Comments on: USPS closing in on five-day delivery service

By: Tim Johns

Tim Johns — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:05:49 +0000

I agree with you Judi. They have been dedicated with their several years of service and they don’t deserve to have their pays cut off.

Tim Johns

By: Tom Worley

Tom Worley — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:42:05 +0000

As former APWU president William Burrus explains, ceding 6th-day delivery to private postal companies would mean the end of the U.S. Postal Service: private delivery companies would be given access to mailboxes on the 6th day–then, how could they be denied access the rest of the week? Private companies would then take the profitable business, leaving USPS to deliver only the money-losing catalogs, newspapers, and other profitless bulk mail. USPS could not survive.
http://worleydervish.blogspot.com/2011/09/six-days-to-five.html

By: Bob Homes

Bob Homes — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:01:10 +0000

I think the five day delivery window would be a good thing, especially with USPS use declining anyway. If it saves money and helps efficiency, I’m all for it.

By: Judi

Judi — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:58:05 +0000

To comment on Alan’s comment, there is more to delivering the mail than just walking a paper to you. To cut a senior carriers pay is taking away the years of continued service, hard work and dedication. To be out there when it’s 100 degrees or a foot of snow. To be at work before people are even awake yet.. To have to go through every piece of mail that comes in, sorting, putting up in the box, filling up trays, delivering packages. Mail truck have no a/c, they are rear wheel drive. Yet YOU still get your mail. Thank your mail carrier, don’t cut their pay.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:58:49 +0000

cut the carrier pay in half would be another way 2 save a senier carrier with 10 or more years makes 30 dollers a hr for what to walk and delivery paper come on id do it 4 15 hr

By: stephenct

stephenct — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:01:07 +0000

If the Postal Service would eliminate half of the supervisor positions that are unnecessary and put a stop to all of the bonuses that are paid out, for which most are undeserved, the postal service wouldn’t have to eliminate saturday delivery. They could even slash the price of a first class stamp 3 or 4 cents which in turn would increase first class revenue.