Re: Choose to succeed
mInvestor
5/17/2012 5:34:23 AM
@Broadway,
Good analysis, that's exactly what will happen if they go private and it has been verified many times.
Sad to say it's kind of too late to have a good solution now. No matter what, it looks like the solution will be a long and unhappy one.
Re: Choose to succeed
cat tail
5/16/2012 1:51:58 PM
I don't think privatization is necessarily better than a government agency. But anything has to be better than the weird hybrid the post office is right now.
Re: Choose to succeed
Broadway
5/15/2012 9:42:33 PM
@impactnow, if the USPS went private, it would need to lay off a good part of it's workforce---those too indoctrinated in the old skacky ways. It would still need to pay pensions for all the folks currently under the plan even if it freezed the plan going forward. And it would still need to pay a decent wage to attract new decent staff. Pprivatization is no magic bullet.
Re: Package, not mail will save USPS
Drivewaygirl
5/15/2012 2:25:33 PM
Because the Postal Service will never have permission to innovate as long as they are even partly under the federal government's thumb.
Choose to succeed
impactnow
5/15/2012 1:35:39 PM
Joey the challenge is when it "left" the government it still operated like it was a government office with civil servants, pensions etc. It was forced to operate like a corporation with stockholders it would be run very differently. The wages would be cut the pensions eliminated and replaced by contribution plans and the workforce and offices reallocated. The postal service needs to stop being in a quasi space to be successful, it needs to be a government function or be privatized. Existence in between will not be successful.
Re: Package, not mail will save USPS
AskAsa
5/14/2012 9:12:47 PM
Postal doesnt appreciate or monetize its unique history.
They recently almost closed and then reduced hours at the first Franklin Post Office in Philly.
This could be a major money maker with paid tours etc.
Also, some of the smaller commericial package companies used to piggyback off the U.S. Postal service. Some of those business relationships could be rekindled.
Why doesnt the Post Office start its own version of email that would make both virtual and real deliveries of photo proofs, ad sheets etc.
could make for a lot of dirty and greasy mail!
Re: Package, not mail will save USPS
Value Hiker
5/14/2012 5:05:24 PM
In this case, I want o propose to merge of KFC, Starbucks with UPS or Fedex. At least, these companies has the same fast paces.
Re: postal inefficiency
Broadway
5/14/2012 2:52:37 PM
If having your grandfather lie to you while his cronies implement unconstitutional, detrimental and often perverse policies behind the scenes represents "upfront dialogues," then why don't we resurrect Reagan and install him as zombie in chief until we're all zombies. He was practically a zombie for his whole second term, if not more, so the precedent has been set.
Great idea. And maybe it could help Green Mountain, too -- load up on some K-cup dispensers for people with an aversion to wings but want to stay awake in those boring lines.
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