Posted on 08/05/2010 9:41:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
another example of a great government controlled business...
There is only one solution to the problem.
Reduce deliveries to three days per week.
They could start by charging a nominal fee for USPS boxes. As it is right now, I can order as many boxes as I want online and have them delivered, all free of charge.
While I like getting boxes for free, I wouldn’t mind paying a small, reasonable fee for their boxes (emphasis on small and reasonable.)
I have compared pricing and delivery times with UPS and FedEx and USPS beats them hands down. In all those years I have had only 1 package disappear permanently. I have never had an international package lost.
I like the flat rate boxes and so do my customers. In fact the flat rate envelope alone increased my sales by 20 percent.
However, I won't miss Saturday service if they shut that down. Don't need it. I think the postal system does an incredible job given the volume of mail they handle and the customers who give incomplete addresses.
So I was thinking about this, and I wondered what the USPS employment statistics looked like. I tried a number of Google searches with no luck. I would note that that in addition to reduced volume, the USPS supposedly does a lot of automated sorting. So if this were any ordinary operation one would think that employment numbers would be down substantially. My guess is that they are higher now than in 2007, and those were higher than years ago when all the sorting was done by hand. But it's just a guess.
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