(Any guesses as to the movie?)
The USPS could operate just fine without a single post office. Close them all.
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/testimony/2010/pr10_pdonahoe1202.htm
“STATEMENT OF
POSTMASTER GENERAL/CEO-DESIGNATE PATRICK R. DONAHOE
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEDERAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT,
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, FEDERAL SERVICES,
AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
UNITED STATES SENATE
DEC. 2, 2010...
Let me share just a snapshot of our overall performance for FY 2010. Mail volume declined 3.5 percent. Our total net loss for the fiscal year was $8.5 billion. This loss consisted of a $500 million loss from our controllable operations, plus $5.5 billion of pre-funding for Retiree Health Benefits (RHB), plus a $2.5 billion non-cash adjustment to our workers’ compensation liabilities driven mostly by changes in interest rates. “
Losses 8B workers comp, .5B other .
Next they need to raise the rates for all that junk mail we get each day. If the rate becomes high enough then the junk will be reduced and help control cost.
I also think they should go to three day week delivery of residential mail to unique street addresses [PO boxes wouldn’t be impacted]. MWF and TTS with Sunday off would help considate the work force, equipment and reduce cost.
JMOs.
(Any guesses as to the movie?)
Obama is so incompetent he can’t even prevent losing federal jobs to unemployment.
All my bills are online.
If they cut the junk mail, I would only get Netflix.
This needs to be done, but I do empathize with Rural places, they are most likely to be unprofitable, and the post office is far more than simply a building to those communities.
I live in an urban area and there are at least 3 post offices that are within a mile or two of my house. The one that is most convient and likely to have elderly living near it in walking distance is likely the least profitable and smallest of them. It would likely close and the others that are newer built in newer neighborhoods with younger more mobile populations would survive.. leaving elderly, many of whom do not drive without easy access to get to a post office.. neither of the remaining 2 are even on a bus route.
For you or me, no big deal, generally do things online or hop in a car, but that 80 year old who never ever learned to drive and lives in the same house or on the same block she was born on, and doesn’t use computers, that’s going to make life more difficult for them.
Change isn’t a bad thing automatically, but the pace of change these days is truly scary when one steps back and bothers to think about it. Wasn’t all that long ago, humans would have gone hundreds of years without any major change in their lives.. now we change so fast we outmode our own existences before we expire.
There’s at least one PO in an extremely small town in the West, where a really nasty misanthropist rules as postmistress. ...mumbles a steady, infinite stream of negative speech to herself, because patrons in that locale avoid her.