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And hopefully 3,700 “Postmasters.”
That will save gobs of cash.
The other thing they could do is stop delivery on saturday’s they’ve been talking about doing that for years.
The Post Office should have been systematically downsizing in an orderly way for a LONG time now.
As I understand it, Congress forced USPS to maintain current operations as a way to continue to fund its pension plans as long as possible.
Mail is going the way of the Pony Express — and that was completely foreseeable. The need to have this function fulfilled by government was overcome by events long ago.
Will do wonders for those unemployment numbers. Prayers to those affected. Regardless of what people think here, there are some wonderful folks working at the post office. They are pretty smart to some of them. They have to take an exam to get the jobs. Oh and guess which post offices will be affected? The conservative areas. You get what you wish for.
"If you're a community and there is a local convenience store, for example, we might be reaching out to these organizations to see if they would be interested in providing limited postal service for the community that might be affected," Brennan said.
How will that affect those of us who have a CCW license? When I drive to the local post office, I park at city hall, lock my firearm in the car, and walk a block. Will a post office in the "local convenience store" have the same firearms restrictions?
the local school was planning to run school 4 days a week. Nope, not to save on employee costs, but the savings on heating and cooling as well as transporting the kids would save the school about 1% a year.
Just the year before they built a $10 million addition onto the school building.
Imagine if a business made cuts like government did.
I know of rural communities that have less than 10,000 people within a 60 sq mile area that have five or more post offices.
the Sam Drucker model!!!
Get ready for more shootings as Postal workers get laid off. With no competitive skills, for most laid off postal workers, it is the end of the line. Gerald Celente summed it up well - “when you lose everything, you lose it”. Many of the potential nuts have been sheltered by the system because supervisors do not want to deal with it. Layoffs will push this issue to the forefront. Get ready for some laid off postal workers to show up and start shooting up the Post Office. The term “postal” is based on facts.
The pay is good for what they do but it's not as easy as a lot of people think. What has destroyed the PO is the union MENTALITY.
I'll never forget being in the PO on a day just before Christmas, with a line stretching out the door. There were three clerks, because it was lunchtime. The supervisor came out and was trying to help with small things, like fetching mail.
One of the clerks (the older guy union devotee type) was yelling at her that she wasn't allowed to help and he was going to make a complaint, and she had no business taking their job.
It was a lib Jewish area, and people were looking at him. wondered how many people on line were seeing it for what it was - leftist unionism raised to absurdity. It was a textbook example of why progressive politics in actually lead to stagnation and inefficiency.
No way any business that is successful can function like that.
Gee whiz, who’da thunk they’d be in trouble financially when they build post offices in towns with less than 200 people?!?
Self ping for future reference.