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09/08/2011 10:45:18 AM · #1 |
Farewell My Mailbox.
Every day now, I see opportunities to work around this inconvenient truth. What are your personal and business strategies to circumnavigate the fading away of the USPS. |
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09/08/2011 11:05:03 AM · #2 |
I use my online banking to pay bills, I use email, facebook and texting to contact family and friends. Just about the only thing that comes in the mail anymore is junk mail and credit card offers 99% of it is just ripped up and thrown away without even looking at it. About the only thing I use USPS for is Christmas cards.
As far as business, facebook and word of mouth are much better advertisers that sending things out in the mail. |
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09/08/2011 11:12:03 AM · #3 |
I believe that the Postmaster General is playing a (smart, needed) political game. He is using the dire financial situation to gain media coverage, raising public awareness and ultimately driving congressional action, which will potentially enable him to disgorge some of the huge financial baggage that the USPS carries. He's a smart manager.
USPS will absolutely need to downsize, streamline, and otherwise cut costs in order to deal with the decreasing volume. Right now, they cannot do so due to their labor contracts. This has to change.
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09/08/2011 11:28:41 AM · #4 |
My daughter has recently taken to trying to prop up the USPS single-handedly. She recently moved half-way across the country and is now the Queen of letter & postcard writing. She has signed up for postcard exchanges and is sending & receiving postcards from all over the world. She loves the USPS.
Message edited by author 2011-09-08 11:28:58. |
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09/08/2011 11:33:26 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I believe that the Postmaster General is playing a (smart, needed) political game. He is using the dire financial situation to gain media coverage, raising public awareness and ultimately driving congressional action, which will potentially enable him to disgorge some of the huge financial baggage that the USPS carries. He's a smart manager.
USPS will absolutely need to downsize, streamline, and otherwise cut costs in order to deal with the decreasing volume. Right now, they cannot do so due to their labor contracts. This has to change. |
I think that you are right on the money with all of the above. |
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09/08/2011 11:52:39 AM · #6 |
| Colorado "allows" online renewal of car licenses, dog licenses and the filing of some taxes. In some cases, there is a small charge for using the online service... sort of a tax to pay taxes. This does make an Internet connection an almost essential utility. I sense an emerging dependence on "the grid" and a certain loss of privacy and a degradation of anonymity. |
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09/08/2011 01:49:28 PM · #7 |
The problem is that we expect the USPS to operate like a business. That would be OK if it weren't for the fact that Congress requires it to operate in unprofitable ways.
If a business is operating a location the consistently loses money, that location is shut down. If the post office is operating a location that's losing money it literally takes an act of Congress to shut it down or to make any change, no matter how mionor to affect profitability.
If we want it to operate like a business, take off the shackles. If we want it to operate as a public service, the expectations of business-like profitability need to be removed.
As I see it, the Postmaster is in a Catch-22 |
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09/08/2011 02:09:01 PM · #8 |
| Postbusters. Jon Stewart's take on the subject. (Sorry for the advertisement on the front end.) |
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09/08/2011 04:13:43 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Postbusters. Jon Stewart's take on the subject. (Sorry for the advertisement on the front end.) |
Absolutely hilarious! (Claire McCaskill, I mean. What a tool.)
Here's one of the problems with government attempting to operate a for-profit business (aside from the antithetical nature of the concept itself) - the business cannot fail - it cannot file bankruptcy (afaik) - it can only continue to take and waste more taxpayer money to keep them afloat. I agree with Spork that if we want to keep it as a public service, then just do that, but I don't think many people, myself included, would be in favor of that.
When they do shut it down and/or lay off 220k employees, I am guessing the DOJ & ATF will be planning a preemptive sting to snare all those disgruntled postal workers by selling them traceable automatic weapons.
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