Problem is can’t put the inter web genie back in the bottle.
Internet killed lettermail.
Deutsche Post was sold to DHL back in the `90s.
No political will for that in the USA yet.
Good.
Our domestic enemies don’t trust USPS for anything more than to screw things up, slow things down, and deliver for Amazon on Sundays.
Most companies charge for delivery. Most businesses do not charge to pick up on site.
The USPS has it backwards! They provide almost free delivery, and charge to pick up onsite.
It's no wonder they cant turn a profit!
Invest in Amazon, UPS, FedEx, DHL. Even if they lose, they win.
If they quit delivering ads they could cut staff in half.
Well they could pass a law where the US Post Office are the only ones who can deliver letters............ never mind.
The new $4 stamps will make everything dandy again !
I am going to repeat the lesson I learned in 2008.
Anybody who shows up in the halls of the US Congress with a sufficiently butt-puckering tale of doom and disaster WILL get a bailout.
Say it with me.
WILL get a bailout.
WILL get a bailout.
This will get “fixed” by having you and I once again kick into the kitty. Don’t kid yourselves.
I run out of health care funding in one month if I don’t pay my invoice. I have the same crisis every month.
My Post Office service is fantastic, and the USPS Informed Delivery Digest is a series cut above anything that FedEx or UPS offers.
Too bad overgenerous pensions are reducing their competitiveness like so many companies with legacy defined benefit plans.
Wonder if this could happen to the Military retirement checks..
Maybe if they got rid of most of their Post Masters, and supervisors, they’d be able to afford it.
My wife took an early retirement, too young to draw from her retirement plan.
Her company bought an annuity to fund her retirement, effective when she turns 65.
Not sure if or how it would work, but I always wondered why more companies don’t use annuities to fund retirement plans.
as an FYI...My uncle is drawing a retirement from the central states teamsters pension fund.
The fund goes down to 0 balance 2025. Obama rejected an alternate plan to keep the fund going.(mostly a reduced benefits plan)
Why do I feel like I heard this 12 years ago? And 24 years ago... The truth is they’ll just take the money from somewhere else. It’s all a Ponzi scheme.
Last 100 roll of 1st Class stamps I bought are the Forever kind.
It’s a good thing. The wife will probably drop the roll in my coffin before they shut the lid for the last time...
NO sympathy from me. None. The USPS has been a parasite for ages. If there is any justice it will go away somehow and I don’t care how it happens. Any agency that claims it is a business that simply handles mail, packages the same thing a lowly paid courier does and pays their people the way the USPS does deserves to die.
Today a GS-13 is compensated at a base between $75K and $98K a year. The thing is, there is a locale based wage adjustment of up to 30% and the minimum is +15%. That can be a very good living in lots of the United States especially small town America where the average household income is like $30K a year.
Would you believe that a postmaster / postmistress in small town USA is graded as a GS-13? Pretty damn rediculous if you ask me. USPS deserves to go out of “business”. No sympathy here from me.
Explain to me why we need delivery six days a week when we are just an email away from sending someone all the information they need? Why five days a week? Why any?
The game should be over for USPS.
Who is going to bail out the rest of us who take care of our own retirement? NOBODY. Why should be bail out anyone else? WE should not.
Aren’t their retirees eligible for Medicare? What is the problem?
All congress- critters get FREE franked mail.
Non-Profits get cheap rates, determined by the Rate Commission
USPS, across a several year cycle, has to break even, not make a profit.
Unions create workplace rules that make it impossible to run in a businesslike manner
None of this lends itself to running in true business-like manner.
Maybe our President will set them free from some of the more onerous constraints, and they can make enough to pay for all their commitments.
Everyone has always known that you could get more out of a job at the post office than you put in. It is government, it is union, it takes zero intelligence or work ethic. You get an easy job, keep it for 20 years, retire, and start another career to double dip. I’ve known a half dozen people who have don exactly that, none of whom I like — they are all lazy, arrogant scum.
A pox on them all.
And why in he!! don’t my packages get scanned?