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 Postal Service May Slash 35,000 JobsPosted on Sep 15, 2011
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it is thinking about closing more than half of its mail-processing centers, which would eliminate more than 35,000 jobs, in order to turn a profit. The plan under consideration would close 252 of the 487 mail-processing centers and do away with one-day delivery for first-class mail in an effort to turn around a $9 billion loss from last year. The news of the Postal Service’s latest ideas to close the financial gap comes after a proposal to end Saturday delivery service did not go over well with Congress. —BF
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By doomster, September 16, 2011 at 10:51 am Link to this comment
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Congress wants to destroy the Postal Service. If they allowed a reduction to delivery five days/week the Postal Service would no longer be losing money and far fewer people would lose their jobs. But the Republicrats would rather close thousands of post offices and processing centers. This is what they should be cutting: http://www.lesswaiting.com/spending.shtml
Report thisBy John M, September 16, 2011 at 5:57 am Link to this comment
of course this doesn’t help either…..
UPS (Union) - about 66% of their total operating costs
Report thisare labor. FedEx (non-union) - about 45% of their total
operating costs are labor. USPS - 80-82%.
By John M, September 16, 2011 at 5:46 am Link to this comment
Why in the world do we pay the same price to mail a
Report thisletter across the street as we do to send the same
letter from Miami to Seattle? Who thought that up?
By Robespierre115, September 15, 2011 at 7:00 pm Link to this comment
This is most likely a planned process like Social Security, the fatcats keep telling us these programs aren’t working so they can then privatize it all. Disgusting.
Raise those red and black flags and long live the People’s Commune!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 15, 2011 at 6:18 pm Link to this comment
Raise the junk mail rate to more than the personal mail rate and this budget mess would be solved.
Report thisBy berniem, September 15, 2011 at 3:28 pm Link to this comment
Did I hear something about a jobs bill?
Report thisBy Robespierre115, September 15, 2011 at 3:22 pm Link to this comment
And where are the masses setting the streets ablaze as they are doing in Athens? Sitting on their asses watching American Idol.
Report thisBy Jimbo, September 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
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This has the stench of Darrell Issa all over it.
http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/more-details-emerge-republican-as#comments”
Report thisBy prisnersdilema, September 15, 2011 at 1:02 pm Link to this comment
Why don’t you charge businesses the price of a letter for all those ridiculous flyers they
send out. In other words stop subsidizing the grocery store, and all of them with tax
payer money…..
Oh no… We can’t do that can we, we’d rather layoff hard working men and women in
Report thisthe middle of a depression….this country has gone nuts…