From APWU:
Postal customers concerned about the undoing of their postal service are speaking out. In recent op-eds featured in local newspapers, customers point out that much of the financial “reasoning” surrounding the Postal Service doesn’t hold water.
Regarding a proposed post office closure, a Sun Valley, NV customer argues that the miniscule savings of $1,116 a year to USPS is not worth the inconvenience caused to the community. “Shouldn’t the U.S. Postal Service be working to provide better customer service and attract more customers instead of disenfranchising the very people they need to save the postal service?” she asks.
The unreasonable burden placed on the USPS by the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), requiring pre-funding 75 years’ worth of retiree health benefits within a 10 year period, is the single greatest contributor to the agency’s current financial woes. “If Congress decreed today that the USPS no longer had to set aside $5.5 billion a year, the USPS could be operating at a profit and definitely [have] enough money to pay retirement and health care costs 75 years into the future,” says one customer from Moses Lake, WA.
Unfortunately, as long as Congress fails to repeal the absurd and unfair prefunding mandate of the PAEA, post offices and mail processing facility closures around the country will continue to hurt customers and workers.
To view a Sun Valley, NV customer letter, please click here.
To view a Moses Lake, WA customer letter, please click here.
@ Gene Obviously you don’t know the difference between a business and a service. Unions don’t determine mailer discounts. The inbred idiot management positions pretending to be CEO’s receive kickbacks from the mailers especially Valassis.
The Newspaper Association of America unloaded with both barrels on the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission’s decision to strike a deal with Valassis Direct Mail, giving the latter cheaper postal delivery (“special contract rate”) in a new negotiated services agreement.
The NAA says the “sweetheart deal” will give Valassis, one of the world’s largest direct marketing outfits, an unfair advantage over newspapers and other postal customers.
Read more: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/181496/naa-blasts-usps-valassis-deal.html#ixzz2buvmPC7P
Obviously none of you run a business nor could.Cut it and go to five days. In 1976 the union said big mailer discounts would kill the post office, here we are 40 years later, horrible track record for union positions.
Traci when the light go out your gonna wish you not thrown all your candles out.
Oh Congress gets it and they hope the american people dont and are sleeping so they(congress) and there friend can line their pockets at the publics expense .WAKE UP AMERICA
Postal customers get from online electronic mail. Mail to delivered to a physical street address for the most part is advertising bulk mail. The only items delivered by postal carriers are parcels selected by the online company customer receives order from. Parcel customers may select expedited delivery for an extra fee. USPS needs to face reality and demand that congress restructure USPS to meet market demand and operate cost effective to maintain the tradition USPS was setup to operate by Ben Franklin before he invented electricity. A light needs to come on in the cranium of Congress that determine the operation mode of the USPS. FACE REALITY THE DAY OF CANDLIGHT AS THE SOURCE OF HOUSEHOLD LIGHT NEEDED TO SEE IN THE DARK HAS PASSED AS THE USPS CANNOT OPERATED IN THE PAST BUT NEED TO SEE THE LIGHT THAT OPERATIONS AND FINANCES MUST CORRELATE TO MEET A BREAKEVEN POINT.
Gimme 5 day delivery!
in the next election whoever is running for re-election VOTE FOR THE OTHER CANDIDATE!!! this congress is awful. worst one in my lifetime. all they do is party line vote. they could care less if they did any good for the citizens of the usa. which by the way are we not their employers?? if we did our job the way they have we would all be fired. usps doesn’t get it either. they have the mindset if your employee is miserable then they will be productive. just leave us alone and let us do our jobs. local management positions are a joke nothing more than a glorified schedule maker. mpoo and above run the show. they are morons!! let the t6 do the scheduling and take care of call ins and pivot plans. get rid of 75% of the useless reports they have to do which in turn would downsize the management side like it should be. savings!!!! but no, make everybody miserable and try to push somebody over the edge. love my job but work for out of touch people
I don’t think any of you get it. The main problem is the PAEA of 2006. $5,500,000,000 a year for 10 years not to mention the fact that we can’t raise postage rates above the rate of inflation which does not take into account gas prices which severely affect the USPS due to the fact that post office has the largest fleet of vehicles in the country. The problem is not more chiefs than warriors, it’s not poor customer service it’s Congressional Republicans and their puppet our illustrious postmaster! This is the world’s most efficient and inexpensive Postal Service in the world! We have been around since colonial times and if we can get Congress to back off and let us function the way we have up until 2006 we can return to profitability and keep hundreds of thousands of very well paying jobs which can only help our country’s economic recovery.
When survey after survey shows the postal service as the most trusted government entity, the people are talking about their local mail carriers and clerks not management.
Every voice of the employee survey shows that there is no trust in senior management.
Couple this with people like Issa and the big mailers and fulfillment houses gaming the postal service for their own selfish desires and one should not wonder why the system is a trainwreck.
Only Bernie Sanders (an independent) is looking out for the people (employees and customers).
If Issa and senior management would get their way over 100,000 people would get hurt badly. And this would also hurt the economy.
Yes, somehow corruption is legal now and this includes all politicians. We have the best government money can buy so says the supreme court.
Hey Scott, does that include Democrat Diane Feinstein? Her husband Richard Blum is profiteering from the sale of Postal real estate assets as they go to market. He is on the board of directors of the CBRE group, the most notable property currently being sold is the Berkley California post office. He makes a profit on the sale, lease and resale of postal properties nation wide.
That is profiteering by any construction of the word!
This is the problem: I started delivering mail in 1985 when a stamp cost just 23 cents. We had a ratio of 1 boss for every 55 workers. Today at 46 cents we are burdened with 1 boss for every 4 workers. The reason management is so set on eliminating Saturday delivery is because they don’t work Saturdays and the mail gets delivered just fine without all the pencil pushing bean counters. If they succeed at stopping a day of delivery the ratio will drop to 1 to 3. Then get the layoff clause in the contract repealed and lose 100,000 more workers it’s 1 to 2. See a pattern here. Our postal service is being destroyed and privatized from within management with support from Darrel Issa and his lobbyist wife. The only way to stop this is to eliminate management and the politician’s who will benefit from its demise.
Sorry but the people who get the mail aren’t the customers. The people who pay postage are. This is the heart of the problem. We have to deliver less mail to more people. Can that be done?
we cant find more customers we all already are the customers…everyone of us…
what part of there is no mail dont you all understand…we have to close on saturdays and put all boxes to the curb…there is no volume which means no revenue…
does lousy customer service by the united states postal service equal more or less future revenue for the united states postal service? such a simple question, but one that postmaster general patrick donahoe obviously does not know the correct answer to.
Postal mgmt. couldn’t care less what our customers think. In their eyes, customers are a nuisance.
Seriously.
Computer reports rule their world, nothing else.
Do we have to wait for Darrell Issa in Congress to step down before we get anything done?