So what are your ideas about the US Postal Service?

[ElNono]

Well, I don't believe the Postal assessment, but I guess it could be billions.

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I say it's all smoke and mirrors.

[ElNono]

Postal employees paid to do nothing

Reducing personnel has to happen...it's one part that needs to happen...

[Wild Cobra]

Did you read what Cosmic just posted?

[Wild Cobra]

Reducing personnel has to happen...it's one part that needs to happen...

How do you make it happen when there is a no layoff agreement in the contract?

Like I said. Smoke and mirrors because you cannot force these people out, and incentives to leave don't work in this economy either, except for early retirement incentives.

[ElNono]

How do you make it happen when there is a no layoff agreement in the contract?

Renegotiate the contract? Shift some of the workers to other understaffed agencies while their contract is still up?

Like I said. Smoke and mirrors because you cannot force these people out, and incentives to leave don't work in this economy either, except for early retirement incentives.

There has been other solutions proposed here that don't involve firings and would still slow down the bleeding (in the billions)... I do think you need to reduce personnel to actually stop it completely.

You can't do away with the Postal Service either, being that's cons utionally mandated and all. So some middle ground will have to be found.

[Wild Cobra]

Again, with the projections based as they are, I say it's all smoke and mirrors.

[LnGrrrR]

I'll bet that the biggest savings could be felt if they got rid of the managers who make stupid decisions, costing millions a decision. In corporate America, they would be fired. In a bureaucracy, they likely get promoted!

They should get the people who ran the banks to run the post office too. Those guys are geniuses!

[Wild Cobra]

They should get the people who ran the banks to run the post office too. Those guys are geniuses!

Actually I would say we are lucky the people running the Postal Service are not running the banks!

[LnGrrrR]

Actually I would say we are lucky the people running the Postal Service are not running the banks!

Why? Could they wreck our economy even worse than the bank CEOs did, while holding American taxpayers hostage to support them, while still pocketing fat checks without any promise of reform or oversight?

[jack sommerset]

I can't remember the last time I mailed out anything.

[jack sommerset]

I wonder what would happen if the government got rid of US postal service all together?

[hehateme]

I wonder what would happen if the government got rid of US postal service all together?

Then I would stop getting all that junk mail that keeps my life going one day at a time...


Is there a way for the government to unload the postal service debacle to another company, i.e. Fedex or UPS?

[jack sommerset]

It actually might be a great idea to get rid of the US postal service all together.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...ert-verbruggen

[ElNono]

That would require a Cons utional amendment. Good luck with that.

EDIT: I take that back. It might not. I have to re-read Article I.

[clambake]

it would be chaos. for companies and civilians.

[RandomGuy]

There is no way they can ever make money. They are getting killed by technology. Nobody writes letters anymore, everyone pays their bills online...heck...businesses are even doing billing and payments electronically...they have just become a delivery service for junk mail. If they raise their rates even more people will abandon them even faster in their move to electronic media.

They need to raise their junk rates.

junk mail.