With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over???

UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)

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Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Name one other major business that has to prepay their employees pension benefits.
 

bluehdmc

Well-Known Member
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Name one other major business that has to prepay their employees pension benefits.

Or get Congressional approval for a rate increase. By the time the increase is approved they have to ask for another one. The only time Congress moves quickly is to get outta town when they are in recess.
 

UPSGUY72

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Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Or get Congressional approval for a rate increase. By the time the increase is approved they have to ask for another one. The only time Congress moves quickly is to get outta town when they are in recess.

They are on recess even when they are in Washington...
 

DorkHead

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Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Or get Congressional approval for a rate increase. By the time the increase is approved they have to ask for another one. The only time Congress moves quickly is to get outta town when they are in recess.

Agree.
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Why don't they just make a stamp cost $1 ?????
And deliver only Mon., Weds. and Fri. !!
 

DorkHead

Well-Known Member
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Name one other major business that has to prepay their employees pension benefits.

Yes and Congress passed the bill that requires the USPS pension to be fully funded. This is a HUGE burden for the USPS and totally unnecessary.
Congress also makes laws for Trade imbalances and then complains why our Olympians are wearing clothes made in China! Throw the bums out!!
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Even though they do have to prepay and no one else has to do this that's not the real problem. Look at the numbers folks I think the post office is losing something like $125 million a day. This is only supposed to increase more and more with each passing year. The model doesn't work anymore. Many post offices need to be closed and many many employees let go. It's not pretty and no one likes it but at some point it has to be done.


Although with all the work they are getting from us and fed ex who knows maybe they will turn it around. I wonder on the smartpost surepost packages and such just how much do fed ex and ups make on those boxes and how much does the post office make?
 

Coldworld

60 months and counting
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Let them raise the prices..especially on the parcels and flat rate boxes....it won't be profitable for UPS OR FedEx to use them for smartpost or surepost and get that Damn volume back.
 

Catatonic

Nine Lives
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Let them raise the prices..especially on the parcels and flat rate boxes....it won't be profitable for UPS OR FedEx to use them for smartpost or surepost and get that Damn volume back.

If the USPS were to raise the price on parcels and flat boxes, the volume of Smartpost and Surepost would go up.
It would have no effect on current Smartpost and Surepost volume.
Smartpost and Surepost contracts with the USPS are contractual and not published rates.
Other than normal inflation increases, the charge per package by the USPS to UPS and FedEx would remain the same regardless of the published rates for parcels and flat boxes.
 

Catatonic

Nine Lives
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Name one other major business that has to prepay their employees pension benefits.

You mean prepay their employees' retirement health benefits.

It is actually both that is causing problems - annuity and health care pre-payments.
The immediate looming default is related to healthcare pre-payments.
 

Dracula

Package Car is cake compared to this...
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

The USPS is probably doomed. In this day and age,. there is no way to compromise at the heels of Congress. The conservatives hate ANYTHING with the word union attached to it, and since they are a majority in the House of Representatives, that is as far as any improvements for the Post Office and its employees. Their rates are too low. Their service is just as good as ours. Have you ever ordered something on Ebay? Priority Mail packages come quick, cheap and easy. But raising rates in this anti-tax day and age? Yeah, good luck with that. The public bitches and moans when a first class stamp goes up by a dime or nickel. And, oh yeah, my Saturday mail better NOT stop coming. How is the USPS supposed to make progress like that? And one more thing: if the USPS died, do you really think UPS and FED-EX will send mail at post office prices? Yeah, sure thing.
 

Omega man

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Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

UPS could never handle their volume without a major expansion. If the Post Office goes, so does the ability to send inexpensive letters and such.
 

toonertoo

Most Awesome Dog
Staff member
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

Let them raise the prices..especially on the parcels and flat rate boxes....it won't be profitable for UPS OR FedEx to use them for smartpost or surepost and get that Damn volume back.
yeah we need the volume back..................
 

texan

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Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over


So profound, so intelligent a post.
I guess I just realized NEG rep option is gone or it is me.
Netherless, what kind of post is Shut up, other than a 3rd grade frame of mind?
Does your mother know you are on line?


 

Jackburton

Gone Fish'n
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

To big to fail applies here. Government will never actually fix the problem, just talk about how it needs to be fixed. Not one of those elected officials will vote to make cuts in their own districts, just in everyone else's, this is why nothing will ever be done and it will continue to be shored up on our dime.


Sounds much like the US deficit huh, look how that's going regardless of your political side.
 

DS

Fenderbender
Re: With the PO in default, will there soon be great oppurtunity for UPS to take over

I don't claim to have any real idea about the usps or how it got to be in this situation.
I guess it's that not many people actually mail letters very often now?
Maybe they should buy the rights to AMC,and start putting everyone to work making
cars.The Javelin and the rebel would be big sellers with a nice redesign.
Just saying,then they could sell the delivery part to ....hmmm
 
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