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Posted on 03/21/2013 1:16:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The financially beleaguered Postal Service suffered a setback in its plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail as Congress on Thursday passed legislation requiring six-day delivery.
The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year, had announced last month its plan to switch to five-day mail service to save $2 billion annually.
No law requires the Postal Service to deliver mail six days a week, but Congress has traditionally included a provision in legislation to fund the federal government each year that has prevented the Postal Service from reducing delivery service.
The House of Representatives on Thursday gave final approval to the legislation, known as a continuing resolution, that maintains the provision, sending it to President Barack Obama to sign into law. The Senate approved the measure on Wednesday.
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See my snarky post 38.
I know meds are sent by mail all the time, but I can’t beleive ANYONE would trust the post office to deliver critical life or death meds that gotta be delivered or else.
Puh-leaze.
The USPS has had a 700% increase in efficiency since it was founded. Have you done as well?
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I can safely answer yes. I am pretty sure Dead Corpse didn’t lose 16 billion dollars last year.
DUDE: Have you heard that the medication vendors determine what mailing service is used? Seemingly the USPS is the least expensive, so that is what they use. It is not a choice (and should not be a cost) of the recipient.
Six day a week is a big deal in certain cases like rural patients who have limited access to pharmacy services, don’t have a P.O. box and rely on mail-order for their prescriptions But while rural delivery isn’t as profitable as urban I think the issues facing the post office have more to do with fiscal accountability, changing technology and being slow to adjust to changing demographics. Being forced to fund your own retirement benefits for 75 years doesn’t help.
Chicken feed...Obama pisses more than that away...every day.
Probably spends more than that on golf...every week.
Spills more than that on the bar...every month.
Then your problem is not with the post office and Saturday delivery.
Its with your medication providers.
Look. Thats Me!
I don’t want or use any U.S. Postal “service”. The only time I use that is to communicate with the IRS or my state taxing authority - which I don’t want either and intend to stop.
Congress lost the money ~ not USPS.
That was my interpretation of snarky.... Kind of acidic but not fundamentally mean or cruel. Does that describe you?
The people who increasingly shop for almost everything online care. junk mailers are not the only ones making their living by post.
Your assertion that “no one” cares is not accurate.
My local post office can’t even buy new light bulbs or replace broken ceiling tiles.
A loss of $16 billion does not indicate an increase in efficiency. Try calculating that again.
You need to brush up on math.
Sparkling new buildings with good stuff were always rated the lowest.
Back when they came up with the idea of sending dope by mail my instinctive response was “let’s not do that. We’ll just buy into the complaint cycle of the pharmaceutical industry’ ~ and there it is.
Fed Ex, UPS, there are alternatives just as reliable if not more so.
I’ll bet if you look at the breakdown of the votes, you’ll see the “leadership” sided with the Rats again. Now, on to the comments where many have made this guess.
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