Posted on 08/07/2011 6:15:39 AM PDT by maggief
A large majority of post offices that have been targeted for closure are in Republican districts.
More than 2,500 of these post offices are in GOP districts while about 1,000 are in districts represented by Democrats, according to a review by The Hill. There were fewer than 100 stores where the district could not be determined because the zip code is represented by lawmakers in both parties.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has stressed that politics played no role in determining which sites to shutter, noting that it adhered to a strict methodology for choosing them. The USPS used a computer program to select the offices on a range of factors, including revenue and workload.
The closures would save about $200 million annually for the ailing USPS, which has urged the end of its Saturday service.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Close 'em down. The fewer Government Union employees the better.
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Post Office losses are hardly a pittance. At the current rate, they could lose $12 billion dollars this year. What's your solution to their losses? Doing nothing?
I’d rather cut postal service days down to 4 per week.
I think residential deliver should be cut to three days per week. Divide the zips into two groups: MWF and TTS. Attrition would begin to elimiate personnel and equipment. Who needs all the stuffers/junk delivered every day?
Anyone have the list or where to find the list of PO in question?
gee, you mean the post office is closing shops in GOP districts? this would make GOP people unhappy ... and think the GOP did it... when it was the postal unions that decided which to close
gee... who woulda thunk it
People living in very small towns with very small post offices are more than likely to vote Republican. A lot more Dems than Pubbies live in large cities with huge offices. Therefore simple logic demands that closing very, very, small offices will affect more Pubbies than Dems.
Good grief, guys! We are going to have to give up something! This is exactly why we are in the situation we are in.
10 miles?! I drive 40 each way to work, 5 days a week. I do it because I am living where I want to live - and working where I want to work. You all should have to subsidize my postal delivery because of that? This is a perfect example of why we’re broke and have indentured the next two generations to pay for, among other things, our freakin’ postal delivery. Good grief.
I can’t find a listing aside from the closures in my district.
I’m wondering when they’re going to cut door to door delivery in the city.
Seems to me that its an enormous expense to make sure the po folks don’t have to leave home to get their Obama money.
Finally found a list.
The ones I’m seeing in Texas could easily be absorbed by other POs. There’s a few others that should have been on the list which are a complete waste of money and should never have been built.
It’s always been a 40 mile round trip to the PO for us but I only need to go maybe 3-4 times a year. Thankfully, we have rural service though many here have in town boxes. We used to have to go to the highway to get it but in recent years they’ve put us on their route. It wouldn’t surprise me if they went back to the highway delivery. Cutting back to 5 days would be fine as long as the two off days weren’t together like Sat and Sun.
I still think they could save an enormous amount of money by cutting much of the urban door to door delivery.
I’ve gone into town and seen mail carriers on nearly every block.
They are closing a lot of urban offices or at least that’s what I’m seeing on the list - Dallas, Ft. Worth, Corpus Christi, etc.
Yes we are. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Three unconstitutional programs that are more than our current deficit and in a short while will consume our entire Federal Budget just by themselves.
This is a perfect example of why we’re broke and have indentured the next two generations to pay for, among other things, our freakin’ postal delivery.
We're broke because of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Throw in HUD, Food Stamps, and Dept. of Ed. and we can have major tax cuts and still run a surplus.
Don't get rid of those things and you can eliminate the entire rest of the Federal Government, Post Office, Defense, Coast Guard, Customs, you name it, and we'll soon still run a deficit with a tax increase.
That's the reality we're facing, but everyone wants to avoid the elephant in the room and go after what amounts to less than pennies in the scheme of things.
I guess our local post office will be closing now. That means we have to drive about 30 miles to the nearest one - oh wait, that is also a Republican district.
“I think if any rational accountant looked at the USPS they would notice a huge amount of over head in the “management” ranks. Each of these desk bound paper pushers should be given a letter carrier bag to carry and a salary commensurate with those duties...financial problem solved.
>>>>Ya see, the USPS runs like the education industry, highest salaries at the top for those who do nothing<<<<
***”or any of that stuff.”***
Or the presidency- Obama uses big words like “stuff’ all the time, too.
A lot of good that does when the PO closes at 3-4 pm.
Letting the USPS donate to the Olympics is ridiculous.
And they should close more urban offices and eliminate many urban mail carriers. Make the people waiting on their Obama money walk 50 yards to a bank of PO boxes.
Still I’m going to take a hit and likely stop doing business altogether. I do business pretty much exclusively through the mail, UPS, and FedEx. I’m just not going to be able to afford the cost of driving to the next town.
I’ve been able to resist accepting disability so far.
“That’s the reality we’re facing, but everyone wants to avoid the elephant in the room and go after what amounts to less than pennies in the scheme of things.”
A couple of billion here and a couple there, and pretty soon it adds up to big bucks.
There were two issues here: 1) what do we have to give up, and 2) I might be inconvenienced by a cutback.
The way I’m seeing it is that nobody wants to give up what they get. We all want the other guy, especially those who haven’t properly contributed, to give it up. I agree with that, but that prevents us from actually fixing the problem.
Go ahead, on this thread, and seriously post the proposition that we get rid of Medicare or Social Security. You want to hear wailing and gnashing of teeth? (And, I might be one of them - I would love to get back at least some of what I have put in).
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