U.S. Postal Service to reduce workforce by 10,000 in 2015

[PATRICK]

21. Not what we employees just heard

from our beloved Postmaster General, whose usual video performance stands up to Dustin Hoffman's as Mumbles in the film "Dick Tracy".

He was all a-gush with hope in the Senate mark-up of a compromise bill that would at least remove the burden of pre-funding retiree health care although it plays the same painful dishonest game with that too. That means not closing more facilities or ending six day delivery. It means finally hiring more people at least to stop the ludicrous reliance on super overtime pay, converting more lower tier employees to career status and getting more carriers. The "rumor" of conversion of underpaid no career status or benefit first tier employees has been around for weeks.

Of course, management will get back to its drowning the USPS in a bathtub policies in a couple of years, but perhaps this message is if the government fails to deliver- so will the USPS? Like getting anything rational or of service to America can pass Congress, even with the usual poison pills in the eventual bill is something of a sure thing.

The losing money meme is just that. In my experience of thirty years as the economy goes so goes the USPS except that our business is usually among the first to recover(except when screwed by mismanagement)- predictably from increased advertising. The Post Office is losing money- to Congressional fraud and government appointed management, even going so far as to make the rates Commission or Board of Governors impotent to do what little good they ever can.

"Saving" the postal service in these meme terms always means selling the golden goose portion, let the taxpayers have all the money losing aspects, killing the goose, shrinking away from universal service like the skin around a dessicated corpse and making a few people rich.

The money is not lost it is pouring toward the one per cent like an unstoppable wave carrying the detritus of the commons and the welfare of every living thing on the globe. In any event the goal of the USPS is to make sure everyone else in the nation makes money and is served- NOT to turn a profit or make itself rich.

The stored away "lost money" of fake derivatives and other hoarding and gambling is searching to make real value for itself only in purchasing power over all human goods and services, slaving and weakening the human race and not one thin dime to actually making anything at all really escape to do any good at all to the vast majority.

Sure, the modern world would drastically change the need for the current system- to the loss of a unique and irreplaceable door to door universal infrastructure. For better or worse, in private hands, so far that is bungled, fractured, insufficient, not universally available or of value to the nation's universal needs. In fact, more information exchange, as the USPS has helped in the past, means everyone thrives. Usually, unimpeded, without fake hoopla and lies-even against some logic- we are at the forefront and business grows.

Of course our manic management is too often working berserker to befuddle that natural occurrence with closings and degradations of service. And the media ignores ALL our periods of growth- during which our work force has consistently been shrunk even if you had to spend more money to privatize work away from the unions- at stamp-payers ultimate expense.