A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit
the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it
to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the
Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.

On 3/27/2021 3:06 PM, micky wrote:
A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit
the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it
to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the
Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.


Love it!
Rates have to go up, changes have to be made. I just don't think DeJoy
is the guy to do it by slowing down the mail.

On 3/27/21 3:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/27/2021 3:06 PM, micky wrote:
A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit
the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it
to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the
Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.


Love it!
Rates have to go up, changes have to be made.Â* I just don't think DeJoy
is the guy to do it by slowing down the mail.

Unionized government clerks, carriers and mail handlers...

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In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:53:21 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

On 3/27/21 3:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/27/2021 3:06 PM, micky wrote:
A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit
the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it
to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the
Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.


Love it!
Rates have to go up, changes have to be made.* I just don't think DeJoy
is the guy to do it by slowing down the mail.

Unionized government clerks, carriers and mail handlers...

Easy to blame but that's not it. Things worked well until enlarged
competition from UPS and Fedex, and email.

Everything worked a lot better until Dejoy got appointed.

On 3/27/2021 6:37 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:53:21 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

On 3/27/21 3:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/27/2021 3:06 PM, micky wrote:
A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit
the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it
to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the
Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.


Love it!
Rates have to go up, changes have to be made.Â* I just don't think DeJoy
is the guy to do it by slowing down the mail.

Unionized government clerks, carriers and mail handlers...

Easy to blame but that's not it. Things worked well until enlarged
competition from UPS and Fedex, and email.

Everything worked a lot better until Dejoy got appointed.


The USPS also wanted a rate increase but Congress said "no" so they lose
money. They also have to prepay some retirement benefits that industry
does no have do

So far, I've only seen DeJoy do stupid things and try to slow mail in
ballots.

In Ed Pawlowski writes:

[snip]

The USPS also wanted a rate increase but Congress said "no" so they lose
money. They also have to prepay some retirement benefits that industry
does no have do

Bzzzzzt. If you actually looked at the price of sending mail
you'd have seen that, with the notable exception of the basic
one ounce #10 business envelope, whose price has has crept up
at roughly the rate of inlation, just about _all_ the other
USPS rates have gone up _dramatially_ in the past decade.

They've chosen to keep the highly visible "one ounce" standard
envelope charge pretty stable, but as to the others? hahahah.

Plus, of course, lots of surcharges for this, that, and
all the other things.



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On 3/27/2021 9:59 PM, danny burstein wrote:
In Ed Pawlowski writes:

[snip]

The USPS also wanted a rate increase but Congress said "no" so they lose
money. They also have to prepay some retirement benefits that industry
does no have do

Bzzzzzt. If you actually looked at the price of sending mail
you'd have seen that, with the notable exception of the basic
one ounce #10 business envelope, whose price has has crept up
at roughly the rate of inlation, just about _all_ the other
USPS rates have gone up _dramatially_ in the past decade.

They've chosen to keep the highly visible "one ounce" standard
envelope charge pretty stable, but as to the others? hahahah.

Plus, of course, lots of surcharges for this, that, and
all the other things.



Have they? You do know the big package customers have negotiated rates,
not the ones you and I pay.

Rate of inflation does not affect every operation the same way so that
is a poor guide. Rate of inflation means nothing when you hit them with
a big expense
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manu...how-to-fix-it/

In Ed Pawlowski writes:

They've chosen to keep the highly visible "one ounce" standard
envelope charge pretty stable, but as to the others? hahahah.

Plus, of course, lots of surcharges for this, that, and
all the other things.

Have they? You do know the big package customers have negotiated rates,
not the ones you and I pay.

And they've been paying lots more for those "negotiated rates", too.

I don't have the"big mailer" price sheets, but just as one example,
"priority mail flat rate" envelopes, which was something like $5.25 (I'm
thinking $5.05) four years ago ijumped to $7.50 or so, and now
is at $7.95

So again, that #10 one ounce business envelope has only
crept up gently, but all the other rates are much hgher

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On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 01:59:26 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
wrote:

In Ed Pawlowski writes:

[snip]

The USPS also wanted a rate increase but Congress said "no" so they lose
money. They also have to prepay some retirement benefits that industry
does no have do

Bzzzzzt. If you actually looked at the price of sending mail
you'd have seen that, with the notable exception of the basic
one ounce #10 business envelope, whose price has has crept up
at roughly the rate of inlation, just about _all_ the other
USPS rates have gone up _dramatially_ in the past decade.

They've chosen to keep the highly visible "one ounce" standard
envelope charge pretty stable, but as to the others? hahahah.

Plus, of course, lots of surcharges for this, that, and
all the other things.

It is that 1st class letter that is at the center of all of this tho.
They cover their cost on packages, 1st class is a money loser and
Congress will not let the real cost be reflected in the price. It is
still ignoring the real elephant in the room. The USPS has a huge
unfunded pension program that is bleeding them dry.
If Congress would take that back they would be in the black. They
might even be able to cut postal rates. Then they could have a new
pension plan that more closely reflected what the rest of us have, not
the gravy train the union rammed down our throat.