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Mar 02

This Week’s Big Question: Can the U.S. Postal Service Survive?

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Weekly 'Big Question'

by Alan Masarsky

FORA.tv strives to connect smart, passionate audiences to brilliant ideas that are expressed everyday. Each week, our newsletter features a provocative and compelling Big Question, inviting discourse and debate from our community.

This week’s Big Question:

Can the U.S. Postal Service Survive?

From yesterday’s DEMO Spring Conference comes a start-up aiming to takedown the U.S. Postal System: Manilla. The company has an ambitious plan to move all bills and payments online. Ironically, the new company is backed by one of the USPS’s largest customers — magazine publisher Hearst. Meanwhile, Postmaster General John Potter discusses fundamental challenges faced by the Postal Service and his plans to transform it into a leaner and more flexible enterprise.

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TWO VIEWS: Manilla and John Potter

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      First of all the words “Post Office” are inaccurate since the Post Office was the name for the department of the U.S. government which handled the U.S. mail. Sometime back in the 1970s or 1980s it was reorganized under a government corporation called “The Postal Service”.

      I used to work for the Postal Service, but I worked in a Bulk Mail Center that handled packages and magazines and so forth. This part of the Postal Service is affected less. But to survive the drop in letter service because of the ability of people to send emails instead of letters and to pay online, the Postal Service is going to have to win over the Labor Unions who need to come to their senses and realize that the only way for the majority of the Postal Service workers to keep their job is for FREEDOM to be given to the Postal Service to eliminate non-productive facilities such many very small facilities spread across the country. People are going to have to drive into a larger town to get their mail. Also, Saturday delivery is going to have to be eliminated.

      If the Postal Service dies it will be because those labor union people stood in the way of freedom. Some people are going to have to lose their jobs and Saturday delivery is going to need to be eliminated, so that the majority can keep them and so the Postal Service can ultimately survive.

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      First of all the words “Post Office” are inaccurate since the Post Office was the name for the department of the U.S. government which handled the U.S. mail. Sometime back in the 1970s or 1980s it was reorganized under a government corporation called “The Postal Service”.

      I used to work for the Postal Service, but I worked in a Bulk Mail Center that handled packages and magazines and so forth. This part of the Postal Service is affected less. But to survive the drop in letter service because of the ability of people to send emails instead of letters and to pay online, the Postal Service is going to have to win over the Labor Unions who need to come to their senses and realize that the only way for the majority of the Postal Service workers to keep their job is for FREEDOM to be given to the Postal Service to eliminate non-productive facilities such many very small facilities spread across the country. People are going to have to drive into a larger town to get their mail. Also, Saturday delivery is going to have to be eliminated.

      If the Postal Service dies it will be because those labor union people stood in the way of freedom. Some people are going to have to lose their jobs and Saturday delivery is going to need to be eliminated, so that the majority can keep them and so the Postal Service can ultimately survive.