I am sure you came across the report that the United Stets Postal Service (USPS) considers stopping delivering mail on Saturday. Why? Simple, the USPS, which does not work to earn a profit, ran a loss of a few billion dollars in fiscal year 2009, and owns the federal government upwards of $10 billion. Therefore, in order to cut back expenses, they are planning to cut services. This of course comes after years of increasing prices of services, such as regular postage.
Come again? I would think that if you want to cut expenses and balance books, one would make the office more sufficient; cut extra jobs, limit compensation; cut back prices, and enhance services, which will in turn bring more clients and money too. This calculation, however, is too difficult of a math for the USPS people to figure out.
The USPS lays blame of their weak business at the Internet and E-mail, which caused people to reduce their reliance of Postal services. This might hold some truth if not for the fact that FedEx and UPS are doing just fine. If the end-game is to earn a profit and service costumers, by God firms will make it happen, as UPS and FedEx do. Whereas if the business beyond military and espionage is government-run, or government subsidizes, the priority is giving workers all they want, while customer service is some place down the line.
If you disagree, let me know how your recent business in a DMV or USPS office went by.
