GAO: Postal Service in financial trouble

The postal service keeps cutting back service, soon only Monday through Friday delivery, prices keep going up, fewer people, poor service.

On the other hand other entities keep improving service, expanding coverage and pricing keeps steady.

I know the postal service must serve areas that are not profitable, but they better figure out how to do that and make money or shut the doors.

Solution, figure out what it is costing and charge that amount.  The cost may be $3.00 to mail a letter, but you get what you pay for.

When figuring out how much to charge they must take into consideration how much business they will lose and that cost will be a part of the change.

That solution can't be much worse than what has been going on.

Not a fan of the post office, but I know it is necessary. I Think--It soon may be a thing of the past.

FED EX runs a profit.  UPS runs a profit.  MY post office SUCKS, can't run a profit, with NO competition.  AND THEY WANT TO RUN OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?  HAHAHAHAHA

MY Post office has STUPID rules, like "can't do this after 3, can't break $100 bill, can't take my credit card,,,"  AND THEY WANT TO RUN OUR HEALTH CARE?  HAHAHAHAHA

In reality, the Post Office cannot deliver its goods for what it costs to deliver them. Maybe they can do it with just having their first class letters. It makes me sick that every time that any package is shipped through the Post Office it is subsidized by my tax payer dollars. Consumer Reports periodically will do a cost comparison and the differences are telling.

The other issue is the PO cross subsidizes their monopoly with their letters to shift money to their money losing package operation. They should get out of the package business. They are not any good at it and and I cannot stand it when they take money away from one of above ground operations just to lose it.

I do not ship packages through the PO for this reason. We use UPS because of the better service. Yes it does cost more but you get what you pay for.

To Karaoke Kid,

I did do some thinking . . .

NO, the box wasn't block with a trash can or vehicles. My driveway is 50 ft long & it wasn't trash day.

Yes, I did shovel out the mail box and the driveway, then I went to work.  The county plow can in after I left. 

The carrier used the blocked box as an excuse.

If the mail carrier can haul is behind out of the truck to put a note in my box, why couldn't he have left the mail?????

"to dismount the vehicle and go to you 'blocked' box" . . .

fancy words for hauling your behind out of . . . .

I live rural, the mail carrier did this to the whole street, he must have saved a lot of time NOT delivering the mail.  The whole street around the mail box isn't 8 ft. wide. 

And I stay at my business until the work gets done, quite often that's past 9 - 5.

Doesn't it take more time when you go back to the hub & return all the mail that wasn't delivered? Doesn't that mail get re-sorted in the next delivery day?  Talk about wasting time, get it done the first time.

You must agree with all the other rants about mismanagement, bad unions & poor service since you picked up on that little part on my rant.

Any more excuses ????????

Theirs a void in the US Postal Service and that is low cost international shipping labels for light weight items. And there is a void in Health Care and that is the lack of public or private insurance coverage for Nursing Homes and Home Health Care.

My problem running a small home based business is when I ship items. In the US I can use First Class Mail which cost about $1.50 each item to ship this also includes delivery confirmation and a tracking number. But when I want to ship something out of the country I have to have Customs label and according to PayPal delivery confirmation and a tracking number. To print a label with all this info on it with the exception of the customs info that I still seem to have to fill out at the post office I have to ship my items using Priority Mail or Express Mail which cost $10.00+ to ship. To ship the same item out of the US using First Class Mail International cost $3.00 plus the customs label. If the post office could add customs info and a tracking number and delivery confirmation to the first class mail international label it would make it a lot easier and cheaper for me to ship items out of the country.