Post Office Loses Billions, Again : The Fix Blocked by Unions?

As long as the progressive socialist control the federal government, the government Post Office will continue into deeper and deeper debt and with good reason, this is where millions in campaign donations come from to support Democrat office holders that make sure the Post Office union workers continue to stay employed even all the while losing billions in tax payer dollars.

Remember our past discussions on progressive socialist Democrats 'money laundrying' of taxpayers dollars? This is a prime example. Remember how hard it was for the Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, to change the ever more repressive public sector unions to individual representation?

Thousands of union members descended on the capital for months doing millions of dollars of damage while demanding the system stay the same. Believe, it is about the money, union members be dammed.

Why did so many vote last November to make sure this nightmare continues for another four years? Will their vote make sure that the Post Office will totally collapse as the entire country goes broke?

Who didn't understand we are out of money and that there is no more free lunch?

Can a "Hybrid" Model Save the Post Office?
January 16, 2013
Source: Lisa Rein, "Think Tank to Study Privatizing Most Postal Service Operations," Washington Post, January 4, 2013.

A Washington think tank recently announced it will conduct an independent study of how the U.S. Post Office, a quasi-government agency, could cede much of its operation to private companies, says the Washington Post.

• The review by the nonprofit National Academy of Public Administration will analyze the benefits of restoring the agency's financial health by using a "hybrid" model, which would farm out to the private sector postal operations other than the last delivery mile.
• A letter carrier would still drive or walk that last part, dropping letters and packages in mailboxes.

The study is likely to bring more attention to a public-private model as a viable -- and controversial -- substitute for the Postal Service's existing structure, which relies on a unionized workforce of more than 650,000 employees to sort, package, transport and deliver the mail.

With first-class mail volume plummeting as Americans conduct more business and communications through the Internet, the Postal Service lost $16 billion in fiscal 2012.

The idea of taking postal operations private is popular in conservative circles but will be a non-starter in others. It is staunchly opposed by congressional Democrats and postal unions, which stand to lose tens of thousands of members.

The study is being underwritten by Pitney Bowes, a Connecticut company that makes postage meters, shipping software and other equipment for business mailers.