I had never heard about the pre-pay requirement prior to reading this article. The premise is preposterous considering the USPS is the ONLY entity with such a requirement. On the other hand, if you don’t recognize that the USPS is just another of the latest technology-surpassed dinosaurs, I’d like to talk to you about a great opportunity in the video rental store business

Once again Republicans have caused a problem by passing a ridiculous bill putting the USPS in jeopardy of default. But, rather than fix the problem (repeal the law) they decide to lay-off thousands of workers, shut down postal branches and cause the American people more pain. It will help their plan against Pres. Obama by raising the unemployment figures (just as laying off thousands of Federal employees did) and they can claim USPS is antiquated. Ask yourself – when did the unemployment rate go up? Answer: after Republicans controlling House got in. Why? Thousands of Federal employees laid off. Layoff that many people and you will naturally have a downgrade in demand. Less demand causes further layoffs, economy to decline and Wall Street to go down. It’s all a part of the grand plan to “get rid of Obama” no matter the cost while promoting (and literally causing) a smaller government. The harm caused to those laid off, the American people, business, and the Country is just collateral damage to obtain what they want. Until the American people wake up and actually see the “Grand Plan” for what it is, America will continue going downhill. Yesterday: Federal Employees, tomorrow: USPS employees. We’re making gov’t smaller, what the he** if America goes down with it!

Mr. Taylor;

You fail to mention that the average pay for postal workers is $52,000. This does not include benefits. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Dik Thurston
Colorado Springs

In response to Mr. Thurston’s comment about postal workers making $52,000 per year. So, they make a living wage. Should they be forced into sweatshop wages so they can struggle on less? Do you think postage costs too much (it cost 4 to 6 times as much and is unreliable in most countries)? Should no one but the rich be paid a comfortable wage? Just what do you think an appropriate middle class wage should be?

Teachers, police, fire fighters and postal workers are not riding in limousines on these “huge” wages. They are struggling to keep a middle class ranch house, a 4 year-old car and send their kids to college.

This seems on the surface to be part of a strategy by the Republicans representatives and their big campaign contributors to tear down the middle class by first busting public employee unions, reducing the workforce and wages, then moving to attack private unions with legislation like the euphemistically named “right to work” bill (which should more accurately be called the “right to slave” bill.) What is this idea to reduce everyone’s else’s pay so the rich can have even more and pay less taxes? The middle class has lost ground on wages and hours for over 40 years now. Republicans are right when they called this class warfare, but the middle class is the group being attacked, not vice-versa. And it seems that the some Republicans are actually trying to continue this downturn so Obama can be blamed and bounced out of office by a Republican candidate. This is a risky tactic (not to mention an unconscionable one) that could backfire badly.

I know many Republicans are well-meaning and believe these are the reasons we have a massive deficit. And there are areas where they are exactly right and we need to route out waste and patronage no matter who it benefits. But the tactics extreme right-wing senators and house members are not going to fix the problem. We have a military budget that is more than all the other countries in the world combined, some $750 billion dollars per year, and we have a revenue collection problem on top of that. We are spending billions to build infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we won’t spend money on our own crumbling roads, tunnels, bridges and public facilities. Corporations hire armies of lawyers to find ways around tax laws with loophole that the Republican house won’t even consider plugging. These are loopholes, not tax policy. Even if we could compromise and not raise taxes, we could at least enforce the intention of the tax laws that are on the books and close these loopholes instead of punishing middle class workers and creating more unemployment.

Route out waste, close the loopholes, reign in the military budget by using proper threat assessment and appropriate spending to keep us safe and solvent at the same time, clean up social programs so they serve the truly needy, not scofflaws, end the wars, take care of our veterans and put people back to work building America.

Put us back on the map as having the best education, public facilities and roads in the world. If that is liberal thinking, then I guess I am a liberal, but I think the truth is not on the extreme right or the extreme left, the truth is always in the middle. That is American thinking has alway been about and these are all good ideas that even that presidents from John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan or for that matter, Senator Barry Goldwater could have supported. And they guys, not even JFK, were not liberals.

Excellent reporting here – just becoming aware of this bill that passed in a lame duck session in 2006 which is now creating extreme financial hardship for the USPS in an era where its income is declining from high tech competition. Good points today made by Ed Shultz on his radio program – include that fact that privately owned competitive companies (Fed Ex and UPS) do not have to serve low population rural areas. If the Republicans through this maneuver are successful in their long term goal to privatize this governmental agency service (which operates at no cost to the taxpayer by the way) the profitability of even Fed Ex and UPS would decline as they would have to deliver then to the less profitable areas of the country. Additionally, many small businesses that depend on USPS – mail order, catalog, etc. could fail if this service is not available at a reasonable cost. The President and Democrats need to bring this message to the public in a strong way and immediately seek to undo this legislation. The damage done by the previous administration and Congress lives on. I am one terrified American at the thoughts that the Republicans could gain complete control in 2012 and continue to work to eliminate not only the middle class and the institutions (like unions) that helped it to grow and mature – but to undermine all governmental services that help us to live in a healthier and safer environment.

Added thought: Even if the “average” wage was $52,000 (which I doubt it is) keep this in mind: I personally know people who worked for governmental agencies out of college and made $45,000 who are six years later doing the same job for private contractors (paid by our tax dollars) who are making $150,000 and have said to me “now, does that make sense?” Where is the savings, folks?

The Postal Service can save money by diffrent means then closing their plants and smaller stations.
Maybe, when these problems were occuring,management should have stopped ordering new machines that were insufficient,adding additions to buildings, or sending
mail to other facilities to be worked thus being delayed and dropping the approval rate of our customers.
Christmas premium pay, needs to be curtailed.
Yes we need to save the Postal Service, and 120,000 jobs, but, we also need the
satisfaction of knowing our mail will be at our doors.

I agree that a prepay agreement is ridiculous unless there are no funds set a side to meet the retirement and pension requirements of the workers which is the case in many private and public organizations and is one of the largest financial hits to General Motors. That being said, I do also believe the USPS is being mismanaged regardless of whether it is profitable or not. For instance, I live in an area with 50,000 people and there are two full post offices and one Kiosk station plus there are four additional PO’s within 18 miles to serve four additional small communities of less than 10,000 population. While it may add some degree of inconvenience to travel 15 to 18 miles to get to a PO, that is not a hardship in an area like ours with light traffic. This issue needs to be studied in every area of the country and we need to eliminate unneeded PO’s even if that precludes eliminating personnel the savings on rent and maintenance alone is a pretty good hunk of change.

Rural communities need their post offices. PERIOD I use the USPS and would not mind paying a few cents more for a stamp in order to keep a necessary service. Why don’t any of the cost cutting ideas these jokers come up with start at the top with audits of administrative costs and expenses rather than with cutting services? It’s postal SERVICE which is what the business is all about. Every business could save money if they just shut their doors. That cuts way back on overhead and the expense of those darned ol’ employees.

What is all of this BS about the Republicans? The House vote was “Passed 410-20, 3 not voting”, and all 20 of the disenting votes were Republicans. Only one Democrat failed to vote Yes on the bill, George Miller (CA) simply failed to vote.

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