Little Blue Pills Needed for the Post?
A couple of little blue pills and we’ll have an ad of the postman and post lady in their respective tubs, in the woods, holding hands (fade to black). Might be good for a commercial but no little blue pills are going to get the postal system up and running. No, the postal system has passed menopause.
Do we take the postal system out behind the barn and shoot it? Or do we put it in an “old folks home?” Or maybe the postal system can come live with us. We can add on a granny suite out back, so they’ll be comfy in their golden years.
Hardly the golden years for the postal system. If Fed Ex and UPS can deliver to our door, why can’t the Postal System? Maybe Fed Ex and UPS are on Human Growth Hormone or Steroids. Why not put the Postal System on steroids? Would it help? Is there a pill or substance which can save the Post?
Seven Billion dollars in deficit is serious money, the amount forecast as the loss for the post system this year. I like the postal system, but not that much. I can get my packages from the successful people and everyone else can email or call. Problem solved, we don’t need a postal system today. Did it suddenly dawn on you? Or did you realize going to the mail box was just an old habit?
I will miss the daily mail. I miss my daily newspaper. I miss having six pack abs and stamina too. But I’ll get over it. Yes, it may cost a lot more to send a registered letter via FedEx but consider the number of times you send personal mail these days. One loss will be all the junk mail and fliers I use to start the fire.
GAO: Postal Service business ‘not viable’
by Ed O’Keefe
Happy Monday! The U.S. Postal Service’s current business model “is not viable” and the mail agency should make deeper job and wage cuts, hire more part-time staff and consider outsourcing operations, according to a draft of a government audit acquired by The Federal Eye.
Auditors also urge Congress to remove restrictions on the Postal Service’s ability to cut Saturday mail delivery and close post offices, according to the report, which offers recommendations similar to the USPS’s own proposed 10-year business plan.
Lawmakers requested the Government Accountability Office report, set for a Monday release, as they prepare to consider the USPS plan, which was introduced last month. The proposals call for an end to six-day delivery and ask Congress to give the mail agency the ability to raise prices beyond the rate of inflation and close post offices if necessary.
The report’s conclusions pleased top postal officials who are gathered this week in Nashville for the annual National Postal Forum, a convention for the mail agency’s largest customers.
Postmaster General John E. Potter said Sunday he was pleased with the GAO’s general conclusions, but concerned with suggestions in the report that further study of the issue is required.
“We’ve studied this significantly, the time for study is over, now’s the time for action,” he said.
Potter and his colleagues estimate the Postal Service will lose a record $7 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September and could lose at least $238 billion in the next decade if Congress fails to act.
