Post Office to Default on $5 Billion Payment

   Many laughed when we wrote a year ago that you will soon be paying $1 per stamp at the post office!

   After intentionally delaying lay-offs, closures, and incompetently failing tp cut costs in any measurable way, the US Postal Service reportedly will default on its $5 Billion payment to Congress this week.

   If you go the the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) website its easy to see why. The Union and management at the Postal Service is either unwilling or totally incompetent in dealing with the facts.


   There are way too many Post Offices and probably 3 times too many employees from the top all the way down to the little tiny Post Offices in Calaveras County.

   We've spoken to so many people who complain about the service they receive, who see a highly paid Postmaster or Postmistress sitting in a little tiny post office all day with little to do but visit with friends who stop by, and who could care less that they are losing money every minute.

   Unfortunately, this is the union attitude. These employees are worried about what Congress may do to cut back forcibly, and what they could lose in future benefits, but they have absolutely no interest in doing what's necessary to FIX the problem.

   Can the Postal Service declare bankruptcy?  Someone asked us this yesterday, and we aren't sure.

   The fact is that the need for these postal workers is not what it once was. They waste money, time, and many of them can't even be nice. What a way to run a business! 

   Let's turn it over tot UPS?  At least they treat you nice and they know how to make a business profitable.

   It's easy to see that the Postal Service and the APWU think the answer is to yet again raise the cost of a postage stamp, probably will end up at $1 before long.