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

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

[RC2]

If they have “dwindling mail volume”.....they should have dwindling costs. I can’t see how the Post Office could loose money when you figure out how much it costs to send packages. I understand that UPS and FedEx is on their board of directors. They probably want to see the Post Office stop shipping packages.

[edcoil]

Work less, cost more money - that is the government for you.

[SJSAMPLE]

Bingo.
In this age, anybody that needs something faster has real options.

[Cobra64]

First step:

Stop delivering all the crap from the supermarkets.

[albie]

And raise the postage...right? I’d be fine having to go to the post office to pick up if it meant less junk mail.

[MahatmaGandu]

UPS and FedEx can deliver on Saturdays.

[So Cal Rocket]

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

At least make the mailers use first class postage on junk mail rather than the discounted bulk rate. Why should the users of first class mail subsidize the junk mailers?

[Abathar]

I live out in the sticks too, the lady gets really snooty when she has to drive the 3/4 mile long driveway for a certified letter.

If she has that attitude again I think I’ll send a certified letter to the guy on our route that breeds pit bulls, really give her something to b*tch about.

[Churchillspirit]

What happened on the twenty sixth of November?

[utahagen]

I agree, but given there's zero chance the government will lay-off, or decrease the comp of, existing government workers, I'd settle for a hiring freeze that's effective the week BEFORE the cut in service is made.

[Misterioso]

Stop the junk mail!!!! PLEASE!!! I receive enough junk mail to build a forest.

Without "junk mail" there wouldn't be a Postal Service just like without commercials there wouldn't be network TV.

[muawiyah]

Clue ~ if we whacked the NCD Post Offices from their present 25,000 or so down to 5,000, and rejusted rural routes to work out of the most critical head-out offices within those 5,000 (or nearby city delivery post offices), the USPS could eliminate well over $3 billion per year.

Back when I did the original survey (19076/77) and analysis the savings were just right at $1 billion.

Rural delivery service could be advanced nearly a full day on average from present levels ('cause providing all those little bity post offices with rural routes going this way and that, with a lot of backtracking and empty hauls, slows down the mail!).

NOTE: I was never popular with the National League of Postmasters (http://www.postmasters.org/)

One of their past Presidents hated me so much he tried to get me fired ~ he later on ended up getting caught ripping off their medical insurance program and was, last I heard, sent to prison for a long time.

These are the people who prevent USPS from eliminating these problem offices and rationalizing rural delivery.

[b4its2late]

I don’t know. It is the government. We’ll see.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Work less, cost more money - that is the government for you.

I wished it had worked that way when I was working on Tour 1, the midnight shift, at a general mail facility back in the 80s. 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.

Postal pay is indeed good but the ease of the job is vastly overrated for the people who actually have to move the mail working through the night.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Ah yes!....the post office!....How about closing it six days a week?

[muawiyah]

? (regarding your Board of Directors statement).

Answer is Fed Ex and UPS have a small fraction of the number of pieces handled by USPS. Work it out from there.

[bert]

The pay cuts can be for the double dippers only. It is only fair

[Obadiah]

I happen to use Stamps.com for the ocassions I have to mail a package. I don’t know about others, but when I go to the post office in either of the two cities I happen to be in, there are long lines of people waiting for a clerk. And the clerks are almost always grumpy and treat you like their doing you a big favor helping you out.

[MahatmaGandu]

Thank you for asking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_attacks

[ml/nj]

How about just eliminating all the deliveries, closing the whole Postal "Service" and saving us all a bundle? I'm sure that within a week or two FedEx and UPS would be able to step in and handle everything, probably for 20 cents per standard envelope.

ML/NJ