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The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse
Businessweek ^ | May 26, 2011 | Devin Leonard

Posted on 05/28/2011 6:47:53 PM PDT by 4buttons

He is struck by how many USPS executives started out as letter carriers or clerks. He finds them so consumed with delivering mail that they have been slow to grasp how swiftly the service's financial condition is deteriorating. "We said, 'What's your 10-year plan?' " Herr recalls. "They didn't have one."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: biggov; freelazamataz; government; postal; postoffice; usps; veterans; waste
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To: muawiyah

Oh, and when I was working for someone else? Yeah, getting caught stealing would not result in counseling. It would result in immediate termination and arrest.

Not so for the USPS.


121 posted on 05/29/2011 5:12:27 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Apparently; it is also acceptable for them to take a dump on private property if the situation arises...


122 posted on 05/29/2011 5:17:05 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: driftdiver

“What does it say about you, that you are judging a whole bunch of people based on 1 sentence on a blog. Stop throwing stones and worry about yourself.”

Maybe because, as described by you, they are taking/planning to take what does not belong to them, and that if your Bible study can’t get past the 10 Commandments, that perhaps it is ineffective?

Maybe it’s the remedial Bible study group?


123 posted on 05/29/2011 5:17:45 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: who knows what evil?

“Apparently; it is also acceptable for them to take a dump on private property if the situation arises..”

I think you may have hit on the answer as to why some of the mail disappears. Used as TP.


124 posted on 05/29/2011 5:19:51 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: driftdiver; fortheDeclaration
>>You two must go to the only church in the world which doesn’t have any sinners.<<

>>God Bless ya, cause you obviously need to take the splinter out of your own eye<<

It’s that kind of attitude that allows sodomites, pedophiles, and every other type of pervert to infiltrate the leadership of churches and government today.

125 posted on 05/29/2011 5:22:26 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: RFEngineer
I think you may have hit on the answer as to why some of the mail disappears. Used as TP.

Bingo!

126 posted on 05/29/2011 5:22:29 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: driftdiver; Bainbridge; fortheDeclaration
>>What does it say about you, that you are judging a whole bunch of people based on 1 sentence on a blog. Stop throwing stones and worry about yourself.<<

It tells me that he’s not one of those who allows pedophiles, sodomites to infiltrate the leadership positions in churches and government or stands by for fear someone is going to ridicule him for standing up for God’s word. That’s what it tells me.

127 posted on 05/29/2011 5:27:25 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear; Bainbridge; fortheDeclaration

Ahh so now you are insinuating I DO allow “pedophiles, sodomites to infiltrate the leadership positions”

You need Jesus. Satan has a firm hold on you.


128 posted on 05/29/2011 5:32:11 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: 4buttons

The solution is change

All the execs are letter carriers

There fore, change is not possible.


129 posted on 05/29/2011 5:36:23 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: driftdiver; Bainbridge; fortheDeclaration
>>Ahh so now you are insinuating I DO allow “pedophiles, sodomites to infiltrate the leadership positions”<<

You have already told us your philosophy about not saying anything because of course all are sinners. It’s seems reasonable to me that you would remain silent. But then you go and accuse us of not having Jesus in our lives. Double standard?

130 posted on 05/29/2011 5:41:08 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear; Bainbridge; fortheDeclaration

“You have already told us your philosophy about not saying anything because of course all are sinners.”

Well Jesus says we’re all sinners, if you don’t agree take it up with him.

You know nothing about my philosophy.

“But then you go and accuse us of not having Jesus in our lives. Double standard?”

Well I could tell you to go to hell but God will do that on Judgement Day.


131 posted on 05/29/2011 5:51:07 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: muawiyah

The post office had no interest in following up on any of the stolen packages.

I reported all of them immediately. Each time they would not take a report for 30 days! Then they reported back, each time, the date it was shipped out.

They had no interest in upsetting their workers and stopping their ‘retirement’ scam. It’s only tax payer dollars - if the item is insured.


132 posted on 05/29/2011 6:47:18 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
Taxpayers?

USPS is a FEE FOR SERVICE operation ~ purest Reaganism ~ can you imagine if we ran DOD that way? Just stop foreign shipping on the high seas and extract a fee for protection.

133 posted on 05/29/2011 6:55:24 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

You only got one nasty freepmail from a postal worker?

I did better. I got a couple, increasingly angry.

It’s really too bad because I’m sure there are good, honest postal workers working in that cesspool.


134 posted on 05/29/2011 6:56:44 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Spktyr
Yes, stealing gets you suspended immediately, and you don't come back.

Remember, every missing letter is not a sign of someone stealing. It's a sign of something, and if it happens repeatedly it certainly bears investigation.

For depredations from mailboxes the local authorities can take action.

135 posted on 05/29/2011 6:58:22 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: DocH

You missed my point, and we’ll leave aside the constitutional question for the moment. My point is that you can’t privatize mail delivery unless certain guarantees are made. American citizens will not stand for a situation where a private company decides to cancel mail delivery to many areas because it’s unprofitable...or just cancels operations period leaving millions of citizens with no mail delivery. That would guarantee Democrats controlling the presidency and the congress for the next fifty years.


136 posted on 05/29/2011 7:44:14 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftdiver; Bainbridge; fortheDeclaration
>>Well I could tell you to go to hell but God will do that on Judgement Day.<<

Yep! That’s the attitude of the kind of church I was thinking of when I read your first comment.

137 posted on 05/29/2011 8:17:12 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

Yep you’ve displayed quite a bit of grace with your judgmental attitude and gossip.


138 posted on 05/29/2011 8:29:37 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: muawiyah

In the context of the exchange, the “nothing requires a monopoly” comment was a response to a claim that it was Constitutionally required.


139 posted on 05/29/2011 8:30:45 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: muawiyah

Retirement in the service was 20 years. Some places 25; most are 30, 50% pay.


140 posted on 05/29/2011 8:31:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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