tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post4608857854640873074..comments2024-03-27T22:06:35.339-10:00Comments on Dead Tree Edition: On USPS Privatization, George Will Strikes OutD. Eadward Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01300353143826844617noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-65932840206454447812012-07-27T14:46:00.703-10:002012-07-27T14:46:00.703-10:00george will is a douche and he should remain silen...george will is a douche and he should remain silent lest he show his true level of douchitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-46866450404152146292011-12-11T07:42:34.185-10:002011-12-11T07:42:34.185-10:00Run it like a business. Charge $1 a day to hold ma...Run it like a business. Charge $1 a day to hold mail, $20 to forward mail for 6 months, $2 for address correction, an administrative charge for collecting postage due, minimum $100 a year for PO Box, $2 per page for FAX service, and $5 to Agencies request for address changes. USPS delivers mail, they don't have to provide all the other services free or for next to nothing. Privatize? Yea Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-27345066202165076242011-11-30T15:55:48.570-10:002011-11-30T15:55:48.570-10:00The issue is that a private firm would have to mee...The issue is that a private firm would have to meet the Universal Service Mandate. That means ever address in the US. Not just the easy ones that are clustered together. <br /><br />Think of the AT&T and Verizon commercials, where they have the map. 95% of Americans still has a lot of the country underved. It would add 25% or more to the infrastructure to support this last 3%.<br /><br />But,Scott Draegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486889537376106517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-28027727844034661202011-11-30T11:17:31.725-10:002011-11-30T11:17:31.725-10:00The average price includes second & third clas...The average price includes second & third class materials like newspapers, magazines, catalogs and JUNK mailAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-56770359267099192002011-11-30T11:15:01.545-10:002011-11-30T11:15:01.545-10:00The Postal Service would show a profit if Congress...The Postal Service would show a profit if Congress hadn't demanded they fund 75 years of pension obligations in 10 years. No other organization in the WORLD must do that!<br />Funding future obligations at sound actuarial levels would turn the USPS to profitability.<br />And while Congress is at it they should make every CORPORATION fund their future obligations on sound actuarial Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-43026588679435681572011-11-29T04:18:03.304-10:002011-11-29T04:18:03.304-10:00for us, the nearest Wal-Mart is a 45 minute drive ...for us, the nearest Wal-Mart is a 45 minute drive on mountain roads. Does America value rural citizens anymore, enough to bind us together as a nation, as the Postal Service has? If the answer is "no, we no longer want to subsidize rural delivery and rural post offices, let them pay their own way," then one can easily respond, "well then, have your milk, your beef, your pork, Bob in ARnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-3286048996373925942011-11-28T11:59:06.369-10:002011-11-28T11:59:06.369-10:00Thanks Bob, I too am soon to retire. do you play s...Thanks Bob, I too am soon to retire. do you play shuffle board? I admit a strong bias, favoring the hard working, good hearted, people I have spent 33 yrs. with. I see the qualities and efforts expended, now being put into a bag and soon to be tossed into the river. Once that happens, the grand and valuable tradition of the PO. is gone forever. I'm certain a brilliant fish could figure dumbfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10478593351886001741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-73903885345420093312011-11-28T11:31:34.662-10:002011-11-28T11:31:34.662-10:00Privatization is not the answer, the answer is rai...Privatization is not the answer, the answer is raising the prices to fit the needs of the postal service. I work for the GMF in Colorado, I wont say which branch so that I can avoid hazing by some of the crazy people who do work at my GMF. Solution number one, get rid of the people who are "unable" to preform their duties, or send them home when the work is finished. You have no idea Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-89460732219194381552011-11-28T11:30:40.458-10:002011-11-28T11:30:40.458-10:00I'm amazed at all the hyperbolic rant and rave...I'm amazed at all the hyperbolic rant and rave about USPS losing money! Even if we are given credit for the $5.5 billion Congress steals from us, the fact remains that many of the services we provide -- changes of address, hold mail, checking on old ladies,sometimes saving little old ladies lives, informing prosecutors offices all over the country whether Jane Doe in fact still lives at thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-33396752523173269052011-11-28T11:18:26.166-10:002011-11-28T11:18:26.166-10:00I think George Will's suggestion for privitiza...I think George Will's suggestion for privitization is typical of the over simplification behind many calls for privitization -- the USPS and other government services. Sometimes it might make sense, but many times it simply doesn't. And while there is always room for improvement, I don't think the USPS gets enough credit for doing a pretty good job handling a massive, complex Larry Bauerhttp://www.bauerassociates.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-11874070538541185702011-11-27T23:16:53.089-10:002011-11-27T23:16:53.089-10:00Dumbfish, once more you live up to your name! Do y...Dumbfish, once more you live up to your name! Do you ever think before you engage your fingers? Everything in this system of things is based on profits, and the old adage of "what is in it for me". The service that the PO provides has been great to this point, but you will find that just like everything else in life, time brings about change. What was needed even 5 years ago is no Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-23776751660060511502011-11-27T21:47:47.420-10:002011-11-27T21:47:47.420-10:00If post office will be privatized the postage will...If post office will be privatized the postage will be jack up on all kind of mails. The only remedy there is to change the management and keep it as Federal kind of business. Mangement doesn't know how to save money. They just change the system to show but the change if more for the worst!!!! Post office won't be a post office when it gets privatize....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-70475800924782400822011-11-27T13:10:39.425-10:002011-11-27T13:10:39.425-10:00Thanks, dumbfish...way too much drama over whether...Thanks, dumbfish...way too much drama over whether it's 44 or 34 cents. Calm down people!! LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-64311331185461351572011-11-27T07:47:08.703-10:002011-11-27T07:47:08.703-10:00OMG.!! anybody READ anything in the article other ...OMG.!! anybody READ anything in the article other than 34 or 44!! Dumbasses. If I HAD A 44 I could straighten a lot of you out!! [moderator, please accept the wit on usage of 44] George is correct, if companies took over the 50 % of the high profit business, those execs and shareholders would make tons of money. When 50% of your brain is STULTIFIED [yours George] it's easy to ignore 100 dumbfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10478593351886001741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-13969184490919687902011-11-27T07:41:22.734-10:002011-11-27T07:41:22.734-10:00Never drew so much controversy since the "one...Never drew so much controversy since the "one bullet" theory-- Always notice Non-postal people giving uninformed info- and postal people always blaming the other side craft/vrs/management. The reality is the system has no real numbers- they create the numbers they want-using POSTAL MATH- who else runs a company issuing Budgets that can't mathematically be accomplishedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-57481927274960927462011-11-27T07:31:11.550-10:002011-11-27T07:31:11.550-10:00Meanwhile, Rome burns.Meanwhile, Rome burns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-15345129309020875672011-11-27T07:30:47.211-10:002011-11-27T07:30:47.211-10:00Privatization IS CODE for Profitization.Privatization IS CODE for Profitization.kenny labbenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-57169280658252184402011-11-27T04:32:17.797-10:002011-11-27T04:32:17.797-10:00.44 before the discounts large mailers get.44 before the discounts large mailers getAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-68934296891478332852011-11-27T04:18:31.447-10:002011-11-27T04:18:31.447-10:00Think about it a little before responding. The ar...Think about it a little before responding. The article states the average, that would be postcards and disounted bulk first class as well as the 0.44 cent mail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-4379692508493375552011-11-27T04:09:12.576-10:002011-11-27T04:09:12.576-10:00No, the AVERAGE price for first class mail when di...No, the AVERAGE price for first class mail when discounts for businesses who mail large quantities of FCM letters is factored in is 34 cents.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16041141373057077913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-29357488471455398422011-11-27T03:50:52.756-10:002011-11-27T03:50:52.756-10:0044 cents???
Read the rest of the paragraph.
Moro...44 cents???<br /><br />Read the rest of the paragraph. <br />Moron!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-75454893384241135242011-11-27T03:45:10.147-10:002011-11-27T03:45:10.147-10:00Way to tell it like it is!Way to tell it like it is!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-15463453523901651642011-11-27T03:41:34.052-10:002011-11-27T03:41:34.052-10:00No, it is not 44 cents. He said,
"The average...No, it is not 44 cents. He said,<br />"The average price USPS charged last fiscal year for First Class and other monopoly classes of mail was 34.1 cents."<br />I would still like to know how he got this answer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-53076413138299615792011-11-27T03:19:48.592-10:002011-11-27T03:19:48.592-10:00The answer isn't to privatize but to eliminate...The answer isn't to privatize but to eliminate all that management downtime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615285628064623043.post-71981849253550546592011-11-27T02:29:29.708-10:002011-11-27T02:29:29.708-10:0044 cents44 centsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com