Two months after the U.S. Postal Service's Postmaster General announced how USPS leadership intends to resuscitate the wheezing institution by cutting jobs, raising rates and ending Saturday delivery, the union representing the nation's mail carriers has gone public with the changes it believes are needed to keep the USPS from becoming irreversibly insolvent.
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5 comments:
Get real , the only mail I get is junk. I don't use this institution that is known to be lazy and ineffective.
Go to Nanticoke PO and stay there a while , these people get paid tp gossip and talk on cell phones all day.
Bivalve is the same , she smokes all day outside.
I guess they don't know how to work , right Sue?
The only thing that will cure the woes of the USPS is to take control away from the federal government.They are hopelessly over administrated, and the government could find a way to lose money on a soda machine.
Do more parcel work? This is a plan? Where will the millions come from that would be needed to upgrade the entire postal delivery fleet?
Some surprising good ideas herein: USPS has a presence everywhere and the means to route all sorts of material there; adding a "burden" of another 25-50 pieces - even parcels - would not add much if anything in cost, nor desegregate the efficiency any worse than it already is; and, getting congress out of the picture, especially regarding closures, staffing, rates, and manpower allocations would be a significant step toward modernization. Right now they're trying to save a tired, old, archaic business model long past any viability.
As a former rural carrier, I can tell you that there's just no room left for a few parcels in the current government delivery vehicles and barely enough to hold the current load in carrier owned vehicles. During the holidays, many carriers must make multiple trips back to the Post Office due the lack of cargo capacity.
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