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This message was self-deleted by its author rdharma Feb 2013 #1
We're behind you brothers and sister of the USPS! rdharma Feb 2013 #2
As am I mikekohr Feb 2013 #3
Darryl Issa has graduated from stealing cars....... rdharma Feb 2013 #4
My uncle is a retired letter carrier, the USPS is a much needed agency rustydog Feb 2013 #5
Agreed! Get Congress out of the way, and stay out of the way of needed change mikekohr Feb 2013 #7
what's the distinction between a 'rural letter carrier' and usps? you mean a contractor? HiPointDem Feb 2013 #6
A Rural Letter Carrier is an employee of the United States Post Office (USPS), mikekohr Feb 2013 #10
a part-timer, i believe. that's what i thought. we have them here, and so far as i know they're HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11
Wrong! Rural Letter Carriers Are Full-time Employees of the USPS mikekohr Feb 2013 #12
if they are full-time employees, just like other employees, then there's no cost-savings involved HiPointDem Feb 2013 #13
Wrong! A rural letter carrier can deliver many small villages in an hour or so mikekohr Feb 2013 #14
So could a regular postal worker, then. But regular postal workers don't do it, there's a separate HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16
A Rural Letter Carrier IS a "regular" Postal worker. These customers would continue to be served mikekohr Feb 2013 #20
You contradict yourself in your very own post. And you work for UPS, so quit pretending to be HiPointDem Feb 2013 #31
Wrong Again! Aren't you even reading my posts before you slam them? mikekohr Feb 2013 #39
you said -- never mind, my error. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #47
Post Script: Yesterday the Post Office announced major reductions in many of the small/tiny offices mikekohr Feb 2013 #25
That's another wonderful idea that shrub and Potter (former Post Master General) pushed Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #18
I hve no idea where that letter writer is coming from. Sheldon Cooper Feb 2013 #8
Agree ananda Feb 2013 #9
There are several unions at the USPS OrwellwasRight Feb 2013 #28
Correct. There were 5 different unions for the 13 employees of the last Post Office I worked in mikekohr Feb 2013 #41
Yes, I agree consolidation could help avoid turf wars and improve flexibility, etc. OrwellwasRight Feb 2013 #48
The 75 year pre-payment is just one of the big issues facing the USPS and is the easiest to fix mikekohr Feb 2013 #49
The problems I address existed long before the 2006 "cluster F" imposed by the Repukes in Congress mikekohr Feb 2013 #42
Eventually rural folks will have to travel into town to get their mail Lex Feb 2013 #15
Wrong! read above posts mikekohr Feb 2013 #21
Right! Lex Feb 2013 #30
Wrong! Rural Letter Carriers, employees of the USPS, will deliver the mail to their homes mikekohr Feb 2013 #40
No USPS = No rural delivery. Lex Feb 2013 #44
That's my point. If we don't allow the needed changes the USPS will fold under it's own weight. mikekohr Feb 2013 #50
Completely full of shit. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #17
thanks for the information. that sounds more logical. can you add some detail about the HiPointDem Feb 2013 #19
Rural Letter Carriers are NOT private carriers. mikekohr Feb 2013 #24
The subsidies are numerous and go back for decades. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #34
thanks. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #35
10 years ago I bought money orders at the Post Office LibertyLover Feb 2013 #57
A little bit of knowledge is dangerous and your headline debases your argument, mikekohr Feb 2013 #23
And some reading comprehension might allow you to reach rational conclusions. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #32
Wrong on a number of points, correct on a number of others. mikekohr Feb 2013 #63
True, just another way for service to decline, people to accuse the USPS SaveAmerica Feb 2013 #56
Did they email this out or use regular mail? The Straight Story Feb 2013 #22
What changes are you talking about? Privatizing postal service?????? valerief Feb 2013 #26
There are 5 post offices within 2 miles of my house -- so it's not just a rural problem FarCenter Feb 2013 #27
Bingo! nt mikekohr Feb 2013 #29
there are two po's within 5 miles of my home; but 3 ups & 4 fedex offices. i guess they have HiPointDem Feb 2013 #36
Are you counting drop boxes, former Kinko's, franchised UPS stores, and affiliates like Staples? FarCenter Feb 2013 #37
i'm counting stores labeled ups & fed ex in the phone book that have telephone numbers and HiPointDem Feb 2013 #38
Now we are getting somewhere. Congress, as well as we, have to allow the Post to adapt mikekohr Feb 2013 #43
i live in a rural small town, so -- wrong. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #45
And I live on a rural route and delivered the mail for 10 years mikekohr Feb 2013 #51
Repubs mandating funding pensions for unborn people is designed to kill the Post Office upi402 Feb 2013 #33
And here's another piece that has actual facts as opposed to the Libertarian swill Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #46
"Postage prices rise, but USPS still teeters at the edge of ruin" mikekohr Feb 2013 #53
A load of codswallop written in jargon. The article completely ignores every salient issue. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #58
Mail Volume declined each and every year of the ten years I worked there mikekohr Feb 2013 #60
Since you have ignored every bit of factual information that I and others have presented you Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #61
Dear Thug, you are good at dishing it out, but you take a punch poorly mikekohr Feb 2013 #62
Sorry but I have to disagree Niceguy1 Feb 2013 #52
You just agreed with my point without realizing it mikekohr Feb 2013 #54
I was referring to access Niceguy1 Feb 2013 #64
Access will not suffer with delivery via Rural Letter Carrier mikekohr Feb 2013 #65
It's always wrong to think you know what everyone is thinking. SaveAmerica Feb 2013 #55
There were similar "concerns" when the Post Office eliminated twice a day delivery mikekohr Feb 2013 #59
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