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GoneFishin
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More Lost Jobs
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2/23/2012 8:10:31 PM
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WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. Postal Service announced on Thursday new plans to consolidate or close 223 mail processing plants, putting 35,000 jobs at stake starting in late May or June. The processing plant consolidations would save $2.1 billion and are a part of the agency's broader effort to save $20 billion in the next three years.
I can just see the posts that will appear....Goofy you idiot, more lost jobs. Spineless, why do you support such a failed POTUS? He needs to reduce spending. Answer me cause i am getting pizzed. I demand respect Goofy. You are such a loser. I live in a McMansion where do you live??????? I am a producer and you are a loser...................and the beat goes on.
Remember.......OBAMA 2012
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water_watcher
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I am glad to see them go
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2/23/2012 8:28:30 PM
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Less government ... is a good thing. who needs 6 day delivery anymore. 3 Days at most ... cut more, break the union, turn it over to free enterprise and get government out of the way. The more the better.
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GoneFishin
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I am glad to see them go
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2/23/2012 9:02:31 PM
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I can't see free enterprise taking it on. FEDEX and UPS use the Post Office to deliver to rural areas. Sending a letter across country for $.45 is amazing. No wonder they lose money. UPS and FED would carve out all rural and raise the price for the rest. The producers like you currently subsidize the telephone and electric in order to run those lines to the rural areas.
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comrade
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I am glad to see them go
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2/23/2012 9:38:03 PM
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How will you spin this then?
What new words will the media use to make this an encouraging development?
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Barneget
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2/23/2012 9:54:01 PM (updated 2/23/2012 9:56:15 PM)
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Barneget
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I am glad to see USPS make a move 10 years late
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2/23/2012 9:55:59 PM
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First class volume less than 50% of ten years ago, and that number was 15% lower than 1998, so first class volume is off nearly 70% over the last 15 years and this is the first business adjustment beyond rate and subsidy increases. I just get tingly all over thinking about the percieved effective spending of taxpayer dollars, and the arguments for more programs with similar likelihood of success. I don't care for the Postal Workers Union but my experience is the unions strength is dependent on management enablers. In this case, as with most public sector unions, the managers, as employees of a GSE, never saw the money running out, and therefore had little incentive to hold the line at the bargaining tables. That speaks to the success, measured in growth and profitability, of a company like UPS, also heavily unionized, but responsibly managed.
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GoneFishin
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I am glad to see USPS make a move 10 years late
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2/23/2012 10:11:40 PM
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I fail to understand Saturday delivery. For a private business looking to cut expense this would be a no brainer. To cut fuel costs UPS has a program that establishes the delivery route each day for the drivers and minimizes left hand turns which requires a driver to idle waiting for passing traffic. However. I bet no private company will deliver first class across country for the price of a stamp.
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Barneget
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I am glad to see USPS make a move 10 years late
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2/23/2012 10:42:49 PM
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The tough part of the semi privatized USPS is the number of folks involved in the decision making processes. Congress, featuring the unlimited power of idiot assemblage, maintains final approval over any adjustment to the business model. Postal executives were able to shield themselves from the hard business decisions by pointing to Congress and saying they would never support that. It is only since the TEA Party challenged the demand for larger subsidies (12 bill requested, 8 bill granted ly, already at the table looking for 5 bill more) that the CEO and Congress decided to seriously consider structural changes, including reduced first class delivery, while expanding premium delivery. Getting rid of the processing centers is long overdue. These guys can go to 3 day delivery, push the carriers to 4/10 days, eliminate overtime, reduce the head count by phasing out contractors, then through attrition, and effect similar savings quickly on the delivery side. But, unspoken, heck, not even whispered is the USPS, like both Fannie and Freddie, is an affirmative action hot potato and the structural problems had to reach terminal mass before anyone, appointed or elected, would engage them.
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Most days, my mail consists of catalogs that I didn't ask for and credit card offers that I don't want. Most of it goes in the trash or the shredder. I don't recall the last time I set foot in a post office. If I have to ship something, I usually goes to one of the shipping outlets that offer services of UPS, Fed Ex and USPS (and usually, USPS is the most expensive). Their mail tracking system is a joke, and their insurance program is inefficient.
I've long considered the USPS the most ill managed organization. They have one of the most generous relocation reimbursement programs for their employees, and in the menu of health plans, they have one of the best and least expensive to their employees. In most of the larger postal facilities, the operations are inefficient at best.
The only good thing about the post office is my current carrier. We have a rural contract carrier out here. Even when our road was a mess of construction and landscaping materials for our house and our next door neighbor, he always delivered the mail. (which is not something I could say for most of the USPS employees) and if I have a box bigger than my mailbox, he always brings it to the porch. He knows my dogs by name and has been known to keep an eye out for lost dogs. And I always have my mail (such as it is) before noon. I've never gotten the wrong mail (which was something that happened quite frequently to me in VA, when a USPS employee delivered my mail). And when I had a USPS carrier, they often would not bring boxes to the house, but would leave me a notice requiring me to go to the post office to pick it up. No sense of customer service at all.
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blmeanie
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I am glad to see USPS make a move 10 years late
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2/24/2012 7:18:37 AM
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"First class volume less than 50% of ten years ago, and that number was
15% lower than 1998, so first class volume is off nearly 70% over the
last 15 years"
%'s aren't additive so it would approach 60% actually if the above statements of 15% drop, then 50% drop were factual.
Others are quite true, at least half if not 3/4 of all mail received goes quickly into the garbage. Think of what it means to the economy:
- companies are sending that garbage out and spending real money...lots of it...could be spent on improving products and or services, lowering costs to consumers
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Barneget
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You are correct.
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2/24/2012 12:58:44 PM
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My mistake, should have caught it
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