Readers Support Cost-Saving Measures for USPS
In the poll last week Readers showed support for changes at the U.S. Postal Service:
- Reduce delivery to five (5) days per week per the USPS plan 44 [43.56%]
- Privatize the postal service 17 [16.83%]
- Other: 16 [15.84%]
- Reduce delivery to four (4) days per week or less 14 [13.86%]
- Keep delivery six (6) days a week & raise first class cost up to $1: Â 9 [8.91%]
- Unsure/no opinion 1 [0.99%]
Not surprising since you are online. These days government checks (pay, Social Security, Disability, etc) are direct deposited for most who receive them. But there are still many who eagerly await mail delivery six days a week.Privatization sounds good but as one comment on the original post pointed out, those in rural areas would get the short end of the stick. The USPS can deliver to the 40 household in my condo building much easier than 40 households in Franklin County or edge cities like Wentzville.
Here are the “other” answers provided by readers:
- Look into how top heavy the post office is and the financial abuse by the mgmt
- end the unusual and crippling pension funding levels that only apply to USPS
- Keep six days and raise bulk rates. I get 5-10 pieces of bulk a day.
- Charge more for junk mailings, reduce to 5 days. Don’t close rural offices
- Close it down. Take the money spent prossising mailand give every a PC
- stop performance bonuses to mgmt of all levels. stop paying unit to move every
- Pass HR 1351.
- go back to the way the PO was run prior to 2006 postal reform, get rid of congre
- Have OPM give the USPS the money they owe them
- Require the union to allow firings/layoffs
- get rid of 1 supervisor in each office
- Stop making the Postal Service prepay into the retirement fund
- does it really lose money? I though that’s mostly budget games.
- Reduce service and raise price to breakeven
- Reduce 5 day/wk but no deliver on Wed, mid week
- Close every single post office that doesn’t make a profit; see what people think
I’m well on my way to not needing the USPS at all. As more of us conduct out business online the USPS will continue to struggle. That realization explains a recent USPS ad called “hacked:”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysFmSVzCnM
Click here for tips on how to stop USPS junk mail.
– Steve Patterson
Here’s a timely, comprehensive article:Â http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11306/1186736-28-0.stm
“The three primary rescue options, according to the GAO, are to spin USPS into a fully private business, radically change the rules by which it plays to allow more flexibility, or to acknowledge that the Postal Service is a vital public service that needs to be subsidized and turn it into a subsidized public agency.”
“The No. 1 thing that the Postal Service has to do is reduce the size of its human and physical infrastructure, Their costs are way out of line with the revenues they are likely to gain.”
Here’s a timely, comprehensive article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11306/1186736-28-0.stm
“The three primary rescue options, according to the GAO, are to spin USPS into a fully private business, radically change the rules by which it plays to allow more flexibility, or to acknowledge that the Postal Service is a vital public service that needs to be subsidized and turn it into a subsidized public agency.”
“The No. 1 thing that the Postal Service has to do is reduce the size of its human and physical infrastructure, Their costs are way out of line with the revenues they are likely to gain.”