They want Congress to give them money.
What do you think about this?
1|1|stop delivery altogether?? where did you see that? |jilda|vze4gj4m@verizon.net|11:52:08|09/06/2011|
. 2|2|They are talking about it right now on MSNBC|Arizona|vbj48@cox.net|11:57:47|09/06/2011|
~ 3|3|The postal service is running out of options |Newman|BenjiBubbles@gmail.com|12:05:12|09/06/2011|
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43259512/ns/business-us_business/t/postal-service-running-out-options/ 4|1|no saturday|joseph|parkerjoe3@yahoo.com|12:57:24|09/06/2011|
delivery i think that will happen but thats alright what else can they do i still like to pay by check on most bills 5|2|they brought it on themselves...|angNC|memawang@nc.rr.com|19:19:11|09/06/2011|
paying dingbats,$25-$30 not knowing anything and hiding express mail.
Got it from a source, a dingbat that works for them!
6|3|mail carriers|bish8|bish212@earthlink.net|20:48:05|09/06/2011|
I soooo appreciate my mail carrier. 7|1|Radical changes must be enacted...|inthesticks|inthesticks@windstream.net|02:04:38|09/07/2011|
to save the USPS. Possibilities include: mail delivery only five days a week, or even every other day (except Sunday). Post offices only opened every other day. Closure of post offices with populations less than postal revenue needed to stay open in those towns. People living in towns with closed USPS facilities would just have to either go to larger towns for their mail, or have their mail "delivered" to them once or twice per week from these larger towns.
More little blue boxes in towns where mail can be deposited to be delivered. More USPS "stamp kiosks" in towns so that people can walk up and purchase mailing products...such as stamps, special delivery forms, priority mail items, etc. No more union hiring...all newly-hired USPS postal employees would be working for hourly rates, without benefit of unions. Those already in unions would be "grandfathered" in or else stripped of their union benefits entirely. Make the USPS private-owned, like UPS or FedEx...or even have one or both of these private companies buy the USPS and run things in a more economical fashion. Slow the mail deliveries down further...mail trucks would have more time to take regional mail from place to place (except for Priority and Express mail).
It is going to take radical changes to the USPS to ensure it's success. It won't be pretty, but it will be a necessity, if the US wants a nationwide mail service. 8|2|Agree 100%|kellysp6637|frugalk76@aol.com|07:38:48|09/07/2011|
It must be done if we hope to continue with a US mail service. 9|1|Slower snail mail may save $1.5B a year...|inthesticks|inthesticks@windstream.net|01:52:17|09/08/2011|
Thnk snail mail is too slow? Imagine if it got slower.
The US Postal Service could sae about $1.5 billion annually if it relaxed its one-to three-day guarantees for First Class and Priority Mail deliveries by a day, according to a new study. Postal executives are seriously considering the idea and are expected to announce plans regarding delivery schedules after Labor Day, according to USPS officials.
Currently, the Postal Service guarantees that First Class mail deliveries will arrive within one to three days, on average. Priority Mail shipments arrive within two to three days. But relaxing the guarantee by a day would cut about $336 million in premium pay for employees working overnight and Sundays to meet current delivery schedules, according to the study.
Adding one day to the schedule would put less emphasis on speed and allow USPS to save at least an additional $1.1 billion by delivering some long-haul Priority Mail shipments by ground instead of air, consolidating mail-processing facilities and employing fewer workers, the study said. The Postal Service's inspector general commissioned the study, whch was authored by the economic analysis firm Christensen Associates.