Comments - Do we need to shoot the messenger? - TBD2024-03-28T16:56:03Zhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1991841%3ABlogPost%3A1472903&xn_auth=noUnions alone cannot stop mana…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-09:1991841:Comment:14729392013-02-09T18:10:18.776ZMandy Muffinhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/MandyMuffin
<p>Unions alone cannot stop management from running a business in an efficient manner. Maintaining proper funds for future liabilities is a requirement of any business. Those funds should be committed in the year the liability occurs according to good accounting practices. Unions may insist in seniority in laying off or to engage in negotiations in the ways the cuts are administered but they can't stop a requirement that the post office is self-sustaining. IMHO, we should not run a US…</p>
<p>Unions alone cannot stop management from running a business in an efficient manner. Maintaining proper funds for future liabilities is a requirement of any business. Those funds should be committed in the year the liability occurs according to good accounting practices. Unions may insist in seniority in laying off or to engage in negotiations in the ways the cuts are administered but they can't stop a requirement that the post office is self-sustaining. IMHO, we should not run a US Postal Service at a loss on purpose. The taxpaying public deserves better than that when they have to make a living in an economy where their company must make a profit or close the doors. </p> The union is key to the downf…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-09:1991841:Comment:14729182013-02-09T16:01:38.928ZMGDJhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/MauriceGDionJr
<p>The union is key to the downfall of the post office. Having been employed with the post office for years, I saw first-hand how the APWU created inefficiencies. I saw members intentionally slow their work, encouragement of members to go on disability and get legal representation. Unions in America are dead. The only argument I heard about not enacting the right to work laws in Michigan was that employers will now be able to undercut wages. That was true back in the forties, but with…</p>
<p>The union is key to the downfall of the post office. Having been employed with the post office for years, I saw first-hand how the APWU created inefficiencies. I saw members intentionally slow their work, encouragement of members to go on disability and get legal representation. Unions in America are dead. The only argument I heard about not enacting the right to work laws in Michigan was that employers will now be able to undercut wages. That was true back in the forties, but with the internet, people know what they are worth and will be able to go to a competitor who pays better wages. A whole host of employment laws have made it almost impossible for employers to get away with anything these days. If the post office were to be able to disentagle themselves from the union, I am sure they could operate at a profit.</p> I remember when Congress spun…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-09:1991841:Comment:14728172013-02-09T16:01:23.952Zexedirhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/exedir
<p>I remember when Congress spun off the USPS as to do business, like a business. The result is the object lesson on how government can and will not be a business, in that the oversight was to continue the Postal Service long role as patronage and pork to buy votes.</p>
<p>Once the USPS was the glue that tied America together making a web of connections and use of media that was the grease of commerce and communications that took all of America and put it together as one, where with a stamp,…</p>
<p>I remember when Congress spun off the USPS as to do business, like a business. The result is the object lesson on how government can and will not be a business, in that the oversight was to continue the Postal Service long role as patronage and pork to buy votes.</p>
<p>Once the USPS was the glue that tied America together making a web of connections and use of media that was the grease of commerce and communications that took all of America and put it together as one, where with a stamp, the world shrank to the distance of the mail box. </p>
<p>Of course, things change and the mail seems to change, well, slowly. To the point that some private companies make their money where the USPS doesn't due to the flaws and inconsistencies of service design and where time is the product, not the package.</p>
<p>The use of the internet has replaced much of what USPS did, deliver the mail and connect people. What's left is the dermis of what makes people unhappy with their mail, junk and yes, bills. If the USPS just concentrated on parcel post, the stuff of stuff, it might have a profitable future. But then again, Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac worked once too.</p>