By not sabotaging it

Post #435,715 by drook 8/18/20 11:58:42 AM 8/18/20 12:02:57 PM Reply	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. [edit] 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? -- Drew Edited by drook Aug. 18, 2020, 12:02:57 PM EDT 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. -- Drew Collapse All History
Post #435,718 by boxley 8/18/20 2:41:20 PM 8/18/20 2:41:20 PM Reply	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
Post #435,724 by malraux 8/18/20 3:04:08 PM 8/18/20 3:04:08 PM Reply	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.
Post #435,732 by drook 8/18/20 3:33:09 PM 8/18/20 3:33:09 PM Reply	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. -- Drew

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