Posted on 09/16/2009 12:25:53 PM PDT by Keli Kilohana
If the public option will create competition and lower medical costs, then why does the US Postal Service raise its rates every year? The USPS is the public option. Right? Why does it lose money and FedEx and UPS make money?
RACIST!
You impudent racist serf!!!
You’ll never get health care under 0bummerCare. You’re now on The List!
I do business at two small town post offices adjoining Houston. Their employees are always helpful and cheerful. In fact, sometimes they have gone beyond the norm and re-opened the office when I told them I absolutely had to get something certified that day.
However, they see the problems. One is union rules -like required breaks even when there is a line of customers— that require them to do less service to customers than they could or would if they owned the station. [Say there’s an idea]
Another thing they admit to is ourmoded ways of doing business. Yesterday I had to send out a mailing of 140 certified return receipt. Do you know that there is no way for the P.O. to weigh a letter and issue 140 exact cost postage by machine. They would have to input all 140 items and they can’t do that so they had to sell me postage stamps. Trying to come up with even a close amount meant going into the one penny stamp range so I bought stamps with .12 over so I’d only have to affix 3 stamps instead of half a dozen.
I think there used to be some program that let businesses sell themselves to their employees. What do you think of making these P.O. folks small business entrepeneurs?
Because CONGRESS micromanages its affairs.
Really. Recently I became convinced that the Postal Service could make a profit if Congress would get out of the way.
Good analogy, so keeping that analogy in mind, the Problem as it relates to healthcare is that the public option is basically allowing the Post Office to offer FREE or significantly reduced services to some clients deemed by the government to be at or below a certain income level. Those clients currently do not use Postal services at all and in emergencies they ship their packages using a credit card which they never pay. Notice how no one is talking about increasing the size and number of Post Offices in any legislation but yet they can say without impunity that there will be no greater burden on the system i.e., “You will not stand in longer lines” that is a flat lie based on flawed assumptions and zero logic however, the problesm go even deeper because legislation offered allows employers who are mandated by the government to pay a portion of your postage to force you who currently use UPS and FEDEX to use the Post Office because they will not pay the FEDEX or UPS rates.
So we will have a national post office that is overburdened, under staffed and poorly managed continue to drain the taxpayers resources until complete collapse which is inevitable.
The so-called Public Option will make getting medical care like a trip to the post office. Ever stood in line at one? A joke.
Seriously, if you want to stop this bill dead in its tracks, simply demand that all members of the government (excluding active military), including the President and Congress abide by it and cancel their own sweet deal. Why hasn’t that been proposed?
I think there used to be some program that let businesses sell themselves to their employees. What do you think of making these P.O. folks small business entrepeneurs?”
As a long-time bookkeeper to many small businesses with my own self-employment, I can assure you that anyone who has the qualities to go into business for themselves would not be working at the post office for very long in the first place.
True entrepeneurs are self-starters, and they generally abhor anything close to unions.
when i have to go to the post office, yuck, what happens is a have to stand in a line usually 20 deep. The people “working” there seem to be moving in slllooowwww motion.
When I have gone to get my driver’s license renewed. Same thing, except much longer lines and waits - after all, there is no competition at all for these folks. The union thugs that work there could care less about what they are doing and serving your needs. We are just an annoying inconvenience to them who are getting in the way of their loafing and gossip.
If government nationalizes health care - that is the future.
Here’s the main reason the post office doesn’t make money (from their own websites):
UPS Letter
Days In Transit: 2
Price 18.52 USD*
USPS
First-Class Mail® Letter 3 days 0.44
Priority Mail® 2 days 4.95
IF taxpayers underwrote the salaries and overhead (cost of building, rent, utilities, insurance, etc) of UPS and FedEx, then UPS and FedEx could send a letter for less than the USPS—and still make a profit!
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