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Ailing U.S. Postal Service Tries to Avoid Twinkie’s Fate
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1060017" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/ailing-u-s-postal-service-tries-to-avoid-twinkie-s-fate.html" target="_blank"><strong>Ailing U.S. Postal Service Tries to Avoid Twinkie’s Fate - Bloomberg</strong></a></p><p></p><p>While the Hostess Twinkie may not be as central to the U.S. economy as the mail, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe sees uncomfortable parallels of iconic products within unworkable organizational structures. </p><p></p><p>Like Hostess Brands Inc., where a labor impasse prompted the snack-food maker’s liquidation, the Postal Service, with 28 times Hostess’s workforce of 18,000, has been squeezed by labor costs and changing consumer tastes to the brink of extinction. The post office’s insolvency is less imminent while no less ominous, with Donahoe projecting that the service expects to run out of cash in October without intervention from Congress. </p><p></p><p>Turnaround specialists would be full of easy answers if the service were a private-sector company. The Postal Service is supposed to make a profit while operating as a government agency overseen by lawmakers who derive their authority over postal operations from the U.S. Constitution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1060017, member: 1"] [URL="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/ailing-u-s-postal-service-tries-to-avoid-twinkie-s-fate.html"][B]Ailing U.S. Postal Service Tries to Avoid Twinkie’s Fate - Bloomberg[/B][/URL] While the Hostess Twinkie may not be as central to the U.S. economy as the mail, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe sees uncomfortable parallels of iconic products within unworkable organizational structures. Like Hostess Brands Inc., where a labor impasse prompted the snack-food maker’s liquidation, the Postal Service, with 28 times Hostess’s workforce of 18,000, has been squeezed by labor costs and changing consumer tastes to the brink of extinction. The post office’s insolvency is less imminent while no less ominous, with Donahoe projecting that the service expects to run out of cash in October without intervention from Congress. Turnaround specialists would be full of easy answers if the service were a private-sector company. The Postal Service is supposed to make a profit while operating as a government agency overseen by lawmakers who derive their authority over postal operations from the U.S. Constitution. [/QUOTE]
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