U.S. Post Office ending Saturday delivery due to $238 Billion Dollar Deficit

[Soul Crusher]

Postal Service Seeks Five-Day Delivery By 2011, Potter Says
March 29, 2010, 9:38 AM EDT

Business Exchange By Angela Greiling Keane
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March 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Postal Service would cut Saturday mail delivery starting in the first half of 2011 under a plan the agency will present to its regulator tomorrow.

The Postal Service, which forecasts a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, says it would save about $3.3 billion in the first year by eliminating delivery on one day and $5.1 billion annually by 2020.

“Given the fact that we’re facing such a huge deficit, we’d like to move as quickly as possible,” Postmaster General John Potter told reporters today in Washington.

The Washington-based Postal Service will file its five-day delivery proposal with the Postal Regulatory Commission. It is also seeking permission from the U.S. Congress, which requires delivery to all U.S. addresses six days a week.

--Editors: Steve Geimann, Larry Liebert

To contact the reporter on this story: Angela Greiling Keane in Washington at agreilingkea@bloomberg.net;

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Larry Liebert at lliebert@bloomberg.net.


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Straw Man:  "The post office works just great"    

[BM OUT]

I wonder if UPS and Fed Ex were run like the post office how long they would be in buisiness?THIS is the problem with EVERYTHING the government touches.

[Bindare_Dundat]

Like a well oiled machine I tell ya.    In other nicky /Benny news.... gold will collapse back to 1100 an oz.

[Straw Man]

Postal Service Seeks Five-Day Delivery By 2011, Potter Says
March 29, 2010, 9:38 AM EDT


Straw Man:  "The post office works just great"    

if you don't like it then stop using it

who's stopping you

[BM OUT]

if you don't like it then stop using it

who's stopping you

Thats silly.I dont like the government should I stop using the highway?The post office is run poorly as is everything else government runs.Blame the unions.

[Straw Man]

Thats silly.I dont like the government should I stop using the highway?The post office is run poorly as is everything else government runs.Blame the unions.

isn't it part of the commie conspiracy to bankrupt the country to pave the way for the full commie takeover

.....wait, sorry I was channeling Glen Beck there for a moment

Since you brought up highways let's use that as an example.  You're right you would not stop using the highway but would you favor increased taxes to upgrade and maintain or offer some other solution or would you just go on a message board and rant and rave about what a failure the US government was and how it's just more proof that we're heading toward a full communist state?

[Soul Crusher]

isn't it part of the commie conspiracy to bankrupt the country to pave the way for the full commie takeover

.....wait, sorry I was channeling Glen Beck there for a moment

Since you brought up highways let's use that as an example.  You're right you would not stop using the highway but would you favor increased taxes to upgrade and maintain or offer some other solution or would you just go on a message board and rant and rave about what a failure the US government was and how it's just more proof that we're heading toward a full communist state?

Cloward & Piven.

Look it up.   

[Straw Man]

Cloward & Piven.

Look it up.   

is it two guys screaming into a cameral about communism?

[Soul Crusher]

is it two guys screaming into a cameral about communism?

No.  It is the community organizing theories that Obama has brought to the presidency. 

[Straw Man]

No.  It is the community organizing theories that Obama has brought to the presidency. 

COMMunit organizer

that's got more than half the letters for the work COMMIE

and in the right order too

there's no way that's a coincidence

[Soul Crusher]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

[LurkerNoMore]

So mail your damn letter a day earlier or not at all.  Pick one.

[BM OUT]

isn't it part of the commie conspiracy to bankrupt the country to pave the way for the full commie takeover

.....wait, sorry I was channeling Glen Beck there for a moment

Since you brought up highways let's use that as an example.  You're right you would not stop using the highway but would you favor increased taxes to upgrade and maintain or offer some other solution or would you just go on a message board and rant and rave about what a failure the US government was and how it's just more proof that we're heading toward a full communist state?

Well considering our taxes have gone up time after time after time and the highways are a piece of shit,considering we spend more and more and more on educaion and it gets worse not better,perhaps money isnt the answer,perhaps farming out the work to the private sector would work better.I dont mind paying taxes if I see results.Unfortunately all I see is total absolute failure by the government at every turn.

[Option D]

Obama did it

[Straw Man]

Well considering our taxes have gone up time after time after time and the highways are a piece of shit,considering we spend more and more and more on educaion and it gets worse not better,perhaps money isnt the answer,perhaps farming out the work to the private sector would work better.I dont mind paying taxes if I see results.Unfortunately all I see is total absolute failure by the government at every turn.

many states have already sold roads to private (and foreign corporations) who are charging tolls for us to drive on roads in our own country

btw - I'm not saying we need to increase taxes to pay of roads but just using it as an example of a problem in our country that we can address without ranting about communism (which is not something I recall you doing)

[JohnC1908]

if you don't like it then stop using it

who's stopping you

It's not really the point. The Post Office took 10 billion from the reserve last year and squandered 70% of it. It's just another drain on our lackluster economy. If Lysander Spooner would have not been railroaded by govt. goons 150 years ago we would not have this problem. The govt. is not concerned about effeciency or you, just excuses to take more of our money. Fortuntately for them most of this country doesn't give a damn, and happily bends right over for them.

[Straw Man]

It's not really the point. The Post Office took 10 billion from the reserve last year and squandered 70% of it. It's just another drain on our lackluster economy. If Lysander Spooner would have not been railroaded by govt. goons 150 years ago we would not have this problem. The govt. is not concerned about effeciency or you, just excuses to take more of our money. Fortuntately for them most of this country doesn't give a damn, and happily bends right over for them.

I wasn't aware the USP squandered 7 billion dollars

what did they squander it on?

hookers and weed?

cristal and blow?

black market kidneys?

beenie babies?

[JohnC1908]

I wasn't aware the USP squandered 7 billion dollars

what did they squander it on?

hookers and weed?

cristal and blow?

black market kidneys?

beenie babies?

Thievery, who knows where it went? Although, about half of your guesses aren't bad.

[Straw Man]

Thievery, who knows where it went? Although, about half of your guesses aren't bad.

dude I wouldn't be suprised if they blew it on baby blood and stem cells

[JohnC1908]

dude I wouldn't be suprised if they blew it on baby blood and stem cells

Right, very interesting you are going to your anti Republican playbook. I really don't have an agenda when it comes to stemcell research, you are pigeon holing the wrong guy. Stemcells have nothing to do with this, but if it can divert us from the actual subject then go for it. Obviously you can't excuse this crap, so you just throwout school yard barbs. If anyone else would like to discuss the actual subject I'm game.