Mar 25, 2009 6:13pm
Question Of The Day
EmailYou may have heard — the nation’s Postmaster General is warning that without assistance, the Postal Service will run out of money this year. John Potter told a House subcommittee that the service is nearly $3 billion in the red and that certain bills just will not get paid. He repeated his request that mail delivery be reduced to five days a week. So — our question today: Would you be all right with an end to six-day mail delivery?
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Poor mangement>>>>>>>>>>>>>>This country is all standing there with their hands out now,Yelling fix me fix me.Over the years they have gotton themselves in this mess and now we all pay.GREED >>>>>>>
Posted by: me | March 25, 2009, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
Yes end 6 day a week delivery My question would be who exactly needs Saturday delivery?
Posted by: Bonnie Kimberly | March 25, 2009, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
I think I’m already on 5 day a week delivery now, if I’m lucky. End 6 day delivery – it’s a waste of money and gas. Not sure how anyone can rant about it being poor management when the management has come up with a reasonable solution to put their business in the black without taking a cent of government money.
Posted by: jhw539 | March 25, 2009, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Well I think it would take sometime getting used to the idea. Personally, I don’t check my mail 6 days a week so it really wouldn’t bother me. The ecomony is forcing a lot of companies to make decisions to sacrifice so if that means more people get to keep their jobs I’m all for it.
Posted by: Lisa Carter | March 25, 2009, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
I don’t care if it goes to 3 day a week delivery.
NO MORE BAIL-OUTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: OldMan | March 25, 2009, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
Dropping Saturday is the least painful for most people and businesses.
The rant about “poor management” must have their head in the sand. Personal communication is alot different than it was 25+ years ago. I’m not going to explain it further. It would shock “me”.
Posted by: Don Duffy | March 25, 2009, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
Cut backs are everywhere, why should the Post Office be any different? I say yes to a 5 day delivery. I can remember when stores were closed on Sundays and we survived.
Posted by: DJ | March 25, 2009, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
To a certain extent this issue is exacerbated by the public/private nature of the Post Office structure.
being partially federalized is the best of both worlds, very little accountability with respect to the check book and fewer consistent “bosses” given the nature of our congressional rotation design to avoid just that, accountability!
That said, if we acquiesce to lesser service without the required accountability, where will it stop? mail service 5 days a week next year? down to three days a week in five years?
Posted by: Darryl the Contractor | March 25, 2009, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
With Fedex/UPS and so on to deliver packages.
With fax machines and email able to deliver documents and person info to users.
The postal service is obsolete, so just shut it down.
Posted by: Tom | March 25, 2009, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
The Postal Service should start at the top and work down on reducing their fat cat salaries.They have usually 2 highly paid management to run small offices with less than 15 employees. Postmaster should not make 75,000 plus benefits they are not worth that kind of salary. Some offices have high paid Postmasters and have no delivery. Six day delivery is essential for some businesses and all people do not have internet especially older adults. Keep 6 day delivery. They want to keep Saturday delivery and take Tuesday off. That will not work for businesses the backbone of the economy. Postmaster salaries and Bonuses make AIG look like small potatoes.
Posted by: tina | March 25, 2009, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
I say no to 5 day aweek delivery. I am one of many that works that one day a week. That means more cut backs on jobs. The regular carriers most of them only work 5 days. We pay for our on gas and vehicle. I say if you look at the Post master general’s bonuses and also all the BONUSES the post office pays out the post master general and all the post masters it would be alot. I say combine alot of small offices and stop raising prices. Give people an incintive to use the post office. Alot of elderly people depend on 6 day delivery for checks medications and to pay their bills. Not everyone pay online. So I say NO to 5 day aweek delivery theirs alot more to factor into this.It’s not that simple. Take alook at salaries and bonuses with in the post office then say you believe 5 day aweek delivery is the answer…
Posted by: Debby Childers | March 25, 2009, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
Debby: Your comments make sense.
Lets see if the Powers that be listen.
ABC? If you agree with Debby, could you take up the cause and help?
Posted by: imwd | March 26, 2009, 3:33 am 3:33 am
One less day of bills rolling in and junk mail from less than honest credit card offers…..? SWEET! I would SECOND (day) that!
Posted by: Charmie | March 26, 2009, 7:11 am 7:11 am
I find it hard to believe the Post Office is loosing money. If people are paying for the service, where does all that money go? I’m scratching my head as to how the Post Office can loose money unless all those bonuses are a factor to the business going into the red.
Meh. I can live with a 5 days a week delivery. No big.
Posted by: GWP | March 26, 2009, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Scale back – keep Saturday (5 day working folks need that one)
No Bailouts
We need to learn we cannot have ALL services available to us every min. of every day. Save gas & energy !
Posted by: Scarr | March 26, 2009, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
Simply paying the same for less service does not seem to be a satisfactory answer. Many comments have mentioned eliminating bonuses and reducing the highest salaries to bring the cost of doing business down. How about discontinuing sponsorships of special events such as NASCAR racing, – that has to cost a lot! And why do they need to run nation TV commercials? They could also cut back on unnecessary services and products e.g. vellum envelopes for individual stamps, free shipping boxes, special stationeries, and the printing of so many specialty stamps. I’m sure if they look hard enough they could find ways to reduce overhead without reducing delivery services that so many people depend upon.
Posted by: Linda | March 27, 2009, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
I’ve worked for the Postal service for fourteen years, and unfortunately I’m still considered part time, for the past 14 years I typically work in the neighborhood of 50 hours per week, being part time the postal service can work me 6 or 7 days a week. I’m currently working a mere 5 hours per day and only 5 days per week. The management in my office told me that by summer there wouldnt be any work for me to do. There is a ” No layoff clause” in our contract, but I’m only guaranteed 2 hours per pay period, harly enough to pay the mortgage. We have 3 highly paid managers in our office, we could definately do without at least one of them. We also have two employess who are unable to perform the tasks they were hired to do as a result of injuries they claim happened on the job, so they get paid a full days wages to basically answer the telephones. Its a strange and very screwed up system that needs a complete overhaul.
Posted by: Scott | March 28, 2009, 7:32 am 7:32 am
If you like our postal service you are going to love our national health service!
Posted by: Ed Taylor | April 2, 2009, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
4-5 days a week would work great. It would save money.
Posted by: ellen musgrave | April 6, 2009, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
We will never be a reliable country ever. I grew up in a time of misery
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