A bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Thursday would restore military retiree benefits by cutting U.S. Postal Service delivery to a five-day work week. “From the companies perspective you take away Saturday delivery, you takeaway a service that they’re offering their customers,” said Bloomberg’s Megan Hughes.
Megan Hughes reports on the impact to business of the proposal to end U.S. Postal Service Saturday delivery. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)
via How Killing Saturday Mail Hurts Companies – Businessweek.
elimination of mail on saturdays is a great idea .deliver parcels on saturdays only. the greedy carriers want 6 day because its 1 more day of ot
Nogjr you are soo lost my friend….You got those notes from the NALC web page…Open your eyes….Come up with something yourself…Keep wasting your union dues for nothing because its not going to help….5 day here we come….
Thanks nogjr and Megan from Bloomberg! The USPS was profitable last year at +$600M!! This is about Customer Service and providing businesses delivery and receipt on Saturdays. Rep Issa was already caught lying by Rep Cummings on the IRS scandal and hid evidence on Benghazi. Yes, covering up or concealing evidence is LYING Darrell. Now he is trying to slide his 5-Day delivery under a pretense of helping Veterans where this would actually kill jobs for Veteran USPS employees. What a scam! It should not even make the floor of the House and certainly would not pass the Senate and Pres. Just make a simple bill to restore military retiree benefits…why tarnish it with BS!
Bitches…. Like it or not , weekends off are coming and I’m gonna be gettin my tan on!!! Stop bickering over what the reason this place is going under! Look around dummies???? Thank you!!! Enough said… Now I’m going back to walking this loop in 10 inches of snow, cause I gotta be back in 8!!! ! Watching my variance…….
get real, get real. The entire “loss” you are talking about comes from the pre-funding of retiree health benefits. A law that is crippling the ability of the USPS to make ends meet. It sounds like you might be Dumahoe’s personal secretary. These are all of the same false arguments he makes constantly. Why do we never see it reported that the USPS posted a $600 Million profit delivering the mail last year. If you take away the prefunding aspect of the accounting, we are doing fantastic in terms of productivity and profit. I have seen Dumahoe get on national news programs and spew crap about how poorly the finances of the USPS are, and that we need to right size the USPS. Sounds eerily like the Head Idiot from California, Mr. felon himself, representative (although who he represents is highly questionable) Issa. At the same time, we are shown service talks of Dumahoe telling us how fantastically we are performing and that parcel volume and profits are way up. So what is the real story? I can guarantee you will not get the truth from either of these 2 self serving megalomaniacs.
It’s always interesting to see someone talking about something they no nothing about…She should have done some research and she would have learned that the 5 billion loss this year is added to the 15 billion two years ago that congress allowed the Postal Service to forgo due to the fact they were broke….It’s estimated that the Postal Service will have maxed out it’s borrowing limit and will be broke by middle of March. If the people who use the Service disagree with the elimination of Saturday delivery , they better prepare to pay more to keep it alive, a whole lot more. Of course they will pass the cost on to the customers…All the parcels mentioned in the video will be delivered on Saturdays according to Postmaster General, just not all the junk mail no one wants anyhow.
Elimination of Saturday delivery will make for more efficient service since most of the time there will be only one carrier delivering the mail, work load can be spread over 5 days and carriers will have 5 productive days rather than 3 days productive and 3 days burning fuel delivering one or two pieces per households on 60% of their routes. Save fuel, save employee costs, get better service.