What a difference a month makes! More than 92% of the comments submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission in June regarding the number of mail delivery days favored six-day delivery.
That 2716-223 margin in favor of keeping Saturday delivery was a huge turnaround from April and May, when (as detailed in Comments to PRC Favor 5-Day Delivery) 56% of the relevant comments favored going to five or fewer days of delivery.
It wasn't just postal employees who came to the defense of six-day delivery; most of the support came from people who identified themselves as customers, according to a summary the PRC released today.
More than one-fifth of those who supported six-day delivery said the overfunding of pensions and the so-called pre-funding of retiree health benefits should be corrected before service is reduced. Another 357 people made comments falling into the category of "Reduce Exec compensation/mgt levels/reorganize".
The most commonly mentioned concerns regarding elimination of Saturday delivery had to do with prescription medicines and increased unemployment.
22 comments:
this shows that the polls postmaster potter did were fixed, the american public wants six day universal service, and as for losing money it is sort of a lie and none truth too, if you take out the pre fund payment which is not needed as of now was put in place right before the economy went too hell and the postal service had more money than they new what to do with,the congress comes up with the prfunding, so if you take away the pre funding payment the postal service is or has a 900 million dollar profit year to date, and only has lost money one year out of the last four,
I an American and I don't want mail delivery 6 days.I hardly get mail three days a week. It's a waste of time and money sending a mailman down my streeet six days a week.
I want 6 day delivery to remain in place. I don't receive tons of mail , but appreciate our right to have this nationwide SERVICE. We shouldn't put all of our eggs in one basket with relying on the internet for all of our communication dealings. Disruptions from maintenance issues,hackers and possible terrorist attacks can render it useless if it occurs.
just because you only get mail 3 days a week. how do you know how much mail gets delivered to everyone else on your block, do you look in their mailboxes?
well you as one person, should not think it is a waste of time or a waste of money a lot of people such as you don,t get or don,t use mail much but you are a minority, alot of people companys and retailers are the mailers use the mail daily ,over all alot of people still use the mail daily and always will,don,t make make jugdement on one persons box such as yours
Postal managers need to take a cut in jobs and move back in to the craft as they are way too top heavy and Carriers have been making all the cost saving adjustments in getting routes increased in size due to the lack of volume. When EVER will dead wood managers do the same?
that is why mail delivery is a public service and not a public issue. Source communication is vital to society as a whole. To change will have a disastrous impact on the economy and vitality of the world. Until the Postal Service realizes ways to grow the business by expanding its portals instead of decreasing them, the service will eventually implode. Competition is needed inside its infrastructure of employees from the top to the bottom to improve service as well as automation.
I never get deliveries from Federal Express or UPS, so therefore those companies should be shut down completely.
There should be a demand for Potter's resignation along with his V.P. cronies. He's trying to destroy the service from within while feathering his nest for a cushy position with private industry.
Why don't you ask PMG Potter, if the postal service is truly hemmoraging money,why are you painting postal vehicles, buying new flat screen monitors for every computer and paying managers overtime when craft employees are asked to absorb work?
I followed I an American, and yes he's one of those people that looks in other people's mail boxes. Hides behind the curtain when the mailman walks by............
Talk about fast, drop that sales ad in his box, turn take two steps down, and you hear the door open, the mail box lid raise and fall, and the door slam shut before your foot hits the third step....
Don't worry I won't send your welfare check back as MLNA.....
Or will I?????
So if we cut that day of service you do realize you'll get mail 4 days instead of three, due to the fact more mail will have to be delivered in less time.
The mail just keeps coming, & coming....coming..... it never stops.. well unless there's a mail count going on....
does it occur to those of you who want to keep six days that the USPS simply CAN'T AFFORD IT ANYMORE!!!??.. I'm a 30 year carrier and sometimes we have 2 - 3 trays of mail.. people are paying bills online, etc... I want to save jobs, but we aren't using our subs much anymore anyway, unless they are used in different crafts... let's have some common sense... do you all want then to go BROKE and start asking for their BAILOUT?
always remember, we do not only deliver mail 6 days a week;we also keep an eye on your homes and family.
when Katrina hit we were out of power for weeks had no way to pay our bills online had no way of a computer .Know i send our bills by mail ,the postal service had a temporary post office where we got our mail and send. reality check could happpen again or some other disaster
I also am a Letter Carrier, and as long as management hands out millions of dollars to themselves in bonus's, they have no right to say we cant make payroll unless we go to 5 day delivery. Do people not realize that the saving from that one day of delivery will actually be BIG BONUS for management - it will go right into their pockets for a job well done, they saved millions. They have eliminate thousands of clerk positions and now working to eliminate the carrier craft. So how do you explain why they have created more management positions - there are fewer people to manage!!! Potter wanted to go down in history for the one saving the Postal Service. He'll go down in history alright - for the one that destroyed the Postal Service.
"30 year carrier", I think you're full of it. If you really are a carrier, you must have noticed that your route is three times longer on the street. Lower volumes or not, the USPS would be turning a profit every year except 2009 for the past four years if not for the pre-funding requirement. If you are really that concerned about "saving jobs" I would think you would take your 30 years and retire already.
If the USPS is really losing money, how can they be paying ANY bonuses to anyone? Nothing but a Ponzi scheme. Lie when it fits the agenda of Potter. Just remember "actions speak louder than words". If Congress and the American public would pay more attention to Potters and the USPS's actions, they would see there is plenty of money in the PO. It's just being pissed away to make it look like a loser so that they can make changes that are not needed.
I hope 30 year letter carrier knows that anyone retirement elidgible must retire before they lay people off so he/she will be the first to go when they drop Saturday delivery. 30 years ago, did you even have a postal vehicle or did you walk out and get your mail from drop boxes?
There use to be 8 but are now 3 PTF's in my office so your right they are cutting back... Oh wait a minute, they have 8+ TE's. And what are they really transitioning into? There are no promisses and as long as they keep busting thier arse and running their routes why would management convert them into PTF's?
Did you all know that management gets a bonus based on how much sick leave is not used? The more sick leave is built up the bigger the bonus. In our office a two or three day absense due to illness is charged as annual leave unless you catch it and fight to have it changed.
The Postal Service is required by law to pre-fund future health benefits to the tune of $5 Billion a year. We were given a 2 year reprieve last year. No other part of government prefunds ANY health benefits. 2/3 of Fortune 500 companies don't pre-fund ANY health benefits. Without this onerous requirement the post office would have turned a profit in 2 of the last 3 years. We are like a company turning a nice little profit, but the bookkeeper is shoveling money out the back door and on paper it looks like we're broke.
PM Potter is driving business away from the post office and should be fired.
Lets not forget all the cameras and spy equipment that the Postal service is going to put in our vehicles. What is the cost there?
Potter and the management are quick to recommend a 5 or 4 day delivery, but are they willing to take the pay cut in proportion to what they are proposing? ( probably not) If any other business was run like the Postal Service, they would simply have been out a long time ago. Someone, not under the thumb of government, needs to tell the facts. The postal service is not broken; the management is.
I think we should go to 7 day delivery!
I love getting mail!
For some of us older folks, the only exercise we get is going to the mailbox.
This is a health issue and should be addressed as such
We need to keep getting mail 6 days a week. It is one of the few things left in America that you don't have to be affluent to get the same treatment as people who are. Mail service is part of the fabric of this country...cutting away at it would be a big mistake!
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