All of the inefficiencies of government bureaucracies. All of the bloat and corruption of public unions. All of the lowering-of-standards associated with affirmative action hiring (the US Postal Service has been artificially propping up the black middle-class for far too long. It’s little more than a jobs program for black people.)
If ever there was a government agency that should be eliminated (and there are thousand of them), it is long past time for the US Postal Service to be privatized.
But, instead of doing what makes the most sense, the USPS will instead try to cut some overhead costs by eliminating Saturday delivery of the mail.
he U.S. Postal Service plans to announce Wednesday that it will end Saturday mail delivery, in one of the most significant steps taken to date to cut costs at the struggling agency.
A source familiar with the decision confirmed the plan to Fox News.
Under the proposal, the Postal Service will continue to deliver packages six days a week. The plan, which is aimed at saving about $2 billion, would start to take effect in August.
The move accentuates one of the agency’s strong points — package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet use.
Despite providing one day less of service, don’t expect the heavily unionized USPS workers — Heaven forbid — to take a cut in pay or hours. No. They’ll continue to do their best to contribute to the bankrupting of our nation. After all, the primary role of the USPS is not to deliver your mail: it’s to keep (mostly black) public union workers free loading on the government tit.
TWitter is aflutter:
Oh, noooo! ::dramatically sighs:: No more junk mail on Saturdays! How are we to live through this calamity? USPS to eliminate Sat. delivery.
— It’s my birthday! (@AndreeaDaia) February 6, 2013
How long before the USPS becomes completely obsolete? I feel like no Saturday mail is just the beginning…
— Danny Casarella (@DanCas91) February 6, 2013
Actually, it’s been obsolte for quite some time now…
A general historical trend is that goods and services become better and cheaper over time. USPS is the exception that proves the rule.
— J.C. Bradbury (@jc_bradbury) February 6, 2013
I would literally pay the #USPS to STOP sending me mail.
— Jake Brewer (@jakebrewer) February 6, 2013
No shit…I hate picking up our mail every few days. Because the only thing in it is crap. I’ve unsubscribed to just about all paper-delivery for any mail that I used to receive (bank statements, bills, etc.).
Our government can’t keep the USPS running 7 days a week, let’s see how that Obamacare is gonna work! #Obamacare
— texbarb (@texbarb) February 6, 2013
Every shipping company on the planet is doing great, except USPS.
— LarrysComics.net (@LarrysComics) February 6, 2013
“Email” doesn’t seem to have hurt FedEx + UPS… “@mashable: USPS Cutting Saturday Mail Delivery on.mash.to/WugBeR”
— Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 6, 2013
@danaperino The USPS gold plated Benefits that they get but the private sector doesn’t.
— eric(@erecdale) February 6, 2013
This. So very much, this.
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Would FedEx and UPS consider delivery of regular mail? I ask because I doubt Obama and co. would ever consider privatizing USPS. Would make sense though to sign a lease for 75 years or so, take some cash up front and get rid of this monster.
The only thing I would miss is the “forever stamp.”
They can’t. By law USPS has a monopoly on delivery of regular mail.
Well, then we are going to continue to be screwed. One seldom wins with a big bureaucracy….
I still use the USPS.
In fact, I’m old enough to remember when it was the Post Office and still recognised as a constitutionally established function of the government.
The problem with the USPS, in a nutshell, is that it is a miscegenation of bureaucracy and government-protected monopoly (another disgusting product of the Nixon administration).
It can be fixed, but there are interests – plush-bottomed union thugs abetted by self-aggrandising politicians – that see more advantage to riding it off the cliff than making the necessary adjustments.
Get rid of the fiction of the Postal ‘Service’ and re-establish the Post Office; void all of the guaranteed employment contracts with the unions, returning all employees to the civil service ranks; end the ludicrous subsidies for junk mail; and stop trying to treat it as if it can or should be profitable.
I am not so sure that your assertion “it can be fixed” reflects the realm of things. The nomenclature has already been established for that agency. We are talking decades of mismanagement, union pandering and mastering inefficiency. How can it be “fixed” now that the only solutions proposed over the years have been increases in pricing and downgrading of “services” but nothing structural?
We have dems in the Oval Office and thus any changes that involve re-evaluating the unionization of USPS, will not be considered.
Subsidies for junk mail is what truly keeps the post office open for business. What else is there – the forever stamp? They will never agree to ending this cashcow.
Lease it to FedEx or UPS for 75 years. That’s a great idea….
I said ‘can’.
I didn’t say ‘would’.
OK I am officially confused.
USPS is going to stop delivering “regular mail” on Saturdays. But will still deliver packages on Saturdays.
I don’t know about everyone else, but at my house the same postal carrier delivers both. So where are the “savings”?