Thank YOU Althea for truth telling...this is exactly what needs to happen...it's another move by the right to privatize and that's all it is. To hell with the people and mail delivery. My mail carrier drives up to my door to deliver my packages and mail on many occasions....he's wonderful and he knows I'm disabled and 'old'...I love the guy! I want my post office supported and I want them to earn a good wage. The corporatists won't be happy until all labor is begging.
Fed Ex/Ups Cutting Jobs.
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Thank YOU Althea for truth telling...this is exactly what needs to happen...it's another move by the right to privatize and that's all it is. To hell with the people and mail delivery. My mail carrier drives up to my door to deliver my packages and mail on many occasions....he's wonderful and he knows I'm disabled and 'old'...I love the guy! I want my post office supported and I want them to earn a good wage. The corporatists won't be happy until all labor is begging.
Althea
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And that's why I posted the article.
Some things aren't meant to turn a profit high enough to keep investors happy.
There's no way Fed Ex/Ups could deliver the same service, at the same price.
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first you claim no tax dollars go to the post office, now you're once again moving the goal posts by claiming that some tax dollars do in fact go to the post office. make up your mind.
Althea
Althea told me...
Actually, the money goes for overseas voters, and special services for the blind. I thought it was for the overseas military.
About $100 million/year. Less than 1% of their budget.
Fox News would have you believe that the USPS is a tax burden, that should be replaced by the private sector.
My point stands. Fed Ex/Ups cannot deliver the mail as efficiently as the USPS
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Don't private companies and their investors pay less taxes than many wage earners?
They got tax cuts, the workers get job cuts. Was that what Bush and the right promised?
They got tax cuts, the workers get job cuts. Was that what Bush and the right promised?
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cite where fox said that. fed ex, to my knowledge, does not want to deliver all mail. your strawman is really weak. are you aware that the USPS does not pay federal taxes?
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The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office and U.S. Mail, is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States.
It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads, which has been interpreted as a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of mail. Accordingly, no other system for delivering mail – public or private – can be established...
The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general.
The cabinet-level Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation and transformed into its current form in 1971 under the Postal Reorganization Act.
The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.
However, it does receive tens to hundreds of millions per year in "implicit subsidies", such as breaks on property tax, vehicle registration, and sales tax, in addition to subsidized government loans.
Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,after which Congress passed the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future -- a requirement unique to this agency), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume,prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.
First Class mail volume (which is protected by legal monopoly) peaked in 2001 and has declined 29% from 1998 to 2008, due to the increasing use of email and the World Wide Web for correspondence and business transactions.
Lower volume means lower revenues to support the fixed commitment to deliver to every address once a day, six days a week. In response, the USPS has increased productivity each year from 2000 to 2007,through increased automation, route re-optimization, and facility consolidation.
Despite these efforts, the organization saw an $8.5 billion budget shortfall in 2010, and was losing money at a rate of about $3 billion per quarter in 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads, which has been interpreted as a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of mail. Accordingly, no other system for delivering mail – public or private – can be established...
The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general.
The cabinet-level Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation and transformed into its current form in 1971 under the Postal Reorganization Act.
The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.
However, it does receive tens to hundreds of millions per year in "implicit subsidies", such as breaks on property tax, vehicle registration, and sales tax, in addition to subsidized government loans.
Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,after which Congress passed the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future -- a requirement unique to this agency), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume,prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.
First Class mail volume (which is protected by legal monopoly) peaked in 2001 and has declined 29% from 1998 to 2008, due to the increasing use of email and the World Wide Web for correspondence and business transactions.
Lower volume means lower revenues to support the fixed commitment to deliver to every address once a day, six days a week. In response, the USPS has increased productivity each year from 2000 to 2007,through increased automation, route re-optimization, and facility consolidation.
Despite these efforts, the organization saw an $8.5 billion budget shortfall in 2010, and was losing money at a rate of about $3 billion per quarter in 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service