I’m surprised it took this long. With more and more postal services being done electronically it was bound to happen.
The Postal Service has known this was going to happen for years as well. Mail volume has definitely shrunk in the last decade or so (I know, because I've been there to see it happen). So, this left the Postal Service with a dilemma, since at the same time the volume of mail was declining, the Postal Service was upgrading much equipment for processing mail (something I've *also* seen firsthand, as I work in maintenance, and and regularly going back and forth to the training center for training on this new equipment). The dilemma was, they now had excess people in certain job categories, many of whom had lengthy periods of time invested in the Postal Service, but weren't able to retire.
How would you feel, if at 18-19 years with a company, just before you were eligible to retire, they tossed *you* to the curb?
the infowarrior
You know, I’d love to have someone explain to me why we even need the USPS anymore. So much is done by e-mail and even fax now, and is there anything USPS can do that FedEx or UPS couldn’t do? Is there a compelling reason to keep it around?