Random thoughts

[cassiesmom]

I heard on the news that the U.S. Postal Service has decided not to suspend Saturday deliveries for now.

[Karen]

Yes, I saw that as well. It's all wrapped up in Congressional decision-making ...

[Lady's Human]

After the GAO tells an agency what they're doing is illegal, there's not much to support their move.

NOw if Congress would just get off their collective butts and do something.....but there's already a thread about this.

On a lighter note:


You know it's time to clean out the leftovers in the fridge when you can't tell if the container of red sauce is duck sauce or taco sauce. (Looks like meat, smells like cake. It's MEATCAKE!)

[cassiesmom]

I heard on the news that the U.S. Postal Service has decided not to suspend Saturday deliveries for now.

Now they want to suspend house-to-house deliveries and have everyone use a cluster box.

[phesina]

That's going to drive it out of business for sure.

[Lady's Human]

^ I'll reply to those in the morning, the postal service wouldn't want me posting my thoughts from a postal computter.

[pomtzu]

Now they want to suspend house-to-house deliveries and have everyone use a cluster box.

I've been seeing commercials on t.v. lately about the USPS not being funded by anyone's tax dollar, and only thru the sale of postage. It seems to me that they will be crying ever poorer if they try to get house-to-house deliveries eliminated. They're already in a deep hole, so I guess now all we have to do is shovel the dirt in on top of them.

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING???????????

[Lady's Human]

Pom, those adverts you see aren't from the Postal Service, they're from the Union(s) trying to fight decades of misinformation about postal funding and solvency. The truth of the postal problem is that without postal participation in certain insurance and retirement programs for Federal employees, they would have to budget far more than they currently do to pay for those. They raid the Postal Service to make the budgetary loss look more manageable.

As to the cluster box cluster, those are in a bill sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa, (C) California, which on the whole makes about as much sense as anything coming from Capitol hill. Yeah, CBUs are going to work wonderfully at the end of a street in New Hampshire in January. The Postal Service mismanages delivery just fine all by itself, it doesn't need help from Issa (who has stated that he wants to destroy the Postal Unions) and certain other members of the house and Senate......one of whom's husband has sole rights to dispose of excess postal real estate on commission.......no conflict of interest there, just move along.