[bray]

Good riddance postal union.

Pray for America

[mylife]

Here comes 60c stamps

[muawiyah]

Still the New York Times continues to mail copies of it's newspaper at preferred rates (heavily cross subsidized by other mailers) all over the world.

They are NOT a disinterested observer to any of this.

Frankly I never trusted them when I had to work with their agents and cronies and I sure don't trust them now.

[Will we know the moment]

“This is about one of America’s oldest institutions,” he said. “It survived the telegraph, it survived the telephone, and we have to do everything we can to preserve it and adapt.”

But it won't survive the unions.

[Sequoyah101]

Offer the entire operation up for contract takeover on a long term lease. No stipulation for Saturday delivery, we don’t need it.

[GeronL]

shut it down.

or trim it to the core. Make people go to their local post office to get mail. No more junk mail, yay.

[Ronin]

Does anyone still use the post office for anything important? Isn’t practically all business communication these days by FEDEX, DHL or the other couriers — or email?

It’s time to realize that the postal service is an anachronism that has pretty much outlived it’s utility and downsize it to realistic projections.

It should probably be privatized.

[ken21]

privatize it, and do away with the union.

[television is just wrong]

how many million will that add to the jobless rate in this nation?

[NY.SS-Bar9]

"....compared with 53 percent at United Parcel Service (UNION) and 32 percent at FedEx.." (NON UNION)

[political1]

We had stamp machines in our post offices in Birmingham, Al. and they took them out because they said the machine did away with one of the workers jobs. Now we have to stand in line to get a stamp. Fiscal responsibility is not on the post offices agenda. Keeping Postal workers jobs is. Until the government starts running like a business it will continue to lose money.

[wideawake]

In an electronic age, all that will survive is the physical delivery of hard goods by parcel. Too bad for the USPS that it conceded its dominance in that business to FedEx and UPS decades ago.

[AD from SpringBay]

The Post Office probably suffers from too many managers and adminstrators, just like the public schools. Cutting the real fat would save millions.

[Rodm]

Sell it to UPS or Fed Ex

[Red Dog #1]

"They include eliminating Saturday mail delivery, closing up to 3,700 postal locations and laying off 120,000 workers, nearly one-fifth of the agency’s work force."

If only we could get the rest of the Federal Government to follow in a similar manner.

[Radix]

They should close down. These days they mostly subsidize advertisers by delivering 2 & 3 rd class mail to any address in the country for ridiculously low rates.

Let Fed Ex & UPS make a profit with those conditions imposed upon them.

[Vendome]

Start selling Green Stamps...

[CIB-173RDABN]

Like a parasite, unions will eventually always kill the host.

The postal workers have a choice. Allow their hours and benefits to be adjusted or join the ranks of the unemployed.

There are many things the post office can do, but if they do not control the cost of labor, then nothing else will work.

[lurk]

If they let it die, and let it go private, somebody will figure it out and make money off of it.

The country will go on without the postal service, after some time of adjustment.

Then they need to do the same thing with every other inefficient, union-bloated agency that the Fed Govt supports.

[FunkyZero]

I find it funny that their first thought is how to "raise revenue" instead of how to bust this fat, bloated union and the insane contract fluff in order to bring their operating expenses inline with reality.

Looks like the Dems are about to lose another chunk of their taxpayer subsidized voter base.