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!

Were suppose to get flat sorting system where all flats come in order where we dont have to throw any mail in case, we come in take our mail and have more street time, but still hasnt happened, just a little glich in the system cant quite get it right! Its just the guys at the top just go by numbers thats all that matters, they are clueless on really the right way to fix the problems!

so would you like if we had no benefits, would that make you happy?

Yup, its always different when the shoe is on the other foot

<so would you like if we had no benefits, would that make you happy?>

No. I pay for my family health and life insurance. I don't get paid vacations. I have no 401K. I take care of that all by myself.