Posted on 01/28/2009 1:15:29 PM PST by Joiseydude
WASHINGTON (AP) - Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday.
Faced with dwindling mail volume and rising costs, the post office was $2.8 billion in the red last year. "If current trends continue, we could experience a net loss of $6 billion or more this fiscal year," Potter said in testimony for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee.
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Does cutting back on mail delivery days mean we will get more or less junk mail?
Okay with me...should have been done 30 or 40 years ago.
They should cut their salaries first.. More overpaid Government employees.
Flash forward a couple of years and this headline will read:
“Surgeon General: Medical care may need to be cut”
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.
But that would violate the Government employee axiom of "Get More, Do Less".
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.
Or..
They could get ACORN to deliver some mail for their $4 billion.
/mark
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.
And for what...to feed the government's unsatiable appetite to pay for PORK. We're the "White Meat".
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?
How about doubling the postage rates for junk mail! That will increase revenues and decrease the amount of mail!
I remember that too. Back around 1970.
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,
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?
It's OK with me too. Who could tell the difference in service?
me too
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