[georgehenrycollector]

My Postal Carrier has just informed me of a meeting they had this morning. Some highlights:

By 2014 they want to phase out all rural routes. By requiring P.o. Boxes.
They want to go to cluster Boxes.
And within 5 years they can see a 3 day only Delivery week

Guess we will see what happens.

[p18mann]

Figures (shaking my head)

[sconnienation3]

Wow. 3 days a week is a pretty severe cutback!

[koolkellygirl]

Plus more $$$$$$$$$$$$

[slotman11]

Beginning of the end of the USPS... Just a matter of time...

[shezdoni]

They are already unable to pay their medical insurance policy on heir carriers, and Congress told them there would be no bail out, typical action by the Govt

[georgehenrycollector]

They are already unable to pay their medical insurance policy on heir carriers, and Congress told them there would be no bail out, typical action by the Govt

Oh now that it was brought up. They changed their insurance recently. They will only cover 25% of their Medical bills now.

[charps]

Maybe if shipping stuff didn't cost so damn much, stamps didnt go up every few years, etc...things wouldn't be so bad. Seems like we are going backwards to pony express

[bgt masters of tikid]

When the prices of gas triples in 10 years you can sort of expect the price of sending something would go up.

[rybowski97]

i seriously doubt anything like that will happen. if they cut back to 3 days a week this destroy all the money they are making on the priority and overnight mail. who would bother with the post office, everyone would switch to ups or fedex.