You are totally wrong. Buy something from Amazon for say $ 8 and it is shipped by air cross country for the same price. How can the post office make money on their share of the sale?

I believe most of the "mail" is packages like Amazon and Kohl's. These companies should be supporting the mail system and not taxes.

Postal service costs
 

After reading the thread, mostly negative, I looked up "Is the postal service a government agency?" The answer is normal government confusion but the postal service is an independent agency of the executive branch. It receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and service to fund its operation. However it also is protected by 200 federal laws enforced by the Postal Inspection Service. So what the devil is it? The govt requires it to provide retirees funds for what 75 years but its not a true government agency (this changed many years ago). But when it fails to properly fund itself it calls on the taxpayers to bale it out? By the way, lets talk about fake news. A few weeks ago there was an ad on Facebook recruiting all levels of postal workers. At the beginning of the ad it stated that entry level salary was just over $72,000 a year (yes, 72k) but then at the end of the ad it said $17 an hour. Perhaps this is why its so messed up. They can't multiply. $17 an hour for a full year is $35,360 not $72,000. I'm sure we can all gone on about our experiences. Meanwhile lets throw away those pieces of junk mail. Discussions are very difficult on how to fix the system.

The postal service does a great job at a fair price. Leave it alone!

I second that. !!!

I had a contract for painting 3 Post Offices in the 90s. There was a least 3 people sitting on their A$$ for every person working. The most supervisors per worker I had ever seen. The Moral was in the Dumps. We completed our contract and turned down all future offers from the Company that owned the buildings. The management has spent the Pension Money and the Federal Government has been supporting them every since. The workers were nice but it was still the most depressing place with the most miserable management of any place I've ever worked. At least a Private company makes sure management has more than seniority. Ask your mail carrier in the Villages if the have Retirement? The answer in No. This has been a poorly run business for decades. These are my OPINIONS from experience and are not to be construed as POLITICAL.

Cut out the government pensions like corporate america did.

USPS reform
 

First there is absolutely no need for Saturday delivery. Look at the millions that would be saved. Stick to two day delivery on important matters and not overnight. That could go to one of the other shippers. There isn't a lot of money to be made because there isn't that much shipped overnight. Make the responsibilities of retirement totally an employees business. No federal backing. A good majority of big industry no longer supplies retirement to its' employees. Most of the mail people here in TV are independents and is what it should be. They too should be paid a decent wage which I know they are not.

If you have been in a large facility that sorts and distributes mail you would see a lot of people not working. Some employees of these f postal facilities have side gigs they run while on the job. It's not like Miracle on 34th street anymore. I have more than a few stories about the inefficiency on the PO. (Relative was a postmaster)

You sure you’re not taking about teachers union retirement plan?

Privatize the policy

All the good officers are requesting retirement or resigning.

That's what was said about the stage coach.


:1rotfl:

we're starting the last life end of month in tv so will delay opinion of fl's local dmv til then,,, have to admit fruitland's p/o personnel were pleasant,,, however, what i express mail'd to my office took 8d to arrive,,, rather slow, eh ?

UPS and FedEx do NOT deliver to rural the packages are passed on to the Usps who delivers what’s called “ The Last Mile” they don’t go anywhere outside of big city where they can make a profit - if the Postal Service went private, they too would only deliver to the “cream at the top” and you may start paying over 100 to mail a package!! Right now USPS is mandated to deliver to every American, goods and services.

uninformed fake news
 

just how many hundreds of millions of pieces of mail is junk make that goes directly into the shredder or trashcan every day without being read? My dad retired from the PO in the 70's, I left PO employment in the mid 70's after deciding turning into an alcoholic to endure the stupid management wasn't worth the job. This was a time when the main Jax post office at west bay annex was not air conditioned at all and the parcel post was manhandled on the top floor. But I am still on the side of funding the PO with the hope that changes might occure but the union needs to tune down their demands.