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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
I have no idea why now but as I believe I answered last time you said this Why Not now.
Post office needs to be more efficient in terms of equipment and deployment of manpower.
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Not a new problem at all, is it ???
Are you suggesting this just occurred in June of this year ?
WHY NOW is a great question. Why create havoc in the middle of a pandemic with inexperienced folks at the helm. A search for someone qualified would have been great thing to start and beginning 3 years ago would have helped.
Why create chaos in the country while we fight through a pandemic ? Why not start years ago ?
AND I am saying this assuming you are correct in all of your
"assumptions", which is what they are frankly.
A poor business move for sure....a move like this in private business for the wrong reasons could lead to bankruptcy, don't you think.
An NPR interview had Art Sackler, manager of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, a group of companies that rely on the post office, including Amazon, Hallmark and others. Say this about the moves...
"Having potentially a material change, if you like, without any kind of consultation is a disappointment and hopefully was just a mistake or a mix-up. It looks as if what they're proposing has the potential to do everything you just said - to delay mail, to have that mail that is being delayed accumulate from day to day."
Critics Say Changes To USPS May Completely Transform The Post Office : NPR
"Far from being a drag on taxpayers, the Postal Service operates – by law – without a dime of taxpayer money. And, despite the lingering impact of the worst recession in 80 years and the challenges posed by the Internet, the earned revenue from selling stamps and other products and services has produced a $3.7 billion operating profit since 2013 – including $522 million in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2017 alone.
The Postal Service provides Americans and their businesses with the industrial world’s most affordable delivery network. Moreover, USPS is the centerpiece of the $1.3 trillion national mailing industry that employs 7 million Americans in the private sector. That figure consists of, just to cite a few examples: 180,238 Wisconsinites, 551,988 Texans, 121,763 Oregonians, 170,731 Hoosiers and 966,901 Californians.
So USPS is a driving engine of our national economy, as much today as ever.
Criticism of the Postal Service is unfounded and unfair | TheHill
And finally...
"...a startling departure from precedent. From the 1850s until the 1960s, Congress routinely covered whatever deficits the Postal Service incurred — no matter how large — and with little controversy, partisanship or debate. Why? Because the Postal Service was a public service, whose rationale was civic rather than commercial. As a New York journalist put it in 1854: The Postal Service’s “benefit to mankind” far outweighed the “pecuniary consideration” of any financial shortfall. In 1958, a federal law made this even clearer: The Postal Service was “clearly not a business enterprise conducted for profit.”
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