If it was private, would already be bankrupt and gone.
What to do? One word: Privatize.
I cannot seem to truthfully comment without...
So hey, let the government run healthcare, what could possibly go wrong?
I have been trying to do my part to keep them afloat. Whenever I get junk mail I do not want, with an enclosed business reply envelope, I send all the stuff back (after removing my name/address info). Especially good for unwanted credit card offers. Sometimes they are quite heavy.
I have no idea if the disparity is as much now but at one time, postal employees were far better paid than other federal employees.
In 1974 I was a lowly GS-7 working overtime one Saturday in the federal building. Around 11, I took my lunch break and was eating in the break room. A young man who was a janitor came by and was cleaning up. We got into a conversation and he was a postal grade 1. We compared salaries and he was making more than I was.
My job required a college degree along with scoring pretty high on the FSEE. I think his required nothing other than being able to work.
If a private company believes they can deliver a letter from Miami to Nome, Alaska for $.44 they will take on the task.
Everyone else understands that the entirety of USPS’ work can be done. Y the Internet or FedEx.
The law requires that postal costs be met through the collection of postage from mail users, not taxes.
What this particular payment amounts to is a bit of PROFIT TAKING by Congress in a way they believe gets around the Postal Reorganization Act which prohibits such actions.
Your propagandists out there know this ~ but they don't want you to know that. Frankly, what's going on sounds silly, but that's Congress for you ~ the trick was to help balance the budget. Well, they sure forgot about that quick didn't they?
Thank goodness we voted in Republicans in 2010 so that no more money will be flushed down the Post office/Fannie Mae/Amtrak Sewer!!
Sign up for lots of junk mail. That’ll keep the postman happy!
With the service they provide me, I’m not surprised. Some days I get mail and other days they send it back to the sender for no reason at all. No one there seems to know.
I could Iive with no mail. Just electronic. Some people need mail and don’t want to do computers. As we old-timers pass on, that won’t be an issue.
If I were the benign dictator, we would announce a 5 year phase out of the postal service. Close more buildings faster and start selling.
Cut deliveries to 5 days every two weeks. Two days this week and 3 days next week in half the area and reverse for the other half. Start retiring and working on lay-off schedule.
Any private carrier in an area or state must offer service to every one at least once a week.
Next.
Who else but the U.S. government can get away with dumping 20,000 tons of freaking junk mail on us daily, then demand a raise?
Gee, what a (non) surprise.
No wonder they’re losing money. It cost me $5.10 to mail a 14 ounce package from one side of the county to the other! That’s a total ripoff.
They lose 10k per year, per employee. The answer is simple.
As opposed to a modest $5 billion loss? Compared to the national deficit and debt, it's a drop in the bucket.