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Beating a Dead Horse, Why the U.S.P.S. is Really Failing - by jwc2blue - Newsvine
US Postal Service: On the Brink of Financial Collapse
They are in the red for 5.5 billion dollars
They survive on junk mail, it is decling BTW
Reducing the postal workforce. USPS has proposed cutting 220,000 positions, leaving its workforcewhich once ranked with Indian Railways and the Peoples Liberation Army as among the worlds largestat 425,000 employees. Some 120,000 of these cutbacks would be through layoffs, which are barred under current union contracts. For most private companies, such provisions would be lifted as part of the normal bankruptcy process. As a federal agency, however, USPS cannot enter into bankruptcy. Nonetheless, Congress should adopt legislation to allow USPS to reduce its workforce.
■Closing post offices and other facilities. USPS plans to reduce the number of retail facilities it operates from 32,000 to 20,000 by 2015 and has already identified 3,700 for closure. In addition, it plans to cut its 500 processing plants to 200. With declining mail volume and improved technologies, this makes sense. Yet the efforts are hindered by a warren of federal rules restricting the closure of facilities and requiring cumbersome processes for doing so. Congress should eliminate these restrictions.
■Discontinuing Saturday delivery of mail. Moving to five-day-a-week delivery would save $2 billion3 billion per year. Such an adjustment is not unprecedented. Before telephone service was widely available, mail deliveries were sometimes made several times a day. Just as telephony made such multiple deliveries unnecessary, Internet communication has made Saturday delivery nonessential. Under current law, however, USPS is barred from paring back its current delivery schedule. This prohibition should be lifted.
They are losing 75 million a month!
$5.5 billion Postal Service default won't stop the mail - Economy Watch on NBCNews.com
Cutting workers, cutting back delivery time, defaulting on payments etc and some of you folks say they are doing "fine"?
And you want the gov't to run healthcare? I thought you wanted it FIXED?
US Postal Service: On the Brink of Financial Collapse
They are in the red for 5.5 billion dollars
They survive on junk mail, it is decling BTW
Reducing the postal workforce. USPS has proposed cutting 220,000 positions, leaving its workforcewhich once ranked with Indian Railways and the Peoples Liberation Army as among the worlds largestat 425,000 employees. Some 120,000 of these cutbacks would be through layoffs, which are barred under current union contracts. For most private companies, such provisions would be lifted as part of the normal bankruptcy process. As a federal agency, however, USPS cannot enter into bankruptcy. Nonetheless, Congress should adopt legislation to allow USPS to reduce its workforce.
■Closing post offices and other facilities. USPS plans to reduce the number of retail facilities it operates from 32,000 to 20,000 by 2015 and has already identified 3,700 for closure. In addition, it plans to cut its 500 processing plants to 200. With declining mail volume and improved technologies, this makes sense. Yet the efforts are hindered by a warren of federal rules restricting the closure of facilities and requiring cumbersome processes for doing so. Congress should eliminate these restrictions.
■Discontinuing Saturday delivery of mail. Moving to five-day-a-week delivery would save $2 billion3 billion per year. Such an adjustment is not unprecedented. Before telephone service was widely available, mail deliveries were sometimes made several times a day. Just as telephony made such multiple deliveries unnecessary, Internet communication has made Saturday delivery nonessential. Under current law, however, USPS is barred from paring back its current delivery schedule. This prohibition should be lifted.
They are losing 75 million a month!
$5.5 billion Postal Service default won't stop the mail - Economy Watch on NBCNews.com
Cutting workers, cutting back delivery time, defaulting on payments etc and some of you folks say they are doing "fine"?
And you want the gov't to run healthcare? I thought you wanted it FIXED?