McDonald “We ship mail from non-profits and the Government at a loss. Congress decides this, not us. (Bad)”

your right and this is more pressure to get that bail-out they’ve been demanding. That stupid John McHugh and Maine republcan senators, pushing for it. Less getting their free mail to patrons is another form of the PO’s threat.
D.C. needs their mail. lol.

The managers and union top scum, were all happy after Bush’s postal reform. During Bush, Congress did nothing but find a corrupt financial system, with no transparancy, the books so cooked they’d never figure out their financial status.
Managers with no education, don’t like their capped salaries and have tried to privatize the post office for decades, so they can get more money for sitting at a desk.
The mailmen carriers top pay is about 22 dollars an hour. They are the ones who get shot at, robbed, deliver non-stop during Katrina, tornadoes, ice-storms. Work with candles during electric outages. After the anthrax, they worked in tents for monthes. Their union scum leaders signed off they’d deliver in contanimated such as by anthrax areas, such as if like the muslim mexican warning of 4 lbs of anthrax coming across the border.
One of the units I served in was warfare chemicals, so I read alot about the anthrax, and the PO had no regard for their workers. Just wiped out any type sterile field to keep it from spreading. The dogs got antibiotics before the postal workers did. The postal mgrs heard that bleach would kill anthrax, and had workers bleaching down the offices sickening employees. Made it impossible to figure the trail of the anthrax. Then later when they bleach treated the Congress’s Hart building, the blocked of blocks to protect the public, and put a huge
hose into the building to fumigate it with bleach. Think even then, they never reopened the Hart building.

1. We are the nation’s #1 employment source for disabled veterns and a large employer of handicapped people. (good)

2. Unions and management keep many people that should be fired. (Bad)

3. In the event of a national epidemic, we will deliver the medicine. (Good)

4. We ship mail from non-profits and the Government at a loss. Congress decides this, not us. (Bad)

5. We are much more secure than most any internet transaction. (Good)

6. We have some silly mismanagement – In face of our losses, the Postal Service just bought many new Chevy and Ford Hybrids. Vehicles which when prorated for cost and actual savings, will not show a cost reduction until about !80K miles, which is when the battery is shot… (Good intentions, bad fiscal choice.)

If they’re anything like my local post office they’re slow as all get out, one time I remember a postman having the person riding with him tying his shoe. It’s a far cry from the old days when you knew your postman and he was part of the neighborhood. My postman in the 80′s knew our family, our current office has one good guy who comes around every once in awhile, the others are worthless.

The post office keeps it’s toehold for three reasons: one is they’re subsidized so heavily they can afford to have people making deliveries to every house every day. The second is they control all the rural route addresses–commercial delivery companies literally have to guess these, and lastly is the commercial delivery services don’t offer a flat rate for letters.

Get around that and the postal service would be gone overnight.

There wasn’t a flourescent tube on site to replace a burned out tube.

I don’t know what they waste money on. (Sarcasm intended.)

Monopolies can fail.

Absolutely true. While the PO gives preference to military and the like I’ve often thought of it as just another welfare program. I heard, not sure if it’s true, that at one point UPS was going to take over the postal system. But the deal was off when it was recognized there would be massive lay-offs.

Which could be ok, if they were paid what they are worth.

One word.

Unions.

Got a friend who works a bulk facility. She works the midnight to 8 shift. It is hellish. The union gang bosses do nothing, and I mean nothing. One drinks most of the night and the other sleeps at his desk or eats. Both are immensely overweight. Her co-workers are as weird as Darwin’s Waiting Room. This past election they made sure EVERYBODY knew how to vote. As a woman she’s often afraid for her safety.

And then there’s the issue of why do postal workers go postal?

One word.

Unions.

Byzantine rules, Byzantine culture, Byzantine labyrinths of how to move up the ladder and union bosses with their hands out.

Unions.

But she won’t quit because the nearly $30 an hour she makes can’t be compared to other local jobs.

Unions.