Posted on 08/14/2011 7:36:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dump ‘em...
We need a federal government to do about 10% of what it is currently doing. Let the individual, sovereign states decide what they wish to do, and let the people do the rest.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
They need to retool. They do and have done a decent job for me. Has to be cost effective and self sufficient, though.
My wife and I discussed it and we could start doing all bill paying on line and probably save ourselves money and lower our security risks. We are prepared to do this.
However, there are still a lot of people who don't have a computer or online access or wouldn't be able to figure out how to pay bills on line.
10% of gigantic is still a sh!tpot of power!
It can't compete because it can't raise its prices. Now that's a new one to me.
This is the question I ask myself frequently.
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This night happen but only after much wailing.
I don’t run a business and so don’t need 6 days a week of delivery. Once a week is fine with me. Even once a month, but I’m afraid they’d need a dolly to haul that much junk mail.
Thanks for the posting
Our legal sustem and government depends on the integrity of the USPS as does many other aspects of our lives. The author of this piece however dumps on the latest congress which took office this January.
The problems have been building for years finger pointing to the reformers for inaction is undeserved.
Rural deliveries are part of why the post office is an essential government service explicitly mandated by the US Constitution and not a business.
In my coastal community of about 35,000 people UPS is open from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. Fed Ex doesn’t even have an local office.
The post office would be much better off financially if the private firms were not skimming off the high profit markets around the big cities and leaving the rest of the country high and dry.
Congress has 18 enunerated powers under Article 1. The post office is not an optional duty. It is specific ad precise. There is no dicussion about this.
Sorry clear, just re-read article 1. Congress has the power to post offices which you are right, it is not mandated.
It’s the economy, stupid. Fix the national economy, fix the post office. Businesses hoarding cash, not advertising? New businesses NOT being started up, due to uncertainties of the current administration? Lack of consumer spending due to unemployment?
Seriously, fixing the Post Office is a band-aid on a broken leg. Fire Obama and the Democrats, cut taxes and regulations, and the economy will roar. The Post Office difficulties will be history.
Great post. That’s exactly why the post office needs to be saved. The best reform would simply to end the excessive congressional oversight and let the CEO make the needed decisions without having to lobby congress for permission to make simple and obvious business decisions.
I think stopping Saturday deliveries would be okay, if needed...but the unions would have to agree to a much smaller work force and to changes in their medical and pensions...
I would even pay more for stamps if there were substantial savings elsewhere....
the postal service is important, especially for the smaller areas...
The Post office needs to quit being a bank for those who can not or choose not to have a bank account or just to launder cash. It is disturbing to wait in line to mail a parcel when those in front of you are buying thousands of dollars in money orders to send who knows where.
Correct me if I’m wrong too but it seems the post office does most of the APO work as well (delivery of mail and packages to troops overseas).
The truth is that the Postal Service has been and remains a bargain, much maligned by the public and Congress every time stamp prices rise. The Postal Service prepays billions into the retirement healthcare pension fund. Money that’s not there five minutes after it’s deposited. Why? Because Congress takes the money out and spends it on other things.
They’ve looted the Postal Service for years, they sold off profitable parcel business, refused to allow them to employ new and innovative moneymaking schemes....because FedEx and USPS lobbied Congress and said it was unfair competition. Nothing about this is simple. And Congress certainly won’t stand up and point the finger of blame where it belongs. If the Postal Service of all the federal agencies, quasi or otherwise, have to prepay billions into a fund that’s siphoned off in a blink of an eye, they’d be profitable and make money.
Not necessarily. Congress is authorized to “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”. There’s nothing that requires the Postal Service to make actual delivery. They could satisfy their Constitutional responsibility by handling interstate transport, and allow the states to do the rest.
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