To: the U.S. Postal Service
So long, and thanks for the fish.
Seems other carriers are doing just fine. They are not asking for handouts from the tax payer, and they deliver on weekends.
Perhaps the paradigm of over paid, low output union workers is once again showing
it’s true value to the American people.
Even with a U.S. Government protected monopoly, the Postal Service cannot hang on.
$10 billion in loans.
Asking for another $3 billion
Hmmmm.
Even if they close down weekends, that is only $3 billion out of next years $10 billion. What did we gain.
Raise the rates, and it will be cheaper with better service to send via other carriers.
So I say, once again, the U.S. Government shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that it cannot run a for profit business.
So long P.S., and thanks for the fish.
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Glad my stepfather
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 6:01PM EST (link)Got out when he did. He was a postal worker for about 10 years, and retired in 2006. He was screwed the worst because he was the last one in, and would cover other carrier routes, but never benefited from the things like the holiday tips, etc.
Ahhh, another government sinking ship, and they want to run healthcare.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
We will be saying the same thing about government health care
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 10:04PM EST (link)in less than 30 years……2040
Most of the congress people that voted yes on this will be dead by then.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
I'm not so sure
Menlo (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 12:17AM EST (link)I think it is going to continue to stick around permanently but in a scaled-back form. I think the only competitors right now only deliver packages or items packed in cardboard. I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is a competitive carrier for letters, greeting cards, or postcards.
“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter