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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1569986" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>You said this <strong>"Should we be surprised. Anything associated with government equals loser. Good thing governerment keeps reaching deeper into everything. Apparently that's what people want as we keep voting for it."</strong></p><p></p><p>Which makes you fundamentally wrong.</p><p></p><p>Government interference or governornance has nothing to do with the postal service woes. The postal board makes all day to day decisions, congress only approves or disapproves rate hikes. </p><p></p><p>The postal service is plagued with bad decision making, low productivity, extreme costs, and products and services that are outdated in todays business climate. Not to mention employees who are unmotivated, constantly injured and performing a job that is no longer practical.</p><p></p><p>For example, walking from mailbox to mailbox is a pointless operation in todays business climate. MBU's or community mailboxes is the future. The days of street walking are over if the postal service wants to survive.</p><p></p><p>You are incorrect when you state that the government somehow interferes in the operation. The postal service failed to build an infrastructure that could carry it through tough times. They have no airplanes to carry expedited services, and they have to rent commercial airspace on planes at a higher cost than they are charging for the service. In other words, they lose money on every piece of next day type air service they sell.</p><p></p><p>They have no ground operations to carry parcels. They have to contract with independent truckers and companies to transport pkgs, only to suffer losses when these trucks break down or crash which happens often. The lack of discipline by the independent truckers leads to lost mail, or delayed mail or damaged mail.</p><p></p><p>As for raising rates, you have to comprehend that raising rates ISNT the solve all to their problems.</p><p></p><p>The first class stamp has a ceiling, and that ceiling is .50 cents. After .50 cents, the product is no longer practical. People will not spend 1 dollar to send two envelopes when they can go onto the internet and pay a bill for free.</p><p></p><p>Bill pay and online billing has effectively killed the first class stamp. Mostly old people are currently paying bills through the mail.</p><p></p><p>Each year, the post office loses 15% of its customer base to the internet. First class stamps has always been the cash cow that kept the postal service out of the black.</p><p></p><p>Everything other than first class mail has been operating in the RED for decades and those loses were always absorbed by the first class stamp revenue. The first class stamp would have to be raised to .75 to make up the shortfalls of the postal service and that would the nail in the coffin.</p><p></p><p>Small parcels isnt practical either. They dont have the vehicles to handle large quantities of packages nor do they have the time to deliver them outside the regular mail.</p><p></p><p>Fuel costs would increase and to increase the size of the vehicles would add further costs.</p><p></p><p>Right now, they stand to lose another 18 billion dollars this year. Without cutting saturday service and shedding 150,000 employees, they wont last another 10 years.</p><p></p><p>These decisions have ALL been made by the postal board and the government had nothing to do with it. Hopefully you understand that.</p><p></p><p>TOS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1569986, member: 17969"] You said this [B]"Should we be surprised. Anything associated with government equals loser. Good thing governerment keeps reaching deeper into everything. Apparently that's what people want as we keep voting for it."[/B] Which makes you fundamentally wrong. Government interference or governornance has nothing to do with the postal service woes. The postal board makes all day to day decisions, congress only approves or disapproves rate hikes. The postal service is plagued with bad decision making, low productivity, extreme costs, and products and services that are outdated in todays business climate. Not to mention employees who are unmotivated, constantly injured and performing a job that is no longer practical. For example, walking from mailbox to mailbox is a pointless operation in todays business climate. MBU's or community mailboxes is the future. The days of street walking are over if the postal service wants to survive. You are incorrect when you state that the government somehow interferes in the operation. The postal service failed to build an infrastructure that could carry it through tough times. They have no airplanes to carry expedited services, and they have to rent commercial airspace on planes at a higher cost than they are charging for the service. In other words, they lose money on every piece of next day type air service they sell. They have no ground operations to carry parcels. They have to contract with independent truckers and companies to transport pkgs, only to suffer losses when these trucks break down or crash which happens often. The lack of discipline by the independent truckers leads to lost mail, or delayed mail or damaged mail. As for raising rates, you have to comprehend that raising rates ISNT the solve all to their problems. The first class stamp has a ceiling, and that ceiling is .50 cents. After .50 cents, the product is no longer practical. People will not spend 1 dollar to send two envelopes when they can go onto the internet and pay a bill for free. Bill pay and online billing has effectively killed the first class stamp. Mostly old people are currently paying bills through the mail. Each year, the post office loses 15% of its customer base to the internet. First class stamps has always been the cash cow that kept the postal service out of the black. Everything other than first class mail has been operating in the RED for decades and those loses were always absorbed by the first class stamp revenue. The first class stamp would have to be raised to .75 to make up the shortfalls of the postal service and that would the nail in the coffin. Small parcels isnt practical either. They dont have the vehicles to handle large quantities of packages nor do they have the time to deliver them outside the regular mail. Fuel costs would increase and to increase the size of the vehicles would add further costs. Right now, they stand to lose another 18 billion dollars this year. Without cutting saturday service and shedding 150,000 employees, they wont last another 10 years. These decisions have ALL been made by the postal board and the government had nothing to do with it. Hopefully you understand that. TOS. [/QUOTE]
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