USPS Defaults On Another $5.6 Billion Payment

[melensdad]

All I know is that when the problem is not enough people are using your service you dont raise prices, that is not how you encourage customers to use your products. It just cracks me up. The post office complains they are not making enough money because they have lost business to the private sector and the internet. So what is their solution? Raise the price of postage, yeah that will fix it. Here is an idea, how about we make the post office more efficient. Closing some smaller post offices will help but that is only a start.

Realize that the Postmaster General does NOT advocate raising prices. Congress won't allow him to close post offices, cut back routes, eliminate workers, etc. That leaves him with only a few bad choices . . . like raising the prices.

He has said that 80% of the post offices are losing money and he wants to close many of those and consolidate several rural and suburban offices into hub offices. Congress won't let him.

As for making it more efficient, again, look to Congress and their refusal to allow him to eliminate positions, modernize procedures, consolidate routes, etc.

This is all about the power of the Postal Union and the stranglehold that big labor has over the Democrats and compliant RINOs.