Posted on 08/16/2020 7:11:12 AM PDT by Plain and Simple
At least one-third of the Post Office budget is used to fund pensions for retirees, not operational expenses. Wake up, America.
And the rest is taken by the two unions.
Post Office workers need to go to Walmart University to learn how to make customers happy and do good service. I wouldn’t trust THEM to deliver anything. I put $300 cash in an envelope at the airport in New Jersey, the postal clerk saw what I was doing...it never got to the destination. I trust the Fed Ex and UPS people more.
Eliminate USPS union and all government unions.
Install a successful, fair and patriotic business CEO to lead USPS.
Make USPS competitive with UPS and FedEx. (PBS competes with commercial TV, after all.)
Congress mandated the USPS do that, and President Bush signed the legislation.
I’d be interested in knowing what they’re paying for annual worker’s compensation and how many people they have on total disability.
If you think they can just stop paying those pensions then you are the one that needs to wake up.
Your vanity is meaningless.
Check to see how much the custodian at your local post office is paid.
Pelosi claims to need 25 billion to handle mail ballots. If you assume 150 million votes, that works out to $160/ballot. Most of the ballots are in the same zip code or adjoining zip code. This is extortion, plain and simple. Tell the Post Office to raise the price of packages so they don’t lose on every one.
Correction- ballots are mailed back county seat, still local but not same or adjoining zip.
You are as bad as the media spreading lies! Congress mandated that the Postal Service pre-fund retiree health care and pensions out 75 years. So they are pre-funding for people they haven’t even hired, some of whom haven’t even been born. No other business or government entity is required to do this. I want to see your business survive if you have to pre-fund pensions for 75 years.
You do realize it is against regulations to mail cash unless you register it, don’t you? Plus only a moron would send cash.
Glad you get good service from Walmart, but most of their employees are surly jerks who need an attitude adjustment. You are inconveniencing them if you ask a question.
You put cash in the mail?
Mail has been sorted by automated machinery for at least thirty years.
Your letter likely went through high speed machines five or more times; belts, pulleys, gates; pushing 250-300,000 letters per shift, per machine.
Loose inserts (cash, pictures, etc) make the mail piece non-uniform and create stress point, often leading to the piece getting pulled apart.
No charge for the mailability lesson, you already paid $300 for it.
During Spring Training 2019, over a year ago, I was given a cracked bat of a star player who was idolized by my granddaughter. I packaged it up properly and took it to the Post Office in Seminole, FL. and insured it for $150, an approximate price to a collector. I remember the clerk slapping that insurance label on the box. The box made it to the Tampa depot but the tracking stopped after that.I was not reimbursed for the insurance because I didn’t have a receipt for $150.
My advice is that no matter the value of the item, never insure anything with the USPS. It just a signal to the corrupt employees that there is something of value inside. And it will disappear forever. With many transactions on ebay, and no insuring of anything, I’ve never lost anything else in the mail. Coincidence?
Sorry pensions are guarantees. They need to be paid.
That being said if the Unions are managing them then that needs to be changed of course. Unions are notoriously corrupt when it comes to actually managing money.
Take CALPERS for example, the California taxpayer is absolutely on the hook for any shortfalls, no matter if it is because of incompetence or malfeasance by their directors.
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