USPS may cut day of mail delivery

[Schadenfroh]

IMO, they should only deliver mail to private homes every other day and allow pickup at the office if one must have it sooner.

 

[scruffypup]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: scruffypup
Some fun facts about the USPS,...

Process and deliver more than 212 billion pieces of mail ? letters, cards, ads, bills, payments and packages ? every year. Which equates to:
700 million pieces per day
29 million pieces per hour
486,000 pieces per minute
8,000 pieces per second

How much of that is junk mail? My mailbox gets at least 50% junk mail.

Dunno personally,... there are ways to reduce a lot of junk mail (credit card offers, offers from businesses you deal with, etc),...

BUT!!!
If you lay off say 50,000 of the 685,000 postal workers by elimanating junk mail alone,... you also would be eliminating demand for sanitation,.. taking jobs there,... also the stuffers and mailroom workers from these "junk mail" producing places,....

JUNK MAIL IS NEEDED I SAY!!!!!! j/k

I guess they could then do the jobs that some say we just absolutely need immigrant workers for,... (which is a debate for another time)

 

[Xellos2099]

Cut all the free junk mail and they solve the little problem.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
IMO, they should only deliver mail to private homes every other day and allow pickup at the office if one must have it sooner.

not enough room to hold all the mail for every other day delivery. even if they cut the slowest day, the carriers are in for long days for that alone....

 

[MovingTarget]

Junk mail may be considered useless to the people who receive it, but to the USPS I believe it is a big part of their business. Even though you receive it without having to pay anything, the companies that send that crap out do indeed pay for the service. So, if you get a lot of junk mail, then the USPS has had a lot of business. I don't think that they would be able to exist without mass commercial mailings these days...

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Xellos2099
Cut all the free junk mail and they solve the little problem.

bulk mail houses are a multi-million or billion dollar a year industry, so you are going to kill more jobs off if you do that - think of the trickle down effect that is not just the post office, but all the mail houses and their staff.

and fwiw the people i talk to that are still there, mail i down quite a bit across the board in all aspects, i don't think killing an industry is needed.

what is needed, as i have said in other posts is more responsible management. the po gets busted hard by the unions and their own management due to plain ignorance on themselves. put in place management that is really qualified and not just there because they never called in sick and a lot of the problems of inefficiency go away.

the po is very efficient, it is just that a ton is wasted for ridiculous b.s. that is not even related to the mail.

 

[alien42]

more layoffs, woohoo.

according to wiki - "The USPS is currently the third-largest employer in the United States, after the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart."

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
I read from a different article that Tuesday may be the day taken out. The day with the least volume is the ideal choice, and apparently Tuesday is it.

IF they do this, they should ONLY cut residential delivery on Tuesdays.

They should still deliver to (certain eligible) businesses on Tuesday, as there are bills, etc.. that need to get where they are going during the work week.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
It beats raising postage.

Postage rates will still get increased. You see, the ones that cooked up the 5 day delivery week will be due some big bonuses. Along with all the other managers who clapped at the idea. Ooops not enough money to cover bonuses.... so rates go up to 52 cents for a first class stamp.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Fern
Personally, I see no attraction is receiving mail on Saturdays. .

Fern

I guess you don't have Netflix

It seems to be a good way to save money but it kind of sucks if it cost people their jobs.

 

[nobodyknows]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Junk mail may be considered useless to the people who receive it, but to the USPS I believe it is a big part of their business. Even though you receive it without having to pay anything, the companies that send that crap out do indeed pay for the service. So, if you get a lot of junk mail, then the USPS has had a lot of business. I don't think that they would be able to exist without mass commercial mailings these days...

What people need to do is open all your junk mail and put one offer in anothers pre-paid envelope and vice- versa. Then mail them. Then the post office will make even more money.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
It beats raising postage.

Postage rates will still get increased. You see, the ones that cooked up the 5 day delivery week will be due some big bonuses. Along with all the other managers who clapped at the idea. Ooops not enough money to cover bonuses.... so rates go up to 52 cents for a first class stamp.

nah, they probably hired some "research group" to analyze the data and this is the conclusion they came up w/. they probably paid 2-3M for it too.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
How much of that is junk mail? My mailbox gets at least 50% junk mail.

Only 50%? I'd say ours is at least 75%. Coupons, ads, CC offers, etc. I signed up to be removed but I guess it ran out.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Junk mail may be considered useless to the people who receive it, but to the USPS I believe it is a big part of their business. Even though you receive it without having to pay anything, the companies that send that crap out do indeed pay for the service. So, if you get a lot of junk mail, then the USPS has had a lot of business. I don't think that they would be able to exist without mass commercial mailings these days...

How many people would be happier to not get mass commercial mailings? I know I'm one of them.

 

[BoberFett]

The USPS is the best of example of a well run governmental organization. Usage based, efficient, fair. I wish the rest of the government were half as well run. If it was I might not be such a staunch libertarian.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Junk mail may be considered useless to the people who receive it, but to the USPS I believe it is a big part of their business. Even though you receive it without having to pay anything, the companies that send that crap out do indeed pay for the service. So, if you get a lot of junk mail, then the USPS has had a lot of business. I don't think that they would be able to exist without mass commercial mailings these days...

How many people would be happier to not get mass commercial mailings? I know I'm one of them.

You can opt out of much of it. I did before but I guess it expired because we get flooded now.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Junk mail may be considered useless to the people who receive it, but to the USPS I believe it is a big part of their business. Even though you receive it without having to pay anything, the companies that send that crap out do indeed pay for the service. So, if you get a lot of junk mail, then the USPS has had a lot of business. I don't think that they would be able to exist without mass commercial mailings these days...

How many people would be happier to not get mass commercial mailings? I know I'm one of them.

You can opt out of much of it. I did before but I guess it expired because we get flooded now.

How does one go about doing this?

Is there any legal recourse (ala the do-not-call list $10,000 fines)?

 

[gzervali2006]

That would be absolutely awful for that to happen!

 

[sportage]

I think its a done deal.
But.... whatever.....

 

[notposting]

I love the part where Congress says they have to fund 70 years (?) of retiree benefits but but but they are independent so we don't have to give them money.

Gee, wonder why they are having a tough time making the numbers work. Saw that one of the arguments is that "7 out of 10 Americans support dropping Saturday delivery". LOL. Sure they do.

How about you start charging a reasonable rate for fucking junk mail and maybe we won't get bombarded with so much, and the stuff that does show up will be much more targeted?

Probably working on the union contracts to allow jettisoning some of the worthless, over-entitled, bitchy, lazies that work there would be great too. There are people who would love to get a steady job and would work hard and be respectful of their customers.

grumble grumble swear swear necro-thread, can see it only took 4 damn years for them to accomplish this...

 

[WhipperSnapper]

I kinda wondered why they haven't pushed this sooner. It really doesn't make much sense these days to deliver 6 days a week. Email gives us many of our bills and notices that mail once did. Seems like a good idea to save a little money.

I agree. Does anyone here really need mail delivery 6 times per week? I'd be perfectly fine if they cut it down to two or three days a week.

 

[Wreckem]

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