[quote=paramount]The USPS is broke for the same reason San Diego and LA are broke: Excessive total compensation for these govt workers.[/quote]
No, paramount. The USPS isn’t actually “broke.” They haven’t replaced those who have retired in recent years and got rid of stamp machines in many branch post offices because the public isn’t using their services as much as they once were.
I myself used to send and receive a ton of mail. Now I pay bills online and use couriers such as UPS and FedEx to send/receive because they are often cheaper and more efficient than US Mail.
Now, I don’t get to much more mail than the Pennysaver and a couple of small bills and misc rpts every month or every few months. I’m just another representative of Suzy Q Public.
Even law offices (traditionally among the biggest users of US Mail) who used to have to send voluminous snail mail of every shape and size and certified mail for proof of service every day now have fax service agreements, e-mail proof of service agreements, e-filing privileges with courts, fax and e-mail discovery privileges (with gov’t agencies) and automatic scanning machines for 500+ pg documents in order to be able to e-mail them instead of having to continually wrap and mail (expensive) 6-20 lb parcels, etc.
Technology and the proliferation of couriers available to everyone in recent years has stolen work from the USPS, never to be returned. However, the USPS will always have its place but its “market share” of what it does best will be permanently shrunken.
If you have ever taken any visual and hand-eye coordination speed tests to compete for USPS jobs, you would find out they aren’t easy to score high enough on to get hired. Only the very highest scorers get called for interviews and the majority of people taking these tests, even repeatedly, fail them.
The “shrinkage” of the role of the USPS has nothing to do with its past or current workers’ compensation.
