Mail your Christmas cards early..............
6 days per week deliver on the highest-volume 10% of routes.
5 days per week on the next 10% of the routes (by mail volume)
After that 3 days (M/W/F) for the next 30%.
2 days (T/Th) for the next 30%
1 or 2 days a week for the remaining 20%, as needed.
Mail carriers now deliver mail over hundreds of miles of rural area where there are VERY few items to deliver (or even NONE! - Just to see if there is anything to pick up.)
They could base the number of deliveries per week on the volume for a route. Businesses would get the service they need because of their volume. Residential would get service when there is some mail to deliver.
If it absolutely has to be there on a given day, don't use USPS.
“does not receive tax revenue...”
Who is covering their huge operational debts and pension obligations? The reporter must be drinking USPS coolaid.
Where I live in SW Florida packages delivered by fedex and ups are left at my door...but all packages sent via usps I have to make a special out of the way trip to pick up from their warehouse. Then end up having to wait for 20-30 minutes at their warehouse as well, total waste of time and tax dollars.
Really burns me up to be put through such a government/union style hassle just to get my package! Reminds me of the evil vehicle inspections I had to go through when I lived in NJ. Ben Franklin must be rolling over in his grave...
Who needs ‘em?
Mailmen making 100K, how can they lose with that model?
Pray for America
Every problem the USPS has can be summed up in one word: UNION!
IMHO, they need to either break the union completely or at least fire 1/2 their union labor.
This problem will be hanging around until something is done about the union. Period.
A business model under which you don't have to recover costs?
bwahahaha, all hail government run BS.... =.=
Be careful what you wish for. There are many parts of the world and country that UPS and FEDX either do not serve or serve at an enormous rate. An item that costs 25 cents ordered UPS to Alaska will cost $25 to get it. Once you do away with the USPO everyone’s rates will go up. the post office is keeping the competition rates lower. A lot of people will not be able to afford mail service if they go away. I suggest that the government PRIVATIZE it but keep it.
If they lay off 10% (60,000 with a loaded cost of $100,000 each) the gap would be closed and they would be operating at a $4bil surplus.
And YES they can stop mail delivery on Saturdays.
No taxpayer monies. None.
“I won’t miss ‘em...”
A lot of people will. Not everyone is wealthy enough to drive 30-40 miles to a Fed-ex office everytime they need to mail a bill payment. And not everyone trusts paying their bills online and giving up private info online.
I like getting mail......fund the the USPS and defund the abortion centers....easy, unless you are a politician.
That can’t happen. My stamps say forever on them. /s
Random thoughts...
I knew the end was near when mailboxes started disappearing.
Nearly all my “mail” is paperless electronic now.
Last time I was in the post office, I saw a woman questioned about a package she was trying to ship — Anything hazardous, flammable, etc.? — and she said, no, it’s just a small bottle of cologne. Guess what? You can’t send that via USPS! It could explode!
Advice I pass around freely: If you want to be happy, have nothing to do with public education, cable television, child protection services, the post office, credit cards, and muslims.
Screw them, their unions, their leaders, their management, their rank and file!
What can we do to make their pain and dire situation worse? Boycott? Go to paperless billing? Let’s shove them over the edge-—they are clearly a Obama constituency!
BOYCOTT THEM!
So much BS. How much does the Dept. of Edumacation bring? Dept. of Energy? HUD? Which one of those is mentioned in the Constitution?
Well, the Postal Service IS! Keep it, subsidize it!
The U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with plans to reverse billions of dollars in anticipated losses during the next decade, but a significant overpayment to its pension fund and excessive obligations for health benefits are hindering progress,
According to USPS Inspector General David Williams, the $75 billion overpayment was the result of a misinterpretation of a 1974 law regulating pension funding. The Office of Personnel Management incorrectly made USPS fund a higher portion of the pensions than it owed, he said, adding the agency could use the $75 billion to pay off its Treasury debt and its obligations to pension and health care accounts.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0510/050610l1.htm
The U.S. Postal Service could save almost $38 million per year under a plan to rein in the federal workers’ compensation program, a new report by the USPS inspector estimates.
The Postal Service is the biggest participant in the program, which was created almost a century ago by the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act and supplies workers across the government with tax-free benefits as long as a doctor keeps certifying that their particular disability persists. For disabled employees with at least one dependent, the base compensation rate is 75 percent of salary; for those with no dependents, it is almost 67 percent. Upon reaching retirement age, those workers often opt to continue receiving workers’ comp in lieu of their pensions because workers’ comp pays better, the report said.
As of September, more than 700 USPS employees taking that route were at least 80 years old and three were 98, the IG found.
Last year, the Postal Service paid $1.1 billion in workers’ comp benefits and administration expenses.
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20110509/DEPARTMENTS02/105090306