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Posted on 08/14/2014 3:12:27 PM PDT by QT3.14
The United States Postal Service (USPS) management just ran into a possible game-changing obstacle to its shameful pursuit of a fully privatized post office: labor solidarity.
Here’s the background. For a decade the USPS has been aggressively shrinking, consolidating, and outsourcing the nation’s postal system. In July 2011 management upped the ante by announcing the rapid closure of 3600 local post offices, a step toward the eventual closing of as many as 15,000, half of all post offices in the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationofchange.org ...
The laws of economics are like the laws of gravity. The longer one defies them, the harder the fall. No amount of union solidarity is going to save the USPS.
Shameful, he he. They just lost 2 billion in 3 months. Who could afford to buy them?
“Union jobs ... we need more of these kinds of jobs.” Why? So more money can be forced from paychecks into the coffers of the DNC?
All they have to do is repeal the law that prohibits private postal services from delivering first class mail or from delivering mail to residential mail boxes.
Unions are born to be busted.
I’ve argued for decades to privatize the USPS in books & articles. NOW, however, it might be TOO LATE.
The only feasible policy alternative might be to close it down.
Other delivery services WILL move in to fill the VOID.
The federal govt. can get something by SELLING the real estate.
Nobody will want to be saddled by the union contracts or the pension plans. This is typical of unions: to wait TOO long, try to engineer a political solution and eventually end up with nothing for their members, for whom they NEVER REALLY CARED!!
The thing that’s REALLY IMPORTANT:
DON”T LET THE GOVT SELL THE MONOPLY ON 1ST CLASS MAIL!!!!!
Let it EXPIRE.
Not to worry. If this “labor solidarity” keeps up with the pace for the $25.00/hr average wage, the death spiral of increasing postage prices continuously driving down volume in a digital world will put ‘em all out of work when the entire postal service is finally forced to close down the whole shebang. And then we ALL will suffer! Thanks a lot postal unions! Keep up the good work with that postal union labor solidarity in the face of a changing world!
I'm sure Caliph Baraq and Hairy Reed will expedite that legislation as soon as Congress resumes in Sept.
Detroit died at least partially because management of the Big Three auto companies gave the unions way, way more than they deserved.
The USPS has done the same thing with the American Postal Workers Union. $25/hour on average? Completely unsustainable. These folks need to come down to earth and get back to reality.
Here’s the thing... USPS could easily contract out all of its end user services through Walmart and other large retail chains. They all have a large presence and distribution network.
Did you miss that point in the article?
The shift to digital has USPS is in a tough spot.
USPS is the one arm of govt that is funded through consumer sales. It is not directly subsidized by the taxpayer as is every other aspect of govt.
interview on CNBC:
If the postal service cannot pay, American taxpayers will be on the hook for those postal benefits correct?
Chairman Issa: That’s correct. Postal employees are federal employees. All federal pension and retirement benefits are paid from the U.S. Treasury. Since the Postal Service’s operating costs are collected from ratepayers, the Postal Service pays the U.S. Treasury for the costs of federal pension benefits postal workers are legally entitled to receive. Even if the Postal Service cannot or does not make these payments, postal workers are still entitled to pension benefits from the Federal government. So it’s ultimately taxpayers who get stuck with the bill if the Postal Service can’t pay the Treasury for the costs of pensions
The unions and the DNC have one fantastic (for them) money laundering scheme - all perfectly legal apparently. The unions fund the DNC and the law makers look out for the well being of the unions. Anyone remember the Obama takeover of Government Motors and what happened between the unions and the bondholders?
How much did their retirement obligations shrink??
They lose money on junk mail, they need to at least double that rate
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