Posted on 09/19/2011 12:33:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama's Postal Service plan would cut Saturday mail By Emily Stephenson 15 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration's plan to rescue the U.S. Postal Service would allow the agency to end Saturday mail delivery and sell non-postal products, according to documents released on Monday.
The plan, introduced alongside a deficit-reduction package, also would restructure a massive annual payment to prefund retiree health benefits and refund $6.9 billion the mail carrier says it overpaid into a federal retirement fund.
The White House says its plan would save the Postal Service more than $20 billion in the next few years.
"The administration recognizes the enormous value of the U.S. Postal Service to the nation's commerce and communications, as well as the urgent need for reform to ensure its future viability," the White House document said.
The Postal Service has watched its core business of delivering mail erode as consumers send email and pay bills online. The agency has said it needs to downsize drastically or it will be unable to deliver mail by the end of next summer.
The agency has said it needs to reduce payrolls by about 220,000 by 2015 and is studying thousands of post offices and about 300 processing facilities for possible closure.
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Maybe the rich should have to buy $3,200 stamps?
What an original idea! No wonder the press calls him brilliant!
I say shut her down
Entitlement for lazy bums is cut
Illegal 'immigrants' are deported
The crazy EPA rules, such as "cost must not be a factor when determining policy" are removed.
The corporate tax is cut from 37% to perhaps 10-12%
What else?
So, more people will want a PO box. Wait til they find out what the annual box rent is up to.
They need to make a more drastic reduction of mail delivery than simply eliminating Saturday delivery.
How about reducing delivery to just one or two days per week?
BTW...It's the damn salaries and pensions and other benefits that are killing us.
What can the USPS do today that cannot be done via the Internet?
The USPS is obsolete and is of no use to a modern society.
How about we cut most of the staff in half, and give half the country M/W/F service, and the other half T/Th/S. If an extra day or two matters in delivery, you’re probably already not using USPS anyway.
Then cut out all mail that isn’t specifically addressed to the recipient, and the carriers wouldn’t have to lug so much around and the processors wouldn’t have so much to run through th emachines. That way, bulk of the extra day’s letters would would be offset by removing the 2/3 or so that is junk now.
I don’t use the post office much, but when I do, it’s on a Saturday. The only other interaction I have with the postal service is me collecting a pile of garbage from the mailbox.
This will take postal service for me from marginally useful to not useful. Eliminate Saturdays and I’m good with them going out entirely .
why not allow other companies to compete with the post office so that we can get our mail?
You know the thing is that small packages being sent are probably one of the biggest paying item the post office handles.So if they cut a day of delivery then someone wanting their package sooner will likely choose another method of delivery meaning the PO will lose even more business.Kind of cutting your nose off to spite your face. IMHO less employees doing ore work and a cut to benefits would be the way to go rather than reduced services.
You know the thing is that small packages being sent are probably one of the biggest paying item the post office handles.So if they cut a day of delivery then someone wanting their package sooner will likely choose another method of delivery meaning the PO will lose even more business.Kind of cutting your nose off to spite your face. IMHO less employees doing more work and a cut to benefits would be the way to go rather than reduced services.
How about makeing the a holes work harder for less pay and benefits
Then we got TV and Newspapers and Magazines started to erode.
And does anyone buy 45 records anymore??
The world changes. For the postal service to remain the same for the last 60 years is ridiculous.
Great to cut services, but what if you have to mail something that needs to be there, with delivery confirmation ASAP? Or vital documents that HAVE to be in your mailbox by date “x”? As with everything the government touches it turns to crap. No reason why postal workers “need” to be unionized. Not like the government would ever actually fire some incompetent fool.
We use a PO Box and only check it 2-3 times a week. Hardly ever on Saturdays. They could also get rid of all the junk mail and cut staff that has to handle this junk.
[ How about we cut most of the staff in half, and give half the country M/W/F service, and the other half T/Th/S. If an extra day or two matters in delivery, you’re probably already not using USPS anyway.
Then cut out all mail that isn’t specifically addressed to the recipient, and the carriers wouldn’t have to lug so much around and the processors wouldn’t have so much to run through th emachines. That way, bulk of the extra day’s letters would would be offset by removing the 2/3 or so that is junk now. ]
Keep junk mail, but increase rates on junk mail, Junk mail should pay for itself. I like this idea, but maybe start by doing this only for residential deliveries and if it works then, do for business.
“How about makeing the a holes work harder for less pay and benefits”
Those a holes are doing a job that is obsolete and the entire USPS should be phased out.
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