Postal Service tries to get smarter on routing

I believe that the problem the Post Office faces is best solved by the regular delivery routes that they have.

They are in the unfortunate position of having to maintain the regular routes and any “new” scheme would be on top of that unless they were somehow able to combine the functions…

But they would then be back to the regular route as being the basis of any system of efficient delivery.

If they really want to be smarter – copy the UPS and FEDEX model exactly. They are making huge profits and they are as efficient as any company I know.

I’m suprised the environmentalist haven’t closed them down already for the disgusting number of trees that have to be cut down to produce the junk mail. If people want that they should pay for it. I don’t want it and it’s wasteful. The post office should canvas their customers and ask who wants junk mail. Those that do will be charged a fee. Those of us that don’t won’t.

I know the post office makes a lot of money off junk mail – but it also slows their system down. Get smart and charge junk mail users and you will see it disappear and your production will go waaaaay up.

The USPS was unable to capitalize on their Express Mail overnight delivery simply because they tried to utilize their daily route carriers. Often by the time the package was delivered, it was beyond the time frame promised. They should have assigned as many flexible delivery people as required by expedited mail volume. Eventually, their business declined because USPS wrongly believed price was the driving factor when assured delivery is the main desire.

The post office faces delivery mandates no other company does so they are at that disadvantage. But they could launch the most secure, safe website for email and charge for advertising and premium services as other sites do.

They are going to have to face the pay and benefit problem despite the wrath of the unions on the other hand. If they will get their name in a positive light, fire incompetent workers, speed delivery, institute a hiring freeze then require more efficiency from present employees they could compete.

Until then it is a slow spiral down.

They need to find a computer program that can find a way to cut their cost of union labor and pensions.

The another big disadvantage the USPS has is its unused/underused processing facilities that congressman won’t let them closed.

Congress could also be smarter and stop imposing a very onerous pension funding obligation on the postal service. Isn’t that obligation the main reason for its financial difficulties?

Adding efficiency and making use of newer technology could be an improvement. The only problem could be with the typical American private sector using government contracts to steal from the taxpayers while delivering substandard products. After creating a financial disaster, the same private companies then want to take over what rightly should be a government service. This is the American way.

The problem the Postal Service has in competing for package delivery have little to do with speed of delivery and a great deal to do with other facts like the UPS providing $500 of package insurance at no additional cost and Fed Ex being more reliable at next day delivery than USPS Express Mail. USPS actually is cheaper for packages under 13 ounces.

when was the last time you wrote a letter on paper?… i mean in what century?..

When was the last time I wrote a letter? Why, it was just a little bit ago. I sent a note to my Congressman complaining about the management at the USPS.

Oh, wait. Sorry, that was an email. Never mind.

The USPS processes over 160 billion pieces of mail a year.
UPS processes 4 billion pieces a year. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Compared to the USPS, UPS and FEDEX combined are nothing.
The intetional destructionn of the USPS by Republicans in Congress, for bribe money from lobbyists, and the theft of USPS money for the Federal retirement system, should be investigated.
“Witnesses appearing before a Senate subcommittee on May 17, 2011 to testify on the financial state of the U.S. Postal Service reiterated requests to give the Postal Service access to billions of dollars in USPS overpayments into federal retirement systems.”
“The US Postal Service has made $50 billion to $75 billion in overpayments to the Civil Service Retirement System, and $6.9 billion in overpayments to the Federal Employees Retirement System.”

There’s your profits.

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Americanguy given the way the government runs Medicare the retirees and future retires will be well off with a Cadillac plan unavailable to the rest of us. Also if you think Republicans did this go count the votes, you will see demos voted in the affirmative as well. We would be better served by not pointing fingers or placing blame except at government in its entirety.