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the trouble with your "handle less" idea.....the PO has to deliver whatever comes through the door......you pay the postage it gets delivered.....and believe me there are weeks when a hell of a lot of stuff comes through that door....and lots of it is a fucking pain in the ass to handle.....and they have eliminated a few hundred thousand employees over the last 5 years....Good. One less day I fill the trash can with the garbage delivered to me home.
If the USPS would stop permitting junk mail it would probably reduce it's mail volume by 50% and thus run somewhat efficiently.
why would it do that?.....that is a multi billion dollar a year business....this kind of mail is not the reason the PO is losing money....
Ok....Let's do a simple exercise.
I am a delivery company. Just like the PO...
By law I have to accept and deliver at a set price 100 pieces of mail 6 days per week.
That costs me $1,000 per day....
If I eliminate one delivery day, I now only spend $5000 per week.
So if 50% of my volume is pieces that people really do not want and therefore the law allows me relief from delivering it, guess what, I can slash my costs by reducing my mandate volume which can allow me to spend less on labor, fuel, wear and tear on my vehicles, wages and equipment. I can in effect become more profitable by reducing my costs.
Pretty simple stuff.
Handle less, Costs less.
The USPS is too large. It has too many employees to justify the reduced volume of mail.
There comes a time when those who have an interest in seeing something prevail must surrender that idea.
Makes sense
Frankly, I could probably get by with two day a week mail delivery
Why do you hate Unions? It's clear this move is going to hurt Postal Union employees and basically eliminate any possibility of them soaking up weekend overtime. I thought you Liberals were for Union workers? Apparently not.
Get rid of Congress' imposed law on the USPS that they fund retirement for 75 years and maybe the USPS would have a fighting chance.
To those of you cheering this on - without the USPS, your mail will be left to private orgs who are going to rape you on delivery rates.
I would have no trouble with Wednesday route mail being stopped as well.
Anyone can go to the PO for box mail.
Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs | US National Headlines | Comcast
The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the financially struggling agency says.
In an announcement scheduled for later Wednesday, the service is expected to say the Saturday mail cutback would begin in August.
The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet services.
How about stop all delivery ? Government mismanagement at its best. They can keep all there junk mail, what a dinosaur.
Netflix lives and breathes by the US Postal Service, and both have created an extremely efficient symbiotic relationship. The same is true with Amazon, which is probably why packages will still be delivered on Saturdays.
No Saturday delivery is going to hurt Netflix, but be a boon to Blockbuster. Their Saturday in-store sales should increase when this change goes into affect.
Makes sense
Frankly, I could probably get by with two day a week mail delivery
Why do you hate Unions? It's clear this move is going to hurt Postal Union employees and basically eliminate any possibility of them soaking up weekend overtime. I thought you Liberals were for Union workers? Apparently not.
they will make up that OT on Monday......and if there is a Monday Holiday?.........Tuesday will be a Motherfucker....
Why do you hate Unions? It's clear this move is going to hurt Postal Union employees and basically eliminate any possibility of them soaking up weekend overtime. I thought you Liberals were for Union workers? Apparently not.
they will make up that OT on Monday......and if there is a Monday Holiday?.........Tuesday will be a Motherfucker....
I read an excellent suggestion. Instead of cutting Saturday delivery, cut Monday. In this way there will be fewer three day no delivery periods. This of course speaks to the Monday Holidays throughout the year.
Of course if you ask me ,those Monday holidays should be eliminated as federal and bank holidays. Quite frankly 90% of workers don't get those days off anyway. Why should government workers get them.
If workers want the day off, use a vacation day or personal day.
6 paid Holidays are enough.
How about just not forcing them to do what no private or public entity has to do which is fund its retirement for decades RIGHT NOW
How about just not forcing them to do what no private or public entity has to do which is fund its retirement for decades RIGHT NOW
then tell your Party that.....because they are just as much at fault for that 5 Billion Dollar payment as the Republicans are....
2 out of 3 of the co-sponsors were Democrats.....and right now Wytch the Democrats are not doing much to repeal this thing.....neither is the President.....How about just not forcing them to do what no private or public entity has to do which is fund its retirement for decades RIGHT NOW
then tell your Party that.....because they are just as much at fault for that 5 Billion Dollar payment as the Republicans are....
Oh? What was the final vote?
why not just relieve them of the burden the republicans saddled them with
They shoudl be allowed to fund their retirement program the same way other entities do.
Why are they singled out in this way by the republican party?
