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Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut
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| Jan 28, 2009
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 01/28/2009 1:15:29 PM PST by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude
Does cutting back on mail delivery days mean we will get more or less junk mail?
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:16:56 PM PST
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: Joiseydude
Okay with me...should have been done 30 or 40 years ago.
To: Joiseydude
They should cut their salaries first.. More overpaid Government employees.
To: Joiseydude
Flash forward a couple of years and this headline will read:
“Surgeon General: Medical care may need to be cut”
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:19:32 PM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(The people who cheered when OJ was acquitted are the same ones cheering now.)
To: LottieDah
Junk mail pays for the postal system, so I doubt you'll see less of it. Three day delivery makes sense, cover half the area MWF, the other half on TTS.
Small towns used to not have delivery at all. You had a PO Box and dropped by the post office. Go back to that and do the other and you could save a fortune without impacting service significantly. Here's where it gets tricky, though. That would mean eliminating JOBS. The Feds have no idea how to downsize an organization. It's not in their DNA.
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:20:50 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: divine_moment_of_facts
They should cut their salaries first.. More overpaid Government employees. But that would violate the Government employee axiom of "Get More, Do Less".
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:21:30 PM PST
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: divine_moment_of_facts
If they cut Saturday deliveries and STILL end up in the red, what then? 2 days without mail? Most people go to the PO on Saturdays because they are too busy to do it on the weekdays. They should just roll-back their salaries and suffer like the rest of the economy.
To: LottieDah
The Postal Service lost $1.1 billion in its latest quarter. That number would be even larger if it weren't for direct mailings, which now constitute 52 percent of mail volume
From a newsweak article
http://www.newsweek.com/id/161231.
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:21:32 PM PST
by
allmost
Or..
They could get ACORN to deliver some mail for their $4 billion.
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:22:03 PM PST
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Joiseydude
To: Joiseydude
Sounds like it’s time to mandate increased fuel effeciency for mail vehicles.
And we should force them now to start making new green investments.
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:24:06 PM PST
by
earlJam
To: Richard Kimball
It's a different world. The Post Office never heard of email? Guess what will be taxed next along with everything else we do...like food, clothes, housing, driving.
And for what...to feed the government's unsatiable appetite to pay for PORK. We're the "White Meat".
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:26:32 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: Joiseydude
You know...I remember when we got two deliveries A DAY. One in the morning and one in the mid-afternoon.
That was a long time ago, though, and it ended while I was still a child (around the time the milkman stopped coming).
I don’t know if M-F delivery is the answer, but I suppose I (personally) could live with it.
Regards,
PS: I do miss the milkman though. Nothing like fresh milk in a glass bottle — cartons and plastic just don’t taste the same. I’d do darn near anything to get a milkman again. Wait...that didn’t come out right...did it?
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:26:34 PM PST
by
VermiciousKnid
(Wake up and smell the incense!)
To: Joiseydude
How about doubling the postage rates for junk mail! That will increase revenues and decrease the amount of mail!
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:27:47 PM PST
by
Tatze
(I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
To: VermiciousKnid
You know...I remember when we got two deliveries A DAY. One in the morning and one in the mid-afternoon. That was a long time ago, though, and it ended while I was still a child (around the time the milkman stopped coming).I remember that too. Back around 1970.
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:29:23 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
Yes, that’s about right...1970 or so is when it stopped. Maybe a little before. We were in NYC (Queens), but when I was an adult working in Manhattan, businesses still got 2 deliveries/day right up until at least 1986 or thereabouts.
Don’t know if that’s still the case.
Regards,
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:31:18 PM PST
by
VermiciousKnid
(Wake up and smell the incense!)
To: Sacajaweau
The post office can add no value to email. Them getting involved with email would be like when the Feds got involved with nicotine gum. Who but the medical industry and the Feds could make a pack of gum cost fifty bucks?
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:32:04 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA
Okay with me...should have been done 30 or 40 years ago. It's OK with me too. Who could tell the difference in service?
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:32:11 PM PST
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
01/28/2009 1:33:24 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom. I love sarcasim)
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