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The economy vs USPS
A year back USPS contacted city officials and wanted to know if they
were interested in buying the site of the downtown post office, the city declined. Two months back USPS announced they were considering closing the downtown post office and moving all to the remote post office. Shortly thereafter USPS announced there would be a public hearing June 16th to get public input on the proposed closing. All this time petitions were being gathered to protest the closing. Last week USPS changed the June 16th hearing format to a informational meeting on the proceedures of the closing. Well, the remote post office parking lot is not large enough to handle the extra traffic nor is the building itself. Three windows for a town of 32,000 people? I think not. There would be no change of address for the people with post office boxes, however, the ones with the large post office drawers, mainly businesses would have a new address. Gee, maybe the internet is really killing tbe USPS. Ralp[hael, the OLD one |
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:25:43 -0700, Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
NO, the USPS is killing the USPS !!! All the surcharges and rstrictions on thickness, stiffness, etc. make it far less likely I'd ship anything but a bill via ISPS! As we have before, we differ markedly on our opinions of the USPS, so as a counterargument: Surcharging non-machinable items is one of the best ways for the USPS to save the postal customer money. It places the cost burden where it should be -- on the mailers of difficult-to-process items -- and shifts it away from the day-to-day letter-writers and bill collectors who compose the bulk of First Class Mail customers, whose rates will go up more slowly as a result. Introducing standards for dimensioning, thickness, rigidity, and orientation of address label have allowed single items to be processed at nearly (?) the same efficiency as presorted mail. The huge^H^H^H^Hlarge investment in machinery for automatically processing flats (large flexible envelopes) should pay off as well. The immediate counterargument that occurs to me is that zone- and remoteness-based pricing would accomplish much the same thing, and maybe to a greater degree. But, idealist that I am, I believe the ability for someone to send a letter from Fairbanks, Alaska to his aunt in Honolulu, Hawaii for the same price as someone in Manhattan writing to his next- door neighbor is a great leveler, societally, and an effort in which I believe governments should be involved (despite the distinct movement away from this in recent years, worldwide.) However: I don't have any such idealism about sending a DVD to your aunt for the same cost as a 1 oz. letter. Pay your fair share, please. -- Joshua H. McGee San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA, Earth Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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"Joshua McGee" wrote in message
... But, idealist that I am, I believe the ability for someone to send a letter from Fairbanks, Alaska to his aunt in Honolulu, Hawaii for the same price as someone in Manhattan writing to his next- door neighbor is a great leveler, societally, and an effort in which I believe governments should be involved (despite the distinct movement away from this in recent years, worldwide.) Anyone is able to send a letter anywhere for nothing or less. The good question is who pays for this or similar gifts. As long as USPS or other governmentally enforced monopolies, through their internal efforts and improvements, could maintain their costs and assure an uniform taxation in a big country, nobody would be against it. But if the taxpayers are obliged to permanently support the lost of money (through higher prices and/or taxation) the things change, because anyway they have to help not only the USPS but also many others, similar institutions. Therefore the citizens have also the right to limit their common expenses to something that they can afford, and to demand from those who ask for more then a commonly agreed average service to pay accordingly. TANSTAAFL! -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:26:25 +0200, Victor Manta wrote:
Anyone is able to send a letter anywhere for nothing or less. The good question is who pays for this or similar gifts. [...] TANSTAAFL! Offlist, please: http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/Pw2BC27GGFVK3 -- Joshua H. McGee San Marino, Los Angeles, California, USA, Earth Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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"Joshua McGee" wrote in message
... On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:26:25 +0200, Victor Manta wrote: Anyone is able to send a letter anywhere for nothing or less. The good question is who pays for this or similar gifts. [...] TANSTAAFL! Offlist, please: http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/Pw2BC27GGFVK3 Answered by e-mail. Subject: (government & economy) vs. economy ;-) Victor |
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