A deliver slowdown to start
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/politics/usps-mail-slowdown/index.html
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/politics/usps-mail-slowdown/index.html
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Generally speaking whenever Gov't names something- a law or a program- you can be pretty sure it will have the exact opposite effect from what the name implies.
I don't generally agree. But in this case it is deliberate sabotage of the system.
Deliberate sabotage, the changes referenced above or other changes, care to share your thoughts? USPS has posted 69 billion dollars in losses over the last 11 years. According to an article in Forbes, they have costs of $1.15 for every $1.00 in revenue, I'd think something needs to be done.
The USPS is expected to operate as a private entity would do, but under rules developed and oversight performed by 535 people whose primary interest is keeping their constituents happy and staying in their elected offices. Attempts by the USPS to make changes to become more efficient can and are blocked by congress. This led to a "why bother" attitude by the leadership of the USPS. Once a year they get called to congress and get lectured about how poorly run the USPS and how the must do better, but they get the money they need without making the required changes. Self-serving oversight combined with poor leadership within the USPS got us where we are today. Real positive change is unlikely to take place anytime soon. After all, $69 billion over 11 years is not so much to spend to get some votes.
I ordered a BMWMOA license plate frame on September 4th.
Delivery, according to USPS, would be on the 8th.
It traveled all over the Northeast!
First, it spent two weeks in New Jersey at the Post Office.
Finally, it left NJ and from there it went to NYC, then back to NJ, then onward to Springfield, Mass.
Original delivery date was September 8th...It finally showed up on September 29th, three weeks late.
SPP
Since I bought my new Ram pickup I get almost daily letters that remind me that I need to buy an extended warranty. Not only from Chrysler, but from every other warranty company too! They could pre bundle those for me and I could toss them once a week instead of every day!
Next compounding problem- who sold that information to the marketing people?
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USPS tracking is less than poor!
I had an Amazon ordered the was shown as delivered a week after I received it.
I think, at least for me I could get mail a couple times a week. 90% of it goes straight into the trash. Since I bought my new Ram pickup I get almost daily letters that remind me that I need to buy an extended warranty. Not only from Chrysler, but from every other warranty company too! They could pre bundle those for me and I could toss them once a week instead of every day!
Well now, you are making me feel very special, indeed! I am so special that I get personal phone calls several times a week in which a kind hearted person notifies me that my one year old Ridgeline's warranty is about to expire and encouraging me to protect my investment with an extended warranty. They are truly a proactive lot, given that my warranty has over six years remaining on its life.
In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.
If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.
And all of this begs the question. No one is talking about the fact that retiree medical for the USPS is so high because its workers don’t (necessarily) participate in Medicare fully; instead, they may choose not to sign up for Medicare Part B, leaving the USPS to pay these costs instead. But if Congress wants to fix this aspect of the USPS’s financing woes, a shift to Medicare and a reduction in USPS retiree healthcare benefits and costs has surely got to be a key first step.
One point of view commonly held and propagated in the press -
How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis and How to Fix It/
And another point of view that explains some of the "Myths"
Post Office pensions some key Myths and Facts
It looks to me like requiring the retired Postal Employees to participate in Medicare Part "B" might help the bottom line.
But WTF do I know?
But WTF do I know?