Posted on 06/14/2016 11:18:14 AM PDT by sparklite2
It’s no secret that the postal business is shrinking. First-class mail volume is melting away like a popsicle in the sun—down 40 percent since 2000.
Less well-known is the shrinkage of the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors. It is supposed to have nine members (not counting the postmaster general and deputy postmaster general). At the moment, it’s down to one.
At first blush, this May sound like good news for those who think the Postal Service is a government-run dinosaur that should be dismantled or sold off. What better start than to eliminate the board? But on closer look, this postal decapitation is not a solution to USPS’ shortcomings, but a stark illustration of the problems with this government-owned enterprise.
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When I went to electronic bill pay, my stamp consumption dropped to maybe 1 per year. I’m sure there are millions of people like me.
Junk mail is helping the postal services revenue. Besides I don’t want someone at the post office deciding what can be mailed and what can’t be mailed. Your mailbox is in effect government property.
One of the few functions of FedGov that is both useful and Constitutional.
Mend it, don’t end it.
To a degree its suicide. Try buying postage stamps. Used to be readily available without finding a P.O. line to stand in. If you only need one or two good luck. Gotta buy a book for $$ if you can find them.
I agree........for the most part, the only mail I now receive are local fliers, all the important mail stuff such as utility bills, mortgage and vehicle payments I now receive via email. And those payments are now via auto-pay so the only correspondence I receive from those sources are notifications that they received my payments.........
In defense of the USPS, the internet has effectively taken away the vast majority of their business......
If they didn’t deliver zillions of pieces of junk mail every day for pennies per envelope, they’d be rolling in money. Instead they try to screw over grandma and grandpa who are just sending a birthday card to the grandkids. Well, guess what? There are alternatives AND WE USE THEM!
Not good news. The postal service does a good job, is needed.
You are correct
You are correct
1 lol!!
that’s about right.
I have relatives in 80s and 90s who adjusted quickly.
some dont trust “that doohickey” :)
They also have a contract with tv giant QVC. Delivery now takes twice as long, and orders get lost, or misdirected frequently.
My Netflix used to have a two day turn around: Out on Monday, they get it on Tuesday, then I get replacement on Wednesday. Now it takes a week, if I am lucky. Also, more and more movies they are just not getting back, and I have to report missing after 2 weeks. That used to happen rarely, but now it happens a lot. I use a locked multi family mailbox to send and receive. That is the only thing I use the mail for. Soon, I predict Netflix will have a streaming service for DVDs. Why they don’t have it now, IDK.
To the contrary, I believe I read somewhere
Netflix is dumping the DVD biz.
“The only thing saving them is the fact that they got the Amazon deliveries contract.”
Our regular postman said the same as you noted. He has about 20% of his daily stops being Amazon, Jet, Cabelas and other online merchants.
Then, on the weekend, the UPS uses its trucks and laid off workers to sort/prepare and deliver the weekend Amazon Prime orders deliveries.. The drivers get paid for 6 hours per day.
No this is executive order stuff. If you can write immigration law at the White House, you can write mail delivery easy.
FedEx is not set up to deliver to every home in the U.S. six times a week. They don’t have the staff or the infrastructure.
What they need to do is make the Gal dam employees work harder
Trump has a monogramed pen and phone so f congress
FedEx can’t handle the volume. Even in its diminished use the USPS still moves more things in a month than FedEx (or any of the competition) does all year. Really ALL that needs to happen to fix the PO is to stop making them pay for their retirement 25 years in advance. That cripple it. Let them actually run sanely on the retirement and everything else and it’ll be fine.
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