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Senators Propose Changes to Help Rescue the USPS (Senators say it's not a bailout)
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| November 2, 2011
| Sunlen Miller
Posted on 11/02/2011 3:13:12 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Hebrews 11:6
One minor step they could take is to raise the rates on junk mail.
Dealing with the union and with gross inefficiencies in some of the larger POs is more important, but also more difficult.
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posted on
11/02/2011 3:55:31 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
No one owes the post office jack. Except several of the people working for them that suckered them on million dollar home sales. Now close down the bulk mail centers and start firing people.
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posted on
11/02/2011 3:58:19 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: SideoutFred
four years ago I worked the Postal Christmas mail in Dallas. Anyone that thinks the psotal service is not trying to get better is very removed from reality. I can tell you this we moved ten thousand packages for service people in less than 5 working days. Those packages got to service men and women because dozens not hundreds of part time people filled a void.
I was asked to take a part time postion and thought it would be cool - I can say without doubt the hardest day of work in my life was not as difficult as the easiest day sorting and delivering first class mail.
Finally one of the only roles assigned to the Federal government in our constitution is postal service and their roads.
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posted on
11/02/2011 3:59:34 PM PDT
by
q_an_a
(the more laws the less justice)
To: Iron Munro
The Internet superhighway meets all of these requirements.
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:02:48 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
It's all Apple's fault the Post critters don't have money!!! If they'd shipped the new I-Phones by mail the USPS would ahead of the game and not in the red!!!
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:18:13 PM PDT
by
LooneyTick
(Of all the things in life I've lost, I miss my mind the most!)
To: SideoutFred
Just as an aside, I live in a rural area and use a PO Box number for my mail. My wife ordered a package from a rural town in Kentucky. When we got the tracking information, the USPS had transferred the package to Fed Ex in Kentucky, and they delivered the package to my rural Post Office in Texas. Fed Ex must be cheaper than the USPS. Is Fed Ex union?
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:21:54 PM PDT
by
lagrange point1
(Space is no longer the final frontier)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Along with Collins, Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. This is NOT a bipartisan group. The letters behind the names are merely a fiction to play games with the electorate.
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:24:39 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Ben Franklin, What a guy.
The US needs a postal system
The Founding Fathers thought it essential.
The military is not assumed to be self supporting.
Rightly so.
Add to the military, now scores, if not hundreds of useless entities bleeding the US treasury.
Why should the postal branch be the only self supporting Constituionally mandated service?
To: Cicero
One minor step they could take is to raise the rates on junk mail.THE POST OFFICE EXISTS TO DELIVER JUNK MAIL!
And the crap is heavily subsidized by your overpriced 1st class stamps.
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:37:07 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: lagrange point1
Is Fed Ex union? No, UPS are the Republican-killing teamster thugs.
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:39:20 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: org.whodat
The Internet superhighway meets all of these requirements. Unless you actually want to send or receive a physical object.
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posted on
11/02/2011 4:44:47 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
We all benefit from the post office, everyone. It’s specified in the Constitution. Who said the post office had to pay for itself as a government agency (and it is no matter the technicality)? No other government agency has to “pay” for itself. Take the money from the department of education to pay for the post office. At least we get something from USPS. All we get from DOE is negative returns over the decades, going from first place to last in the world.
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posted on
11/02/2011 5:01:28 PM PDT
by
rebooted
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Don't bail out the USPS. Repeal the Private Express statutes, and let the market take its course.
If someone wants to live in East Overshoe, Nebraska, at the end of a long lane, that's his business. But I shouldn't have to subsidize his letter and package delivery.
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posted on
11/02/2011 5:02:09 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
To: Iron Munro
Has fed x gone out of business.
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posted on
11/02/2011 5:10:05 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
let the USPO go bankrupt and then reorganize without the union.
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posted on
11/02/2011 5:13:48 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
let the USPO go bankrupt and then reorganize without the union.
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posted on
11/02/2011 5:14:44 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: q_an_a
Thanks for pointing that out. The mail doesn’t sprout wings and move on its own. there’s a lot of grunt work involved getting the job done under time pressures. My postal worker brother was given the task of breaking in a new female employee on her first night on the job. After a couple of hours he didn’t see her around. Turns out she quit the job. Apparently she too was under the faulty impression that postal work is easy work.
To: q_an_a
And I wasn’t implying that you personally were under the faulty impression. I was just thinking about all the critics and think-tank experts who have no idea of the USPS beyond some bad stories about sorry window clerks. :)
To: org.whodat
Has fed x gone out of business. Not really cost effective for something like a personal letter or small package.
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posted on
11/02/2011 8:12:32 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
To: VanDeKoik
I agree, but my fix was even simpler::
Dump the unions!!!
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posted on
11/02/2011 8:17:35 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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