Posted on 04/19/2012 2:51:29 PM PDT by ColdOne
They also spent tens of millions on periodical sorter machines and do not use them. They keep employing people to do it by hand.
There is a whole lot of FAT in the USPS
gubmint programs never die.
especially when they’re unionized.
As far as using "flat sorters" is concerned, there have always been questions about the several dozen technologies developed to do that. Part of it has to do with the fact that Single Piece Rate flats are so few in number in any one area it's never been worth while to put them on machines. Another problem there is that Standard Rate flats are already presorted and packed for optimal distribution to carriers ~ so why would you sort that stuff again?
We once had a SPR (small parcel and roll) sorter that looked promising ~ but as I retired folks were telling us it didn't really beat manual distribution costs ~ but I'm not sure how that turned out. Other express shippers have had trouble with the concept UNLESS they totally standardize and limit sizes of "small parcels" ~ the Russians did that ~ worked great for them ~ but it was considered too authoritarian for normal societies.
Now, about periodicals ~ they are all presorted. ALL. And, volumes have fallen off the planet ~ because, as you know, "print is dead".
I’m sorry i didn’t get the chance to really mess up your mind even more. There’s a psychiatrist somewhere who is living paycheck to paycheck ~ but with you around he’d GET RICH!
Crazy isn’t it? No budget for the Obama presidency. Yet an overwhelming number of these CongressWeasels will be returned to office.
Much of what USPS delivers can easily wait a day. They can deliver every other day, cut out many facilities, and hike the bulk mail rate to reduce some volume.
Ever heard of "fixed costs?"
You've never run your own business have you?
It would be better to help push USPS over the edge. Have some fun, send some mail out a nickel short in postage and make them use the postage due routine. Bog the system down with collecting dimes and nickels for fun. It would cripple them with stupid postage due envelopes and collections.
The post office is no longer an essential service anyway. They should raise rates for the junk mail that Harry Reid loves so much. They should fire the periodical sorters and use the machines that the taxpayers paid so much for.
Now, if you were paying your postage correctly (Hmmmm?!?!?!?) you'd already know that.
You don't happen to have a million dollar postage deficiency do you? I always hated to handle those ~ so messy ~ people treatening to jump from ledges on skyscrapers, the whole works.
Messy.
I predict that Ubama will attack FedEx and UPS for “unfairness” and assess them with an annual fine to keep the USPS afloat.
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