- Jun 6, 2007
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The Congressional critics of the U.S. Postal System new management initiatives are only half-way legitimate. These new policies include, in part, no overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and not holding up postal distribution centers for late arriving mail - process it the next day, etc. The American people and these critics need to remember that the U.S. Postal System is and has been running significant budget deficits for a while although the Federal government will probably have to subsidize the U.S. Postal System because its finances are in such bad shape the U. S. government can only offer limited financial help here because it just doesn't have the money because its finances are in a crisis state, the U.S. Postal System needs to be run well there needs to be no room for wasteful and inefficient spending!
The critics are right in so far as there should be a clear exception for the no overtime rule in three instances: one, where there is no carrier for a postal route postal delivery is a necessary service for people it is like electricity service it is a violation of people's civil rights for Postal authorities to say there is no carrier for a route for whatever reason Covid 19, short staffing whatever too bad residents on that route you're just out of luck no you authorities you give overtime to other nearby carriers and split up the route that needs coverage and those carriers on overtime can deliver mail on respective split up sections of the route; secondly, it is not acceptable that carriers leave mail at the pick-up site because they have too much mail to deliver and won't be able to deliver it in the time allotted for their shift, authorities approve over-time in these instances this undelivered mail could be time sensitive the U.S. Postal service should not be abusing people like this and not delivering their mail; thirdly, U.S. Postal management should be approving over-time for workers to timely post mark mail, the date on post marking has serious legal and other implications in multiple instances in one instance this writer is from Pennsylvania and mail in ballots in PA have to be post marked by a certain date or they won't be counted people need to be able to rely that if they drop off a ballot at a post office on a certain date it will be post marked that date otherwise the mail system is unreliable!
The criticism of the Postal System is illegitimate in so far as it seeks to prohibit Postal management from making cost cutting policy changes that may cause delays in the delivery of mail by one to three days. Critics say things like this will delay the delivery of prescription drugs which people need it harms public health, well for those Americans that need their pharmaceutical drugs delivered in an expeditious time table they can just pay for express mail service to have this occur; the Postal System needs to cut cost the American people have to allow this unless under certain conditions a compelling reason calls for otherwise. The other thing about the Postal system is that President Trump needs to put aside his personal vendetta against Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon; historically Amazon is a big customer for the U.S. postal system and theoretically President Trump's criticism of the Postal system's contract with Amazon is accurate in so far as the contract cost doesn't cover the Postal system's cost per piece of mail delivered by the Postal system for Amazon but that is not a legitimate issue because the Postal System delivery costs are all fixed they are incurred by the system regardless of whether Amazon gives the Postal system even one piece of mail to deliver. The relevant issue is that the Postal system has to be competitive in the price they offer Amazon to deliver its mail because Amazon has other options for delivery, for one, it has its own shipping service; President Trump needs to knock off his obsession with Jeff Bezos here or he is going to cause the U.S. Postal system to lose Amazon as a customer and that will make the U.S. Postal system's finances significantly worse than they are!
The critics are right in so far as there should be a clear exception for the no overtime rule in three instances: one, where there is no carrier for a postal route postal delivery is a necessary service for people it is like electricity service it is a violation of people's civil rights for Postal authorities to say there is no carrier for a route for whatever reason Covid 19, short staffing whatever too bad residents on that route you're just out of luck no you authorities you give overtime to other nearby carriers and split up the route that needs coverage and those carriers on overtime can deliver mail on respective split up sections of the route; secondly, it is not acceptable that carriers leave mail at the pick-up site because they have too much mail to deliver and won't be able to deliver it in the time allotted for their shift, authorities approve over-time in these instances this undelivered mail could be time sensitive the U.S. Postal service should not be abusing people like this and not delivering their mail; thirdly, U.S. Postal management should be approving over-time for workers to timely post mark mail, the date on post marking has serious legal and other implications in multiple instances in one instance this writer is from Pennsylvania and mail in ballots in PA have to be post marked by a certain date or they won't be counted people need to be able to rely that if they drop off a ballot at a post office on a certain date it will be post marked that date otherwise the mail system is unreliable!
The criticism of the Postal System is illegitimate in so far as it seeks to prohibit Postal management from making cost cutting policy changes that may cause delays in the delivery of mail by one to three days. Critics say things like this will delay the delivery of prescription drugs which people need it harms public health, well for those Americans that need their pharmaceutical drugs delivered in an expeditious time table they can just pay for express mail service to have this occur; the Postal System needs to cut cost the American people have to allow this unless under certain conditions a compelling reason calls for otherwise. The other thing about the Postal system is that President Trump needs to put aside his personal vendetta against Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon; historically Amazon is a big customer for the U.S. postal system and theoretically President Trump's criticism of the Postal system's contract with Amazon is accurate in so far as the contract cost doesn't cover the Postal system's cost per piece of mail delivered by the Postal system for Amazon but that is not a legitimate issue because the Postal System delivery costs are all fixed they are incurred by the system regardless of whether Amazon gives the Postal system even one piece of mail to deliver. The relevant issue is that the Postal system has to be competitive in the price they offer Amazon to deliver its mail because Amazon has other options for delivery, for one, it has its own shipping service; President Trump needs to knock off his obsession with Jeff Bezos here or he is going to cause the U.S. Postal system to lose Amazon as a customer and that will make the U.S. Postal system's finances significantly worse than they are!
