{"id":508,"date":"2013-03-11T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/11\/postal-service-wins-and-loses-with-cuts"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:10:00","slug":"postal-service-wins-and-loses-with-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service wins and loses with cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seems as though the U.S. Postal Service is not immune to the kind of griping that occurs among the working folks\u2019 ranks at most companies.<\/p>\n

I was talking the other day to a letter carrier about the impending end to Saturday mail delivery. He doesn\u2019t like the idea one little bit. The mailman told me the USPS is too top-heavy with executives who sit around and \u201cdo nothing\u201d to collect their high-dollar salaries. The service needs to skim a few of those empty suits off the top of the chain of command before deciding when, where and how to cut the money it says it needs to save, according to the letter carrier.<\/p>\n

Then he launched into the end of Saturday mail delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been delivering mail for 34 years and I\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s the worst thing they could do,\u201d he said. My mail-delivery acquaintance told me \u201cthey think they\u2019re going to save $2 billion a year by ending Saturday delivery, but they\u2019re going to lose<\/em> $5 billion a year in contracts they won\u2019t be able to keep.\u201d He explained that companies pay big money to ensure their mail gets delivered on certain days. Saturday, he suggested, is one of those days. I didn\u2019t think to ask him which companies shell out that kind of money.<\/p>\n

For me, the end of Saturday mail delivery isn\u2019t that big a loss. And I surely would hate to see the Postal Service go under for keeps because it cannot save enough money to stay afloat. <\/p>\n

The villain? It\u2019s the Internet, which has greatly reduced people\u2019s mail volume. Fewer of us write actual letters these days, or pay our bills using \u201csnail mail.\u201d <\/p>\n

Time will tell if a veteran mail carrier has it right or if the \u201cdo-nothing\u201d brass at the top end actually knows what it\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n\n

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Seems as though the U.S. Postal Service is not immune to the kind of griping that occurs among the working folks\u2019 ranks at most companies. I was talking the other day to a letter carrier about the impending end to Saturday mail delivery. He doesn\u2019t like the idea one little bit. The mailman told me … Continue reading Postal Service wins and loses with cuts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}