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USPS definitely killing that plan to end Saturday delivery

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:41:39 +0000

Nevermind.

With the realities of technology and competition slowly but surely rendering much of their ‘business model’ obsolete, the U.S. Postal Service is on the strugglebus. The ‘self-supporting’ government enterprise managed to run up a deficit of $16 billion in 2012 alone, prompting them to once again look for ways in which they might be able [...]

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Super: Congress votes to force broke Postal Service back into 6-day delivery

Mary Katharine Ham — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:51:46 +0000

Signed, sealed, thwarted.

Rule of thumb for governments with unhealthy debt-to-GDP ratios and trillions in unfunded liabilities. When a floundering federal agency offers to shave off some spending, take them up on it. Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe announced in February they would be cutting Saturday service from the USPS six-day regimen, calculating the agency could save $2 [...]

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Is rural mail delivery the real problem with the USPS budget?

Jazz Shaw — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:01:00 +0000

Farmland

It’s Saturday, and I went out on the front porch this morning after shoveling out from Nemo and got the mail as usual. There was an advertisement trying to get me to switch homeowner’s insurance and a coupon flyer for the local grocery store. That sort of surprise waiting in the mailbox doesn’t exactly get [...]

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Post Office to end Saturday deliveries

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:41:55 +0000

$2 billion in savings.

You take sixteen billion, and what do you get? Another day shorter and lighter in debt — or so the Post Office hopes. The USPS went into the red in 2012 by an astounding $16 billion, and needs to find ways to cut costs. CBS News reports this morning that they will trim one-sixth of [...]

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U.S. Postal Service reports major losses… again

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:21:02 +0000

Stuck on stupid.

I know, I know — it’s silly of me to expect or even hope that a government-run service should ever be forced to cope with fiscal realities, especially once said service is practically obsolete and has long since outlived it’s ability to just break even (because that right there would pretty much disqualify the entire [...]

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USPS to carrier: No, you can’t dress up like Santa!

Tina Korbe — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:45:51 +0000

Grinchy.

So our congressmen-and-women can’t wish us “Merry Christmas” and our postal carriers can’t don Santa suits. From Bellevue Reporter: For more than a decade now, letter carrier Bob McLean has driven around Bellevue each holiday season, delivering a little Christmas cheer while wearing a full Santa getup for two or three days. But this year, [...]

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Issa: Postal Service needs solutions other than a taxpayer-funded bailout

Tina Korbe — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Far more than the price of a postage stamp.

I like snail mail as much as the next person — actually, full disclosure, I prefer old-fashioned mail to virtually any other mode of communication, social media included — so I’m troubled at the $8.5 billion loss the Postal Service faced last year and the $8.3 billion and $8.5 billion projected losses the Service is expected [...]

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