[PittsburghAfterDark]

Lets think about the real world here for a second.

There is nothing the post office does better than any method of communication and their parcel delivery is substandard to UPS and FedEx. Trust me, never send a 2-3 package to any country using the USPS.

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[1010RD]

"There's a long tradition of the public sector being more friendly, or less hostile, to African-American workers," said Robert Zieger, emeritus professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The Post Office is the best example."

No professor, there's a very, very short tradition. The history of government and black people is slavery. What a dummy.

[Altura Ct.]

So why should I care? Do blacks concern themselves with jobs for whites?

[napscoordinator]

The Post Office will lose “Black” jobs and the Federal Government will lose “Vet’s” jobs because they are the newest hires. We are in deep trouble!!! Something has to be done and Obama is going to do what he always wanted to do “Screw the Vets”....he will say it must be done.

[I want the USA back]

Government doing what it does best: giving out jobs to non-productive people who will vote to keep expanding government.

[DH]

I just love videos of postal employees sorting mail while wearing headphones while listening to RAP. You just gotta know their minds are really on the task they are assigned.

The postal service has become nothing more than a political card in race relations that is held by the Democrat party.

I remember when I was a child in the 1950’s and our postman (David, a Hispanic man) could be predicted to give us our mail within a period of +/- 15 minutes every day. He walked his route 6 days a week. In the summer we always had a glass of cold water for him. He knew the names of everyone on his route and they all knew him. No one ever got the wrong mail!

The Zip code was introduced and nothing improved with the system. Then, the politically and racially correct postal service got little jeeps to ride around in to deliver mail. Next came an army of different postmen (excuse me...post persons) each day and you never knew who was delivering the mail that day.

As all of this was going on, the price of postage and services kept going up due to the increased costs the system incurred by astounding pay rates for people who did jobs that required very little intelligence.

Consequently, our postal system prides itself on it’s ability to run customers off and to deliver mail to the wrong mail boxes.

Now, they want to cut Saturday delivery out??????? What’s next? Mail only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday?

[John S Mosby]

Something to keep in mind in all this: There are 3 major unions w/in the USPS. This is YET another problem with public employees Unions that even FDR said should not exist. Obamaumao would want to expand, truly.

First, there are some real dedicated public servants who are not trammeled by the constant public crabbing. But here are the unions— who have made a career in not working and lining their pockets/pensions.

The Postal Carriers Union—the person that delivers to the door mail, as well as Rural Carriers (which may now be only part time and only contracted out non union).

The Letter Sorters/Mail Handlers- the people in back who “sort” the mail (it is done by sorting pre-coding machines which have taken over much of non-bulk personal mail,zip codes and all)

The Counter workers— yes, a separate union for the “face” of the USPS to the public. Everyone has personally experienced their work rules. With lines outside the door, and say, 5 stations-— they would have 2 open. Truly. In some POs these are the most “irritated” irascible types, and have noticed act bothered to have customers. With exceptions of course.

Civil Service laws... protect the positions.
Dock Workers who are on clock with no work.
Energy costs, maintenance of trucks buildings. Overhead.

But mostly— vast numbers of pensioned after very short work times (and pensioned for life) and work comp lifers.

Ben Franklin would not recognize the service. In Europe the postal services are all privatized. Reports from anyone?

[bmwcyle]

In Fairfax Country it is blacks and Asians equal. The Asian women have taken over middle level management.

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[Arrowhead1952]

Sorry, but my give a damm meter broke on Nov 6, 2012 and the voters made the same mistake as they did in 2008.

[stylin19a]

"African-Americans represent 13.1 percent of the U.S. population and 11.6 percent of the labor force, according to a 2012 U.S. Department of Labor report. Nearly one in five African-American workers hold government jobs such as mail clerks, firefighters and teachers, the report said....

African-Americans make up about 20 percent of U.S. Postal Service workers - and are the majority in some urban centers, representing 75 percent to 80 percent of the 5,000 letter carriers in the Chicago area, according to Mack Julion, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers.

a long way to go to NOT say they are over-represented in the USPS

[Vaduz]

Without this job, I don’t know where I’d be right now.

Amtrak it’s a gov funded job.

[Fledermaus]

I see. Unless we throw billions of dollars down a rathole called the Post Office, we’re racist.

This all would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerously ridiculous.