Postal Service

[Chivalry]

Hey, please... take a few minutes to watch this. I heard that part of the pres's budget proposal includes eliminating Saturday delivery for the postal service.

I'm hearing a lot of vilification of the postal service itself lately, delivery taking longer, costs going up... this video will tell you the real reason behind these problems -- legislation several years ago that seems designed to cause its collapse and replacement with private business. If you live in a rural area, privatizing mail delivery is going to be DEVASTATING to life as you know it, because rural delivery cannot and will never be profitable.

If the mail matters to your life or your business, or even just your hobby, please consider dropping your representatives in Washington a line asking them to keep postal services intact, stop making the postal service pay into a slush fund (retiree fund), and keep the postal service the constitutionally guaranteed service that it was meant to be.

Not to mention, the postal service is the second largest source of jobs in the country, traditionally GOOD jobs with good benefits, and if service is compromised, those jobs are compromised and start to collapse, they start replacing these long-standing employees with minimum wage grunts, service goes down more, economy hurts more... you get the idea.

 

[Rick]

They're going to have to cut something. I think dumping Saturday delivery is a great way to start. Obviously the USPS is doing something wrong or they wouldn't be in this position. Every gov agency is having to cut somewhere.

 

[Chivalry]

Must not have watched the video

The postal service would be turning a profit if they were not being forced to put 5 billion dollars per year into a retirement fund for 75 years down the road. Let me repeat... they're paying within 10 years for the retirement of people who are not born yet. Necessary? No.. they're essentially creating a slush fund for Congress to tap into. If it were not for that, USPS would be comfortably profitable.

 

[Rick]

Must not have watched the video

The postal service would be turning a profit if they were not being forced to put 5 billion dollars per year into a retirement fund for 75 years down the road. Let me repeat... they're paying within 10 years for the retirement of people who are not born yet. Necessary? No.. they're essentially creating a slush fund for Congress to tap into. If it were not for that, USPS would be comfortably profitable.

No, I didn't. Heard it all before. I agree on the funds being set aside for retirement. It's same with a lot of companies/agencies. Putting so many funds aside to pay for retirees isn't sustainable.