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Should the Post Office stop Saturday deliveries? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 2,083
7 Comments

  • Terry_Jim - 11 years ago

    Like past claims of savings (from DPS mechanized sorting,
    FSS mechanized sorting and experiments such as Segways )
    these claims of $2 Billion saved are over estimated.
    There are currently 10 weeks per year of 5 day delivery.
    Are those holiday weeks filled with great money saving by USPS?
    No, there is a great deal of overtime paid out.
    When those weeks have 4 days of delivery, overtime costs will mount higher.
    When USPS is losing $15.9 B on a budget of $65+B , changes must happen, and fast.
    Delivery must be changed from house boxes to curbside boxes every where possible. Changes in service standards should be made so that processing centers can be combined, closing nearly half of them, and using the remaining plants more hours per day.
    Commenter Stephanie McCarthy is right about the retiree's healthcare prefunding mandate, paying 75 years of those expenses over 10 years started this huge slide.

    USPS includes this at the bottom of every press release, please read it before making a silly comment about wasted tax dollars at USPS...
    "A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation — 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office™ Boxes. The Postal Service™ receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com®, the Postal Service has annual revenue of approximately $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. . "

  • Joe - 11 years ago

    Maybe if congress was debating on stopping your company from working and causing you to loose your job....you might not be so quick to stop production.... Stopping Saturday delivery will cause me to loose my job. I already work without benifits and now you want to take my income... I will be in the unemployement line. There has to be a better way than causing more unemployement

  • Stephanie McCarthy - 11 years ago

    Completely left out of your coveragee is the prefunding mandate that requires the postal service to pay for retiree benefits 75 years in advance. No other business is required to do this - congress singled out the post office. That is the main reason there is a large deficit now. Also, cutting services will cause further damage to the postal service while hurting rural America, the elderly, and small businesses.

  • Ferd Burrfull - 11 years ago

    The only reason Congress won't privatize the USPS is because they don't want to lose their franking perqs, particularly during elections. If they were really serious, they'd cut staff in half and deliver three days a week.

  • Kathy Foster - 11 years ago

    Sell the whole thing to a private company.

  • Lou Dias - 11 years ago

    Stop the spending on vacations and over spending by Obama and the Hollywood parties and free cell phones ,free minutes etc

  • Lulu - 11 years ago

    We haven't received anything of consequence on Saturdays for years. Junk mail only.

    The next bulletin will be about another first class rate increase. We are now sending ecards for birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions.

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