U.S. post has $2.2 billion loss, warns of Sept insolvency

Privatize it. Sell it to FedEx. Or just shut it down, disband it

but hey everything is good the economy is growing, there is no inflation.. everything is sprouting gold lined roses.....

lmfao...

Politics is involved. The post office said they needed to cut back to 5 deliveries a week. Polititions said no, you must do five days worth of deliveries in six days. There is a 20 percent loss right there.

The U.S. Postal Service posted a $2.2 billion net loss in its second quarter and said it might be unable to pay its debts by September

Because the Government never makes money
Look at Am Track... The Government F'ed it all up.

Look at the postal service, I pay more for stamps and the service is just aweful.
I do not get my mail until 5 pm.
This is terrible!!!!

Privatize the Post Office!!!!

Privatize? No. Try sending a letter by Fedex or UPS, it would cost too much. The Post office just needs to cut delivery way down. They could cut to 3 deliveries a week, cut costs in half. Half the routes get delivery Mon.-Wed.-Fri, the remaining routes would get Tue.-Thur.-Sat. I could get by with only 3 deliveries a week.

That was their interest account and that has to be liquadated 60% for philanthropy an dcharity anyway. I don't buy that crap.

Coal Train wrote:

Privatize? No. Try sending a letter by Fedex or UPS, it would cost too much. The Post office just needs to cut delivery way down. They could cut to 3 deliveries a week, cut costs in half. Half the routes get delivery Mon.-Wed.-Fri, the remaining routes would get Tue.-Thur.-Sat. I could get by with only 3 deliveries a week.

Where do you think you'll find 400k workers who want an impossible part time job !? They work 10% overtime now and doubling the volume by cutting the delivery days won't help. How about we/our government quit taking 5 billion per year in retirement pre-funding ??? They're "required" to pay retirement money, for workers who haven't even been born .....

Coal Train wrote:

Politics is involved. The post office said they needed to cut back to 5 deliveries a week. Polititions said no, you must do five days worth of deliveries in six days. There is a 20 percent loss right there.

I need my grocery store ads six days a week! I use online bill paying and write emails to family/friends so who needs first class mail service?

Coal Train wrote:

Politics is involved. The post office said they needed to cut back to 5 deliveries a week. Polititions said no, you must do five days worth of deliveries in six days. There is a 20 percent loss right there.

If it's NOW 5 days work, why has the PO shown record overtime this year ? Seems like YOUR job is 3 days work ! Get 'er done, MORON ! LMAOROTF !

ex-pert wrote:

<quoted text>If it's NOW 5 days work, why has the PO shown record overtime this year ? Seems like YOUR job is 3 days work ! Get 'er done, MORON ! LMAOROTF !

CALLING SOME A "MORON" MEAN YOU ARE WINNING ! Suck it postal haters ! YOU ARE JUST JEALOUS THAT YOU COULDN'T CARRY A BAG FOR A LIVING !

It costs the same to mail a first class letter to my neighbor down the street (if I choose to do so) as it does to mail one from the east coast to the west..should cost not come in to play here?

ex-pert wrote:

<quoted text>If it's NOW 5 days work, why has the PO shown record overtime this year ?

A lot of the overtime is because of the 6-day delivery. They have to do the routes on Sat. because Congress orders them to.

ex-pert wrote:

<quoted text>Where do you think you'll find 400k workers who want an impossible part time job !? They work 10% overtime now and doubling the volume by cutting the delivery days won't help.

I was thinking the existing employee covering two routes. One employee and truck would cover twice the customers, doing each route 3 times a week. They could cut employees by attrition, a lot of them will be retiring in the next couple years.

Coal Train wrote:

<quoted text>I was thinking the existing employee covering two routes. One employee and truck would cover twice the customers, doing each route 3 times a week. They could cut employees by attrition, a lot of them will be retiring in the next couple years.

Routes currently take 6+ hours to deliver, NOT counting 2+ hours office sorting time. Sounds like you like to create an OT situation where specially bred super carriers try to read/deliver mail in night time light conditions ? This idea wound have carriers working 3 very difficult 16+++ hour days. Why would ANY rational union agree to impossible work at a job which is already difficult ? How would walking carriers work 16 hours straight and read in the dark ? You OBVIOUSLY don't have a clue to how the job or PO works and your ideas are useless ! LMAOROTF !

Coal Train wrote:

<quoted text> A lot of the overtime is because of the 6-day delivery. They have to do the routes on Sat. because Congress orders them to.

Almost NONE of the OT is because of 6 days. They have a rotating 6th day worker who fills in for 5 carriers. Why are you writing about things, without a clue ? Try another topic or do some research ! LMAOROTF !

ex-pert wrote:

<quoted text>Almost NONE of the OT is because of 6 days. They have a rotating 6th day worker who fills in for 5 carriers. Why are you writing about things, without a clue ? Try another topic or do some research ! LMAOROTF !

HAHAHA ! YEAH ! TELL EVERYBODY THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE ! That IS winning the internet ! Tell EVERYBODY ELSE TO DO RESEARCH ! YOU ARE SO AWESOME ! NOW CHALLENGE HIM TO A WAGER ! THAT WILL SHOW HIM ! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO ! WE ARE AWESOME ! EVERYBODY IS JEALOUS OF US BECAUSE WE ARE WINNING THE INTERNET !

They're ALMOST as stupid as YOU, boi ! LMAOROTF !

CHALLENGE SOMEONE TO CHOP OFF THEIR TOES ! THAT IS SO AWESOME ! EVERYBODY IS JEALOUS OF YOU ! SUCK IT POSTAL HATERS OR EXPERT WILL DARE YOU TO CHOP OFF YOUR TOES TOO ! Everybody loves us !

They're ALMOST as stupid as YOU, boi ! LMAOROTF !