Yea, but didn't that place just get benefits from the rural electrification act?
USPS- government or not? Doesn't really matter, according to their numbers, they only need to generate $28384.47 per employee to break even.
No more Saturday mail
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Yea, but didn't that place just get benefits from the rural electrification act?
USPS- government or not? Doesn't really matter, according to their numbers, they only need to generate $28384.47 per employee to break even.
Yea, but didn't that place just get benefits from the rural electrification act?
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Not much after that, yes. Why you ask?
DEEKAYPEE8569
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Actually, this really will save money. Locations won't be open (no overhead costs - electric, oil, water, etc). Vehicles won't be running (maintenance, gas, oil, etc.) And no employees will be collecting overtime.
My SIL works in a school district out of state. They have a "CWS" type of schedule and that one day every two weeks when buses aren't running and the schools aren't open, saves a heck of a lot of money. It was amazing the amount of money they found in their public coffers after the policy was inititated. It also made the students and the teachers much happier.
Well, the USPS is a Federal entity. Why they don't also work on a CWS schedule is a wonder.
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Lem Putt
Right, they have to make money to stay in business, while USPS doesn't. They have to provide customer service, USPS doesn't. They are not a junk mail delivery service, while that seems to be the only purpose of USPS.
And if you think that their employee benefit package makes it legitimate to be a massive money loser, then you must be a liberal.
No chit Cherlock. And one model is successful, providing returns for their investors, and the other an epic failure, sucking up tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars to cover losses.
I received something in the mail a week or two ago stating that some local business would be an official USPS hub.....I think I threw it away....
Did any of you Mechanicsville folks keep it?
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Lem Putt
This would be like a restaurant that is struggling due to poor quality food and service deciding to cut the hours they are open. Makes no business sense. Fix the problem, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
Cutting delivery days means that shippers/senders will have to figure that into their determination of which service to pick. Could cost them business.
I'd say about 90% of the mail I get is junk. So why does everyone send their junk via USPS? Because USPS charges less for junk mail than it does for legitimate mail.
Here's a thought - charge the same rate for junk mail as first class mail. That will reduce the junk - advertisers will have to target their audience instead of saturating. This will reduce the workload of the carriers and sorters so they won't need as many. Less junk = less weight = lower transportation costs.
USPS became a fixture by delivering mail we wanted to get. Rather than returning to what was succesful, they'd rather become a delivery service for crap.
I don't go to Bon Buffet because even if crap food is cheap it's still crap. I'm willing to pay more for postage if I get a quality product.
Cutting delivery days means that shippers/senders will have to figure that into their determination of which service to pick. Could cost them business.
I'd say about 90% of the mail I get is junk. So why does everyone send their junk via USPS? Because USPS charges less for junk mail than it does for legitimate mail.
Here's a thought - charge the same rate for junk mail as first class mail. That will reduce the junk - advertisers will have to target their audience instead of saturating. This will reduce the workload of the carriers and sorters so they won't need as many. Less junk = less weight = lower transportation costs.
USPS became a fixture by delivering mail we wanted to get. Rather than returning to what was succesful, they'd rather become a delivery service for crap.
I don't go to Bon Buffet because even if crap food is cheap it's still crap. I'm willing to pay more for postage if I get a quality product.
I'm quite sure I've read several articles in the last year or so that talked about a) that junk mail had become a key and critical source of revenue for USPS and b) USPS putting out advertising soley aimed at increasing the junk mail volume.
That is the unfortunate reality of the situation.
dave1959
Active Member
No.. and not trying to be a smart-a$$ or anything, I cant think of one reason
this should even be a problem. 1 month after it starts no one will even think twice. We will get adjusted to it and move on with life.
Interestingly though....UPS is a union shop. Teamsters..and that's a union with a well-deserved reputation for being rapacious.
DEEKAYPEE8569
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Look-a'chu with that $10 word.....
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Lem Putt
As long as they want to make themselves into a trash delivery service they deserve what they get.
I'm not really disturbed about no mail on Saturdays, but I do find it irritating that THAT'S what they've decided to save money on. Oh, and government employees. There are a million things they could cut - why that? Especially since Shaniqua and Wanda will still be getting every red cent of their welfare check. AND Congress just got a pay raise.
I'll bet I could trim a trillion $$$ off that budget without even breaking a sweat.
I'll bet I could trim a trillion $$$ off that budget without even breaking a sweat.
Me, too!!
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Lem Putt
Struggling Postal Service to spend $2.2 million on San Francisco conference
Now we know why they can't afford to deliver on Saturday
Now we know why they can't afford to deliver on Saturday
itsbob
I bowl overhand
thatbwoukd be the point of comparing them wouldn't it?
If their business model works and yours doesn't change your business model.
If one is making more money and isn't hampered by unions get rid of the unions .