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“Donahoe raised postal rates by 6 percent in December, making magazine delivery more expensive at a time publishers are carefully managing their print costs,” Folio: noted. Periodicals mail volume declined more than 6% in the first six months after the “exigent” rate increase was implemented.
Folio:’s slap at the PMG was a far cry from April 2012, when the magazine hailed Donahoe because “he has pledged to support the magazine industry.” He was awarded a place on that year's Folio: 40 list of the magazine industry’s “most innovative and distinguished professionals.”
To be fair to Donahoe, almost everyone in 2012 thought Congress would have to do something to relieve the Postal Service’s financial burdens, after squeezing billions of dollars from the agency in the form of pension overpayments and prepaid retiree health benefits.
But in fact Congress has been unable to do anything more meaningful than name additional post offices, leaving Donahoe few options in his efforts to keep the agency solvent.
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They just found out what Postal Service employees have already known,that Doanahoe is a lying weasel who tell you what you want to hear then stab you in the back.
ReplyDeleteDonahoe needs to develop some backbone and quit sucking up to Congress. They are obviously not going to pass meaningful postal reform or take away the burden of prefunding retirees health benefits or give us back our pension overpayments without a fight. He needs to put on some boxing gloves and stand up for his employees.
ReplyDeletePat Donohoe is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Dwindling mail volume is beyond his control. The things he would like to control, Congress won't let him.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many other ways for USPS to grow revenue if only Congress would unshackle them and let them behave like real business instead of a government agency that gets NONE of its revenue from the taxpayers.