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.

They are kind of the problem. They didn't look forward very well and continued funding unsustainable retirement programs.

I don't think most people would pay to deliver junk mail. It's abundant precisely because it's free to them.

I don't doubt the GOP would gut the system. I would simply let the free market decide it's fate.

If the taxpayers aren't funding it, isn't it already privatized in theory??

You're forgetting to figure in the changing business model that electronic transfers brought. That alone changed everything.