U.S.Postal Service reports BILLIONS in LOSSES!!! GOING UNDER!!!

well when all the employee's make 100,000 (with benefits) what the fuck do you expect. over paid bloated company

lol what a nonsense post by a lurker...

Obama will bail them out.

Too much fat in the company, they need to trim, and how about all the benefits?

at least make sense in your rant. In the beginning you say it's cheaper to send fed ex and at the end you say it's more.

Do you even know what you are talking about?

I only ship about 50-100 per week and am in Canada. Our postal service is the cheapest method of shipping BUT to ship a package to the US, eg. CA. It will cost me $13+ But to ship from US to here is about $5 or less.

The US postal service is a political hot potato that no one wants to touch, so it keeps losing money.

I like Fedex because they are reliable.

Mail volume was down 3.1% from same quarter last year, that is a HUGE number. It means less business' are sending out direct mail pieces. Online ads have taken a portion, but not enough to contribute to that steep decline.

Thank the postal union.

Postal workers are the most highly paid for what they do than anyone.

Let it die!

well as a former mail carrier Its the damn postal services fault.

Junk mail only cost 5 to 15 cents to mail and its really a pain in the ass to mail because you have tones of them to mail to everymail box and its was crazy.

If they would charge the junk mail 44 cents then that would help there profit.

& now the USPS is also delevering UPS and Fedex packages as well BULL SHIT cause as a carrier i wasn't getting paid extra for that. So were was that money going to?

I hope the USPS goes down I hate it with a passion.

Well how about you try it for a week then you'll see why they get paid great but your forgeting 1 thing contractors do not get taxes tooking out of there check so at the end of the year you owe $10,000 worth of taxes ya.

It's because they are all unionized! These people don't have to have a degree and start out making $19.50/hour -- WTF???!!! I know many college grads who couldn't find a job starting out making that much and they had much greater responsibilities.

Greetings:

Now This Might Take Some Doing ... But Here Is An Idea ... Which Would Most Definitely ... Save For All ... In Fuel Costs ... For Those That Deliver Mail/Packages !!

The Thought/Idea ... Is To Reorient The Sorting Places/Hubs ... To Correspond With The Routes ... In A One Way Direction For Delivery !! ... As It Is Of That Moment ... Items For Delivery ... Go Way Out Of The Way ... To The Nearest Hub/Sorting Area ... For The Kind/Type Of Package ... Oftentimes Going Right By Or Around The City ... In Which The End Delivery Address Is Located !! ... Then It Is A Hop To The Next Hub/Sorting Area ... Finally Ending Up ... At The Delivery Location !! ... Fuel Spent/Wasted On Backtracking ... And Days Wasted/Spent ... In Which The Items Could Have Already Been There !!

It Was Taught In Terrestrial School ... That The Closest Distance Between 2 Points ... Is A Straight Line !! ... Well ... Ones Need To Apply "Crow Think" ... As The Crow Flies !! ... To Head Direct ... Of Which Depending On Where The Shipper Is ... & Final Location ... Things Are Presorted & Handled ... From One Point To The Other Point ... Not Having To Divert Off Direct Directional Course !!

For Example ... One Has An Item Sent From St. Louis Missouri ... To Boston, Massachusetts ... The Item Proceeds Eastward (Not To The North, South, West) ... In Direct Course ... To Boston, Massachusetts ... Perhaps Or Perhaps Not ... Stopping At Sorting/Distribution Hubs Along The Way !! ... Main Hubs Would Handle Mails/Packages Heading In Specific Directions ... Going In Those Directions To The Delivery Address ... Not Backtracking !!

Farewell For Now !!

ST In BG

I havnt read through this entire thread so this may have been mentioned, if so, I apologize but I dont have the time to read all 5 pages this morning since some of us still (thankfully) have jobs to go to (just not good jobs anymore)

The USPS needs to go. Period. NOT ONLY do they charge money via stamps and shipping BUT are given tax money directly as well for operation costs. In other words , that stamp may be "only" 42 cents (whatever- I dont mail things) but in reality it is much more since it is essentially subsidized through our taxes.

Last I heard we (the taxpayer) pay enough in taxes (not stamps and postage fees) to literally PAY FOR THE INTERNET FOR EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA... SO, just in taxes given to pay for these awesome pensions and benefits of postal carriers we could all have FREE INTERNET and get rid of the damn post office by moving everything to electronic.

Mopst people I know do not use the mail system anyhow- Its all for junk mail and wastes a huge amount of gas and resources.

Friend of a friend is a postal regional manager and he said that they need to cut the budget 40% to break even.

40% is a huge cut.

Say goodbye to Saturday mail service for a start.

Maybe if they didn't send so much goddam spam mail.

Wrong. It would make more sense for them to just charge more for the junk mail that nobody wants anyway. The Advertisers would stop sending it or pay more to spam you.

Dr.Postman may be out of a job!!

Oddly enough this is the only thing keeping the USPS alive right now... Without the junk mail there would be hardly anything sent anymore- Therefore our tax money is really subsidizing junk mail- The senders are also getting a "bulk shipping deal" and paying far less than you or I would to send a letter.

WHY didn't they cut years ago? Email has been cutting down on postal service for YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!! Yet they still deliver on Sat and are just now consolidating post offices and cutting........

And guess what? YOUR HEALTHCARE WILL GO DOWN THAT SAME ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EXACTLY! ! ! ! !

Well said, all of it. I am sooooooo tired of shredding crap that I never even wanted in the first place.

Already has bud....

I work for Vistion (Ford) and make 12.85/hr with no health care and max pay of 15/hr.
Three years ago I was a Confined Space Rescue Tech who subcontracted to places like Ford, GM, National Steel etc. and was making nearly twice what I make now once benefits are included.

I am blessed to make what I do BUT when your mortgage and bills are set to making twice that amount I am broke as hell.

Why do postal carriers make more than rescue workers?

we had all that here and the gubmint
just sold off the post shops( mail outlets)
it was done so swiftly it had to have
been planned well in advance.

It's even worse now. International buyers can get an actual american address (rent) and have buy all the goods with free shipping within America and then have all their goods boxed up and sent in one package for a really good price.

So I guess that's another u.s post screwed themselves by being too expensive.
It's cheaper to buy from american stores with the strong dollar than to shop on ebay.

LOL, You are doing a great job, so hang in there. I have a lot of respect for those at the tip of the spear so to speak, who deliver the mail.

There are to many who do not touch mail who do have to go, that is the real problem in any bloated bureaucracy.

I am retired, and carry part time rural mail.

One of the funniest things, and there are many that I've seen, was a customer who got something from a porn site in the mail, and scratched all over it that it was unsolicited, and to return. Like the household didn't have any pervs inside, right, LOL.

Bullshit, is what I wanted to tell her/him. Either the husband was on the internet surfing porn, or a little fat offspring was inside spooning the computer monitor.

All "junk" is a product of the serfs, and their consumerism. Exception, is the box holders. But even those can be removed if they wanted to really remove them.

I know the carriers(rural) work their asses off, and, are very good at what they do, really surprised me, and I do deliver in the snow belt, so that is altogether another issue.

If all the Carriers quit today, it would shut down the mail. They are not irreplaceable, but to think someone can just come in and do the job tomorrow is ignorance.

If you consumers really want to remove yourselves from the beast(I suspect you really don't though, you are what you are, a consumer, living on credit, or .gub assistance), go here:

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Congressional legislation is why.

Educate yourself serf.

Your bills are automated completely then.

Time for salary cuts

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Stupid fucks.