On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the possible closure of 3700 post offices and 120,000 workers around the country. Who will be affected? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. The post office will handle an estimated 167 billion pieces of mail this year. Is your post office on the list? What will the closure of post offices mean for your community? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Gray Brechin, the project scholar of the Living New Deal Project at UC Berkeley's Department of Geography
John Beaumont, president of the California State Association of Letter Carriers and member of the National Association of Letter Carriers
Click to Listen: What is in store for the US Postal Service?
With online ordering folks are buying (from Amazon, for example) all manner of items that need to be shipped. How is the postal service not enjoying a huge surge in shipping revenue? I buy clothing and odd items like ink cartridges that I once drove to the store to buy. Why doesn't USPS adjust their rates to better compete with UPS and Fedex? There's a lot of business they have the might to capture.
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No one is talking about bulk mail which is heavily subsidized by the other companies and people who pay full rates for postage. Eliminate the bulk mail rates and one also eliminates 90% of the junk mail that the postal service has to process each and every day along with the unlucky recipients of this mail.
ReplyDeleteI pay less for US Postal Service Priority Mail packages using their standard cartons than I do for UPS or Federal Express Ground and I get the carton at no charge and I get tracking information and pickup at my house at no charge as well. UPS and Federal Express charge an extra $3.00 for a pickup. UPS and Federal Express also charge more for delivery to a house than for delivery to a business address. And there are many locations where the US Postal Service will deliver a package where neither UPS or Federal Express will make the delivery at all.
ReplyDeleteI also use the postal service when I order an item through the mail. The postal service delivery is far better than UPS or Federal Express. And if miss a package delivery I can walk to my neighborhood post office to pick it up.
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