12/28: Why postal services are important
Moderated by Rick Badie
From Atlanta to South Georgia, post offices may be closed as the U.S. Postal Service tries to reduce costs and turn a profit.
Today, a New York University professor explains the importance of postal services.
I interview residents in the rural town of Perkins about the potential loss of a community anchor.
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Kathy
December 28th, 2011
12:04 pm
When post office workers became unionized, this outcome could have been predicted then. Unions will ruin any business with their over the top demands for benefits.
So – here you are, folks, – the equivalent of what’s happened in the auto business, California government workers – indeed, employees everywhere who are unionized.
Ashley
December 28th, 2011
12:01 pm
Nope, not really interested in keeping the mail. Sucks that all those jobs would be lost.. Maybe the private sector would pick up a bit more and hire them.
David
December 28th, 2011
11:59 am
I have a PO box and go to it once-a-week. No problem. Everything important, I do online.
Jack
December 28th, 2011
11:56 am
I only use the postal service when I abslutely have to. One of the main reasons I use on-line services is because of the rudeness of postal workers.
Tex
December 28th, 2011
11:55 am
No. This is another example of a jobs program for the under achievers gone wrong. In years past this was a position of honor. Like everything else in the country tied to the government in any way shape or form it’s a total disaster. Most of these people could not get hired sorting nuts and bolts yet they get benefits and good pay.
The service is joke and they should be shut down immediately. Its time to get rid of the non producers and non productive in this country.
Chris
December 28th, 2011
11:55 am
Congress is the reason that the Postal Service is in the bind it’s in. The Post Office Operates fine. The problem is instead of being able to find its pension a little at a time which makes sense and like most people do, congress in its infinite wisdom says the post office has to make ONE fully funded payment to it of BILLlONS. If congress would change the bill where the post office could find it in installments there wouldn’t be any issues at all. This is just another problem cause by the stupidity of Washington. They’re not going to tell you the whole story but majesty it look like someone else’s problem. They know Americans won’t research it either but believe what they’re told. Typhus is a congress problem not a USPS caused problem.
itsme
December 28th, 2011
11:50 am
Absolutely agree with Joe. Keep economically-priced mail. Deliver every other day, no weekends.
gnomeboy
December 28th, 2011
11:44 am
Reduce mail delivery to four days a week; most old farts are required to have their guvment money directly deposited anyway
joe
December 28th, 2011
11:43 am
I need my mail but can survive w/ every other day and no weekends.
shaggy
December 28th, 2011
11:37 am
Oh, and someone is “paying” to send you that junk advertising. The crappy economy has impacted that advertising revenue.