I you only had a clue...

Some carriers are given us a bad rap wings, I just delivered over near airlite and lyle yesterday, funny how the car companies got bailed out.

sorry add, but its not us carriers who are to blame for the p.o. guys up above are clueless!!!!!!!

hey jab, so on a typical day we have to scan parcels and scan mailboxes that are on mailboxes out on are routes, miss a scan get written up, they say the scans are part of doing the job, but we all know the scan points are there so supervisors can tell where we are all during the day, but yet we have so many supervisors because they dont get rid of them, they just move them around doing nothing.
Getting rid of saturday delivery is not the answer, letting a private company take over, would be worse service! I love all the people who rip the P.O. but yet if they were a carrier it would be a different story.

the biggest difference between fedex/ups versus the usps is that the usps goes to every single house everyday. The competion only goes to houses with scheduled deliveries.

Hang in there, 26. :)

I'd like to hear obuuma tax "big labor", with their private jets, and mansions. The leaders have a mandated high income and the workers are dumb enough to pay it like sheep.

Comparing the salaries of high school grad ($20/hr.) union "workers" and CEO's salaries is too absolutely stupid to comment on, so I'll stop.

Your reply to BA is a classic. Hope he reads it and can understand it.

Why blame the union, they didn't have to sign the contract....same with GM and Ford.... all the had to do was call the bluff, you don't have to agree to a contract that won't work....seems like the Unions just had better people doing the horse trading.....
The Unions are not the problem, it is people that don't have the ability to write a contract that they can live with or close down and call their bluff.....

<letting a private company take over, would be worse service! >

Why?

Yeah, I'm not sure how it could be worse.

The only problem with privatizing the postal service is how are you going to bill the customers? By letter? By weight of total mail delivered? A flat monthly fee? Would you bill the sender and the recipient or just one of them? If the mail is sent by not accepted, do you still bill the sender? This isn’t like packages where 9 times out of 10 the receiver wants to get what it coming? What will junk mail or other mass mailers do? Would they get a volume discount? These are things a private company would have to work out.

Don't you think a private company is taking us further into the commerce identifier that knows what we eat, what we wear, what we believe etc...Look, let's go to the real source of the current problems most companies that work for that provide services for the public sector, like our gas& electrical, post office etc. Pensions. But is it the huge pensions that cause all of this or those who control those billion dollar pensions on Wall Street that used those funds to infuse money to the dirivtives schemes. Go to the source folks. Start blaming the reculprit not the pensioner.

This inculcate white wash doing well through redirecting the blame to others when the buck should and must stop to those who put us into todays mess.

Because whoever takes it over is gonna hire people who work for peanuts who could give a c r a p at delivering the mail, for worse benefits, who in turn is gonna jack the price of service way up !

<Because whoever takes it over is gonna hire people who work for peanuts who could give a c r a p at delivering the mail, for worse benefits, who in turn is gonna jack the price of service way up !>

Why would the price go up if costs are going down?

<Don't you think a private company is taking us further into the commerce identifier that knows what we eat, what we wear, what we believe etc...>

Huh?

Let's take a look at the bigger issue- it's not just that the Post Office is outdated- 99% of mail in general is outdated.

<sorry add, but its not us carriers who are to blame for the p.o. guys up above are clueless!!!!!!!>

That is my thought too, cubba. 20 billion in debt. A private company couldn't exsist with that kind of business practice.

<Let's take a look at the bigger issue- it's not just that the Post Office is outdated- 99% of mail in general is outdated.>

Ding!

The thing is everytime we get a new Postmaster General he comes in has a silly 10 yr prediction plan that he doesnt even stick around for. They wanta cut routes, make remaining routes longer, but get them done in the same amount of time. We have meetings keep telling us how much money were losing and then are told, btw, get back in hours!
They take carriers who are horrible at carrying mail and make them into supervisors OOOppppss!
They only go by the numbers the computers spew out, tell you numbers don't lie, why did it take you so long to deliver! You get carriers who run there route off, then wonder why there route gets added to duh!