 2013 @06:45PM (#42846273)The ones making $35/hr are not the average USPS workers. You can find some exceptions, sure, but the vast majority are making well below that. The average hourly wage of a mail sorter is about $23, with 80% percent of mail sorters receiving between $12 and $25. Postal clerks about $25/hr, with 80% between $24 and $27. Carriers about $24/hr, with 80% between $19 and $27.
And the federal minimum wage is still $7.75/hr, last I checked. Why are we paying them so much more than the private sector? They already get cushy benefits!
Maybe the question should be "Why is the federal minimum wage set so low?" If it had kept up with inflation from when I was a kid (1960's) it would be in the $12-$14/hour range. It's people with good middle class wages like USPS workers who keep the economy healthy because the have money to spend on more than just the bare necessities.
Because minimum wage isn't a livable wage. There isn't a state in the States where anyone can work 40 hours a week at minimum wage and make enough for Fair Market Rent of a two bedroom apartment.
You're looking at it the wrong way. It should be "why is the minimum wage so ridiculously low".
That is less than half of the minimum wage in the country I live in. And almost noone actually gets paid the minimum wage here (government or private sector). No company paying only the minimum wage would be able to attract and retain employees. Even my first ever job when I was a teenager, stacking shelves at a supermarket part time was paying $19/hr (and significantly higher on Sundays/public holidays).
Meanwhile, here in Australia we have 2 federal politicians who each decided that later this year they would leave politics.
Their pensions will be about $250,000 a year
(Australian dollar ~ US dollar)
link [michaelsmithnews.com]
by QRDeNameland (873957) on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:05PM (#42854195)
And the federal minimum wage is still $7.75/hr, last I checked. Why are we paying them so much more than the private sector? They already get cushy benefits!
I see that this spawned a long thread on the efficacy of the minimum wage, but that covers over the more major flaw in this argument: if you are going to make a comparison in compensation, it should not be against the minimum wage but rather to the typical compensation for the same work in the private sector; that is, FedEx, UPS, etc. To compare to the minimum wage is directly implies that postal work would be a minimum wage job in the private sector, which it is clearly not.
If Congress wouldn't interfere with the USPS plan to shut down redundant and unnecessary offices, like two in my city 0.8 miles apart, both with lines and only 2 of 5 windows open that they could merge and have 4 windows open and 1 less manager+, perhaps they wouldn't be in the red. I won't mention there's at least another 5 POs within a 5 mile radius of these two, and most of those are better run and are my preferred goto locations when I need something. The only time I step into "my" PO is when I'm forced to because of a package or delivery problem.
Also very true. We have a similar problem here, with two of them so close together that they're almost in the same zipcode.
by Mitreya (579078) <(mitreya) (at) (gmail.com)> on Saturday February 09, 2013 @08:10PM (#42846827)
If we let the USPS operate as they should (a taxpayer-funded government agency) then they wouldn't have to worry about financial solvency, and we could get mail every day of the week.
Or if we don't admit that USPS should be a taxpayer funded exercise, let them choose only the cost-efficient routes as other carriers do. You'd get daily delivery in urban centers and once-a-month visit anywhere in the wilderness.
My understanding is UPS/FedEx already use USPS to execute delivery in "unprofitable" areas, because USPS has to cover them, even if these routes lose money. A business that has to perform unprofitable work is pretty much a government service as far as I am concerned.
Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score:4, Insightful)
There is more to it, it's not that easy.
As postal service, they're a common carrier. So that means they're not allowed to look into your parcel or to read your letter, and they're not responsible for the content of the delivery (if a mail man delivers a parcel bomb that kills you the mail man is not responsible for that). They also must accept mail from any postal address, and deliver it to any other postal address, at a fixed cost.
Urban delivery is highly profitable, cost per letter is far less than what the sender pays. That makes up for the losses of the rural and wilderness addresses.
Also the postal services are allowed to place mail collection boxes all over the place, giving them a huge competitive advantage over commercial competitors (like FedEx, UPS, etc). In many countries the postal service still has a monopoly on letters - usually defined as postal items less than a certain weight.
And for those unprofitable areas: the USPS will be happy to take FedEx parcels as well. It's a win for both sides. With all the extra parcels it may even become profitable overall, as there is now only one person running that route, instead of two persons, saving a lot on salary and vehicle costs and so.
Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score:5, Interesting)
Are you one of the people who makes more than $35 an hour, and is resentful of somebody else making as much as you?
Or are you one of the people who makes less than $35 an hour, and is jealous of somebody else making more than you?
I'm a person who's done identical work for less pay, and not felt shortchanged because there's nothing about the work itself that warrants paying that kind of money. It's not hazardous, dangerous, or likely to cripple you.
Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score:4, Insightful)
As somebody else said, very few people in the post office make $35 an hour.
I think everybody should make at least $25 an hour. Anything less and they're not making enough to support themselves in American society, and the rest of us -- government -- are going to have to make up the difference between what their employer is paying them and what they need to survive.
Minimum wage jobs don't pay enough for people to buy health insurance, so when they get sick, they go to the public hospitals and the rest of us have to pay for it.
If you can't pay your employees $25 an hour, you're an inefficient enterprise and you should go broke and be replaced by somebody who can.
Maybe $35/hr is a ridiculously high wage where you live or something?
USPS was entirely self-sufficient on postage fees alone, with surplus revenues, up until Congress passed legislation that mandated USPS pay forward *75 years* of retiree health benefits within *ten years*. No other organization, business or government, has such a mandate.
"Taxpayer-funded" kicked in after that point, as you'd expect it would.
Wealthy congresscritters want to kill off USPS so their cronies in the private sector will benefit, IMO.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/07/20/how-congress-is-killing-the-post-office/ [reuters.com]
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/nov/11/sanford-bishop/bishop-signs-letter-saying-post-office-faces-big-p/ [politifact.com]
Pfui! My country's post system does a better job. (Score:5, Insightful)by DirePickle (796986) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @04:54PM (#42845607)I wonder if anyone means this for real. I don't know much about other countries' postal services, but I find the USPS to be pretty damn impressive. Less than $0.50 to send a physical object more than two thousand miles in two days. And I know it happens, but I've personally never had anything get lost or mangled in the process.
I wonder if anyone means this for real. I don't know much about other countries' postal services, but I find the USPS to be pretty damn impressive. Less than $0.50 to send a physical object more than two thousand miles in two days. And I know it happens, but I've personally never had anything get lost or mangled in the process.
That price compares extremely well for the service in Europe. Sending a normal letter from the UK to, say, Austria would get there in the same "2-3 days" as USPS claims, but cost almost $1.40. (That's less than 2000 miles, but comparing strictly on distance doesn't quite work, as the population and economic distribution of the continents is very different. Many European countries offer a next-day service within the country for around $1, for example.)
Also, having read some other comments, I think the continental postal service is less useful in Europe. We've used electronic money transfers for a long time, and far less companies send letters to personal customers in different countries.
Most people's bank, credit card company, utility company, job etc -- and acquaintances -- are based in the same country. I think the only organisation that sends me paper letters from abroad is the FSF Europe (once a year).
They used to have a spotless record with me until about four years ago. They've since lost rent checks twice, and a government document with a $1250 check was lost/stolen as well. However, they don't break things into little bits like UPS seems to like doing. I still prefer sending important things by FedEx. They have never lost/broken anything, and I shipped a 50lb laser printer 1200 miles with them for $14. Fully insured, at that.
Canada, $0.55 to send a physical object 3000+ miles in a couple of days. Costs are on average 30% more in Canada so 55 cents is comparable. Probably roughly the same number of lost and mangled packages as in the US though no Saturday deliveries in a long time. And yes, Canada Post is self funding.
As a Canadian that lives in the US, I have to say that one of the few things that impressed me when I moved down here was how much better USPS works than Canada Post. Here is it very common to chuck something in the mail and have it delivered the next morning. That does not happen in Canada from my experience.
A perfect example is Netflix. I thought that it was a crazy idea until I tried it and found how well it works with one day turnaround. As far as I know, it has not taken off north of the border and the
Monopolies are bad, government or otherwise.
End it.
Are you a religious man? Because that's a religious statement.
What is wrong with the USPS and how would the free market make it better?
Why did Jefferson push to specifically command congress to create the USPS? (It's in the constitution.) What do you know that the framers didn't?
Quite. The Postal Service is one of the few things that the US government is directed to do. Any "literalist" should be all about keeping the USPS around as a communications method of last resort. The people most likely to be such "literalists" seem to be those that are most eager to privatize the postal service or destroy it entirely.
What is wrong with the USPS and how would the free market make it better?
How about the fact that it is $15 Billion [cnn.com] in debt?
FedEx, for instance, is several billion dollars in the black. The free market has a way of weeding out unsuccessful enterprises. If you can't manage your money, then you go out of business and someone else steps in the fill the void.
And how is "monopolies are bad" a religious statement? Are you saying you think monopolies are good?
Re:Missing option: end the USPS (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09, 2013 @07:13PM (#42846477)
1) The USPS is NOT a monopoly. You are free to send your mail/packages via FedEx, UPS, DHS, local parcel and gasp e-mail.
2) FedEx and UPS both rely heavily on the USPS to remain profitable by farming unprofitable packages to the USPS.
3) The USPS is the only one that has to fund it health care 75 years in advance, this includes all government agencies and FedEx/UPS/DHS...
4) UPS is unionized and pays as well as, if not better then, the USPS so don't blame unions.
5) The vast majority of the debt is because of the pre-fund mandate and all of it can be attributed to Congress. If the USPS was allowed to act as an independent agency they would be fine. Redundant post offices not allowed to close, Saturday delivery being required, and the prefund are all problems cause by Congress not the USPS.
1) The USPS is NOT a monopoly. You are free to send your mail/packages via FedEx, UPS, DHS, local parcel and gasp e-mail.
The USPS is a monopoly. No other carrier may handle "letters", and only two entities can touch a mailbox, the owner and an authorized representative of the USPS. for everyone else there's jail time. If that's not a monopoly I don't know what is.
"Monopolies are bad" is a religious statement because it isn't based on supporting evidence.
All you do is say, "Last time I went to the post office the line was too long," or "they lost my letter once."
"Monopolies are bad" is a religious statement because it isn't based on supporting evidence.
"Monopolies are bad" is based on 300+ years of experience. The problem is so prevalent that The Sherman Anti Trust Act [wikipedia.org] has been used to try and combat it for almost a century now.
What is wrong with the USPS
1) My tax dollars subsidize it.
2) I get very nearly zero use out of it.
3) The only ones who do use it, use it to send me entire books of junkmail for far less than I can send a postcard to Grandma.
4) For actual packages, private shippers do it better and cheaper.
Admittedly, for postcards and #10 envelopes, you can't beat the price of the USPS - But then again, apparently they can't afford to send those for what they charge, either, sooo...
Why did Jefferson push to speci
Re:Missing option: end the USPS (Score:5, Informative)by Mitreya (579078) <(mitreya) (at) (gmail.com)> on Saturday February 09, 2013 @08:31PM (#42846951)
What is wrong with the USPS
1) My tax dollars subsidize it.
Not in the last 30 years they haven't. Unless you were a taxpayer in the 70s, your tax dollars _never_ subsidized USPS.
Perhaps they should be subsidized with tax dollars, but they certainly are not at the moment.
They are being forced into keeping the prices down and handling the non-profitable routes though. All the responsibility and none of the benefits, really.
The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.
Not in the last 30 years they haven't.
So what do you call 3.4 billion a year for the next ten years, as approved in 2012 when the postmaster general asked to close branches and congress instead laughed at him and whipped out the checkbook?
They are being forced into keeping the prices down and handling the non-profitable routes though. All the responsibility and none of the benefits, really.
Now, in that regard, I consider you the single most insightful response to me so far. Cut the congressional r
> So what do you call 3.4 billion a year for the next ten years, as approved in 2012 when the postmaster general asked to close branches and congress instead laughed at him and whipped out the checkbook?
I call that fair. If congress is going to insist on the USPS providing unprofitable services they should finance it. If people don't like the results they should stop whining when the USPS closes a post office in their area.
The USPS gets a lot of interference from Congress. If Congress were to leave them
Re:Missing option: end the USPS (Score:5, Informative)
Not in the last 30 years they haven't. Unless you were a taxpayer in the 70s, your tax dollars _never_ subsidized USPS.
You should really know something before you make statements like that. According to the USPS annual budget report, the USPS has basically survived by borrowing close to $15 Billion from the Fed in interest free loans. About 2/3 of that debt is related to the pension costs, but the rest is simply operating losses. If the USPS goes under before paying it back, then yes, the taxpayers have to foot the bill for the entire amount. Even if the USPS does pay it back, we are still talking about interest free loans. Where do I go to get a 0% interest loan when I need one?
If you include a normal interest rate for a business loan, say, 5%, then you can tack an additional $4 Billion onto that bill. So in a very real sense we are subsidizing the USPS, and it becomes even worse if the USPS tanks before paying us. The only difference between the USPS failing and any other business at that point is that the union members pensions are largely funded so that they don't take it in the shorts as bad as the auto workers did...
It's not a monopoly.......you can pay FedEx or UPS or whoever else to deliver your items. Feel free to use them instead.
UPS, FedEx or any other shipper is free right now to compete with USPS. The problem is they can't - the differences in scale are enormous.
But UPS and Fedex have to put their packages by the door, rather than in the mailbox! It's completely different!!!
If the package does not fit in the mailbox, USPS puts it by the door. Exactly the same as FedEx and UPS.
Raise the bulk mail price (Score:3, Insightful)by cyberstealth1024 (860459) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:18PM (#42845757)
Instead of stopping Saturday mail....
Instead of increasing the cost of a stamp (1st class mail)....
How about they increase the cost of bulk mail? Bulk mail makes up 90% of my snail-mail inbox. If nothing else, that means that I'd have less snail-mail spam. i.e. 2 birds, 1 stone.
I assume the USPS is setting the price point for junk mail optimally for maximum profit already. If they raise it, they'll end up delivering less mail, but reduce their profit even further. This would cause more problems for them than it solves.
by sillivalley (411349) <sillivalley&comcast,net> on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:33PM (#42845841)SO they're proposing to take all the sh*t they'd normally deliver on Saturday, remove the first-class stuff, and deliver the rest? This is more efficient and will save money?
Sounds like a stalking horse to me, to make their plight more visible, hamstrung between unions on one side and politicians on the other, and not allowed to make business decisions on their own.
I get my many prescription medications from the VA, by mail. There's not much I can do about not being able to get them on Sundays or Federal Holidays, but cutting out Saturday delivery is just another day I can't get the medicine I need to stay alive and (reasonably) healthy. Yes, I try to get it ordered soon enough that it comes before I run out, but having to work around no weekend delivery at all just makes it harder. Right now, I'm very very happy that they use UPS instead of USPS for my insulin.
Wait. You get insulin shipped to your door? How is it packaged? I sometimes have trouble with heat-damaged insulin at the best of times. Just in December I was over in Western Australia, I left my backpack in an unairconditioned building which coincided with the onset of a nasty cold. It took a few (big) ineffective doses and a fresh cartridge to realize that my staggeringly high BSLs were due to heat-damaged insulin, rather than the virus... so I'm curious how they package insulin for mailing.
In the past few years the service I receive from USPS has gone from flawless to awful. I now end up with other peoples mail in my box frequently and packages delivered to the neighborhood lockbox end up having the key delivered to the wrong mailbox. Last month the check I mailed for my mortgage payment never made it to the processing company so now I pay extra for the privilege of paying by phone rather than risk damaged credit due to postal service incompetence. If I did my job half as badly I would at lea
have you complained to your local postmaster? often the misdelivered items are because the person doing your route sucks or they just don't have a regular postman assigned. I went through a period like this where we lost a really good one, got the round robin thing for about a year and now we have a regular guy again who does a very good job.
Congress hates us (Score:5, Informative)by StanramonFlash (1672898) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @08:25PM (#42846915)Congress is trying to break the Postal union. They're actually quite solvent right now and in the black. The problem it would seem is that Congress is insisting the USPS have enough money on hand? to pay for 15 years worth of pensions. I couldn't find supporting evidence of this but this opinion piece in Reuters seems to support this conclusion. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/07/20/how-congress-is-killing-the-post-office/ [reuters.com]
I think it's a really smart move, and I don't see any issue with cutting normal deliveries to 3 days a week, say Monday/Wednesday/Friday. They could still deliver higher priority mail and packages on the other days, but honestly, does it really matter if you get a bill 1 day later? If it's time critical, I think most people are going to use e-mail anyway, and if it's something that actually needs physical delivery in a hurry, why not charge a bit more for priority delivery.
The USPS is already almost irrelevant right now. All my bills are electronic, with the exception of medical stuff... and even they are starting to finally come around. My family is all on email, even my 75 year old mom. So really, all I get in the mail is postal spam (a LOT of it) and Christmas cards. I haven't gotten an honest-to-goodness letter in a decade.
I feel bad for the people who are going to be put out of work; but I don't think maintaining a postal service makes a whole lot of sense anymore. Let i
Re:Another casualty of technological advances (Score:5, Insightful)by g1powermac (812562) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:00PM (#42847409)As a postal employee, I might be a bit bias. .
So this is how it stands right now: first class volume, way down; standard mail, about the same; package volume, way up. So, the relevancy of the post office is heading towards more of package delivery versus letter delivery. I think if the post office didn't have to deal with congress setting the unbelievably stupid pre-funding all pensions for the foreseeable future rule, we'd actually be in halfway decent shape. And really, if they didn't have to deal with congress at all, I think more advanced things could be done. Like maybe branching out into something like what Fedex-Kinkos has done. It would bring more services to each post office then just shipping.
I'm against it, strongly. . . (Score:5, Interesting)by g1powermac (812562) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:38PM (#42847315)Though the reason is because I'm also a postal employee, and one that would be directly affected by this. However, I also have an inside view of how things work at the post office, and I truly don't see how they're going to save much money doing this. There's quite a few reasons for this. One, all the letter and flat (magazines and catalogs) volume is just going to be shifted to the rest of the week. So, whatever time each route is evaluated at (and hence what we're paid for) will go up. So, instead of 8 hours of route time for 6 days, it'll be maybe 8.5 hours for 5 days. And if it goes close to or over overtime limits, the route will have to be split, creating more routes and hence, more employees needed. Second, since they're still planning to do package delivery and keep the offices open on Saturday, that means they still need almost the full complement of support staff at each office. This includes clerks, maintenance, and management. Might need fewer clerks in the early morning for processing from dispatch, but that's about it. They're also still going to need dispatch trucks coming to and from the post office to the distribution center to drop off and pick up parcels and express mail.
So, the only area they save money is by extensively cutting hours to employees like me. I'm a RCA (rural carrier associate), which means I fill in for the regular rural carrier. I run Saturdays and any days the regular takes off. So, under the new system, they wouldn't need the usual one RCA per route like it is now. With just package runs on Saturdays, one person could handle multiple routes worth of packages, or instead of working a full day, each RCA now works just maybe a half day on Saturday. No one knows just yet how the upper management is going to implement this. Interestingly enough, local management and carriers heard the news after it hit the national news. The guys in Washington are not giving us any heads up on this causing a lot of outrage among the employees.
by ChrisMaple (607946) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:22PM (#42847513)USPS loses money on junk mail, and Congress won't let them raise the price to cover expenses (lobbyist pressure). Prices should rise to at least cover expenses. I think residential delivery should be ended Tuesday and Thursday in preference to Saturday: no good reason to have no delivery 2 days in a row.
by uvajed_ekil (914487) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:24PM (#42847521)Stopping Saturday deliveries is like putting a band-aid on a broken leg and isn't going to make the USPS healthy. This is not the answer, though I'm not sure there is a good one. You could raise rates even more (as if it the price to send a small package or even a letter isn't high enough already), but then you'd run the risk of losing even more customers for good, which has already been a problem. Having a local post office seems like a basic right to me and I'm strongly against closing more offices than have already been closed, so that isn't it either. Cutting employees and salaries much is pretty much off the table, since those folks work hard enough as it stands. There may be more room to get more efficient with vehicle costs (initial cost, maintenance, fuel) and building utilities, but the big picture looks pretty bad. Soo...
Seriously, what can they do? Dedicated buses/shuttles and push-carts for carriers on walking routes, rather than individual vehicles? Some of those tiny electric vehicles that are barely road-worthy for non-rural routes? More contracting with DHL, UPS and other companies, for USPS to provide last mile service or outsource long distance shipments? Something drastic, like neighborhood mail box banks, like you see in apartment complexes?
For the most part I wouldn't care about lack of Saturday delivery, except for Netflix.
Of course, I'm sure that Netflix won't mind: longer mail transit times means that high usage customers may now be pushed into profitability, or get ticked off and leave altogether also saving them money.
Whenever the USPS has money, the Congress puts more rules on it. The most recent was the rule about having to pay forward its health care expenses:
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20121001/DEPARTMENTS02/310010002/USPS-again-defaults-health-care-payment [federaltimes.com]
The pensions, union rules and other government regulations are strangling this once-great postal service, and it can't keep up. Removing these rules would allow it to be competitive again.
by yayoubetcha (893774) on Sunday February 10, 2013 @06:49PM (#42853599)
When I sent a birthday card to my brother in Hawaii from New York, it cost an outrageous $0.46! I mean, a guy stopped by my house. He picked up my outgoing mail. He drove back to the office. They sorted it. Put it on a plane. Got it to Hawaii. Then a puddle jumper to Maui. Then sorted again. Put it on a jeep. Drove it to the other end of the island. Then delivered it to the door. Then the new tenant wrote "no longer at this address: please forward". Then a guy picked it up..... \
The delivery ended up in Lodi, CA. My brother sent me an email "thank you", and gave me his new address.
I mean, seriously? It is outrageous to me that that level of service should cost 46 cents! Should be no more than a quarter.


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Think of it as a shared AMS, no more no less. Just like your own AMS will never absorb more than its cap, AMZ won't, either. It's just laggy between the players, allowing all of them to absorb up to its cap if it happens at the same time.
Think of it as a shared AMS, no more no less. Just like your own AMS will never absorb more than its cap, AMZ won't, either. It's just laggy between the players, allowing all of them to absorb up to its cap if it happens at the same time.
EDIT - a quick look around the forum does show this:
quote from EJ, admittedly this was back in cata but don't think it has changed since then:
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AMZ is the best utility an Unholy DK brings to a raid, and is alone a good enough reason not spec Frost. When used correctly, this will be your raid's strongest defensive CD. Do not be fooled by the tooltip to think it will only absorb the stated amount of damage. In reality, it will first absorb 75% of the next magical attack, and only THEN, if the amount absorbed exceeded the stated amount, it will vanish. Therefore, it works best when soaking single high-dmg attacks, and fails miserably soaking multiple low-dmg attacks.
Last edited by vmagik; 2013-03-21 at 01:44 PM.
This is correct on how it works, look at mechanics like Ultraxion Hour of Twilight soaking, H Madness bolt soaking, or even as current as Lei Shi for tanks.
It absorbs 75 percent of the damage of 1 attack, if attackDamage > absorbLimit then AMZ disappears, if not it stays for absorb limit, which is why it isn't good for soaking breaths (that do X amount of damage every second for X seconds) or Auras (same concept as breaths).
Wouldn't mind it being a bit better, but it's still awesome for big magic blows on the raid, since it does absorb 75% of the full damage-income in that blow, and then disappear.
Close to worthless at small constant damage.
Would rather prefer the rune tap-glyph back, than improved AMZ, but wouldn't complain either if they changed it.
Do feel a bit annoying not to be able to help the raid much.
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I'm pretty sure ivan is right, i can't actually pull out numbers but from what i've seen on ragnaros, madness, elegon that's the way it works (on ragnaros amz was better that any raid CD when the seeds of corruption exploded after their landing). Lei chi is a good example but i never actually took it on this boss because vengeance makes lichborne really awesome
For meagera the breath works like a dot on itself and, furthermore, if you had the red head dot still ticking on you, you couldn't see if it really absorb 75% of a single tick damage.
We are currently progressing on durumu so i never tried lei shen, but from i've seen of the mechanics it could be tested on static shock
It should be pretty easy to test how it works if you're unsure. Just get naked and use it while dueling a caster that can crit for more than your health. When naked, your health should be rather low anyway.
If it absorbs 75% of the hit, vmagik is right. If it absorbs the hit up to 75% of your health, Mione is right.
Easy fix! I'd test it if I wasn't busy eating cookies and such. Sorry!
It was quite handy on elegon during the add explosions, but the damage cap is a bit low imo.
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make it baseline for blood dks, ramp up the absorb a bit, and take it away from frost/UH. dps shouldnt get powerfull raid cd's, tanks should dragonsoul tier status. making it better now forces every dk into a non choice of talent on any magic dmg fights. that's bad
Wouldn't it be far more useful as a utility CD to have it operate like a Devo Aura than to absorb 75% of one attack? I mean, how often per tier do we have "giant meteor crashing down and dealing a fuckton of damage in one massive hit" fights? One? Maybe two? For most heavy CD phases (Feng, Elegon, Will, Bladelord, Garalon, Windlord, Ambershaper, Empress, Elite Protectors (at the end), etc etc they are a decent amount of damage coming out that is over 10-20seconds. Those fights are the ones I just listed off the top of my head.
Now if we say AMZ works only against magic, then that's ok, imo. It's still a decent utility that will allow us DK's to bring SOMETHING to the table. Most fights where I have to drop AMZ it lasts for about .7seconds like in Meg or Elegon or Feng or Ambershaper. It's an incredibly minor CD that borders on useless except for the teeny-tiny small amounts of fights that have one big magic damage spike. I don't know. It's better than nothing, don't get me wrong, but I personally believe that it could be more useful without being ridiculous.
There are more than enough raid cooldowns coming from dps already.
Our pve survivability as dps needs help, so I will continue to spec purgatory until blizzard does something about this.
Last edited by Shiira; 2013-03-21 at 04:27 PM.
The fights where it cannot be use effectively as a raid CD, the talent could simply be changed to something else like purgatory. I rarely use purgatory simply because of the heals I can use on my myself and effective CD use, that I rarely die unless it's a wipe. So if I'm speccing into anyway, I'd like it to be something that makes a difference, if not, then give me something that does.
Last edited by Shenanigasm; 2013-03-21 at 04:42 PM.
Change Gorefiend's Grasp so that it is a "place-able" AoE such as DnD, add a glyph that allows for it to hit friendly targets instead of enemy targets (restricted to those in party, raid, etc. etc. basically mass lifegrip) and change AMZ back to being dropped on the DK, so that it is no longer a place-able AoE. Make it absorb a standard 30% magic damage for, I don't know, 7 seconds? This increases the utility of Gorefiend's Grasp (outside of "Hey let's use this ability to stack adds and that's all it'll ever be used for") and decreases AMZ's utility in some situations, but increases it greatly across the board. That's just what I would do, at least.
Horridon, no magic.
Council, on heroic, good for Kazra'jin empower
Tortos, good for rockfall
Megaera, good multiple times
Ji'kun, physical
Durumu, lots of uses
Dark Animus, raid wide magic dmg
Twins, magic dmg
Lei Shen, magic damage
2 out of 12, wouldn't be applicable. Far more useful than not, to the point where if I didn't spec into it for raid nights, I'd probably be yelled at.


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I really don't understand why anyone would want to do this or why there isn't severe punishment for it.
OMG...I know it's out there but every time I hear something like this I'm sick to my stomach and a whole bunch angry words come out of my mouth. Sending puppy prayers to you sweet boy and hope for a speed recovery. Even more important than that, I pray you find the loving and caring home that you so deserve. Remember there are no bad animals...just bad people - unfortunately. I hope they find this bastard and show him what's it like to be thrown out of a window of a moving car in a plastic bag covered in fleas.
My God send his angels to watch over you and restore you to health and may you be adopted by the kindest family ever. May the monster who did this be found and be prosecuted to the fullest. God Bless Joey and your wonderful caretakers. God Bless the man who found you and helped you.
My prayers are with you your a strong boy and you have the best help.
May we catch your abuser and give them a taste of there own cruelty.
Be strong little man and may you have a long spoiled happy life.
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My heart goes out to this little, he has the sweetest face. I hope and pray that all goes well and he finds a forever home.
My prayers are with Joey for his full recovery. This incident makes me sick to my stomach and I hope God will watch over him.
makes me sick that there are humans capable of this cruelty, Joey get well soon little guy.
Thank goodness for the person who found this puppy and was not as heartless or gutless as the person who threw Joey out of a car window! You deserve a medal for saving him. Thanks to the organizations and vets also helping him. Hang in there little boy, there are a lot of people praying for you!
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It's not only a sport she is good at, but one she enjoys playing.
"I love the sport, everything about it," she said. "I have it in my mind to go out there and play my best, but I want to have fun with it.
"I don't like to leave a game feeling upset or frustrated. I want to make sure everything is left on the court so that I have no regrets."
There's no better feeling for Hoard than finishing off a perfect set by punishing the ball to the opposite side of the net for a point.
Epiphany's junior outside hitter has done that a lot this season.
Hoard owns the school record for kills in a season with 318, and has been the go-to threat for the Falcons.
"That's probably one of the best feelings in the world," Hoard said. "You get it set up and everything just connects. It's amazing."
Hoard has taken her game to another level as a player and as a leader.
She is co-captain with teammate Hannah Thorn, and she has 100 more kills than she had all of last season.
She attributes that to her work in the offseason, playing with the club team, Coastal Plains Volleyball Club from Greenville.
"I feel like I've definitely done better than past seasons," she said. "I feel like my swings and my kills, and the control of the ball, has been a huge thing.
"If you are able to control it, you are able to put it in spots where people aren't able to get to it."
Hoard not only is dominant on the offensive side, she has gotten better at other aspects of her game. She scores on 90 percent of her serves, has 14 blocks and 71 digs.
"She continues to work on her defense and makes that a priority," said Epiphany coach Darryl Radford. "She has worked on a variety of shots from power to placement and just taking what the defense gives her."
But like any unselfish player, Hoard credits her teammates for not only the Falcons' success, but hers as well.
The Falcons' front line is talented with Hoard, Thorn and Avery Davis. Last year's all-state performer, senior Megan Cowan, has missed the majority of the season with an injury.
Then there's setter Haley Radford who has nearly 500 assists.
"My team has been there, behind me 100 percent," Hoard said. "The passes have been on point and everyone is working together, talking and communicating.
"I couldn't have gotten half of the kills or attacks with the back row players."
Epiphany, last season's North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association 1A state runner-up, is sitting pretty with a 23-2 record on the year, is primed to make another deep postseason run.
Hoard's athletic skills and powerful slams are paramount if the Falcons are to make some noise.
"This year, I have been able to grow a little more with my leadership," Hoard said. "I've been able to work with the team and be a figure they look up to.
"My swing has developed so much more from travel season. I've worked really hard on technical things."
The Falcons host Pope John Paul II on Tuesday for Senior Night. Thorn, Cowan, Erica Neibaur and Hayley Foley will be honored.
On Thursday and Friday, for the first time in the program's existence, Epiphany will be hosting the Coastal Plains Conference Tournament.
Currently, the Falcons are in a tie with Freedom. If both are still tied, then a coin flip on Tuesday will determine the seeding.
The 2A state playoffs will be the following week.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - Senior point guard Courtney Osborn (Fishers, Ind.) became the Miami University women's basketball team's all-time leading scorer as she led the RedHawks to a 69-56 victory over Buffalo Wednesday evening. Miami improves to 15-10 overall and 7-5 in the Mid-American Conference. The Bulls fall to 8-17 overall and 6-6 in the MAC.
Osborn's jumper from the top of the key at the 16:48 mark of the second half put Miami ahead to stay, 32-30, and broke the record. The mark had previously been held by Amanda Jackson (2003-08) at 1,979 points. Osborn finished with a team-high 19 points on the day and now has 1,995 career points.
A three-pointer from Haley Robertson and a layup by Kirsten Olowinski helped the RedHawks to an early 7-4 lead. Buffalo followed with a 9-0 run over the next two minutes to take a 13-7 advantage with 15:13 to go in the first half.
A jumper by Olowinski sparked the Miami response. Over the next five minutes the 'Hawks would keep the Bulls off the board while they went on a 9-0 run. The run was completed by a three-pointer from Osborn that tied Jackson and gave Miami a 19-13 lead.
The Bulls closed to within 22-18 at the 4:59 mark, but back-to-back buckets from Hannah Robertson and Erica Almady pushed the advantage back to eight. Buffalo would close the half on a 5-2 run, but Miami took a 28-23 lead into the break.
The RedHawks shot 42.9 percent (9-for-21) in the first half, while holding the Bulls to 27.6 percent (8-for-29) shooting. Haley Robertson led Miami with eight points in the period.
Buffalo opened the second half on a 7-2 run to tie the score at 30.The historic jumper from Osborn broke the tie. She would record two more layups as Miami pushed the advantage to four at 40-36. A three-pointer from Buffalo would cut the lead to one at 40-39 with 11:47 remaining in the game.
Haley Robertson would immediately answer with a three-pointer to keep the 'Hawks in front. After a pair of Bull free throws, an Osborn three-pointer started a 9-0 run that made it 52-41 at the 7:37 mark. Buffalo would get as close as five at 54-49, but back-to-back jumpers from Hannah and Haley Robertson would put it away. Osborn drained six straight free throws down the stretch to finish off the 69-56 win.
In addition to Osborn's 19 points, Haley Robertson finished with 15, while Olowinski chipped in 14. Miami shot 44 percent (22-for-50) for the game, including 35.3 percent (6-for-17) from behind the arc. The RedHawks outrebounded Buffalo, 34-28.
Miami returns to action on Saturday at 2 p.m. when it hosts Bowling Green for a key MAC showdown. That game is the RedHawks "Think Pink" contest, where they will hold a pledge drive based on the amount of rebounds they can bring in against the Falcons. Money raised will go to support people with breast cancer.


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Michael A. Barron thinks passenger train service between Las Vegas and Orange County is a no-brainer and presents his own experience last weekend as a case in point.
Barron began driving from his Las Vegas home to Orange County at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. He got about as far as Primm, at the Nevada-California state line, when traffic on the I-15 came to a halt.
"What was I thinking?" wondered Barron, who has made the trip many times over the years and is well-acquainted with the weekend traffic crunch. The trek took six hours.
Barron was headed to his old stomping grounds in Orange County, where he used to be in the mortgage business, to pitch his latest venture to investors Monday: a passenger train to Sin City.
His company, Las Vegas Railway Express Inc., is betting that Southern California motorists will abandon the bumper-to-bumper weekend traffic to take a luxury train through the desert. Dubbed the X Train, cars will be complete with flat-panel TVs, a sports lounge, Wi-Fi, and food and drink service. The line will run from Fullerton to downtown Las Vegas.
X Train's biggest selling point, Barron says, is that the train trip will take just five hours compared with six, seven or more hours behind the wheel on a typical weekend.
"Just drive that highway once and you'll be thinking about the train," he says.
After four years of planning, Barron is getting ready to launch the service at the end of the year. The only hitch: He still needs $150 million.
Barron is hardly the first to chase the dream of Las Vegas-Southern California passenger service. Amtrak ran a train until 1997, when it canceled service due to lack of demand.
Various groups have touted a high-speed train from Anaheim to Las Vegas for 20 years. Another group calling itself XpressWest (formerly the DesertXpress) is pushing high-speed rail from Las Vegas to Victorville. Those efforts faced major obstacles obtaining right-of-way for new tracks.
The X Train team's approach is different. Barron plans to use existing tracks owned by Union Pacific Railway and BNSF Railway and focus on a niche market of weekend travelers.
Trains would travel from the Fullerton Transportation Center to Las Vegas only on Thursday and Friday with a return trip on Sunday and Monday. The company plans to run one train initially carrying about 1,200 passengers and provide additional service as demand requires.
Barron likens the service to a party train. Passengers will be able to connect their digital devices, watch TV, visit the lounge car, eat and drink and generally enjoy themselves during the 270-miles trip. Adding to the party atmosphere will be "conductresses," outfitted in the theme of the week such as NASCAR or NFL attire.
The company expects additional revenue by offering packages that will include hotel and entertainment in Las Vegas. "We'll provide anything you can do in Las Vegas," Barron says. "People tend to like packages."
Initial train fares will be $99 each way. Barron notes that the rates compare favorably with Orange County-to-Las Vegas air fares, which recently averaged about $225 each way on Southwest Airlines and its subsidiary AirTran. Test trips are planned this fall with service expected to launch on New Year's Eve, Barron says.


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It's about a lvl 80, 10 levels below the contents intended level, soloing said content. Their is going to be nothing stopping them from going straight into the new raid in 5.2 and soloing things that a full 10 man raid can't do. If you claim that's working as intended then i would presume you're the type who claim that if you can dupe in game it's blizzards fault and it's working as intended.
Vengeance is now capped at max HP (tested this on an EU realm).
Edit: And a response about the 409 items: https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/sta...86044846915586
It's fixed, vengeance caps at Max HP. Expect a better fix later. Whee!
the ammount of stupid ppl in this thread makes me sad.
This is a bug, no matter what you say or do will change it, and we want it fixed. Dont call me jelly or hater or what ever. I got a 80 paladin my self and can do this, I haven't as i think its wrong.
Edit: yey for fix
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I have a relatively low health pool for a 90 tank, ~520k HP. I can honestly say I've never gotten my vengeance that high legitimately, and of the few times I have, most were with decimation blade (I.E. I was doing baleroc and thus had extra HP).
This changes nothing for 90s. Only possible exception I can imagine is maybe 25H empress p2, but even then I don't believe tanks actually get THAT much vengeance.
Simple fix: Put a level req on the raids and make the gear level 90 or like 88+ or just outright delete the gear from the game they have done that before. the vengence setup dose not work unless the player has the twink MOP gear so just change it or remove it.
Worse still because not all tanks are created equal in terms of health.
(Although at some point, the amount of vengeance people can get just gets to the point of "how are you taking that much damage and living", but I still do agree it's an annoying bandaid fix)
Vengeance was working as they intended it to work, they just never expected a level 80 to survive a hit from a level 93 boss.
You (were) seeing this bug because of the server lag or some other bug involved with incorrect ordering which allowed the sacred shield to be calculated as if the damage was taken before the damage is actually taken, and thus absorbs the hit it was itself calculated on.
Capping vengeance at max HP is a mistake. The design was sound at end-game, tank DPS is an important thing in progression raiding, especially in finding that balance between mitigation and DPS. This will effectively nerf warrior damage, but more importantly nerf pally/bear self-healing, which is an important part of their mitigation. They should have just band aid fixed it with a level restriction on the raid, but apparently that must be tied to the raid grouping requirement or something equally absurd.
To be clear, I have no problem with 80s soloing old content. I think the soloing of current max-level content, even when T14 becomes obsolete and we're raiding T15, is a bad thing.
Funny how Ownedcore are fighting over if its a bug or exploit, good reading.
There. If a non-intended player engages a boss fight, it kills them. Done. No need to fuck around with max-level balance, no need to rebuild the instance transfer mechanic. Uses the InstantKill mechanic to avoid people circumventing it with damage reduction or immunity effects.Code:If player character level is less than x (replace as necessary) then instantly kill player character. x= 70 for TBC raid instances, 80 for WotLK raid instances, 85 for Cataclysm raids and 90 for MoP raids.
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The fix is fine for the time being, it's a quick band-aid to prevent more shenanigans and not a long-term fix. There is only one situation where you can legitimately get more than your max HP as Vengeance anyway (Empress p2), and it barely affects that situation.
A more clean fix will have to happen in the future to prevent the bug itself and not just its most absurd consequences. hopefully in 5.2 if they can work on it quickly.


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"I think we're doing some really good things and I like the way the guys have stayed focused and some of the things the guys said after the game about playing for each other," Rivera said. "That is very gratifying for a coach knowing that they're hearing the messages the coaches are sending. I appreciate their focus to the details of preparing. We have done a lot of good things."
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