Post office ends Sat delivery starting Aug 1

[henschman]

The Constitution just gives Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads. It does not say that they have to do so. It would not violate the Constitution to end the USPS. But really they don't need to end it... just make it legal for others to offer letter delivery service. It is currently illegal. Do that and the USPS will go away.

 

[DaveG]

They should start allowing the shipping of ammo. That would help drive up revenue.

 

[Cinaet]

The wife of someone I work with is at the USP -when she works saturdays ,she works 4 hours and makes $300 ($75 /hr)

I hope no one loses their job. But dang, $75 an hour? That's bureaucracy wages!

 

[elwoodtrix]

The last time I went to the post office to mail something was..........was.......................

was there today, sent a 6 pound box to Germany, cost me $14.85

 

[ChuckC]

was there today, sent a 6 pound box to Germany, cost me $14.85

Sounds pretty cheap to me. I always thought it was very reasonable when
I would send stuff to my nephew in Iraq and Afghanistan, less than $20.00
for some fairly heavy packages.
I have no problem with them dropping saturdays either, but like others have
said I think it would be ran more efficiently if it were privately owned.

 

[HMFIC]

Another vote for privatization here.

I remember years back fedex or ups made a bid to do it and showed they could take it over and end up charging less to do it.

Why the government insists on doing things that it loses money on is beyond me.

Hogwash that FedEx and UPS could do it cheaper... if they could, they would already be doing a better job of being competitive on parcel and 2 day delivery. USPS beats them at every turn on those already and then does super cheap 1st class small parcels to boot. UPS and FedEx would LOVE to not have the USPS to compete against... don't believe a word they say.

 

[HMCS(FMF)Ret.]

They should do away with the USPS all together. Let private companies soak up their business.

 

[TMA-1]

I will agree that a private parcel service might be able to handle letters more efficiently than the USPS - eventually. But handling letters is a very different proposition than handling parcels. New machines, new processes, additional personnel
, new infrastructures. The startup costs would be enormous,

Privatization is not always a route to happiness and consumer contentment. Ask anyone old enough to remember airline deregulation.

 

[Kyle78]

Go to 3 day a week delivery, and cut the workers ridiculous wages. Im all for good paying jobs, be jesus. My mail man drives a decked out hummer ffs..

 

[AKguy1985]

I hardly get mail on saturdays anyhow.