Another union made disaster in the news, that the media avoid is the USPS.
USPS unions:
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) part of the AFL-CIO
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, a division of LIUNA part of the AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) part of the AFL-CIO
National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)
Plus there are probably unions for the maintenance and custodians of the USPS facilites large and small. Unions for the transportation/distribution long haul and short haul of mail. etc....
The “efficiency” of the USPS can be illustrated by a recent experience my parents went through.
The local 911 emergency department of the county sheriff took it upon themselves to change my parents street address. This became my paretns’ new mailing address. No physical change happened changed address on the mail box etc.
My parents filled out a change of address form. Now, even though the only real change was the street number address, not the physical location of my parents house all mail with the “old address” on it has to go across state to the nearest distribution center to have the new address affixed on it, aka adress change label, then it is sent to the same location i.e. mail box. To add insult to this sheriff’s 911 department induced change of address, the regular postal carrier went on vacation and told the carrier subbing while he was on vacation to hold all forwarded mail until he returned from vacation. So all bills, checks, bank statements et al. were on hold without my parents agreement or knowledge. My mom luckily, after two days of nothing but junk mail call the USPS 800 number and after 30 minutes of phone gymnastics talked with the regional carrer who undid the vacation hold, but was unable to prevent the delay of forwarded mail from having to go across the state to the closest distribution center, thus delay receipt of the mail by my parents for 7 to 14 days.
So just add all the extra cost the USPS incurrs and one gets the idea of waste. This doesn’t even take into account the “pensions/benefits” that the USPS is failing to pay to the tune of over $15 billion this year so far.
Unions are dinosaurs 100 years past the usefullness.
Double post arggggg. A additional note. My parents live in a right to work state but the USPS is “special”./s