Post Office Ending Saturday Delivery

[Lady's Human]

Brilliant economic minds at work.

Raise rates (effective in January, more rates than just first class mail went up) and cut service, while retaining inept management and promoting more Vice Presidents with 6 figure salaries and outlandish compensation packages (the postal execs are on a far, far different retirement compensation plan than the hoi polloi).

Kudos.

[Lady's Human]

And for those who think Postal executives are pure as the wind driven snow:

http://postalnews.com/postalnewsblog...ption-charges/

http://www.postalreporternews.net/20...and-lapdances/

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009...rmer_head.html

http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/me...52-postal.html

There are more, those are just the ones I found quickly.

Those are the rare cases where they actually prosecute. For little things like sexual harassment they normally just move them to a different facility.

How Congress actually believes these people when they testify is beyond me, though it's liars testifying to liars, so what the heck.

[Catty1]

Canada lost Saturday delivery back in the 70s.

It ain't so bad really.

[Lady's Human]

Canada doesn't mandate delivery of veteran's meds by the postal service.

Combine no service standards (2-3 day delivery is out the window) with no saturday delivery and a vet or anyone else who is forced into Pharmacy by mail better not have an emergency...like an inversion that makes them use a month's worth of asthma meds in a week, just for an example.

In addition, this is all caused by a backroom deal in 2006 that is attempting to force the Postal Service to pre-pay retirement benefits for employees who haven't even been born yet.

[Cataholic]

Many other places survive on non-Saturday delivery, and the US will also.

When a holiday Monday follows a Sunday, no one dies. Not sure why it is that much different with Saturday. If you can't get your meds in the first five days of the delivery, then maybe you need to change something.

[Lady's Human]

Many other places survive on non-Saturday delivery, and the US will also.

When a holiday Monday follows a Sunday, no one dies. Not sure why it is that much different with Saturday. If you can't get your meds in the first five days of the delivery, then maybe you need to change something.

When a Monday holiday occurs, with no Saturday delivery, and no service standards, when are the meds going to get delivered?

BTW, before someone pipes up with med pouches are packages, not mail, that is incorrect. They are labeled and handled as first class mail, not packages. That was done to ensure prompt delivery.

All this aside, the sole reason for the fiscal crisis in the USPS is not loss of revenue, it's mismanagement from both Congress and USPS management.

Answer one question:

Is there any other entity, public or private, which is required to pre-fund retirement benefits for employees who aren't even born yet?

Minus that requirement, the USPS has actually turned a profit in most years since the legislation was enacted.

[Lady's Human]

And to pose another question:

What other Constitutionally mandated government entity is expected to turn a profit?