Comments on: USPS Business Model not good for citizens, postal workers, or USPS.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:08:12 +0000

These conversations always amaze me. The USPS has delivered consistently competent service for so many years at a very reasonable price. Does anyone realize how many employees work for USPS? Does anyone care? It’s true that email has changed the way we communicate, but, in my opinion, is very impersonal. Just like society has become. Why are people so worried about how ‘junk mail’ affects our environment? That just seems silly to me when those same people drive around in gas guzzling vehicles that pollute our environment even more. Some of us actually enjoy getting catalogs and other ‘junk mail”. I mean, chill out people! It’s just mail. Throw it out if you don’t want it!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:20:04 +0000

I really can’t fathom how a “service” as purely incompetent as the usps is still in operation. They are by far the worst delivery company around, no close second.
there are thousands of horror stories all over the net.
let the usps DIE already, any other business as horrible as they would have gone under years ago.

By: micahel

micahel — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:25:26 +0000

Good report. I have been feeling the same recently – its just stupid to use taxpayer monies to fund the USPS shortfall when they are giving pricing breaks to companies that send out insolicited junk mail that nobody wants. The USPS should either charge them the same as first class postage, or stop asking taxpayers for monies to fund their losses ($7B this year).

If the USPS does go bankrupt, I do not see how their union contracts will protect them from significant personnel reductions. My guess is that they will go to a three day a week delivery schedule before the USPS goes bankrupt.

By: Jeff Powers

Jeff Powers — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:22:31 +0000

Thanks everyone for the great insight and post here.Its great when everyone can share ideas and expirence with others and when it makes a differnce as well.i will be making a contribution here as well.thanks

By: World Directory

World Directory — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:27:04 +0000

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By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:32:18 +0000

mann, I don’t know where you get your information, but I’m here to tell you that you’re dead wrong. Not ALL mail carriers are paid by the hour as you state in your post. City Carriers (like me) are paid by the hour, but Rural Carriers are paid by a system known as evaluated routes and it is based on mail volume for a one-month period. The rural carriers in my office just went through one, and they are going to take a hit right in their paychecks as a result of the volume being lower than normal. Oh and as to your predictions about layoffs, again you are dead wrong. We have no layoff provisions in our contracts (anyone with at least six years service can’t be laid off) so don’t look for that to happen. I suggest you get your facts straight before you post your inaccurate ramblings about the Post Office as gospel when in fact they are only your inaccurate opinions!

By: mann

mann — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:24:24 +0000

Helen’s comment is a distortion of reality. Postal workers are paid by hours, no mail volume. If there’s less volume of mail of course there will be fewer hours (especially overtime) required. Postal mail is going to go the way of smoke signals and telegraphs a lot faster than anyone ever predicted, spurred on by this economic crisis. Postal workers would be wise to take early retirement packages and start new careers sooner rather than later. USPS will start laying off workers by the tens of thousands shortly. They’re headed for insolvency in six months. Congress is getting tired of subsidizing the whole operation, not just for direct marketers’ discounted rates.