Greetings:

I remain a willing and satified customer of the US Postal Service, but, after years and years of financial failures, I have a hard time believing that doing away with just Saturday delivery is a viable solution.

It seems to me that not much mail is time sensitive these days and for what there is, there’s always special delivery. I would propose two alternatives, canceling Wednesday and Saturday deliveries or canceling Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday deliveries. Even the latter would still have mail delivery every other business day. If businesses needed a higher level of service, say daily, they could pay some kind of additional fee.

As noted in your assessment, the volume of mail is decreasing and not very likely to increase in the immediate future. My own mail box mostly receives bills, direct (advertising) mail, and magazines, nothing that couldn’t wait a day or two. You can still survive and somewhat prosper in a declining market but you must cut deep and in the future, perhaps, rebuild. Cutting at the margins will result in a long lingering fit of financial sickness.

I think they will manage by raising the cost of a stamp to about a buck, closing down a few locations plus this Saturday thing. If anyone is to blame for this, it got to be Al Gore, it’s all his fault, he invented the Internet.

“It’s the greedy govt wet dream: they can still suck up more of our dollars, but give us less service in return.”

I’m wondering who’s profiting off of this though, 108. Dropping their service would result in less money spent annually… 90 billion to guesstimate.

What are they supposed to do anyhow? “Greedy government” as you so aptly put it isn’t a homologous unit. The post office (government) seems to be attempting a stab at fiscal responsibility, but they have their business arms tied by congress (government also). What are they to do?

As for ndoldman, yes, the post office is rife with inefficiency, but your argument is anecdotal. My dealings with my local post-office have been nothing but pleasant. They’re always ready and willing to help, even when I’m asking the same questions every time I come in. Maybe your postmen just suck.

sorry for run on sentances

if Congress doesn’t permit it to revamp its outdated business model.

I can’t wait until Congress is deciding what hospitals should stay open on weekends and what business models they are allowed to use.

But don’t worry, the boys in Washington (liberal dems mostly) won’t tell our doctors what to do and will let us keep our current health insurance, and at no extra cost!!!! Isn’t life under Obama grand?!?

If the government runs health care it won’t run 7 days a week, either.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it.

Ronald Reagan, 1961

Sell it to UPS or FedEx or simply contract private companies to provide daily home mail delivery, wherein they can develop profit making plans (think commercials) to make it pay.

I find it hilarious that you think that either you have any credibility here (or anywhere for that matter!) or that anyone gives a flying fig at a rolling doughnut what you think!

Higher costs and rationing service. Does this remind you of anything else the government wants to take over???

You really are enamored of boxcutters, aren’t you Dino? This doesn’t have anything to do with your do-it-yourself circumcision of a few years back, does it?

…a decrease in postage fees resultant of the transfer to digital documentation?

“Why are we jeering? This is the size and scope of the federal government being reduced. Go post-office.”

It’s the greedy govt wet dream: they can still suck up more of our dollars, but give us less service in return.

I just find it hilarious that the GIant got kneecapped after all that money wasted on “defense.”

But all we lost were a few thousand greedy republican bond traders.

Private enterprise would NEVER show up in the places where the USPS is forced to maintain facilities.

FedEX and UPS lost money in the recession, too.

as i said in prior threads; when you are losing customers its always best to raise rates and reduce service instead of changing your whole business model.. that will draw them to you in flocks.

The USPS is completely supported by the fees paid for postage.

Of course, the idiot cons think that 60% of their taxes go to welfare, 20% to foreign aid and 20% to the Postal Service.

Stupid is as stupid does.

The Postal Services problems are tied to the mandates placed on them by the republicans in Congress.

You want to see government failure? Take a look at the “defense” department that spent TRILLIONS over the years only to have a few guys with BOXCUTTERS (!!) take down the two biggest symbols of American Capitalism. And they even managed to hit the HEART of that useless defense, the Pentagon. ZERO OUT THEIR BUDGET.

BOO-F’ING-HOO!

Breaking my rule:

From 2005- USPS Ends Year with a Profit