[muawiyah]

It's still true that management gets the union it deserves. The unions at USPS are pretty tame, and, to a degree USPS management is fairly tame ~ actually timid.

Things I proposed (through PMG William F. Bolger) three decades ago are just now being adopted. You have to have disasters around there to get worthwhile decisions made.

They will save maybe 20% of the budget.

They could have been doing that all along ~

[dinodino]

Declare bankruptcy, break the union contracts, and kill the unions. Fully cut the USPS loose to sink or swim. Problem solved.