Reply #36: I also worked for the USPS (7 years including Management) [View All]

and your "proposal" would all but destroy universal service as we know it.

It would all but concede the very lucrative overnight and second-day package and parcel market to its competitors. Loss of Saturday delivery would only accelerate the movement to remove additional service days as well. Once put in motion, it would lead to an inevitable death spiral.

Close to 600,000 people (with good salaries, health care and benefits) are employed directly by the USPS, with hundreds of thousands of others indirectly (contractors, shippers, mailers)

The USPS is forced to pre-fund its retirement program to a much greater degree than the private sector, or any other government entity for that matter.

The internet has HELPED the USPS bottom line, as parcel deliveries increased significantly. First class mail represents an infinitesimally small percentage of overall business, as demand for the service has been on the decline for decades.

Parcel and package business, particularly prescriptions by mail and said internet-created continue to grow and expand--which is why the private carriers want nothing to do with the standard "letter-mail delivery" but will do anything to place USPS in an uncompetitive environment as possible (which includes the virtual elimination of the Postal Service)to increase market share in overnight and second day shipping for themselves.

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