Postal Service May Begin Paying Employees With IOUs

[picasso moon]

mtlouie:
I can't understand why people want to cling to their chains, but that's just me.
Believe it or not, people are scared silly of the possibility of freedom. they've gotten used to being walked around like dogs and tagged away any time they sniff something interesting. 

As for states printing their own money: right, a lot of confidence will greet that "money", backed by nothing but indebted state coffers

[mollage]

My daughter in law was briefly working for the PO a year ago and she told me that it had been privatized.  So, I have been under the impression that it is no longer a .gov situation but run by a private company.  I had said to her that it must be nice working for them because they pay well and that is when she told me.  She was earning hardly anything. 

[Madnsassy]

Speaking of the postal service & budget issues, sometime late last year (or early this year) they were kicking around the idea of cutting out some delivery days in rural areas, and were looking at eliminating either Saturdays or Tuesdays. Well, I never heard much more on this, but I live in a rural area and was thinking today- I can't remember getting mail on Tuesdays in what seems like forever. Saturdays are still being delivered, but I wanted to know if any other rural area LATOCers had noticed anything like this or if they'd heard about them implementing the plan at all.

I live in a rural area and we are still getting regular delivery.  Very small community, very small PO with only 4 employees.  The mail-delivery lady recently purchased a new red jeep (on her own dime), but I have no inside scoops.  I'll have to call Paula!  Someone else on this thread already conjured the "going postal" meme, but that's also what went  through my mind when I saw this thread title.

[Madnsassy]

I'm trying to imagine a privatized postal service. Mail twice a week. No mail pick-ups from homes, must visit postal center. $50 a month fee residential. $200 and up commercial. $1.00 stamps (and up). Extra charge for anything not a standard 1 oz. envelop. Packages left at the roadside mailbox, no porch delivery.

If you ask me, I like the PO not making a lot of money when it's not ME making up the difference.

Wish I was younger.  I used to dream of being a rider for the pony express!

[graveday]

Say, if I paid my kids in IOUs and they didn't shoot me, and I began to pay my bills in IOUs and they didn't confiscate all my belongings, do I get to name my house Ruby Ridge?

[DrLabcoat]

How can I pay my bills if I don't get them?   

rotflmfao

this made my day

[mtlouie]

My daughter in law was briefly working for the PO a year ago and she told me that it had been privatized.  So, I have been under the impression that it is no longer a .gov situation but run by a private company.  I had said to her that it must be nice working for them because they pay well and that is when she told me.  She was earning hardly anything. 

This is very interesting.  I was wondering about some stuff I've head is going on there.  I wonder how much of it has already been foisted off on private entities during the Bush regime?

This would be interesting to get to the bottom of.

Say, if I paid my kids in IOUs and they didn't shoot me, and I began to pay my bills in IOUs and they didn't confiscate all my belongings, do I get to name my house Ruby Ridge?

Are you the wife or the husband or the son?  Makes a big difference.   

[Marten]

We have pretty great postal workers here in Tacoma.  They crack gum and look at you funny if you have a package that has to go to Lithuania by air, sea and goat cart, but they manage to get it right.  Our mailman always has a friendly word for us and hustles to get his job done right and on time.  We had a storm warning a while back and the post office gave carriers the option to cut out at any point and head back because the streets were so dangerous.  When I diid my final round outside I darn near slid into the mailman coming around a corner.  He went up a flight of icy outside stairs to give an elderly lady her magazines and make sure she would be okay if her caregiver couldn't get to her for a couple days.           

Give this guy an IOU for a pension?  Or worse, for his paycheck?  I don't think so.   I jokingly said at my last doctor's visit  "If things don't pick up, next time I may be paying in blackberry jam."  She shot back "One more pay cut here and I'll be accepting it."  Our hardworking mailman just joined her on our list of public servants who get paid in trade goods if necessary to keep them going.

How shameful that the people who work the hardest are getting shafted the worst as things fall apart.   

[mtlouie]

We have the most wonderful mail carrier in the world!  She gives all the dogs in the neighborhood dog biscuits and our dog thinks every time he sees a mail truck he should get a dog biscuit! 

She chats with everyone and is just an awesome lady!

[Abhaha]

We have pretty great postal workers here in Tacoma. 

You are lucky then. I once came home to find the threshold of my apartment decorated with my new boxes of blank checks which were spread across it. I almost shit a brick!!! The postal delivery person had put them there instead of in my locked mail box.....what a fucking retard!!

I wrote a nastygram as to how I felt about it and took it to the post office and gave it to their supervisor. She said she would give the note to the mail carrier. Her attitude was--Well, this is kind of typical.   

Crimminy!! I had visions of someone "hanging paper" all over town with my checks if I hadn't come home soon and grabbed them up.

[TLR1138]

The new motto for people getting paid with IOUs (borrowed from the Soviet Union):

"They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work." 

[Tinfoilhatmann]

I think the USPS as a private entity would be very bad for the people. Every single entity they privatize in our province has been a fucking disaster since. Like a power company that raises the rates every year and the power outages go longer and more frequently. A priceless moment was when the power corp was meeting with the .gov for their annual rate hike and the power went out

[Abhaha]

I think the USPS as a private entity would be very bad for the people. Every single entity they privatize in our province has been a fucking disaster since. Like a power company that raises the rates every year and the power outages go longer and more frequently. A priceless moment was when the power corp was meeting with the .gov for their annual rate hike and the power went out

That is the ultimate goal--to PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING. To get the full picture--check this out.

[nomore]

Speaking of the postal service & budget issues, sometime late last year (or early this year) they were kicking around the idea of cutting out some delivery days in rural areas, and were looking at eliminating either Saturdays or Tuesdays. Well, I never heard much more on this, but I live in a rural area and was thinking today- I can't remember getting mail on Tuesdays in what seems like forever. Saturdays are still being delivered, but I wanted to know if any other rural area LATOCers had noticed anything like this or if they'd heard about them implementing the plan at all.

As of July 18th my rural post office is closed on Saturdays

[neumatteo]

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43192

Oh boy, I'm sure THIS will improve the quality of the mail service.   


The presidents of the American Postal Workers Union, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, National Association of Letter Carriers and National Postal Mailhandlers Union co-signed the Tuesday letter to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, warning that the U.S. Postal Service is at risk of defaulting on a $5.4 billion payment to prefund retiree health benefits at the end of September.

The letter alleges that USPS "may not be able to make payroll in October and will be forced to issue IOUs instead."

"They knew what they were getting into when they bought those tickets....I say, let 'em crash"   quoted from "Airplane"