Posted on 03/24/2011 4:29:10 PM PDT by MamaDearest
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post is reporting that the U.S. Postal Service is expected to detail how it plans to cut about 7,500 administrative positions.
Postal officials previously announced plans to cut the 7,500 positions in January, and Thursday's announcement clarifies which positions are impacted.
The job cuts are expected to impact about 2,000 postmasters.
Cutting postmasters is especially noteworthy, because it will likely prompt USPS to close the post offices they operate.
Though 7,500 seems like an impressive figure, remember the Postal Service still has about 520,000 full-time workers; another 234,000 employees left in the last decade on their own volition or through early-retirement incentive programs.
Unfortunately for the USPS, the internet and its ability to transfer files and documents from one computer to another has rendered them obsolete.......With the exception of occasional packages sent via the USPS, all I get these days are catalogs and newspaper fliers. All my bills are handled via the internet......
I’ve always wondered why Orcas Island, WA had four post offices when they have less than 5000 residents
Postmasters have been the historical patronage honororific, sorta like a hillbilly peerage.
Lincoln made the father of the General (Grant) who saved him, Postmaster of Covington, Kentucky.
Give them all pink slips.
Substantially increasing junk mail fees would help.
Gee! That means my brother-in-law might not get a promotion from his USPS job where he mostly reads detective novels. (He is surprisingly conservative).
Was talking to family in my home town a few weeks ago. Within about a 5 or 6 mile radius there are 5 post offices. Three of them are in “towns” that have no stores....just post offices. The entire population is probably not more than 6,000 people.
I live in a town with no post office, yet we have our own zip code. Town north of us is smaller, yet has 2 post offices and another one <2 miles away.
I wish they would just do away with Saturday delivery and be done with it.
Waiting to hear if the post office annex that I use that’s located in an Ace Hardware store is going to close.
Good news here in Michigan.....wife Gone Postal 25 years ago and she is not ready for retirement. She was worried her office in Grand Rapids MI was going to close......thankfully, it is not. I feel badly for anybody losing their jobs, it is a terrible thing. Fortunately, we were prepared for bad news. Others here in Michigan are not as lucky as us.
We are probably in the last twenty years of the postal system. They will reduce delivery days from 6 to 5...and then to 4....and then to 3. In about twenty years all citizens will use the internet as their primary source of mail and money transfers. If someone needs to send something physical to someone else they wcan use Fed Ex or UPS. Whats left of the postal service in 20 years will be absorbed by Fed Ex or UPS.
It may be sad to see the postal system go away but time (and technology)are passing it by.
I like USPS. If I’m not mistaken, USPS is required to secure pensions 15 years in advance. If funding USPS is strictly a function of sales, then I support its effort for survival.
I tell you it's magic.
I love it.
Wonder how it works around the other countries with their own postal system?
I hear ya’. USPS is a part of our lives from the earliest days of our childhood. I have no ill will towards the organization whatsoever. Of the hundreds of postal workers I’ve met over the years, only one was a jackass that insisted on charging me for postmarking an envelope.
Reducing postal service is not the hallmark of a great nation; it's the sign of a nation in retreat. Just because we foolishly elected Obama doesn't mean that we have to accept a decline in our quality of living; we survived that idiot President Carter, and we will survive the current Democrat occupant of the Oval Office.
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