| Re: And That's The Way It Is (Postal Reallignment) PR&C |
Subject: Re: And That's The Way It Is (Postal Reallignment) PR&C by TommyT-Bone on 2011/12/5 15:44:06 First let me state that the Post Office was created over 200 years ago. Pony Express lost out to the mail trains, trains lost out to planes, and so goes the history of the Postal Service. In it's current form the Postal Service has lost out to electronic information transfer. It is faltering as a result of progress. It's a dinosuar of sorts dying a slow and painful death. Sure Americans want it and have become accustomed to it but they are the very reason it is going away. Population grows and volume diminishes. The postal service serves more addresses with lower volume. The junk mail you receive helps defray some of the expense but non profits and peridicals pay a paultry sum. Yes, payroll and benefits eat up the bulk of postal monies. Salaries are not out of line with other so called private delivery operations. (FED EX and UPS). The talk of turning delivery over to the private sector is laughable. Those two companies combined could not handle the volume increase. I've read of using WalMarts as delivery hubs. Part time, low wage, no benefit employees handling your mail. That ought to go over big. Don't be surprised in that scenario that your private information is sold off, your valuables, credit cards and other important items disappear, after all, a man has to make a living. Call it shrinkage. Effect on the communities. The mayors and govenors are already voicing their concerns. With the loss of jobs comes the loss of income producing business supported by those displaced workers. Those BurgerKings, McDonalds, gas stations and convenience stores, not to forget the money spent in the private sector by those very workers for services and products that support their way of life. So say good bye to the USPS as you know it. It's not their fault. It dies from change. Change in the way you and I do business. No different than you giving up a car and going back to a horse. Highly unlikely. So saddle up, changes are coming. |
