The USPS unions? Just wondering what role they have played in the bloated cost of running the US Postal Service?
The $72 million New Zealand dollars are equal to about $51 million U.S. dollars.
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The dying US dollar...
Just 10 years ago in 2000, one US dollar was worth 2 NZ dollars...
You could have got that $NZ 72 Million for only $US 36 Million...
I was having a “discussion” with a woman regarding a totally unrelated matter about supporting legislation being proposed by Reps from NY that would mandate insurance companies cover fertility treatments. I maintained the usual conservative viewpoint; gov’t shouldn’t mandate, private company, insurance offers services they can make a profit on, etc. She actually used the example of the USPS insurance covering fertility treatments and if they can do it anyone can! Hello??
That's some fuzzy math there.
None of that USPS bull s**t that has 5-6 point of sale machines, but only one person working.
1. TOO MANY MANAGERS
Back in the 1970s when everyone was in a tizzy about Japan taking over the world, a little fact came out about their productivity that was buried by U.S. media outlets. Japan’s postal service had one person in management for every 34 worker bees. At the same time, the USPS had one manager for every 7 workers. Impossible to make a profit with those ratios.
2. BULK MAIL SUBSIDIES
The companies filling your mail box with all that junk mail are not paying the full cost of their mailings. You subsidize their mailings with your .44 (soon to be .46) stamp.
3. MINORITY MAKE WORK JOBS
Just like most government jobs, minorities were given front of the line privileges for years in hiring for the USPS. Ask anyone with a teenager what happens when you give someone something that they did not, could not, or would not earn themselves.
I used to live there. Only country in the world that i’d prefer living in to the US. Amazing people and amazing scenery.
Back to the article. The post shops in New Zealand all sell other things. You might see a postal center in a book store or a convenience store. They also serve as one stop government shops where you can pay your car registration and other fees. None of them are one trick pony’s like our post shops. All of them use the post as only part of their revenue and they save the government from having to have other offices.
There are also multiple companies in New Zealand that handle mail. You see boxes for DXMail, the regular post office, and a couple other companies in all the big cities and you can easily buy stamps for any of those companies.
Of course it is very possible that our post office would make money there and theirs would fail here. There is a huge cost difference between sending a letter from Auckland to Wellington or Christchurch and sending one from NYC to LA or Hawaii.