US Postal Service Ends Saturday Delivery in August
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If it fits it ships.... Great service.. SC to my place business 3 days! Holy crap that is fast! BFE Kentucky to my place same service... I ship stuff when out here home from wherever I am... Always great service.
They should have tripled the price of a 1st class letter years ago! As Turtle said the resources just for a .45 fee that is used.
They should have tripled the price of a 1st class letter years ago! As Turtle said the resources just for a .45 fee that is used.
paullud
Veteran Expediter
We used those one rate boxes to send things to my brother in Iraq because an APO costs the same. I was able to send boxes full of car magazines and cigarettes that he could give to the guys that didn't get much from home.
Deville
Not a Member
The post office made money before the ne0-cons in congress bent on breaking the largest union in the country forced the USPS to fund future healthcare retirement benifits 75 years in to the future. The USPS is paying for healthcare benifits for future retirees who haven't been born yet to the tune of billions of dollars. Once that funding is completed the USPS should be able to be profitable again....that is until congress dreams up another way of screwing them over.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
75 years is the standard for all government agencies. Nothing new here.
Canada Post in the red for first time in 16 years - The Globe and Mail
After 16 years of profitability, Canada Post recorded a pretax loss of $253-million in 2011 – the result of dwindling mail volume, a costly pay equity ruling and June’s strike and lockout.
After 16 years of profitability, Canada Post recorded a pretax loss of $253-million in 2011 – the result of dwindling mail volume, a costly pay equity ruling and June’s strike and lockout.
I spent 15 years as a letter carrier and i loved delivering the mail, , walked 16 miles a day, left in 2003 after 911 it was not a good place to work even in a small town. ...Management turned into total A holes and Postal Service was cutting our benefits. ...but yet upper Management like Post Masters and above were getting christmas bonuses of $ 5000. and more. .....and now their almost 16 billion behind in payments to employees retirement fund. ...I ve been gone almost 10 years now and never looked back. ...make more money and less stress. ..
paullud
Veteran Expediter
I spent 15 years as a letter carrier and i loved delivering the mail, , walked 16 miles a day, left in 2003 after 911 it was not a good place to work even in a small town. ...Management turned into total A holes and Postal Service was cutting our benefits. ...but yet upper Management like Post Masters and above were getting christmas bonuses of $ 5000. and more. .....and now their almost 16 billion behind in payments to employees retirement fund. ...I ve been gone almost 10 years now and never looked back. ...make more money and less stress. ..
Why not finish 20 years for the pension? Or did it just get that bad?
The Gov. pension stopped back in 1987. .If you were hired after that date then you were under the Thrift Savings plan which is like a IRA account...retirement after 25 years of service. ...but after 911 the interest rates dropped to less than 1.5 % ...so instead of retiring at age 57 with my pay being more than my salary at that time. ...I would have to work at P O until i was 67 to receive my set retirement rate..so in easy terms 25 years to retire before 911 and 37 years of service to retire after the attacks.....so i decided to pull my money and put into my own ira s and find a better job.... & looking back now with their money problems and the way its ran I 'm glad i left..
paullud
Veteran Expediter
Wow, I guess that is a major decrease in benefits. I used to not like postal workers because I thought that they were government leeches but between the information you and Turtle provided now I feel bad for them. At least you were able to find a job that you love with a better income, I bet many were not.
Deville
Not a Member
But as many have pointed out the post office isn't a goverment agency that accepts federal funding. They are self funding. That's why they weren't required to do this in the past. It's not like the pensions & benifits were under funded either. This is union busting plain & simple. Powers that be want to privateize the Postoffice so they can line their own pockets.
Deville
Not a Member
That's why those thrift plans don't work. Plus you can collect Social security either. It's a double screwing. Thrift plans should be available as an option for the employee to contribute to in addition to the pension.
Remember when Bush 43 tried to turn Social Security in to a thrift/voucher plan? Thank God everyone saw though that crap.
I always was for more PO in places like truck stops and more in stores . These would be operated by the staff in the stores and t/s with adding other things like UPS and fedx shipping.. this could save money because the PO is only paying a commision fee and could also generate some jobs in the country, because will need more staff to operate.. Just a thought!!
That's how it works in Canada. Small satellite outlets in drug stores and stuff like that. Very convenient.
As Scott said...the retail side has been all privatized....many years ago.....LOL
But but its a socialist country
and our DOT(MTO) testing and drivers licensing is also privatized...