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New By not sabotaging it
Eliminate the pre-funding of their retirement and the bulk of their deficit goes away.

Allow them to provide additional services that they are currently prohibited from because it competes with private enterprise.

But most importantly, stop expecting it to turn a profit. Have you asked how to run the military without running a deficit? No, because it's a service that the government provides. The fact that the USPS does as well as it does financially is a huge success story for government services, which is why Republicans are so determined to destroy it.

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Oh, and Mike just reminded me: I'm glad your mail has been coming through. Do you not believe the reports from actual USPS employees of mail being left on the floor or the loading docks? Do you know that the sorting machines are actually "underutilized" and not in fact needed for the entirely predicted spike in volume when elections come around? You know postal volume is seasonal, right?
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Drew
Expand Edited by drook Aug. 18, 2020, 12:02:57 PM EDT
New Re: By not sabotaging it
Eliminate the pre-funding of their retirement and the bulk of their deficit goes away.
Eh? Who mandates that and good luck getting the unions to sign off on that
pretty sure its not republicans mandating that

Allow them to provide additional services that they are currently prohibited from because it competes with private enterprise.
blocked by the owners of the democrats and republicans

But most importantly, stop expecting it to turn a profit.
Think most would settle for it not running such high deficits
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New Re: By not sabotaging it

Eh? Who mandates that and good luck getting the unions to sign off on that
pretty sure its not republicans mandating that

Republican law from 2006. There's a proposed law to repeal it that has been blocked by Republicans. It wasn't unions that added the health care funding, it was GW Bush who threatened a veto if the language wasn't in there.

The health care funding is something like $60B out of the $160B shortfall since 2007, so definitely not the whole problem... but it's a very large chunk of the problem.

The USPS is prohibited by law from charging less than cost for packages, so it's not Amazon either.

The main problem as I understand things is personnel costs, the decline in First Class mail, and requirements around where the health care money is invested.

Some possible fixes:
1) Remove the ridiculous health care funding and restrictions for something more like the rest of the government's approaches
2) Allow it to stop delivering paper mail 6 days a week. Most of it is advertising circulars and other crap. A small price hike here (currently limited to the CPI) would help.
3) Allow more competitive services
4) Forgive the present debt (something like $10B) so they can invest in capital improvements instead of just servicing debt and health care costs
5) Fix the personnel cost issue, and I suspect this is where most of the rancor will happen.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Re: By not sabotaging it
Think most would settle for it not running such high deficits

Based on what evidence? They've been saying openly for decades that they want to privatize it. They want it to fail so that they can.
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Drew
     what a blatant hypocrite! - (lincoln) - (67)
         Probably using his own sorting machine too... - (scoenye) - (43)
             'Impeachment' ..a disused word about to be removed from the O.E.D. - (Ashton) - (42)
                 She's calling them back. - (mmoffitt) - (41)
                     hard to figure the whole issue with mail in ballots - (boxley) - (40)
                         No - (drook) - (36)
                             ✓✓ (GMTA) -NT - (Ashton)
                             Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington State, where all voting is postal - (boxley) - (34)
                                 Are you stupid or pretending? - (drook) - (33)
                                     hardly please explain how you would run the post office - (boxley) - (31)
                                         Must be nice. - (malraux) - (7)
                                             must be a regional thing, of course I am not in a high density urban setting -NT - (boxley) - (6)
                                                 Our mail comes via Pontiac -NT - (malraux) - (4)
                                                     pontiac concerns, apparently pontiac sorts a buttton of mail - (boxley) - (3)
                                                         They took 2 sorting machines from Pontiac - (malraux) - (2)
                                                             Stop lying - (drook) - (1)
                                                                 To be fair, that's what the union reps are saying. - (malraux)
                                                 You know who is? Likely Democratic voters. I'm sure that's a coincidence. -NT - (drook)
                                         By not sabotaging it - (drook) - (3)
                                             Re: By not sabotaging it - (boxley) - (2)
                                                 Re: By not sabotaging it - (malraux)
                                                 Re: By not sabotaging it - (drook)
                                         You don't cripple them with the 75-year pension requirement - (crazy) - (18)
                                             got a link to show that the pension requirement was a republican requirement? -NT - (boxley) - (17)
                                                 What's the point? - (crazy)
                                                 Re: got a link to show that the pension requirement was a republican requirement? - (malraux) - (15)
                                                     Now Box admits he was wrong in 3 ... 2 ... oh who am I kidding? -NT - (drook)
                                                     thank you, acknowledged -NT - (boxley) - (9)
                                                         Seems less like deliberate sabotage and more like convenient target for something unrelated - (malraux) - (1)
                                                             at a glance it looks like a union members wet dream, why I thought it wasnt republican -NT - (boxley)
                                                         Receipt of information or that you are wrong? -NT - (crazy) - (2)
                                                             both why? -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                                                                 Because you make silly arguments based on a glance - (crazy)
                                                         SIMPLEST factoid of which you seem (also) emotionally-unaware - (Ashton) - (3)
                                                             The USPS is a Federally mandated SERVICE yes it is - (boxley) - (2)
                                                                 some good ideas on how to enable better stewardship of the postal service (longish read) - (boxley) - (1)
                                                                     So you googled and read for a bit - (crazy)
                                                     So, are y'all proud of how well you danced to his Gish Gallop tune there? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3)
                                                         Still waiting for official reply: Why'd Norm & Bryce get the treatment they did, but not the BOx? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2)
                                                             Re: Still waiting for official reply: Why'd Norm & Bryce get the treatment they did, but not the BOx - (crazy) - (1)
                                                                 Yeah I kinda draw the line at implied violence and off-the-hinge stalking/harassment - (malraux)
                                     A: Yes, he is. -NT - (CRConrad)
                         Absentee ballot requests are way up this year. - (malraux) - (2)
                             That's because Democrats are liberal. Republicans are opposite. Not conservative, illiberal. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                                 Not quite-Right enough: These are REACTIONARIES; the word ''conservative' ..was brutally murdered. - (Ashton)
         well when you have to vote in NY NJ and florida, hard to do in person -NT - (boxley) - (2)
             And not in Scotland? :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                 YOU keep my ancestral home out of this! - (mmoffitt)
         DeJoy said they're postponing the changes until after the election - (malraux) - (19)
             "Oops, did someone keep pulling sorting machines? Guess they didn't get the memo." -NT - (drook) - (1)
                 (General Patton said that a bit more forcefully). -NT - (Ashton)
             Multiple reports of damage - (crazy) - (12)
                 Any idea what kind of manpower each one replaces? - (drook) - (9)
                     No - (crazy)
                     Capacity is almost 10 pieces/second - (scoenye) - (7)
                         What about database lookups and printing on the envelope? - (crazy) - (6)
                             You need to write a brief explainer - (drook) - (5)
                                 I haven't cracked open my laltop in about a year - (crazy) - (4)
                                     Consolidated and combined a few things - (drook) - (3)
                                         Does the job -NT - (crazy) - (1)
                                             Twatted - (drook)
                                         WAPO just came out with a similar thing, fewer numbers though - (malraux)
                 That equipment is impressive. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                     I was on the supply side - (crazy)
             Dallas tried to put them back online - and failed - (scoenye) - (3)
                 Oopsie! -NT - (drook)
                 As I said - (crazy)
                 Just heard: House gets a whack at D'Joy next week (gloves off, one hopes) -NT - (Ashton)

Are you a Brother of the Conch too??
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