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The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
Probably for the same reason lots of other businesses are losing money. Gee whiz, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
You could say that the Post Office is the ideal example of what socialists think the federal government does best. Why is the USPO losing money?
Can't the Obama administration answer the question? How on earth can the Tea Party help the Post Office balance it's books?
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
The Post Office - about as efficient as the DMV
Talk about fraud, waste and abuse
Another government run failure.
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
Note the language is that "congress shall have the power to establish post offices" not that there has to be a federal post office. That being said I see no reason not to have one, but it has to be slimmed down. We went from 2-3 deliveries a day to one a day, so going to postal service 2-3 times per week would seem like the right thing to do, and slim down the agency appropriately.
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
The Post Office - about as efficient as the DMV
Talk about fraud, waste and abuse
Another government run failure.
LOL!!! That's hilarious. I can send a letter to anywhere in the entire U.S. for less than 50 cents. Aint much you can get for less than 50 cents nowadays.
The USPS isn't designed to be as efficient as possible, BTW - its designed to provide mail service to every American. Many private businesses would consider the placement of one of their stores in bumfuck, alabama or nowhere oklahoma to be a waste - but these private businesses have no constitutional duty to fulfill like the USPS.
Why don't they just raise their rates to cover the costs?
What they really need is some competition. Right now it is illegal for anyone but the post office to deliver mail. Government interference at its best!
They are gradually getting to the right Constitutional interpretation. Article 1 does not require EXCLUSIVE monopoly of mailboxes on private property -- nor does it require every employee be a Federal employee.
Rural delivery could be handled by TEENAGERS who pick up the neighborhood mail at school and deliver it after class. Just like a newspaper route. Ain't that hard to imagine unique solutions to cutting costs. Would be great job training responsibility for them. Maybe in exchange for breaks on State college tuition..
I live in a duplex in the city and get mail all the time twat face. I send it, too. For less than 50 cents I can save myself the trouble of going to the bank to deposit my tenant's rent check.The only people getting mail these days are inbred white trash bigots, like you, delivered to their trailers.
I've paid my rent every month for the last 4 years with a check, and although we've only received one rent payment so far from our new house, that, too, was a check.People pay all bills electronically now.
Any packages that need to come in/go out are handled professionally by UPS or Fedex (Privately owned and operated). I don't see them "tanking" like the failed USPS.
I live in a duplex in the city and get mail all the time twat face. I send it, too. For less than 50 cents I can save myself the trouble of going to the bank to deposit my tenant's rent check.The only people getting mail these days are inbred white trash bigots, like you, delivered to their trailers.
I've paid my rent every month for the last 4 years with a check, and although we've only received one rent payment so far from our new house, that, too, was a check.People pay all bills electronically now.
Any packages that need to come in/go out are handled professionally by UPS or Fedex (Privately owned and operated). I don't see them "tanking" like the failed USPS.
Those companies don't have a universal service obligation. Nor are they restricted from posting a profit like the USPS. Apples and oranges.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
Why don't they just raise their rates to cover the costs?
What they really need is some competition. Right now it is illegal for anyone but the post office to deliver mail. Government interference at its best!
That would involve congress okaying a rate hike.
Good luck with that one.
Post Office Plans New Rate Increase - CBS News
USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default - Yahoo! Finance
The Postal Service said it lost $5.7 billion during the nine-month period ended June 30, compared to $5.4 billion in the same period of 2010.
why do I have a feeling that the teabaggers will be AGAINST doing anything to help the USPS balance its books? Despite the fact its an explicit enumerated power in Article I ?
Note the language is that "congress shall have the power to establish post offices" not that there has to be a federal post office. That being said I see no reason not to have one, but it has to be slimmed down. We went from 2-3 deliveries a day to one a day, so going to postal service 2-3 times per week would seem like the right thing to do, and slim down the agency appropriately.
I agree with the part about decreased delivery days. Its better to reduce number of days of delivery than number of Americans served. Get rid of Saturday first I'd say, and combine that with an increase in rates.
I disagree somewhat with your first part. While it would not be strictly "unconstitutional" for the Congress to dissolve the post office - I think its hard to argue that would be in keeping with the spirit of the document and the intent of its framers. If I'm not mistaken, the Constitution does not mandate the existence of a military, either, it merely gives Congress the authority to create, fund, and regulate one - yet its hard to argue the founders did not intend the U.S. to have some sort of military protection.
Since they have the power to run it, you assume that means the Fed 'has' to.
well, times change and soon there will be no mail to be sent
Government already involves itself in our emails. Much of the internet is presently and/or was previously publicly funded. The first web browser was created with public funds for crying out loud.Will you still insist on having the USPS or will you demand that government involve itself in our emails?
