THIS is a great reason to vote FOR Romney. I live in a small town with an extremely convenient P.O., but I won’t care if they shut it down. Personally, I wish they would stop Saturday delivery and maybe deliver only MWF every week.
“THIS is a great reason to vote FOR Romney. I live in a small town with an extremely convenient P.O., but I won’t care if they shut it down. Personally, I wish they would stop Saturday delivery and maybe deliver only MWF every week.”
hmm I’m the opposite, I guess because I’m in NYC. Our PO has long lines and slow service. I would like to end the PO monopoly so that we could have Sunday delivery.
Well, I'm a postal clerk and will vote for Romney as will my Postmaster and the rural carrier. Most of the postal employees in this red area of upstate New York are Republican -- for what that's worth.
As far as ending Saturday delivery [not to mention your suggestion of cutting Tuesday and Thursday, too,] nothing would be saved. Saturday is not a low mail volume day; and Monday is already the heaviest just because of the volume built up without Sunday delivery.
The extra help needed to sort and deliver the accumulated mail over an entire weekend would wipe out any savings from ending Saturday deliveries.
The Postal Service can certainly cut expenses --it already is; some 30,000 employees took early retirement at the end of July -- but cutting deliveries won't do it.
Ending the ridiculous requirment that the USPS pay $5 billion/year in future pension costs would do the trick neatly, though. Oh, and ending Congressional oversight would help, too. Outlawing the shipment of tobacco and alcohol have cost the USPS hundreds of millions in revenue.
I have a friend who is a letter carrier and he feels exactly the same way as the person described in this article.
In my opinion (and I will probably get bombed for this), the post office is probably pretty near as efficient as it can be - and it carries the burden of those pension/care payments that no other business has. Ben Franklin recognized that the efficent and UNIVERSAL flow of communication and goods were good for the country. A good (but as efficient as possible) post office is a national resource same as the interstates, waterways, and so on.
A small subsidy to the post office is a drop in the bucket in return for the efficient flow of goods and information to EVERY address in the US.
Without the post office, watch what happens to UPS/FedEx rates.