Price of a stamp is now 73 cents...
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I encourage everybody to use the USPS for mailing and postage needs. Your patronage will keep my pension funded! The problem is NOT the postal service's....it belongs to Congress. Why? Because the Postal Service could be financially stable with lower rates, but whenever the Postal Service gains a huge cushion of funds the Congress always comes in and steals that money and thus the cost of postage goes up. Also, the legacy costs are way high, they pay for my retirement and monthly health care premiums. Add to that, new hires get a base hourly salary of $20.50. Not bad for a kid out of high school who can barely read or write, huh? The overtime, double time and night differential adds costs that most folks don't understand. Then in addition the unions are constantly filing grievences and if they win, they usually get a huge financial pay out. This is intentional to keep the USPS in a dire financial situation! There are only four unions and every town has an office that employess one to four of these union personel. Thousands of class action grievences filed every year with millions of dollars paid out for simple acts. Now in the very near future the USPS will be purchasing a brand new fleet of carrier vehicles, with air conditioning, and that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Yes, they are needed because the boxy LLV's are over 30 years old. Waste and inefficiency are the norms in the Postal Service, yet I think Trump will somehow force the unions to act nice with management and their recklessness will come to an end and the USPS will be on a solid financial footing.
A good start would be to go to 3-4 days per week delivery. My old neighbor was a GS-15 who ran Brentwood facility, DC (anthrax). Kudos to the guys that drive the roads and stick the mail in the boxes, but there is a lot of shady shit that goes on in the USPS that needs a good smack of DOGE applied. And then there is the intelligence collection going on with the scanning/sorting systems...
3-4 day a week delivery sounds good, but the execution would be filled with problems, first and foremost is space in the vehicle for two days worth of mail. Even if they had minivans the sheer amount of packages would be prohibitive. Add on top of that ten+ trays of letter mail and it would be too much for a van to hold. Sorry, but its very hard to cram mail into a LLV the day after a Holiday. Now you'd be having at least 100 "holidays" and our system isn't set up for that. It would break the system and then we'd need a complete overhaul and that would cost ooodles and booodles of money. I hate to be a negative nellie, but the reality is quite different than good logical ideas.
Interesting perspective. I had not thought of it from that angle.
Make junk mail pay full price ----- problem solved
no bulk discounts
I sell on eBay and use the USPS all the time, so, you’re welcome. I usually spend $2-3k a year with them. The problem, I’m sure, as with anything government related is mismanagement and wasteful spending. It needs to be run by a businessman like Trump. If it was run properly, it could at least break even which is really all that’d be necessary.
I think USPS should stop doing last mile for packages. There's no way they're being paid properly by UPS/FedEx/Amazon etc. for last mile delivery.
But at the end of the day, USPS is only a fraction of the issues with government spending and I do not necessarily believe it should be the first one addressed by far.