As it turns out, the Postal Service is in jeopardy, but not rather completely ready to tap out. However the sufferings should not be minimized or swept under the rug in any way.
35,000 More Postal Service Workers to Be Laid Off
Doom does not really begin to underline what this current economic climate has brought us. For any business, it seems rather obvious that the solution to fix it, is hack and slash, hack and slash, hack and slash, over and over again.
That just merely stops the bleeding for a minute.
The United States Postal Service is wobbling. Postal mail in the United States will either be shut down within the next five years or it will be brought to a drastically reduced service.
What can we do?
Well sadly the ball is in the hands of the United States Government who are trying to fix this situation.
In other words, we are doomed.
Hack and slash and raise the price of stamps as well is the attempt to offset the losses.
35,000 jobs lost in over 223 mail processing plants. Obviously, it will be the smaller towns that will be the first to go and get consolidated in with the bigger ones. Thus making the United States Postal Service an even more muddled mess that it is. We may be getting a five day week pretty soon for the postal service(or four most weeks once you cut out the holidays which seem to happen every week).
The United States Postal Service had a loss at about $3.3 billion dollars during the final quarter. That is on top of the losses and at their current business model, they are on track to lose even more by the year 2015.
Raising the stamps for United States Postal Service first class mail is a solution that has been put out there, but it does have a problem. Raise it too much, and more people will decide to limit what they send out. Those who are desperately are clinging onto the postal service, will decide to step right into the digital age. Thus the Postal Service will have an even more muddled mess and will lose more money and more people will lose their jobs.
I would sooner all of those over priced politicians up in Washington who are doing Jack to help the average American citizen take a pay cut and use that money to jumpstart the United States Postal Service. But that might be asking too much.
Still I never thought I would see the day where the United States Postal Service would die off. Will there be something that threatens the almighty Internet one day? Perish the thought indeed.
