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ah....the good olde government run post company.....run into the ground .....wonder when the senate hearing will happen and blame will be assigned.....
wonder who our elected officials will blame this on.....
doesn't the government run amtrack as well.....
Government run entities never make a profit (aside from increasing taxes) and are notoriously inefficient.NOW the USPS is going under. what in the heck is going on?
In this day and age, there really is no need for the United States Postal Service. The service is horrid. They have not broken even in a long long time. I vote that we allow them to fail!
that is what I was thinking.cap post master salaries at 75g/year.
STARTING with that piece of shit Potter
Postmaster got $800,000 in pay, perks
Raise came amid calls for cuts in delivery
Washington Times - Postmaster got $800,000 in pay, perks
I was also thinking the other day about how they say people do not send letters anymore due to email which causes them profit loss. But don't they send quite a bit more bills in the mail than they used to? Also when I order stuff off the internet it always seems to come USPS.
Maybe I am being an idiot and someone could explain to me how they loose so much money. And maybe it is just my family that gets the same amount of mail as they did ten fifteen years ago.
that is what I was thinking.cap post master salaries at 75g/year.
STARTING with that piece of shit Potter
Postmaster got $800,000 in pay, perks
Raise came amid calls for cuts in delivery
Washington Times - Postmaster got $800,000 in pay, perks
I was also thinking the other day about how they say people do not send letters anymore due to email which causes them profit loss. But don't they send quite a bit more bills in the mail than they used to? Also when I order stuff off the internet it always seems to come USPS.
Maybe I am being an idiot and someone could explain to me how they loose so much money. And maybe it is just my family that gets the same amount of mail as they did ten fifteen years ago.
Just within the past two months, I stopped receiving nearly all bills and banking statements via postal mail. I was sick of it having to shred it and ended up paying online anyways, so I switched the paper stuff out. If much can be done online, why not? It's a waste of paper anyway. I've also (finally!) stopped receiving as much junk mail -- catalogues and such.
The internet changed the way people bank, pay bills, purchase products, etc. Maybe the post office needs to revamp in order to keep up with the changing times. For starters, 5 days a week service seems like a good idea.
The guy at the helpdesk sounded like he wanted to hit him.
I find that nine times out of ten, it's always something that's unplugged. The simplest solution often is.
I was applying for a post office job a few years back. Holidays? there's only 11 or 12 of those. Your first year you get 25 days vacation and 30 days sick level. There problem now is that no one works a fice day work week let alone 6. It goes up to 30 days the second year.
Figure in fifty-two Sundays then add 72 paid days off a year. That's 124 days out of 365 you don't have to work a year.
One institution after another is falling over, dead. Sure smacks of poor management and poor social awareness of your surroundings, thats for sure!
WASHINGTON The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service will run out of money this year without help from Congress, Postmaster General John Potter warned on Wednesday.
"We are facing losses of historic proportion. Our situation is critical," Potter told a House subcommittee.
The agency lost $2.8 billion last year and is looking at much larger losses this year said Potter, who is seeking congressional permission to reduce mail delivery from six days to five days a week.
Potter also urged changes in how it pre-pays for retiree health care to cut its annual costs by $2 billion.
If the Postal Service does run out of money, the lingering question, Potter told the House Oversight post office subcommittee, is which bills will get paid and which will not.
He said ensuring the payment of workers' salaries comes first, but other bills may have to wait.
Potter first raised the possibility of delivery cutbacks in January, but the idea has not been warmly received in Congress.
"With the Postal Service facing budget shortfalls the subcommittee will consider a number of options to restore financial stability and examine ways for the Postal Service to continue to operate without cutting services," subcommittee chairman Stephen F. Lynch, D-Mass., said.
Lynch said the financial stability of the Postal Service is "critical to the American expectation of affordable six-day mail delivery."
Even if the agency succeeds in reaching its planned cost cuts of $5.9 billion, there could still be a $6 billion deficit in 2010, Potter said.
Postal chief says post office running out of money
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USPS is the third largest employer in the country.Geeez, I just realized...if 500,000++ ALREADY pissy, ornery and snotty USPS employees are going to be unemployed...holy crap, we'd best arm ourselves, fast!!
Twould be an unpretty site, all of them with nowhere to go to complain, drink coffee and sodas all day and whine and wait for retirement to happen.
