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2016-04-09 Economy

Forced Price Reduction to Worsen USPS Financial Condition by $2 Billion Per Year

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-04-09 08:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 How about this for a greening, cost saving strategy: get rid of the bulk rate.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-09 10:38|| 2016-04-09 10:38|| Front Page Top

#2 The operation is constitutionally mandated (not that anyone pays attention to that old document). It really wasn't intended to be profit making as much as supporting communication. Now if there was one activity that could be rationalized as a patronage priority, this was it. You could directly hold your Congresscritter directly responsible for service. Now it all hid behind bureaucracy and unionism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-09 12:47|| 2016-04-09 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Saw an interesting comment on this elsewhere this morning - basically pointed out that the USPS has something like $335 BILLION dollars set aside in actual cash money for pension requirements even though only less than one percent of that will ever be spent. Now, if the USPS (which has serious money problems anyways) were to go under, Constitutional requirements be damned, you think that money would go back to the taxpayers? Nope. It would go back to Your United States Government, which would then wisely spend it, I'm sure.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-04-09 12:52|| 2016-04-09 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 they're being held to Gov't standards for funding retiree health. I have a good friend who works there that can't understand why adequately funding her own retirement health account is a good thing.

Really

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-09 13:10|| 2016-04-09 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 USPS is nothing more than a junk mail delivery service. They even give discounts for it! Unbelievable.

Posted by Fester Thrimble9033 2016-04-09 13:54|| 2016-04-09 13:54|| Front Page Top

#6 They even give discounts for it!

Going for the "But we'll make it up on volume!" strategy. Like socialism, it's bound to work eventually.

Posted by SteveS 2016-04-09 14:30|| 2016-04-09 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The manager of the corporate mail center where I work stated that you and I are not the customers the USES cares about. It is the bulk mailers.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-04-09 15:02|| 2016-04-09 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's an idea.... Cut deliveries to once or twice a week.

One of the reasons companies still use snail mail is because they often need to deliver confidential information (think credit card statements) and email is simply not secure and there s no standard for securing email which regular Joe and Sue will use.

Cut out bulk rates and raise prices as needed. Then give discounts to companies who use some sort of secure email infrastructure so they can send secure email to the above mentioned Joe And Sue. I doubt a discount would be needed. Printing, placing in envelopes, and mailing physical paper has got to be a huge expense.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-09 15:45|| 2016-04-09 15:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Their workers comp / disability expenses must be huge. I talked to one of my carriers. She walks 12 miles a day, 72 miles a week, works about 48 weeks a year. I don't think I was ever capable of that constant a level of exertion for years on end even when I was at my best physical condition, decades ago. An older carrier on my route has had back & knee surgery, has been getting sick leave & is definitely showing the effects of this kind of wear & tear on the body.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-04-09 16:49|| 2016-04-09 16:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Then give discounts to companies who use some sort of secure email infrastructure so they can send secure email to the above mentioned Joe And Sue. I doubt a discount would be needed. Printing, placing in envelopes, and mailing physical paper has got to be a huge expense.

Australia Post tried that, but they were up against a consortium of banks who ate their lunch.

Posted by phil_b 2016-04-09 20:08|| 2016-04-09 20:08|| Front Page Top

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