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ProfessorGAC

(64,875 posts)
11. About This Cost Cutting
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 06:36 PM
Aug 2020

This tool De Joy is claiming the move is to cut costs & improve efficiency.
Aside from the political motivations, and the pension funding issue impacting cash flow...
From a purely business standpoint, it's easy to see the cutting of overtime. I don't agree with it, and don't believe it's about money, but pure business economics can explain avoiding 1.5x hourly payouts to save money.
BUT...
How does removing machines installed to improve efficiency, improve efficiency?
The very fact that the next 2 initiatives were eliminating efficient automation and the boxes that widen distribution efficiency says NONE of these moves were about efficiency.
This tool was the CEO of a logistics company. He clearly knows a tiny something about efficient operations.
Eliminating efficiency tools because they're not efficient enough is transparently phony.
Especially when you look at the map posted above. Big, blue cities in big states being targeted.
This is an obvious political scheme.
DeJoy better be ready because Porter is coming!

Thanks for sharing this stuff, my dear stillcool... CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #1
My late, dear "Aunt Margret" was as NH, and as conservative as they made ;em Mopar151 Aug 2020 #2
a little more.. stillcool Aug 2020 #3
and stillcool Aug 2020 #4
from crooks and liars stillcool Aug 2020 #5
Buffalo NY stillcool Aug 2020 #6
just trying to figure out what a sorting machine looks like stillcool Aug 2020 #16
don't know about this one.. stillcool Aug 2020 #7
this comes from the Washington Post, August 14 stillcool Aug 2020 #8
oh dear... stillcool Aug 2020 #9
Lawsuit stillcool Aug 2020 #10
About This Cost Cutting ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #11
just because stillcool Aug 2020 #12
Louis DeJoy statement stillcool Aug 2020 #13
I see a pattern, and Susan Collins stillcool Aug 2020 #14
Postal officials as witnesses no more stillcool Aug 2020 #15
and the plot keeps on thickening... stillcool Aug 2020 #17
Michigan stillcool Aug 2020 #18
smile stillcool Aug 2020 #19
Reconnecting mail sorting machines is a no-no, as are loose lips stillcool Aug 2020 #20
Mnuchin and the Post Office stillcool Aug 2020 #21
Washington State reinstalled sorting machines stillcool Aug 2020 #22
eau De Joy stillcool Aug 2020 #23
haven't been paying attention, but this caught my eye stillcool Sep 2020 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author stillcool Sep 2020 #25
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