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Well, I am glad to hear the postal service has joined the rest of the country in flatening out its organizational structure. I had a chance some years ago admitedly to view a district office structure and was startled by the sea of white shirts doing very little. Perhaps my perception is clouded by that eye opener.

Perhaps the postal service is losing money due to its legacy committments, I don’t know enough about their cost structure to know that and if so then things seem to be running fine now...if not and the legacy costs are just adding to a problem, then it is time for a change. What I do know though is a service company should not look at cutting services as a means to improve its cost structure. Something is lacking in an equation where that is the only variable.

There are types of "office work" that leave people talking on the phone for hours and hours and hours ~ we had 35 folks in our office and we were more or less responsible for the collection of just over $35,000,000,000 per year ~ using QC processes to verify (check) mailer computations.

Guys responsible for making sure mailers give it up to the tune of a billion bucks a year are, of course, quiet and don't move around much!

Even quieter is the preparation of new procedures (regulations) to be followed to accept mail, enter mail, pay for mail, do this, do that, sign this, sign that, use forms in such and such a manner, and finally the quietest activity of all ~ designing a new form.

I did over 1,000 new forms over the course of several decades (that includes major revisions to existing forms as well as the creation of entirely new forms). ALL of my work made it easier for you to do business with the Postal Service, and some of them even saved USPS millions of dollars.

If you'd seen me working I'd been bent over my desk screwing around with a pencil (or later, a MacIntosh computer). Occasionally I'd twitch or something, or pass gas.

USPS is losing money because CONGRESS taxed it for $5 billion a year for the future costs of future postal retiree medical insurance.

USPS is also losing money because Office of Personnel Management collects deposits for the federal employee retirement system (which covers USPS employees) at a HIGHER RATE than for other federal agencies.

Currently the government has overcharged USPS about $78 billion. That money is being used by Obama and Geithner to pay off Chicago politicians and foreign bankers.

What else you need to know?

Hey, doesn't look like USPS is doing so bad. It's $8 billion in arrears but is due about $108 billion by the creditor demanding payment.

Ain't bad at all ~