Deliberately sabotaging the Postal Service

Senior Chief wrote:1st class postage in the USA is 55 cents. First class postage supports all the junk mail spam that everyone received.. Junk mail cost the sender less than a letter. If all junk mail paid the same amount as 1st class postage perhaps the post office would not be running above budget...

How many people actually sit down and write a letter, place in an envelope, place a stamp on it and mail it. With the advent of tech, social media, smart phones, very few people mail letters. Corporations are doing away from sending out invoices/bills and fewer people are mailing in their payments. It is done by directly debiting bank accounts or credit cards. The post office is a bankrupt business model where most of the overhead is in employee expenses, facilities, and equipment that cost more than the revenue of postage.

I have always thought that the post office should be done aways with and given to corporations to run. The USPS should only be used for government mail.

Sell off the building and vehicles to some private business and let them handle the rest of the mail/packages.

I have family members that are current and retired employees of the post office so I hear how badly things are run.

Just MHO for what it is worth so flame on as people usually do...

Senior Chief wrote:1st class postage in the USA is 55 cents. First class postage supports all the junk mail spam that everyone received.. Junk mail cost the sender less than a letter. If all junk mail paid the same amount as 1st class postage perhaps the post office would not be running above budget...

How many people actually sit down and write a letter, place in an envelope, place a stamp on it and mail it. With the advent of tech, social media, smart phones, very few people mail letters. Corporations are doing away from sending out invoices/bills and fewer people are mailing in their payments. It is done by directly debiting bank accounts or credit cards. The post office is a bankrupt business model where most of the overhead is in employee expenses, facilities, and equipment that cost more than the revenue of postage.

I have always thought that the post office should be done aways with and given to corporations to run. The USPS should only be used for government mail.

Sell off the building and vehicles to some private business and let them handle the rest of the mail/packages.

I have family members that are current and retired employees of the post office so I hear how badly things are run.

Just MHO for what it is worth so flame on as people usually do...

Senior Chief wrote:1st class postage in the USA is 55 cents. First class postage supports all the junk mail spam that everyone received.. Junk mail cost the sender less than a letter. If all junk mail paid the same amount as 1st class postage perhaps the post office would not be running above budget...

How many people actually sit down and write a letter, place in an envelope, place a stamp on it and mail it. With the advent of tech, social media, smart phones, very few people mail letters. Corporations are doing away from sending out invoices/bills and fewer people are mailing in their payments. It is done by directly debiting bank accounts or credit cards. The post office is a bankrupt business model where most of the overhead is in employee expenses, facilities, and equipment that cost more than the revenue of postage.

I have always thought that the post office should be done aways with and given to corporations to run. The USPS should only be used for government mail.

Sell off the building and vehicles to some private business and let them handle the rest of the mail/packages.

I have family members that are current and retired employees of the post office so I hear how badly things are run.

Just MHO for what it is worth so flame on as people usually do...

cthia wrote:

Senior Chief wrote:1st class postage in the USA is 55 cents. First class postage supports all the junk mail spam that everyone received.. Junk mail cost the sender less than a letter. If all junk mail paid the same amount as 1st class postage perhaps the post office would not be running above budget...

How many people actually sit down and write a letter, place in an envelope, place a stamp on it and mail it. With the advent of tech, social media, smart phones, very few people mail letters. Corporations are doing away from sending out invoices/bills and fewer people are mailing in their payments. It is done by directly debiting bank accounts or credit cards. The post office is a bankrupt business model where most of the overhead is in employee expenses, facilities, and equipment that cost more than the revenue of postage.

I have always thought that the post office should be done aways with and given to corporations to run. The USPS should only be used for government mail.

Sell off the building and vehicles to some private business and let them handle the rest of the mail/packages.

I have family members that are current and retired employees of the post office so I hear how badly things are run.

Just MHO for what it is worth so flame on as people usually do...

I remember when it was a nickel. Then one day I went into the Post Office and I thought I was being robbed. Email spoiled me rotten. If you want an entire book of stamps. Sell your car, and throw in the Blaupunkt stereo.

Joat42 wrote:

Senior Chief wrote:1st class postage in the USA is 55 cents. First class postage supports all the junk mail spam that everyone received.. Junk mail cost the sender less than a letter. If all junk mail paid the same amount as 1st class postage perhaps the post office would not be running above budget...

How many people actually sit down and write a letter, place in an envelope, place a stamp on it and mail it. With the advent of tech, social media, smart phones, very few people mail letters. Corporations are doing away from sending out invoices/bills and fewer people are mailing in their payments. It is done by directly debiting bank accounts or credit cards. The post office is a bankrupt business model where most of the overhead is in employee expenses, facilities, and equipment that cost more than the revenue of postage.

I have always thought that the post office should be done aways with and given to corporations to run. The USPS should only be used for government mail.

Sell off the building and vehicles to some private business and let them handle the rest of the mail/packages.

I have family members that are current and retired employees of the post office so I hear how badly things are run.

Just MHO for what it is worth so flame on as people usually do...

Your statement that the "USPS is running above budget" means you don't understand what's going on.

That the USPS seems to be running at a loss is entirely due to PAEA (Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006). It's a law that says that the USPS is required to pre-fund all of the health and retirement benefits of it's retirees up to the year 2056. In essence, the USPS had to pony up ~$55 billion dollars in advance to fund that.

That makes the USPS unique among both private and public entities in it's obligations which is reflected in it's financial woes.

Senior Chief wrote:Meant to say running at a loss.... mismanaged for years like the cities of Detroit, Baltimore, etc, etc.

Senior Chief wrote:

Joat42 wrote:Your statement that the "USPS is running above budget" means you don't understand what's going on.

That the USPS seems to be running at a loss is entirely due to PAEA (Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006). It's a law that says that the USPS is required to pre-fund all of the health and retirement benefits of it's retirees up to the year 2056. In essence, the USPS had to pony up ~$55 billion dollars in advance to fund that.

That makes the USPS unique among both private and public entities in it's obligations which is reflected in it's financial woes.

Meant to say running at a loss.... mismanaged for years like the cities of Detroit, Baltimore, etc, etc.

gcomeau wrote:The GOP has been trying to kill the post office for decades.

Joat42 wrote:

gcomeau wrote:The GOP has been trying to kill the post office for decades.

The interesting thing about PAEA is that it was a bi-partisan effort so it can't really be blamed on the GOP. But neglecting to talk about how the PAEA have negatively affected the USPS all the while attacking it can be blamed on the GOP.