Like most government entities, the USPS is burdened with a spending problem.
Unions have forced them to retain inept, worthless, brain dead employees. A private company would run lean and mean.
Being supported by tax dollars, there is little oversight, no accountability, and way too much overhead.
I have a cousin that worked 30 yrs for the USPS that would agree 100% with that statement. (Single mom with 3 kids,that’s why.)
One of my cousins retired from the post office recently.
He has always been a hard worker at whatever he did.
He sorted mail in a huge building.
He said that during his time there, four of his peers were like him, ignoring the union hacks.
When good workers were hired, the union guys intimidated them and got them to slow down.
Told them they got paid no matter if they worked or not.
“A private company would run lean and mean.”
Yes, they would hire Indians or illegals.
Work for 25-30 years, retire with full pay($35/hr) and benefits and live for another 40 years. Same problem with other Unions. That’s why Mexicans make American car components, so overpaid union people in this country can snap together components made elsewhere.
And that’s why taxpayers have to bail them out.
“Being supported by tax dollars, there is little oversight, no accountability, and way too much overhead.”
True for every gov dept., gov financed and gov run entity.
USPS, though, belongs to POTUS (see below), and Trump is a businessman. POTUS will clean house in Trump Term 2!
“The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.
It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.”
-wiki
And those union employees are, by and large, overpaid.
Plus the cost of the union pension plan is killing USPS.