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Topic	USPS offices across the country are having mail sorting machines removed.
treewojima 08/12/20 1:15:44 PM #67:	Questionmarktarius posted... treewojima posted... Ooh, I'm gonna want to hear your reasoning for this one. uh... https://www.rstreet.org/2015/08/17/four-charts-explain-the-postal-services-financial-struggles/ The bizarre requirement to fund retirement of employees who aren't even alive yet, combined with a trend towards less mail volume as junkmail and bills move online, and UPS and FEDEX gaming the system to use the post office as a cheap "last mile" parcel handler, has screwed USPS over hard. Okay, let's start with getting rid of said pension requirement and all the other weird, relatively recent strangleholds that came with it (like forbidding the sale of any product other than mail and parcel service) If that's not an option, then the USPS is fucked and we might as well celebrate our stupidity in ruining it <cite>treewojima posted [p:943296026] in USPS offic... [t:78907396]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>treewojima posted... </cite> <quote> Ooh, I'm gonna want to hear your reasoning for this one.</quote>uh... https://www.rstreet.org/2015/08/17/four-charts-explain-the-postal-services-financial-struggles/ The bizarre requirement to fund retirement of employees who aren't even alive yet, combined with a trend towards less mail volume as junkmail and bills move online, and UPS and FEDEX gaming the system to use the post office as a cheap "last mile" parcel handler, has screwed USPS over hard.</quote> Okay, let's start with getting rid of said pension requirement and all the other weird, relatively recent strangleholds that came with it (like forbidding the sale of any product other than mail and parcel service) If that's not an option, then the USPS is fucked and we might as well celebrate our stupidity in ruining it</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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