How Would You Make Over the U.S. Postal Service? »
Posted By MyWayOnNow 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Business & FinanceWith bankruptcy looming, the U.S. Post Office needs a major fix. We asked Inc. 500 CEOs how they'd approach the problem.
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truthiness2 weeks, 2 days ago
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let private companies do all the delivery. let USPS retain control of stamps (currency). very little overhead.
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we certainly should end USPS package delivery, why compete with several private companies for this particular service?
the concept in the article for digital USPS, is also good.. because ti would allow business to find individuals for billing etc, yet you could keep your private email for other stuff (think how much garbage paper mail would disappear, what a huge environmental boon.)-
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chevydog2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Playing the devil's advocate--For some years I lived in small towns a gazillion miles from anywhere. At the time, this affected us primarily with regard to health care access. We had Post Offices (though very limited delivery)--had to walk "downtown" to get our mail from PO boxes.
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I wonder how well something like UPS would serve such an area. We had no UPS delivery then; but that was 20-30 years ago.
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mesodude2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Sorry, MWON. It can't be fixed. Nothing that is government run or funded can possibly succeed and no government run or funded program that has failed (which everyone knows occurs extremely rarely in the awesome private sector) can be rehabilitated or reorganized into something successful. The reason I know all this is because when people know for sure that something will fail, it's perfectly normal for them to make lots of noise and spend every waking moment whining, *wishing for* and willing the government program in question to fail. After all, since some people know government "can't work" (ever), the best thing to do is to speed up the process of failure and then cheer excitedly when programs *they sabotaged* don't do well or fail big time. ;-P
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chevydog2 weeks, 2 days ago
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There's a school of thought that's been extant in Washington for some time that the best way to run anything is to tap some competent outsider who knows absolutely nothing about what he's about to run to run an agency. The theory posits that such a person will will be more open to unconventional solutions and have no ties to private organizations that might benefit from govt business. Stacked against this is the more conventional belief that solutions can only come from someone familiar with the industry. I've blown both ways myself over the years and am not really sure what type person is needed in the current situation. But before the govt goes proposing any kind of massive overhaul, it would behoove itself to know.
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This article compares US mail delivery costs to European costs. We've also done this in the area of energy consumption. Neither is a legitimate comparison to me because of the greater distances involved in the US. Compensate for this somehow, and the US looks relatively better in both cases. Unfortunately for postal users, that means that one could greatly increase rates and still stay within the cost comparison for Europe.
If you ask old line conservatives about what the duties of the Federal govt should be, one used to get the answer (1) to provide national security, and (2) deliver the mail. I think this list could be legitimately expanded now, though nowhere near the point at which it is. But I've always been curious why Postal Service operations had a financial component to measure "success". No other govt entity that I can think of does. -
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NoWayMan2 weeks, 2 days ago
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well, the USPS has been around for 200+ years and until recently has made some huge profits.
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in 2006, the USPS made a profit (yes, profit) of $900 million.
so...makeover, sure. we should make some changes if we can make it run better since the USPS has proven it can be a winner.
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