It's a business in a competitive marketplace. Why not?
Is it better to keep it as is. A wasteful bloated agency that is in part a warehouse for employees who don't produce any work?
Forget 'protecting jobs'...That's crap. You people are all about 'save the post office' I want my Saturday mail'...Ok fine. Not the way the USPS is currently operating.
Can't have it both ways.
I'm not interested in the history of the USPS because that is immaterial to the discussion.
The USPS is on the verge of financial disaster. First class mail volume if down 25% in the last 5 years. People are SICK of junk mail.
part a warehouse for employees who don't produce any work?
they don't?......come on down and carry a few routes.....it might change your opinion.....
People are SICK of junk mail
it is considered the most effective way to advertise....which is why that stuff just keeps on coming....
I was referring to management level people.They don't do shit.
And that comes from two letter carriers I know.
One guy I used to go camping with worked at a sectional center( I think that is what's called..Or maybe a bulk center) anyway a big place that handles a lot of mail...
He said his two supervisors were lazy ass do nothings that got to management level via affirmative action. He said none of the supervisors or their managers did anything productive.
ok....so many here talk about the workers as being useless that unless they specify WHICH workers i usually go into protective mode........and you are right about a whole hell of a lot of management.....many of the front line supervisors are good people they still remember what it was like getting a route ready and carrying it...and they have to put up with the same shit we had to.....but some suck big time,they were the ones who could not carry a route so they went into supervision.and now they suck at that........ but middle management in the PO is fucking horrendous.....they are the ones who fuck the system up....