Post Office Problems

[bbcardzman]

I disagree with the "as a result of mismanagement" part. Under the law, the post office HAS to deliver to everybody at a uniform cost. With the advent of email, online payments, etc, they now have significantly less revenue, but still HAVE to serve the same amount of people. It costs me the same to mail a letter from the Twin Cities to Chicago as it does from the Twin Cities to a small town in the hillside of Vermont or to the middle of the Idaho wilderness even though the costs to get them there vary greatly. The volume of mail has dropped roughly 19% since 2001, and is expected to drop as much as an additional 37% but they can't just drop unprofitable routes to help offset these costs. Congress has mandated that they serve almost every mailing address 6 days a week, this is fixed, so post offices have to be open, fleets have to run, these are costs that can't just be dropped on a whim. They are not allowed to just close low volume post offices, they have to give 60 days notice and anyone served by that office can appeal the closure, and they aren't allowed to close post offices solely due to operating at a deficit.

The government isn't allowed to do a lot of things that they still do anyway. Have you forgotten that all government is above the law.

 

[OriolesFan8]

This thread is straying into volatile territory, so I am closing.

Todd