How GW Bush and such broke the USPS

[merrill]

How George Bush broke the Post Office

If Trump really wants to fix USPS, he should look at how the Republican government of 2006 destroyed it in the first place

theweek.com

 

[Manonthestreet]

diversity promotions are their ruin

 

[my2¢]

The article linked above is from 2018.
In the years since, Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3076

The bill repeals the requirement that the USPS annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

Interesting post though, informative on a situation that I hadn't previously paid attention to.

As far as future USPS changes go, in the early 1950s they cut home mail deliveries per week in half. It's time they should halve them once again.

 

[Harry Dresden]

How George Bush broke the Post Office

If Trump really wants to fix USPS, he should look at how the Republican government of 2006 destroyed it in the first place

theweek.com

2 democrats co- sponsored that bill....

 

[Harry Dresden]

The article linked above is from 2018.
In the years since, Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3076

The bill repeals the requirement that the USPS annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

Interesting post though, informative on a situation that I hadn't previously paid attention to.

As far as future USPS changes go, in the early 1950s they cut home mail deliveries per week in half. It's time they should halve them once again.

the mail volume was nothing back then....compare it to the 90's....28 billion pieces compared to 100 billion....big difference....

 

[my2¢]

the mail volume was nothing back then....compare it to the 90's....28 billion pieces compared to 100 billion....big difference....

There has also been a big jump in available technology over the past 70 years.

This image shows a typical manual sorting station, in this case in Los Angeles in 1951. Mail is separated and cleaned up on the desks closest to the camera, and then sorted in the rows of pigeon holes further away.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There has also been a big jump in available technology over the past 70 years.

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This image shows a typical manual sorting station, in this case in Los Angeles in 1951. Mail is separated and cleaned up on the desks closest to the camera, and then sorted in the rows of pigeon holes further away.

doesnt matter people still have to deal with the volume after the machines are done...do you know why they cut the deliveries in half?....because of the increase in mail volume,cant deliver twice a day anymore,not enough time....

 

[my2¢]

doesnt matter people still have to deal with the volume after the machines are done...do you know why they cut the deliveries in half?....because of the increase in mail volume,cant deliver twice a day anymore,not enough time....

Where technology hasn't helped is in the physical delivery of daily mail. As the postmaster explained to Congress, that requires an ever increasing staff. (link)

“There’s folks that actually deliver the mail. You don’t want to do a hiring freeze there, because if we do that, then we won’t deliver mail,” he said.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Where technology hasn't helped is in the physical delivery of daily mail. As the postmaster explained to Congress, that requires an ever increasing staff. (link)

“There’s folks that actually deliver the mail. You don’t want to do a hiring freeze there, because if we do that, then we won’t deliver mail,” he said.

thats because every day new addresses are being formed....