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Do you agree with the United States Postal Service plan to
eliminate Saturday service?
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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Question of the week: “Do you agree with the United States Postal Service plan to eliminate Saturday service?” Yes: 9 No: 2
- Karen Anderson: “Yes. I lived in Canada where it is done and it was not that great a hardship even back before computers brought most of your mail anyway. Time for a major overhaul.”
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Dave Appling: “No. It’ll just drive more customers to the competition. Some better moves: (1) Abolish the Postal Regulatory Commission. This is the enabler! (2) End Saturday counter service, but dispatch mail daily (skeleton crews on weekends/holidays). (3) Make distance a factor for first-class rates. Reduce rates within the same 3-digit ZIP. Restore local processing of local mail. (4) Jack up the rates for the hated junk mail. And (5) understand that if labor contracts don’t reflect your business conditions, you will indeed be history.”
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Bert Berson: “No. The senior management of the USPS is largely post office and government long termers (http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/pmg-exec-comm.htm#p=1). I believe that if a non-government turnaround specialist came in as CEO they would find lots of other ways to improve revenue and also save money. I do not, however, favor privatization of the USPS.”
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Chris Bryant: “Yes, they need to reduce expenses and people can just wait to get their junk mail on Monday.”
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Bob Chidester: “Yes. This country is in a dire financial condition and hard choices like this have to be made. We absolutely must slash wasteful government spending. I suggest we eliminate do-nothing agencies like the Dept. of Education, Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Energy, and the EPA for a start.”
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David Cohen: “Yes. Not only because so much now can be done online, but because full service Saturdays are an anachronism of a past time.” – Dennis Kennedy: “Yes. It appears to be a reasonable way to cut costs.”
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Julian Mancias: “Yes. I would prefer one less day of service over postmen/women losing their jobs.”
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Henry Miller: “Of course. In fact, to help solve their financial problem, why not skip Wednesday as well? Express mail will handle those things that must be delivered on a particular day. (When I was young, postage was three cents and mail delivery was twice-a-day. How things have changed!)”
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Jeff Nunes: “Reluctantly yes. Our government’s inability to control itself has put us in this kind of untenable situation where tough choices have to be made. If cutting Saturday service is what needs to be done to make the ends meet then so be it.”
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Lisa Pampuch: “Yes, but it’s not the first thing that needs to be done. The U.S. Congress subjected the USPS to flawed retiree health and pension funding formulas that give it a burden none of its competitors share. Those need to be amended, and the postal service also needs to consider closing many more of its more than 31,000 post offices than it currently has on its potential closure list. Then, if a budget gap still exists, it would be appropriate to end Saturday mail delivery.”
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