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Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History
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| Oct 27, 2008 05:56 PM
| Jonathan McCall
Posted on 11/10/2008 6:36:36 PM PST by mbj
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Why didn't they wait until /after/ Christmas - traditionally the busiest time...?
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:36:37 PM PST
by
mbj
To: mbj
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:37:44 PM PST
by
stboz
To: mbj
Cutting only the non-union jobs.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:38:05 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
To: mbj
Why didn't they wait until /after/ Christmas - traditionally the busiest time...? Because they wouldn't have leverage for their own little "bailout".
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:38:41 PM PST
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: mbj
If they’ve had millions and millions fewer things mailed because of emails, why haven’t these cuts happened years ago? Why now? If they don’t get the revenue, all they’ve had to do in the past years is keep increasing the cost of postage to our detriment. NOW they’re going to do something about it . . . and they call themselves a business?
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:39:26 PM PST
by
laweeks
To: stboz; Chieftain
LOL!!!!
wonder if the surliness I encounter will change?
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:39:31 PM PST
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
To: mbj
I wonder now how many shootings will take place ....
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:39:42 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: mbj
Because they want us to feel bad when we’re standing in line for an hour and a half.
To: mbj
(This is “looking to cut”, not something already committed.)
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:40:57 PM PST
by
mbj
(Citizen of the United States of America)
To: stboz
Well you know, all the hip kids are sending letters these days!
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:41:12 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
To: mbj
Factor in the high cost of stamps and the availability of email, the future doesn’t look too bright for USPS.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:41:28 PM PST
by
svxdave
(Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
To: mbj
I get too much mail as it is. Hope they go on strike.
To: mbj
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:42:35 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(CONSERVATIVES....saving America's A** whether you like it or not!)
To: mbj
I’m surprised it took this long. With more and more postal services being done electronically it was bound to happen.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:42:55 PM PST
by
Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
To: mbj
"Why didn't they wait until /after/ Christmas - traditionally the busiest time..." Because that would make you get your mail too fast. Can't have that now can we... On a serious note, it's beginning. There sure were a lot of lay offs and one big bankruptcy protection application announced today.
To: laweeks
Advertising mail pays the freight at USPS, not personal messages. So far the internet has done a poor job of supplanting advertising mail.
At the same time USPS faces increased costs for delivering to more addresses (housing is growing like crazy ~ or it was until the Obama Depression started recently), and fuel costs went up.
Productivity is still improving at USPS thanks to a major investment in automation.
Recently advertising mail volumes dropped (due to the Obama Depression). The result is they have surplus personnel.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:43:38 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: laweeks
Not just emails ....there are more and more peeps paying bills online and directly from their banks
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:43:47 PM PST
by
MadelineZapeezda
(Have you girded your loins today??????)
To: mbj
This is a BS cover for eliminating Saturday delivery. You just wait and see, that’ll be one of their “solutions”.
The PO has been a loser for years. Their problems really started, and were made worse by, bulk mail contracts. That have been competing with Fed-Ex and UPS and lose every time, and now they’re competing for pennies against trucking Carriers, who have been decimated by high fuel costs and poor economy.
Everybody loses.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:44:14 PM PST
by
papasmurf
(Impeach the illegal bastard!)
To: svxdave
Money orders and the APCs are about 99% of my USPS activity. If it is really important, it goes by UPS.
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:44:15 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
To: icwhatudo
I can see why. A lot of ppl e-mail, do bills online, and don't bother sending Christmas cards out anymore (ha ha).
RightWingIt.com
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posted on
11/10/2008 6:44:24 PM PST
by
GaryLee1990
(www.RightWingIt.com)
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