The first step to fixing a problem is to admit there is a problem. There is no reason it should be losing money, but it does. The Post Office loses money because it is poorly managed and is forced to deal with unionized labor.
Is there anything a union can’t kill?
[Sorry this is so long, but I’m working and wanted to post my thoughts while taking a break.]
You may have some points there regarding other problems within the USPS. I apologize for not reading the articles you posted, but I don’t have a lot of time to read and comment on them right now as I’m self-employed and only get paid if I produce.
But I thought we were talking about whether or not tax payers were funding USPS retirements - which they are not. Now you want to talk about problems within the USPS and you appear to be diverting me to discuss another subject :).
That’s okay, but I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that if Congress has robbed the personal/private investments of USPS employees in order to dole that out, we should be suspicious.
It seems to me they’re putting forth a lot of energy and effort at getting folks angry at postal employees and not at the jerks who have robbed them. Does that sound like a familiar tactic to you?
We should not accept any propaganda they feed us about any govt entity, including all the news we hear about how broke the USPS is. Keep in mind we’ve been hearing that for decades, yet nothing changes. We should be looking at it as any other govt propaganda instead of repeating it until it becomes the truth to the masses - such as harping on taxpayer bailouts for USPS employees, etc.
As for the unions, they’re poison and I despise them. And they are another reason for the USPS reporting being “in the red.”
Whenever a contract comes up [such as this year] all of a sudden the USPS is operating in the red. But then the “negotiations” take place and smoke and mirrors are used with great skill by all parties involved. They scratch each others’ backs. In other words, it’s all propaganda and many fall for it - even on FR.
The unions operate to:
Legitimize thugs
Make millionaires of thugs
Provide funding for the election of thugs — who then prop up the thugs
- and around we go!
Good news is unions are losing membership by the droves and the USPS is losing skilled workers to private businesses and to retirement [I’m speaking of the workers who keep the multimillion-dollar computerized machinery running].
But the bad news is [my opinion] that eventually employees will have their checks garnished and given to the unions - and the skilled workers will have been run off so that all the jokes about nothing but idiots working there may finally be true - and they’ll be paid a “living wage” of course.
Also, for reasons of my own, I don’t believe Congress will allow their cash cow to privatize. I do believe they have something in mind to replace it with and this would be what the taxpayer would be forced to support - a mail tax if you will. I believe that may be where the propaganda is headed, and folks are asking for it because they’re falling for it. Again.