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Good riddance postal union.

Pray for America

A lot of good people, many military veterans, work for the USPS. And unlike some government entities, this organization performs a Constitutional function and does useful work.

The defining moment for me was one Christmas, standing in line at the post office during lunch hour, and listening to a postal worker whine about how busy the lunch hour was. Her solution was that the post office should close during the lunch hour.

Her attitude was that her job was sinecure, and we were inconveniencing her.

I have dealt with many friendly, helpful, efficient postal workers. Unfortunately, the deadwood is going to drag them all down.

I shipped a part to be repaired from Ca. to Mn. by Postal Service last Mon. afternoon.

The part was repaired and shipped back to Ca. by UPS on Thu of the same week....I'm not scheduled for delivery untill NEXT Fri.

Looks to me like USPS is better service

Critics complain that labor costs make up a higher percentage of total USPS costs (80%) than they do in the private companies (50%‐65%). But the comparison is misleading. The USPS is a universal service provider of basic services that requires daily delivery to 7 ‐8 times as many addresses each day than the private companies, which focus on parcels and freight services that are targeted to a much narrower range of recipients. The USPS function is inherently more labor intensive. Indeed, the Postal Service’s last mile delivery network is so efficient that the private companies rely on it to reach places they don’t serve. The Parcel Select product allows private companies to drop ship to post offices for last mile delivery by letter carriers – the Fed Ex version of this service, FedEx SmartPost is the fastest growing division within the Memphis‐based company.

The USPS is financially self‐sufficient. It pays for its operations through the sale of postage and has not received any taxpayer subsidy since 1982. In 1971, before postal reorganization took effect, Treasury appropriations covered nearly 25% of the P.O.D.’s budget. In today’s dollars, that would cost taxpayers approximately $16.25 billion. So postal reorganization has saved taxpayers tens of billions of dollars since 1970. The USPS employs 560,000 career employees, making the Postal Service the nation’s second largest employer next to Wal‐Mart. Its annual sales of $67 billion would place it at number 34th on the Fortune 500 list of largest American companies if it were a private company. The Postal Service delivers 40% of the world’s mail. The Postal Service is in trouble because of a Bush‐era (2006) law that requires the USPS to massively prefund the cost of retiree health benefits over the next 75 years in just 10 years’ time. This cost covers not only current employees, but employees who have yet to be hired – and it is on top of the cost for health benefits for current retirees. No other company or agency in America is required to pre‐fund future retiree health benefits. Facts, they are a terrible thing. This place, like libs with PDS, has USPSDS. USPS subjects make Freepers look like a bunch of uneducated, knee-jerk libtards. Sadly!