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USPS to propose 5-day mail schedule, major cuts
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| March 2, 2010
| Annalyn Censky
Posted on 03/02/2010 6:29:20 AM PST by Gamecock
Snail mail might soon get even slower. The U.S. Postal Service plans to propose Tuesday an adjusted mail service schedule, which will likely cut Saturday delivery. The agency will also suggest closing some branches and expanding its use of self-service kiosks in grocery stores and other popular retail spots, as part of its effort to work its way out of a mountain of debt. USPS posted a $3.8 billion loss in its 2009 fiscal year, the latest in a multiyear string of whopping losses.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: cuts; postal; postoffice; usps
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:29:21 AM PST
by
Gamecock
Brought to you by the same folks who want to deliver your health care.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:29:55 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(We aren't sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. (R.C. Sproul))
To: Gamecock
Government programs lose money. Always.
When the USPS eventualluy decides to cut back, it's called "No delivery on Saturday".
When government health care decides to cut back, it's called "Death Panels".
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:31:38 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(We're all heading toward red revolution - we just disagree on which type of Red we want.)
To: Gamecock
I am almost positive my mail person skips the house and only delivers now every other day.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:31:42 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Gamecock
Big cities used to get twice a day mail delivery before the “Progressives” tried to take over the country. Cuidado!
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:31:43 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Gamecock
It sounds like rationing to me.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:31:53 AM PST
by
Delphster
To: Gamecock
Fine by me. Outside of Christmas card season, I get maybe one USPS delivery a week that’s of any interest. The rest would make good birdcage liner, if I had a bird.
To: Gamecock
Less service for more money - business as usual at the P.O.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:32:23 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: Gamecock
One less day of annoying junk mail.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:33:20 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Tea Party. We are the party of NO! NO to more government! NO to more spending! NO to more taxation!)
To: MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; earlJam; Rb ver. 2.0; lesser_satan; Taffini; jdm; countess; ...
NEWMAN!
10
posted on
03/02/2010 6:33:40 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(We aren't sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. (R.C. Sproul))
To: Gamecock
"Brought to you by the same folks who want to deliver your health care."
EXACTLY!!!!
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:34:47 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Gamecock
“USPS to propose 5-day mail schedule, major cuts”
I mail one or two things a month. This will not affect me. It sounds like a fine idea.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:34:49 AM PST
by
Grunthor
(Does The Name "Obama" Apper In any Hawaii Birth Database?)
To: Gamecock
Interesting...some of the postmasters I have spoken with have always given me the impression that Wednesday is more likely to be ‘cut out’ than Saturday.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:35:31 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: ConorMacNessa
A government monopoly ... that is dying.
14
posted on
03/02/2010 6:36:15 AM PST
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Grunthor
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:36:23 AM PST
by
John W
To: Gamecock
Why not end this fiasco and simply privatize mail delivery. The Gov’t cannot do ANYTHING right and may just as well own up to It once and for all.
To: b4its2late
Nah, he delivers only to every other house................
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:42:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Why not a ONE DAY mail schedule? Just give us ALL our mail once a week?..................
18
posted on
03/02/2010 6:43:52 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Don Corleone
Big cities used to get twice a day mail delivery before the “Progressives” tried to take over the country. Cuidado!
My mom likes to talk about the days BEFORE the "Service Economy", when mail was delivered twice a day, dairy was delivered in the morning, the butcher delivered, and they could take the train 60 miles to the BIG city to shop on Saturday, and have large items (like furniture) delivered to the house on Monday.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:44:30 AM PST
by
BikerJoe
To: b4its2late
USPS mail delivery in Manhattan is deplorable. But if anyone complains, important pieces of mail will mysteriously disappear and become “lost in the mail”, Netflix DVDs will start to arrive broken, etc. So you have to live with it.
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posted on
03/02/2010 6:45:28 AM PST
by
jimbo123
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