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No we shouldn’t simply pay people for not working. The post office IS cutting back.

All I’m saying is that we’re being duped. I work for the USPS and in our office we have a desperate need for more help that we’re not going to get.

But the USPS isn’t supposed to be a business, is my point. Ya, we can go on pretending that it is, and we can do things more efficiently to cut costs, etc. But the bottom line is the Fed Gov is supposed to support this service, just like it supports the military.

Is the military losing money? How much is their operational budget annually? How much are we “losing” every year?

The military does not have an alternative that is eliminating its need like the post office.

Mail is slowly going away and eventually, the right thing to do is have the gov't subcontract the service to FedEx (which it is already trending towards).

There is no need for a large bureaucracy anymore to support a function fewer and fewer people use.

... But the bottom line is the Fed Gov is supposed to support this service, just like it supports the military. ...

No, FRiend, there is no Fed Gov. There are only taxpayers, whose money is taken by force, and redistributed as Washington politicians decide. The Fed Gov has no money of it's own. Your initial proposition is faulty. I must now pay 44 cents to mail a one ounce envelope.

The Fed Gov authorized the ESPS to function as a "quasi-gov" unit, with the goal of being self-sufficient. They have never achieved it, while giving more and more of our dollars to unions and their minions.

I just ordered some things from CAli, to be sent here in WV. I paid for 2-3 day PRIORITY MAIL delivery USPS. That was last Tuesday. I just checked and it passed through the Baltimore facility yesterday, but didn't make it to my local PO by closing time today.

I bought some things from Japan on the same day. I used UPS, and paid a little more. I got it in 3 days.

The USPS should be cut off the gum't teat. If you can't give good service, you can't get the business. USPS should sink or swim.

Your office may need help, but I imagine you could get three of your neighbors hired for what they pay the entrenched in your "office"! They're probably more used to working, too! UPS pays well, and gives good service. Fedex's number is in my head from 20+ years of calling for a pickup!

That's all right, though. Soon, this is all probably going to end, and the entire Fedrool Gum't will be looking for employment (and lining up at WalMart at midnight!). There's no there, there, to pay for those people to make rules, overtax people, and kill jobs...

The emperor not only has no clothes, he has no more gold, and the world sees him nekked and begging!

>>and in our office we have a desperate need for more help that we’re not going to get.

in our office we’re getting swamped with mail every night, more than before—actually it’s more a case of same amount of mail but less people to sort it...because “so and so, so and so, this guy, and that girl” have taken early retirement...

...and not gotten replaced. Jobs abolished.