“Basically, what the Congress needs to do is do a comprehensive bill whereby we have what we call an innovation officer, which is my idea. And that person would keep the Post Office as cutting edge of innovation and bringing in new ways to of making money,” he said. “The other thing we`re going to have to do is we are going to have to do some downsizing. But when we downsize, we have to downsize with compassion. Keep in mind we have more than 100,000 people that are right now eligible to retire. And what we have to do now is make sure that they have a decent parachute to land. In other words, to give them some incentive money so they can go ahead and retire, and so that we can right-size the Post Office.”
The level of cluelessness...
Tell ya’ what . . . why not RAISE the postal rates so we can have Saturday mail delivery? Maybe to a dollar a stamp! Why not? Since the post office has been losing money these past years, that’s what they’ve done instead of cutting service.
And here we go with minority and female hardship crap. If my employer were to cut my hours of pay I would probably look for another job. But since this post office stuff is basically a free ride for a lot of dead beats, it’s better to complain.
It will also contribute to global warming and raise sea levels.
Some jokers keep getting elected.
To: re_tail20
Prediction:
In the near future we will be hearing about the hardship this will place on minorities(large make up of USPS employees per reports)in regard to meeting their financial obligations such as mortgages,car payments etc.This will be stated as being due to overtime being slashed.
As most responcible people know an individual should not base there lifestyle and big ticket items on OT income levels only base pay.
This will become everyone elses problem IMOP
4 posted on February 6, 2013 10:57:22 AM EST by t1b8zs
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Yup. “Postal Service Cut: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”.
Well...it’s only logical that affirmative-action hiring should result in affirmative-action firing.
Hurts “the elderly” too. Didn’t Dingy Harry say last year that “the elderly” rely on getting junk mail to keep themselves occupied and entertained?
Hurting bastard makers is a good thing
So let me see if I understand this...
The post office is in business to provide high paying jobs to people who would otherwise be unemployable.
It has nothing to do with providing a service that people are willing to pay for.
We need all the minorities and women to keep things running because all the white guys are goofy and incompetent.
At least all of those on TV and in the government.
Basically, it sucks to be dependent on government with no skills or work ethic when that government starts to run out of money.
He's recommending Buyouts to an already-inflated Union Contract golden parachute, and, wants to enhance that even further (at Taxpayers' expense, of course).
Yet ANOTHER fiasco caused by over-staffing and Union-mandated over-compensation and Affirmative Action-mandated hired slugs....so let's get Taxpayers to bail 'em out, so those Union Dues to the DNC don't get adversely impacted.
Besides, we'll soon have 10's of millions of Illegals getting Amnesty, and we gotta get them Unionized, to get those Dues to the DNC maintained......
As long as it doesn’t endanger the Delta Smelt I’m OK with it.
..sounds like an argument for direct deposit of welfare benefits...
“comprehensive bill”
I’m sick of that phrase! It means screw everyone who isn’t in a government protected minority class.
“... 40 percent of postal employees are female and warned that many are single mothers.”
This Affimative Action clown brings to mind the old headline: End of the World Is At Hand: Women and Minorities Most Affected.
Obviously, the USPS has been operating as a government make-work program. No wonder it’s sinking, with all this dead wood on board.
If you clowns would hire a competent CEO as Postmaster General and get the hell out of his way, my guess is the Post Office could show a PROFIT.
What these morons need to do is setup a USPS email system, force all citizens to use their system, and charge 10 cents for each email sent.