Postmaster Gen'l: Mail delivery may need to be cut

AP via www.breitbart.com ^ | Jan 28 02:59 PM US/Eastern

[Osage Orange]

I hope you reach your goal.........

I still think the USPS...does a good job.

[DH]

If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday.

Well, there it is folks...GOVERNMENT THINK!  Yeah, Tuesday huh?  I wonder how many credit card payments would be penalized if the bill was due on Tuesday but received on Wednesday?  How about generall business transactions?

That statement clearly shows just out of touch with the real world the postal service management is.  Their business model is:

The slower the business, the higher the price of postage along with the worsening of professionalism (pissy ass mail service).

No matter what, there will not be a single person laid off in spite of more and more customers finding better service by UPS, FEDEX, the internet and email. 

Yesterday as I was driving I started thinking about just how much the postal service wastes on making and selling gobs of new stamps each year.  How about a single stamp with a price on it ONLY?  No more stamps to appease collectors and people who like "pretty" stamps.  How much would that save?

The horror of it all is that the post service clearly shows what all socialized private business will become.

What do you think comrade?

[ltrman61]

All I can tell you is that where I work we are extremely short staffed in the carrier craft. So much so, that forced overtime occurs on a daily basis. That alone drives up costs and hurts efficiency. The craft employees are dwindling....management is not. But there are numerous problems with USPS, I will agree.

[meyer]

A little competition would have a positive effect.

[meyer]

How bout making junk mail (and campaign literature) illegal.

I would venture to say that if the cost to send junk mail reflected its relative cost compared to small, letter-sized envelopes, it would go away by itself.

[meyer]

Those endless sacks of mail and mountains of parcels that we had to get out to the star routes by 5:00 AM didn't seem to care that we were working a government job.

If you had been working in Cleveland, Ohio's main post office, you would likely been among the 10% that did 90% of the work.

[Maigret]

“UPS and FedEx can deliver on Saturdays.”

Not where I live.