“Communities and Postal Workers United”
Shouldn’t that be ‘Communists and Postal Workers United’?
The mail volume on Saturday is no less than any other day of the week. Ending Saturday delivery will only add to Monday's delivery which is already the biggest volume day of the week. The labor saved from Saturday will have to be added to Monday or the mail won't be delivered till Tuesday or even Wednesday.
The people in the article are understandably ridiculed, but, ending Saturday delivery is a false economy.
I like my current mailman—he’s a good guy. The previous one was kinda nasty and I suspect he was a leftist of sorts. My mail requested deliveries often were screwed up with him. I suspect he was messing with me since I get a lot of conservative type mail but I cant prove it. Just a hunch.
The Post Office must change its structure and delivery schedule if it is going to survive without being a black hole for endless bailouts, the first of which will need to occur in 2013. The PO is mandated, but 6 day delivery is not.
It seems like the feel good response to everything these days is that “we must save it”!?!? What?!? Who stood up and save the business of ice houses given the advent of refrigerators? How about stables with the advent of the automobile? As habits shift and technology evolves, we cannot rest on our nostalgic laurels and pour money down the drain for the purpose of feeling good about our actions.
Four of this nation’s five richest counties are suburbs of Washington,DC.That is *not* a coincidence.
Please explain what hunger has to do with mail delivery? All these little sit-ins or riding a bike buck naked or painting their faces or anything else people do doesn’t make anyone care about their cause. Be thankful you have a job and do it well.
These guys ever heard of Twinkies?
who cares???
Six former and current postal workers,
This is only SIX “6” people and some of them are retired. I can’t believe how many people here are getting all wee wee’d ( I never spelled wee wee ‘d before.) up over six people. Who cares if they do anything. Why are conservatives like drudge and the hill giving them advertising. Does it even reflect what the postal workers want.
Also the post office is established in the constitution. We still support the consitutio here don’t we? They support Santa Claus according to a old b/w movie I saw and they make threads like this possible.
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Dear God, please take care of my dog
When they die that’s 6 they won’t have to fire!!
Oh, dear - whatever will we do without all those mail order catalogues, discount coupons, and notices of available bargains from massive corporations in search of additional profits?
The waste baskets of America will be weeping for content.
The 16 billion dollar loss has to do with the law congress passed where as the USPS has to pre-pay billions of dollars each year. The USPS is the only agency/business is the country has to put this much money into retirement and that is the main reason for all this talk of insolvency.
Mail volume is down and probably at some point going cutting down on delivery would make sense but that is not the reason why the USPS is currently losing money.
I don’t want to be a surrogate for the Post Office. There are some serious problems that need to be addressed. But the piling on fails to consider some of the facts:
The Post Office delivers more mail in one day than UPS or FedEx does in a year.
Claims have been made on the internet about retired postal workers getting 75,000 to 100,000 dollars a year in retirement. Perhaps this was true for some higher level members of management under the older retirement system. Today, if you work for 15 years and retire (after reaching retirement age), you draw a little more than $400 per month.
A surprise to many people: The Post Office delivers a sizeable amount of the packages for UPS and FedEx. In fact, through Parcel Select and SmartPost the Post Office delivers almost as many UPS and FedEx packages as those companies do. UPS and FedEx drop their packages off in mass each morning at the local post office. DHS doesn’t even deliver to certain parts of the country. They send their packages via the Post Office to these areas.
The Post Office is generally cheaper unless you mail a very heavy or very large package a very long distance.
UPS and FedEx do not want to take over the Post Office’s business, because, as things are, they are able to cherry pick the cost efficient routes and let the Post Office deliver the rest.
The Post Office delivers 175 billion pieces of mail a year. When you deliver that much mail, there will be some horror stories about misdelivered, damaged, or late mail. You rarely hear people tell about the majority of the mail, which is delivered correctly, safely, and on-time.
Always use the Post Office for overseas delivery. It costs anywhere from two to ten times as much to use UPS or FedEx. (Hint: I can’t attest to today, but I know that five years ago, if you mailed something overseas using a UPS Store, at the end of the day those employees went to the nearest Post Office and stood in line and mailed your packages via the Post Office. This is not a second-hand opinion. I know that this is the case.)
Ha, Ha, Ha.......... if they quit eating, more for me.
The postal system must adapt, change to accommodate the fact mail is mostly obsolete. The problem is that there are parts of the population that still depend on the mail.
It would seem a better course would be to demonstrate at the White House demanding that all government funds dispersements to the people be made by paper check transmitted by the US Mail