[ml/nj]

Witht he creation of USPS the subsidization ceased, rates went up with inflation, and the employees went off welfare and foodstamps. That was a win, win all around. To argue against it is to argue for putting more people on foodstamps and welfare.

I'm confused. Is the Post Office there to deliver the mail, or is it a social welfare organization? With all the great automation you refer to one would think the Post Office should have fewer employees and lower skills (if that were possible) required of the average remaining employee.

Why doesn't the government just close the Post Office down and let private enterprise do the job? I would bet standard first class mail between and within major cities would be down to a dime a piece in no time.

Let me guess, I have to pay for your retirement and health care too, beyond Social Security and Medicare?

ML/NJ

[muawiyah]

Machinery doesn't repair itself. At the same time postal employment has been fairly stabilized for the last 25 years. Mail volumes increased several times over with essentially the same workforce.

I suppose if mail volumes hadn't increased they could have reduced the labor force, but that's not what happened ~ 'cause mail volumes weren't stable ~ they skyrocketed.

[muawiyah]

Regarding my retirement, due to the payments federal government employees make into the OPM retirement funds it turns out that they end up paying for their own ultimate retirement.

You were aware of that, right? Government employees pay a part of their AFTER TAX SALARY into a fund that's invested in US securities. Those securities pay for their retirement.

I would have preferred to invest that money myself. That way when I die my heirs could keep their hands on it. Instead, under the federal system it'll revert to scoundrels and ne'er-do-well, or maybe even corrupt contractors and other thieves.

It's NOT FAIR DAMMIT. I deserve to keep my own money. I worked for it.