pianoguy wrote:
Why don't they just double the rates for bulk mail?

Ultraman wrote:
Why doesn't the US Government take them over.......they have a great efficient business model............

pianoguy wrote:
Why don't they just double the rates for bulk (junk) mail?

TommyT-Bone wrote:
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.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
It's simple evoltution. To survive you must adapt. Less volume means lesser need for daily delivery. Even if you got your mail every other day would it really make that big a difference? I don't believe so unless you like to time things to the last possible day. Even then, it's the consumer that should adapt. mail early whatever must be mailed and dont push to the deadline. Banks will whine but they're the ones that create this with online bill pay as does all other major company promting online billing and online payment. It's the new way to do things. You can't have both. The consumer and business has made it's choice and it is not the USPS. What happens when a business doesn't get enough volume to continue production? It closes or suspends operations. Same principles apply. So we'll see change.

pianoguy wrote:

I've seen a TV commercial recently for the USPS where they are touting how paper invoices, statements, etc. never have viruses like those nasty electronic ones - LOL! Nice try, though.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
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,

CentralCoaster wrote:
I can do without it. If it were up to me I'd have the mailman arrested for littering on my property. Every day he comes here and puts trash on my porch.

I pay all my bills online. Who writes checks anymore?