"Despite the likely return of key members of Congress, mailer groups were unsure how much this would translate into postal reform in the next session. They were also unsure about the depth of the White House's commitment to reform."
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For the idiot in this article that thinks the civil service retirement system is a "Stamp Tax", he needs to get his head out of his a** to he can read and hear. The civil retirement is just that, a retirment system. These people mailing for pennies are making hundreds of thousands on the backs of the the postal workers and expect preferential delivery times. Take the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mailers that carriers have to handle with crap falling out, difficult to handle, yet the regular consumer must pay the 37 cents for a first class letter. Tell me Mr. Mouth what do you get paid and what is your retirment system looking like?
Volume customers deserve lower prices. Thats how UPS operates. You should kiss the feet of all those bulk mailers, since they are your biggest source of mail. No mail = no work. Now go deliver those Advo's.
Seems like the first poster hasn't been paying attention for the last year or so. Because the Feds (not the USPS, mind you, but the OPM) overcharged the USPS for its retirement obligations, the Treasury has more money than it should have to fund postal retirements. The problem is strictly political- everyone knows that the money doesn't belong to the Treasury, but if it gets refunded to the USPS, it increases Bush's already huge budget deficit.
So now money the Bushies should never have had in the first place, gets held hostage. What do you call money that the government takes from you? A tax. Who pays for postage? Mailers. So it is a tax on mailers- got it? (And before you bring it up- this has nothing to do with whether mailers are getting overcharged or undercharged. Let's just assume for the moment that you're right, and some mailers are getting away with murder- it's still a tax, because it's going straight to the federal government, not to the USPS, which still has to cover it's costs, and is therefore overcharging other MAILERS to make up the difference!)
Forget about postal reform-- forever. President Bush has no incentive to help those who sought to elect Kerry. Let USPS management charge all mailers what they must to break even, and let the chips fall where they may. Free enterprise and capitalism will determine the ultimate fate of the USPS, not government intervention and price controls. Get over it!
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For the idiot in this article that thinks the civil service retirement system is a "Stamp Tax", he needs to get his head out of his a** to he can read and hear. The civil retirement is just that, a retirment system. These people mailing for pennies are making hundreds of thousands on the backs of the the postal workers and expect preferential delivery times. Take the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mailers that carriers have to handle with crap falling out, difficult to handle, yet the regular consumer must pay the 37 cents for a first class letter. Tell me Mr. Mouth what do you get paid and what is your retirment system looking like?
Volume customers deserve lower prices. Thats how UPS operates. You should kiss the feet of all those bulk mailers, since they are your biggest source of mail. No mail = no work. Now go deliver those Advo's.
Seems like the first poster hasn't been paying attention for the last year or so. Because the Feds (not the USPS, mind you, but the OPM) overcharged the USPS for its retirement obligations, the Treasury has more money than it should have to fund postal retirements. The problem is strictly political- everyone knows that the money doesn't belong to the Treasury, but if it gets refunded to the USPS, it increases Bush's already huge budget deficit.
So now money the Bushies should never have had in the first place, gets held hostage. What do you call money that the government takes from you? A tax. Who pays for postage? Mailers. So it is a tax on mailers- got it? (And before you bring it up- this has nothing to do with whether mailers are getting overcharged or undercharged. Let's just assume for the moment that you're right, and some mailers are getting away with murder- it's still a tax, because it's going straight to the federal government, not to the USPS, which still has to cover it's costs, and is therefore overcharging other MAILERS to make up the difference!)
Forget about postal reform-- forever.
President Bush has no incentive to help
those who sought to elect Kerry. Let USPS management charge all mailers what they must to break even, and let the chips fall where they may. Free enterprise and capitalism will determine the ultimate fate of the USPS,
not government intervention and price controls. Get over it!
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