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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
What is the source of your information that junk mail "produces money"? If that were true, the Post Office should be "rolling in dough" because it accounts for about 95 percent of what they do. And, if it produces money, why don't UPS and FedEx offer junk mail delivery to compete with the USPS? Does anyone like getting junk ads in their mail? I wish they would put the postage cost on the junk ads, so the taxpayer can see how much the advertiser paid to deliver your trash before you throw it away.
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I am a 30 year retiree from USPS and this was drilled in often along with educating people in not referring to it as "junk mail." As I have stated in my other posts, first class mail is going going gone and the revenue generated by bulk business mail is decent but not enough to continue with the same business model.
New hires are brought in at a different pay scale but this isn't enough to keep it afloat. The main culprits of its impending demise is the postal unions, bloated uneducated and overstaffed management and supervisors and an entitled workforce.
What used to be a program for veterans returning to the workforce now has become a "welfare program" for those that are unemployable anywhere else.
FYI the reason no one else can deliver bulk business mail is because no one other that USPS can legally access a persons mailbox besides its owner.