Digital Pennies Mean Less Mail Soon

We have covered this issue in the CR4 forum before. The USPS business model is indeed failing, but a cut in service to reduce costs will only further decrease the volume and further reduce revenues. If it were a private business it would declare bankruptcy and deal with the real reason for the growing deficits: poorly managed union wage & pension agreements.

I wish the postmaster would send the memo to the rest of government.

ISN"T the PO a private business??, I see a postal system as one of the things the government SHOULD do along with inspecting all foods produced in the US and imported-- I don'r want to have to run everythig I eat through a spectroanalysis to see what might be in it that will harm me! the same on roads and the PO AND it ISN'T a business, it's a service not intended to earn a profit--isn't it?

When private businesses run out of $ they dissolve or go into bankruptcy and restructure their debt (then recover or dissolve). So, no the PO is not a private business. It is a government backed & regulated entity.

Hugh difference between the security chain of the food I eat and who brings me a snail mail letter. Ever pick up local local produce? Is it life threatening? Besides, private business analysis and security validating could be done in the private sector and even more locally. The giant FDA wasteful & inefficient bureaucracy does not have to be the only answer.

Point is, it is not the profit (alone) that makes an operation (business or service) efficient and effective, it is the competition. The threat that if someone else finds a better way, you may not have a job or business in the future. If you are not planning on being competitive, you are planning on being out of business. There is no one to bail you out - no safety net. Government entities don't have that drive, so they are usually poorly run by most people who don't care about customers and continuous improvement. The difference in results are immense.