Not complaining. 90% of my mail is bills. Now I can look forward to not having to get out my checkbook on both Saturday and Sunday.
Seriously, the PO should be privatized. Suggest an IPO spinoff and getting rid of the unions.
It should cut delivery to 3x a week, then once a week, and ultimately cease operations.
Prediction:
In the near future we will be hearing about the hardship this will place on minorities(large make up of USPS employees per reports)in regard to meeting their financial obligations such as mortgages,car payments etc.This will be stated as being due to overtime being slashed.
As most responcible people know an individual should not base there lifestyle and big ticket items on OT income levels only base pay.
This will become everyone elses problem IMOP
All we REALLY need is for Congress to repeal the Post Office monopoly on letter mail.
And watch FedEx, UPS, and DHL move in to the space with better service and lower costs. . .
As for the postal union workers ?? Too bad, so sad. . .
Phooey!
And without Congressional approval, too! Phooey again!!!!
Time to look at those pension packages.
Ok, so the first class mail that we should have received on Friday but now get on Saturday will come on Tuesday, because no one gets first class mail on Mondays.
eye roll
(Good thing most of the companies I do business with know what a computer is for)
Back in the day the US mail was the primary way of communicating over distances. A long distance telephone call could cost an hour’s pay for three minutes but a letter or post card only cost a few cents. Up until 1968 it cost only 5 cents to mail a letter first class.
Up until 1912 the Post Office delivered mail seven days a week and up until the 1960’s or so they delivered mail twice a day in most cities and towns.
It was very common to hear people say something like this:
“Nothing in the mail this morning - maybe it will be in the afternoon mail.”
....instead of getting rid of all the affirmative action hires, the friends of politicians, the ADA hires, the unions.
Jeez they are really stuck on stupid. If cutting one is the answer, how about cutting Monday instead of the one day a week that working folks can get to the dang post office.
Will reducing the service lead to reduction in workforce. Better step up security with an eye on the ex workers going POSTAL?
Better mail those letters by Tuesday kiddies or you might be SOOL.
Good, now cut residential delivery to 3X a week and fire half the workers and make business delivery 5x a week.
All I get are bills and junk mail anyways.
UPS and Fedex deliver most of the crap i order online anyways.
And over time goes up m-f,the feds need to sell it along with Amtrak.
If they remove the Saturday delivery then they damn well better work all the ancillary holidays they used to get off like MLK day and Columbus day etc...
Private companies have to work those days, the USPS should work them as well if they are now getting Saturdays off.
At this point you could do away with the US mail entirely and I’m not sure my life would fundamentally change once everyone had 6 months to adjust. The junk mail will not be missed of course. Packages come via UPS or Fedex. There are a few bills that are not electronically delivered (I can think of local taxes in particular) but sheeesh - how hard is it to convert the odd holdouts to email? We still need our guns like 200 years ago but as far as the Pony Express goes - technology and competition has passed them by.
Yes, it's getting tiresome for my husband and me to listen to the complaints of government workers, whether USPS or whatever. We've had a PO Box here in semi-rural CT for nearly 20 years, and the annual cost for that little box has nearly tripled... maybe quadrupled, I'm not sure.
The service goes further downhill every year... we continually get other people's mail in our box. Who knows what mail we're not getting.
And nearly every conversation lately with (the mostly slow) postal workers behind the counter involves how "unjust" it is that their benefits are being cut, and how they're counting down to the day when they can retire *early* and collect their government pensions.
Cry me a freakin' river. Try existing in the private sector these days...
Politicians want the USPS to be run as a business... but then they don’t.
Saturday mail service should be eliminated. No one will miss it.
Considering the deficits the post office has been running (not all due to the P.O.’s fault, considering the difficult pension burdens imposed on it by Congress), this is probably a wise move.
I sense that if a private company had taken over the P.O. with an eye on reducing expenses with the least impact on service, this is one of the first steps they would take.
Come August, neither one will be able to deliver on Saturday.