Postal Service cutting Saturday mail delivery (pension, benefits, school, kid)
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don't think one day will make a difference overall. and i remember a time when we went to the post office to get our mail.
will be ok.
and has been a long time coming
We still have to go to the post office to get our mail, and I wish the Gov. had never privatized it and they should take it back where it belongs as a Government Dept.
As for the post office being open on Saturday, it is the only day I can get anyone to go get mail for me.
Personally I'd like them to go to 3 day a week, MWF or TRS. One of the biggest cost is labor, Going to 3 days a week would reduce there delivery work force but 47%.
I've thought this too, for a long time. Then have a second phase where it would be go to two days a week, MTr TuF or WS, and then a final phase where it would be one day a week.
As it is right now, all the mail I receive in a week, could fit in my mail box one day a week, and it wouldn't effect my life one bit. I just don't see much of a future for letter delivery mail service.
I live in a rural area and this will be zero change - they aren't open now on Saturday anyway. They never deliver packages larger than an envelope, they just leave pick-up notices in the mail boxes out on the main road (2 miles from our house). The local office is always kept on a shoestring - open 8:30-4:30, M-F (heaven help you if you work down in town, you can never get your packages if you work 8-5).
No lunch break? Will they not leave packages in your mail box? I've never noticed a problem with mail men not jamming anything into a mail box that will fit. Maybe you could get a larger mail box.
As along as they don't turn the Post Office to the private sector, 5-day delivery doesn't bother me. I assume that the mail will continue to be distributed throughout the postal system on weekends. It just won't be delivered.
I doubt that any private sector entity could take on mail delivery and make a profit. My FedEx and UPS guys are terrified of my dirt road. My locally-born postman runs up to a day, sometimes two, before FedEx or UPS will come out here after a good rainstorm or snowstorm.
I think it is a great idea and would also support reducing delivery to three days a week. With all that is available on line, the only pieces of mail I get is junk and then I have to take it to recycle. Another union that has priced itself right out of the market with the lucrative pensions and benefits.
I doubt that any private sector entity could take on mail delivery and make a profit.
Would you have said that when USPS basically had a monopoly on packages, before FedEx, UPS, etc. came up with better logistics for handling packages than USPS?
I am sure the private sector would make a profit on mail delivery though service might change, but there's not much future in it as more and more is (thankfully) done online, and they'd be trying to compete with an enterprise (USPS) that isn't doing it at a profit now...
Another union that has priced itself right out of the market with the lucrative pensions and benefits.
And yet another ignorant comment about the postal service. Postal unions (and federal unions in general) have absolutely nothing to do or say about the pensions received by postal or other federal employees. The federal retirement system is statutory. It is not subject to union bargaining. Any changes to the federal pension program are initiated and approved by Congress and signed into law by the President. BTW, the federal pension program was last overhauled in the 1980s and signed into law by President Reagan. Hardly a union sympathizer. I doubt very seriously that you have any idea whatsoever as to how the pension program works.
Ellwood][/b]Another union that has priced itself right out of the market with the lucrative pensions and benefits.
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Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda
And yet another ignorant comment about the postal service. Postal unions (and federal unions in general) have absolutely nothing to do or say about the pensions received by postal or other federal employees. The federal retirement system is statutory. It is not subject to union bargaining. Any changes to the federal pension program are initiated and approved by Congress and signed into law by the President. BTW, the federal pension program was last overhauled in the 1980s and signed into law by President Reagan. Hardly a union sympathizer. I doubt very seriously that you have any idea whatsoever as to how the pension program works.
While the first post was misguided at best, there's no denying the (paygo) pension issue for the postal service as the need for their services (and therefore revenues) continues to decline substantially and predictably.
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