[GeronL]

Here is an idea.

Use the periodical sorting machines we all paid for and fire those unionized or non-unionized people who aren’t needed.

[BooBoo1000]

This is the problem with the Senators. They refuse to do the thing that is needed. Cut those little looser Post Offices off Period/ The Senate kick the can down the road, not settling anything, just keep on allowing the problem to fester and get worse. Do not vote for any incumbent.

[cripplecreek]

They don’t want to mess with the overstaffed urban post offices. My post office has 1 full time worker and one unneeded part timer they ship 70 miles from Detroit for 4 hours on Santurday (And she’s worthless)

Our Rural driver works out of 3 different offices.

Personally I’d cut Saturday and lose the big sorting offices and let UPS handle delivery to the rural offices. UPS and FedEx deliver to the post office here most of the time anyway.

[Viking2002]

My mother and I have been e-mailing each other at length this evening in regards to the relative third-teat status of the USPS, and why. I sent her a Mother's Day gift via priority mail, and they're been screwing the pooch every step of the way.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920