There are other factors that haven't help the USPS, the Internet (mail volume declined), the worst recession since the Great Depression, mandate to deliver to every address in this country, which keeps growing, and the large increase in gasoline prices.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Letters: Public Needs To Hear Truth About Postal Service Deficit
The U.S. Postal Service has almost hit its debt ceiling of $15 billion, but why haven't the facts come out? Is there a plan to destroy an institution that was started in 1775 to bind the country together? I think so and the plan started in 2006 (Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act).
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I was leaning towards doing away with postal service, till it rained all last week. Would have been very hard to build a fire and send smoke signals.
The main ingredients of the USPS meltdown are:
1) higher prices to those most likely to seek alternatives - internet, UPS, FedEx - than to those less likely to find alternatives - catalogs, mass (junk) mailers, and others that provide unwanted services;
and, 2) rotten service provided by overpaid and
underworked employees who have no stake or interest in an ongoing successful operation.
Folks can come up with all the external blames they want - the demise of the Post Office comes from within.
Yea, we got rid of the pony express too. Times and technology change and the post office has to change with them. I for one am thinking of taking down my mail box. I pay online and all i get in the snail mail box is junk mail and gov./political ads. Go green, go online.
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couldn't have said it better!
So the congress passed a law in 2006 that requires the USPS to fund their bloated union pensions and now they're broke.
Go figure!
If they get a bailout the first 5 billion will go to fund the pensions.
The USPS is dying a slow and painful death.Any changes at all for the purpose of survival will lead to mass layoffs.There is no right answer.The only solution is for the USPS to downsize to a skeleton crew.That would enable them to handle the absolute essentials.Like it or not,agree or disagree,this is where it's heading.
I have had two packages set on my porch. Yet , instead of bringing up the mail also, the postal worker put it in the mailbox.
Package on porch. Mail in mailbox.
Could have kept them together.
Guess I am just picky.
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