The elephant in the room this article DID NOT mention was the pre-funding, 75 years into the future, future employees health benefits. (duckduckgo.com) No other business in the whole World, Gov. or NGO is required by Law to fund FUTURE employees health care and retirement. FUTURE employees = people who are not even born yet, their benefits have to be funded by the PO, within 10 years of the PO act of 2006. (duckduckgo.com) THAT fiasco Law was a big "fuck you" by GWB and Congress to the PO.
THAT Law was designed to kill the PO. Yet year after year the PO is the most admired agency of all the Fed. Gov. (duckduckgo.com) What needs to be done is to cut out completely middle management, which Carvin Marvin Runyon did a pretty good job of in the 1980's. (duckduckgo.com) His motto was "if you don't touch the mail, what the Hell are you doing here?"
Copy from article---The problems at the Post Office come from excessive retirement benefits, unnecessary service requirements, expensive junk mail, inefficient management and poor pricing practices which
This idiot woman who wrote this garbage is right, and wrong in the same sentence. WRONG = excessive ret. benes, expensive junk mail. THE MAILERS PAY THE COST OF JUNK MAIL. The (BBM) bulk business mailers (junk mail) pays for literally most of the benefits OF the PO. The PO does NOT pay for junk mail, idiot. RIGHT = inefficient management and poor pricing = giving loss leader breaks to Amazon and such.
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