I get my mail on a regular basis. The USPS truck delivers my mail each afternoon from 1 to 4 pm. The postal worker seems pleasant, and rarely is the mail delivered to the wrong address or lost. Yay!
But, the USPS is operating at a loss of $12 billion this year. Year after year, the postal service costs US. taxpayers $10-14 billion. That is a tremendous amount of money! Money that could be used for other services or “refunded” to taxpayers. If the $12 billion were paid back equally to each state, then my state, NC, would receive $240 million.
Things need to change at the USPS. Stop Saturday deliveries to private residences, close small rural post offices, find more innovative ways to deliver letters and packages, tighten cost controls, establish efficiency metrics, and review pay practices and benefits for all postal workers. These are the type of actions a good businessperson would do.
There is not business in the world that could continue to exist with operating losses of $12-$14 billion each year.
Also, I went to the local PO before Christmas. As usual, there was a long line, about 13 people in front of me. The counter had room for 4 workers but only 2 were present. Ugh! I finally got my turn and mailed a package. I next asked for stamps. The postal worker asked me which stamps I wanted. I said the stamps with the American Flag. The worker said that they did not have any stamps with the American Flag. She handed me a collection of stamps to choose from and as I sorted through the choices, I did not recognize any of the various places or people on the stamps. Finally, I found stamps with Bugs Bunny!! That ended up my choice!
I am not sure what person or committee selects USPS stamp images, but I would celebrate this wonderful country and its people. There are a lot of choices!
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