Posted on 12/22/2012 3:42:05 PM PST by traumer
Despite most of Congress leaving town for the holidays, postal workers are continuing a hunger strike protesting legislation to save the United States Postal Service (USPS) through budget cuts.
The hunger strike began Tuesday and is expected to end late Saturday, according to The Washington Post.
Six former and current postal workers, part of a group called Communities and Postal Workers United, are calling the strike “six days starving to save six-day delivery.” Their goal is to stop Congress from reducing postal delivery to five days a week. “We have to be on guard, to raise awareness and pressure the decision-makers as they wrangle back-room deals,” group spokesman Jamie Partridge, a retired letter carrier from Portland, said in a statement.
The same small, grassroots group staged a hunger strike in June to protest legislation proposed to overhaul the service.
The agency lost $16 billion in fiscal year 2012, and needs to cut around $22.5 billion from its annual budget by 2016.
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I'm not surprised that you work for USPS. Pretty typical.
I don’t really need it, since all of my bills are delivered electronically, with the exception of my annual property tax bill—that is paper, simply because the County have not caught up with modern advancements in billing.
On the other hand, if I pulled down my mailbox, where would you fat USPS morons put all the misaddressed and junk mail you deliver to me each week?
http://www.savethepostoffice.com/sites/default/files/November%20CPWU%20newsletter.pdf
Miracle on 34th Street Card Shower
Send a holiday card to President Obama. Wish him a Happy Holiday and ask him to Save the Postal Service. Tell him No Cuts, No Closures, No Privatization.
Scrooge ! ! Hands off our Post Office.
Bunch of whiners. Where I am in NH, we have NO delivery. You want your mail, you go to the PO and pick it up. And we could do without having the PO open for the current 5 1/2 days. Two would suffice.
Note to self: Convert more of my monthly bills to online only.
They’ve been sponsoring Spandex-clad potential road-kill drug users and encouraging both them and the amateur imitators to clog up the roads meant for cars and trucks for too long to mention...
...brilliant commentary, this...guess the traffic concept of share the road is lost on you..and in your world all bicyclists are druggies...
...good thing you are in the minority of human life...
If they look like the average postal worker around where I live, they are pretty famine resistant and can easily afford to starve a few days.
USPS can’t handle the volume of letters and packages it has right now, on its own. They contract fedex and ups to do long haul air mail carrying for them now.
how nice of these employees to provide us with such an easy solution to the postal department’s overspending problem!
Ebay provides the USPS with TONS of business. megaTONNAGE. I have first hand experience with that.
I’ve experienced numerous breakages with UPS and occasional late deliveries with FEDEX. I never had a late Priority mail delivery, and normally very good 1st class mail delivery with USPS. Had some bulk mail issues in the 90s that was corrected.
>> That is totally false.
Like Hell it is.
>> I’m not surprised that you work for USPS. Pretty typical.
I don’t work for USPS; though, I use it regularly along with FEDEX, and UPS when necessary. Each provides unique value to the market.
USPS generates revenue from counter sales, not taxation.
FWIW, I’m not defending the entitlement mindset that refuses to accept the reality of Obamanomics. I am defending a decent operation, however, that deserves the opportunity to correct its financial trajectory. While USPS does not deserve tax payer bailouts, it does deserve the freedom to adjust its delivery schedule, operations, and employee pay and benefits.
After rereading your original wording, I see that you are correct: the USPS derives REVENUES from sales, not from taxation. However, I think you were trying to claim that the USPS does not take money from the taxpayers, and this is COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY FALSE! The USPS has already stiffed the taxpayers on at least one loan and has lost more than $6B this year.
I do not agree that the USPS is a decent operation, but I do agree that they should be able to adjust their operations to achieve profitability. I will further suggest that their access to government (taxpayer) loans be immediately and irrevocably terminated, and if the USPS cannot achieve profitability like a normal company, then they should be dissolved and the assets auctioned off.
gunrunning , no problem.....deliver mail ? Hah thats no fun ! it doesnt screw anyone !
maybe they can get illegal aliens to do the jobs the federal government wont do
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