As we wrote back in September, the U.S. Postal Service was looking at closing more than half of its mail processing centers around the nation, which was predicted would translate into around 35,000 lost jobs. Last night, the USPS finally announced that while some of those centers have survived the executioner's blade, the number of layoffs will remain about the same.
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Another business that unions drove down.
Will our government still show an increase in job creation this week? You do realize that government statistics are a joke right? they will manipulate these figures as well in order to put obammy back in office. Good job Contributor. Putting the facts out there is another step toward educating the people - and a slap in the face to those who wish to manipulate the facts to forward a personal political agenda.
This "Business" was "drove down" by competition. People don't mail things like they used to. I for one, do not mail ANY bills out monthly. The only thing I mail is Christmas Cards and an occasional package. You can't blame this on anyone, it is just a product of technology replacing people. Email,UPS, online banking, direct deposit......all of these things have caused a decrease in the need to mail and therefore a decrease in the amount of personnel needed to mail. Let's call a spade a spade and look at things rationally instead of making some right wing conspiracy out of everything and blaming Unions, Obama, etc. I am a conservative republican, but it doensn't solve anything to come out with the blame game, especially when it isn't true.
10:25, These jobs will not be subtracted from the "jobs created" numbers, as they are not "created jobs"! Isn't that handy? If "jobs deleted or lost" were to be subtracted from "jobs created", that would make a negative number, and the Anointed One doesn't want the peasants to be discouraged from trying...
7:24 You forgot to mention overpaid employee's golden parachute retirements the fact they can't remain solvent is because they pay out more than they take in due to over paying unions help.
in response to 7:24-Many people don't mail bills like they used to, but the junk mail alone would be enough to keep them afloat if it wasn't for the cost of overpaid employees and lifetime benefits for everyone. I shred 15 or 20 unwanted, unsolicited pieces of it every week. Assuming everyone is getting as much as I get, there is plenty of work. I (and almost everybody else) also use the post office for e-bay shipping which was non existent before the days of computers. The post office is going down because of the unions, just like most big business in this once-great country.
Junk mail can't keep the postal service solvent alone. That is complete crap. There is no more junk mail being mailed today than there was 15 years ago. And if any households are like mine, there are 10 pieces of mail each month ATLEAST that ARENT being mailed by my household. I guess the Unions had something to do with that too.
lol, my verification word is wacky.
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