UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Why should they cut back on staffing? If they need more dough they will just hit the tax payer up for more subsidy. Or they will bump up rates, their rates are super low for a lot of stuff, no wonder they are always needed money. They are DHLing them selves with those low rates.
PS: No disrespect ment to our brothers and sisters that got the shaft from poor management at the yellow and red.
Unlike their private competitors, the USPS needs an act of Congress to raise their rates. I personally see the proposed move to a 5 day work week as a good thing, but hope that they go M-friend rather than M, W-S, which is what is being proposed, to ensure that their commercial customers do not have their service disrupted. The only mail that I receive are those bills which do not offer online service and the junk mail that goes right in to the bin located by the mail box.
One thing that has not been suggested lately but has in the past is the privatization of the post office. This move would streamline the operation and I predict would result in a profit in a relatively short period of time.