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Postal Service reports massive $5 billion loss
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| 11/15/11
| J O'Toole
Posted on 11/15/2011 2:19:21 PM PST by bestintxas
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posted on
11/15/2011 3:58:01 PM PST
by
RedMDer
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To: Smogger
The USPS may be funded by sales, but they are billions in the red and they will be bailed out just like Bush and Obama bailed out GM and Wall Street.
We must stop all socialism.
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posted on
11/15/2011 3:59:23 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
To: trumandogz
....and if there is a market for those services a private company will perform them.
To: trumandogz
No, they are doing something today that there is no market for. And if there is no market for it, it should not exist.No market? Is that why some rural carriers put in 10 hour days today? So much mail for no market.
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posted on
11/15/2011 4:11:36 PM PST
by
Mr. Impatient
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To: Mr. Impatient
Since this is all based on markets, can I charge the USPS one hour per week for the time it takes me to dispose of all their junk mail?
In addition, can I charge them or assign them a portion of my waste disposal bill since they are taking up 20 percent of my trash capacity?
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posted on
11/15/2011 4:12:47 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Mr. Impatient
“No market? Is that why some rural carriers put in 10 hour days today? So much mail for no market.”
Unless one is a Communist, the only way a market can exist is if the seller can make a profit.
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posted on
11/15/2011 4:21:49 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
To: bestintxas
They lose 10k per year, per employee. The answer is simple.
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posted on
11/15/2011 4:27:37 PM PST
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posted on
11/15/2011 4:36:37 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
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To: bestintxas
Postal Service reports massive $5 billion loss As opposed to a modest $5 billion loss? Compared to the national deficit and debt, it's a drop in the bucket.
To: trumandogz
They are not asking for a bail out. They are asking Congress to let them close post offices and reduce staff. Don’t blame to post office. Unlike a regular under performing business they are hamstrung by “Congressional oversight.”
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posted on
11/16/2011 12:21:18 PM PST
by
Smogger
To: Smogger
No, they are constrained because they have a poor, outdated and obsolete business model in an industry where demand has fallen sharply.
The delivering of paper mail from house to house via a mail carrier is no longer needed and the USPS should go the way of the businesses that made buggy whips, typewriters and 8-Track tapes.
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posted on
11/16/2011 12:36:35 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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