Yes, it was a joint effort by both parties. So I am not sure why you only blame the GOP.

finally someone who knows how the usps got into this mess, what really gets me is how the public is so miss informed about how this came about, the media makes the usps look bad, it is true that the people up at the top are only worried about the numbers and all that trickles down to us mailmen, guys at the top have no clue of what it takes to carry mail, cut routes, make them longer, cut sat delivery, etc etc etc......

Much like alot of America the wheels and internal workings need restoration.

bingo!

My mailman is Punjabi...
He keeps stealing my Playboy magazines, so I have to go to the liquor store every month to get the current issue...
(But I quit Playboy after Lindsay Lohan's pictorial--yuck!)...
I'll just have to get by with SI...

Unions are not the problem and never have been. Its the mismangement from upper management ( usually non union peep's ) that has resulted in the problems the postal service has created. This also could be said for alot of the Universities, Schools and Hospitals too.

I'm not a Union member of anything never have been and probably never will. I do however have friends family and neighbors and know that they work hard, report to work and generally tote the line. I think it's unfair to treat any of them as an enemy or greedy especially a common laborer type job. After all they are my familty, friends and neighbors.

If you'd like to find greed in America take a look at the politicians ( all of them ), large corporations and the banking industry.

The biggest problem with the Post Office is it’s a horrible business model. If you took the concept of the post office to a VC today, they would laugh you right out of their office. The very idea that you have thousands of employees, thousands of locations (satellite offices) and thousands of vehicles but you only charge less than a dollar a parcel anywhere in the USA? (even the most remote houses in the mountains, forests, etc?) That’s a recipe for business failure. I guarantee that if you look at the ‘uncooked” books the Post Office has been operating at a deficit for at least a decade maybe longer.

Yup, in our office they re did all the routes, called coring, so all routes would be squared off, only problem, they cut routes, made all the remaining routes too long! But yet still want everybody back in 8 hours, and have a get back by 5 p.m. rule which everyone can't possibly do every day ugh!

more route adjustments coming again ugh.

looks like our contract is not gonna get done anytime soon ugh.

what office you work at i heard skokie is a mess

there a mess everywhere!

still no contract ugh

big vote today could give congress the power to stop 6 day delivery ugh!

I say good riddance to the worthless wasteful system. It's a joke in today's world. Nothing but junk mail anymore. I can picture 25 employees all sitting around passing the only real piece of mail around in the circle before they decide who goes to deliver it.

wasteful system?

Yes. The price continues to rise and the amount of business continues to plummet. The post office is an idea who's time has passed. The business model they use would put private businesses under, but they don't have access to tax money to stay on life support.
The post office is Amtrak on a larger scale. Nothing more. Useful to a point but not worth the cost.

E-mails, fax machines, cell phones, all are making Postal Service mostly obselete. If the postal service would charge for all the unwanted junk mail they have to deliver they would be operating in the black. I feel sorry for the postal workers, they aren't the problem.