Posted on 03/02/2010 12:29:36 PM PST by kingattax
What do you want to bet that they cut to 5 day delivery, but don’t lay off any employees?
Drop Saturdays and Wednesdays. Mon, Tues, Thur., Friday.
Sho nuff! Pimpin at the post office with ACORN
I never did understand the need for Saturday delivery anyway. The Postal service says that delivery requirements are way down. When a company sees it’s sales go down to the point they loose money, they lay off employees. The post office does what? They keep hiring. Amazing.
Somehow that does not seem too practical in cities with populations in the hundreds of thousands or more.
USPS uses their 1st class mail delivery, with which the post office has a monopoly, to subsidize their parcel division. On a level playing field, USPS could never compete with FedEx or UPS.
At work yesterday, I checked the mail and saw we received 45 returned invoices for a company in Texas. We are south of Pittsburgh.
Your tax dollars at work, folks.
Yes, but I would guess that delivery in such cities is much more cost effective than rural delivery.
I have wondered for years why the USPS has not gone to 5 day delivery.
I was sorting mail one day, here comes some guy with a clip board, sits down beside me. His question: "What are you doing at this moment?"
I thought he was kidding me, so I looked him in the eye to see if he was serious. HE WAS. Next question he asked: "The piece of mail you have in your hand, where is it going?" for real. Then I asked him what this was for? They take a survey to see what the employees are doing. I nearly died laughing at him, poor thing.
What do you do with the information when you get it? He said "I don't know". he's just had got job. rofl. I told him you know how much time this has wasted, that piece of mail I had in my hand could have already been delivered.
This is just a start of all the waste I saw. Mandatory 2 hours overtime each night, NO REASON. I worked the same mail over and over, just to try to keep busy.
Their reason, their budget: "Use it or lose it".
That’s cruel, have them only work 4 days a week and one of the days is Friday. They must have the entire weekend off! (/sarcasm)
Privatization is critical.
Three would be fine for me.
USPS does NOT stop at every house in many cities....in our neighborhood, they can unload their mail at one stop by opening the door to the group locked box and dumping the junk mail in every slot, and any other ancillary things that may need delivery.
PS...I do not think we need to disband the USPS...but it does need a new “plan.” Also, your costs sending pkgs MAY be partly why the USPS is losing money...
“Why do we have a postal system in this country? “
I use the USPS all the time when I order small tiems. I hate to order a $10 item, and then the vendor wants to charge my $36 for delivery. And many refuse to use USPS....
Huh? Oh, ya - I live in Alaska - FedEx doesn’t go everywhere.....
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You are saying UPS could deliver mail to every house 6 days a week. I don’t believe it, UPS can’t even deliver packages 6 days a week at twice the cost of USPS. At least you can get Saturday delivery from FEDEX, but it ain’t cheap. Must have something to do with a union.
....Bob
Saturday isn’t a business day, no big loss. Canada has 5 day mail service.
90% of my revenue is deliverd via the mail. if I could get my clients to pay via ACH I would love it. But they all like tke five days of float on their money.
They have become efficient in delivering to their route. If they can do the route in 5 hrs. and the P.O. says it should take 8 hrs. then these union guys/gals don’t want to get back to early or their routes might get reevaluated. Meaning less hours less pay.
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