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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 803811" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>The only way to save the "mail" service, is unfortunately, privatizing it. If the government reduced the postal service role to only transporting from one location to another and then to the sorting centers for delivery by private businesses, then it could survive on the revenue it generated.</p><p> </p><p>The private businesses would then use non-skilled workers hired on as "independent contractors" for delivery at a much cheaper rate of pay without the benefit packages.</p><p> </p><p>These private businesses would then contract with the postal service for each city and make money by saving money.</p><p> </p><p>The effect would be to eliminate the high cost of the current business model postal worker and replace him with a high turnover lower paying job.</p><p> </p><p>I know, this would suck for union workers in the postal service, but if the mail is to survive in the future in some capacity, the business model has to change.</p><p> </p><p>This year alone, the postal service is projected to lose 16 billion dollars and we are only in the first month of the year. Cutting out saturdays would be like catching a raindrop in a rainstorm.</p><p> </p><p>Lets face it, technology killed the business model of the postal service. Now the real question is, once it dies, how will it fund the pensions of all the existing postal workers currently working when there will be no new employees paying into the pension fund?</p><p> </p><p>Another crisis in the making.</p><p> </p><p>Peace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 803811, member: 17969"] The only way to save the "mail" service, is unfortunately, privatizing it. If the government reduced the postal service role to only transporting from one location to another and then to the sorting centers for delivery by private businesses, then it could survive on the revenue it generated. The private businesses would then use non-skilled workers hired on as "independent contractors" for delivery at a much cheaper rate of pay without the benefit packages. These private businesses would then contract with the postal service for each city and make money by saving money. The effect would be to eliminate the high cost of the current business model postal worker and replace him with a high turnover lower paying job. I know, this would suck for union workers in the postal service, but if the mail is to survive in the future in some capacity, the business model has to change. This year alone, the postal service is projected to lose 16 billion dollars and we are only in the first month of the year. Cutting out saturdays would be like catching a raindrop in a rainstorm. Lets face it, technology killed the business model of the postal service. Now the real question is, once it dies, how will it fund the pensions of all the existing postal workers currently working when there will be no new employees paying into the pension fund? Another crisis in the making. Peace. [/QUOTE]
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