Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Post office system may shut down entirely this winter...
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 970770" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>DUDE,</p><p></p><p>I think your a bit off in your understanding of the postal service woes. First, FIRST CLASS revenue is their ONLY revenue that turned a profit for years. EVERYTHING else they offer has been LOSING money every year for decades.</p><p></p><p>The first class stamp "subsidized" the losses of every other service at the post office. They lose money on parcels, they lose money on junk mail, they lose money on overnight and express, they lose money on transportation... the story gets uglier at every turn.</p><p></p><p>Wages and benefits were negotiated at times when revenue from first class was at its highest profit levels.</p><p></p><p>They could cut everyones wages in HALF and eliminate ALL benefits, and they would still GO BANKRUPT.</p><p></p><p>They have antiquated equiptment, poorly maintained vehicles, shabby post offices and lazy employees. They will NOT be able to retrain the current employees to do more or move faster. Eliminating all the current employees will be the only way to change the business model of the post office.</p><p></p><p>As for junk mail, that is the CHEAPEST priced service they offer and they would have to raise the price of 3rd class to 1st class levels and NO BUSINESS will EVER pay that.</p><p></p><p>The post office is a dead man walking. Bailouts will only keep them open for a few years (less than 5 yrs) and without a profit generating service to make up for all they other services, then they have NO future.</p><p></p><p>The whole mail delivery concept is too old to survive. In order to cut expenses and increase productivity, they would have to turn ALL ROUTES into MBU's and eliminate walking routes. They would have to eliminate postal carriers from sorting their own mail and transition that work to part time employees. Postal carriers waste about 3 hours every morning sorting their own mail, and thats 3 hours they cant be on the street.</p><p></p><p>In order to increase production, they would have to spend more time delivering and less time hanging around the post office sorting.</p><p></p><p>The post office is the perfect model of in-efficiency. No number of corrections can fix the service.</p><p></p><p>Peace</p><p></p><p>TOS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 970770, member: 17969"] DUDE, I think your a bit off in your understanding of the postal service woes. First, FIRST CLASS revenue is their ONLY revenue that turned a profit for years. EVERYTHING else they offer has been LOSING money every year for decades. The first class stamp "subsidized" the losses of every other service at the post office. They lose money on parcels, they lose money on junk mail, they lose money on overnight and express, they lose money on transportation... the story gets uglier at every turn. Wages and benefits were negotiated at times when revenue from first class was at its highest profit levels. They could cut everyones wages in HALF and eliminate ALL benefits, and they would still GO BANKRUPT. They have antiquated equiptment, poorly maintained vehicles, shabby post offices and lazy employees. They will NOT be able to retrain the current employees to do more or move faster. Eliminating all the current employees will be the only way to change the business model of the post office. As for junk mail, that is the CHEAPEST priced service they offer and they would have to raise the price of 3rd class to 1st class levels and NO BUSINESS will EVER pay that. The post office is a dead man walking. Bailouts will only keep them open for a few years (less than 5 yrs) and without a profit generating service to make up for all they other services, then they have NO future. The whole mail delivery concept is too old to survive. In order to cut expenses and increase productivity, they would have to turn ALL ROUTES into MBU's and eliminate walking routes. They would have to eliminate postal carriers from sorting their own mail and transition that work to part time employees. Postal carriers waste about 3 hours every morning sorting their own mail, and thats 3 hours they cant be on the street. In order to increase production, they would have to spend more time delivering and less time hanging around the post office sorting. The post office is the perfect model of in-efficiency. No number of corrections can fix the service. Peace TOS [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Post office system may shut down entirely this winter...
Top