Postal Service Facing Default

[Admiral Yi]

A lot of postal workers aren't really capable of doing a lot of that kind of work.

I don't know how much upper body strength it takes to be a rig pig, but mail men are just about the fittest Americans there are.  With the possible exception of UPS drivers.

[Neil]

A lot of postal workers aren't really capable of doing a lot of that kind of work.

I don't know how much upper body strength it takes to be a rig pig, but mail men are just about the fittest Americans there are.  With the possible exception of UPS drivers.

I don't think we're talking about just beat mailmen here.  Rig pig does take a fair bit of strength.  I've seen some guys who couldn't hack it, physically.

[Josquius]

Privatisation of the post is an awful idea which will only make things worse. Private companies will gobble up the bits that actually make a profit leaving the government to handle the dull day-to-day loss making stuff.

Actually it is. We need to cull the garbage "jobs" that are unproductive to free up that labor to do something worthwhile.

Like what?
It`s a big rising problem in the western world today that there just aren`t enough jobs to go around for the working class. (something I was going to go on about in a new thread but shock, horror, I actually have to work at work today...)

[CountDeMoney]

With the amount of mail dropping over the years, they could be open MWF, and know one would ever notice.

[Razgovory]

With the amount of mail dropping over the years, they could be open MWF, and know one would ever notice.

I still want to get my shit from Amazon.

[Habbaku]

Privatisation of the post is an awful idea which will only make things worse. Private companies will gobble up the bits that actually make a profit leaving the government to handle the dull day-to-day loss making stuff.

[Admiral Yi]

It's actually not that funny.

[Habbaku]

You're right, it's simply absurd that he thinks that makes any sense.

[LaCroix]

If I knew jack shit about drilling oil wells, I'd be up there starting a business right now. 

unless you moved to the Big City of minot, population 40,000, you'd probably find some hostility what with being a dirty furreiner and all

[Josquius]

You're right, it's simply absurd that he thinks that makes any sense.

How doesn't it?
That's what happened in Britain. The government opened up the post to private companies, they instantly jumped at corporate deliveries and other nice profitable parts of the business leaving the unprofitable stuff which still had to be done to the Royal Mail. It did not end well.

[The Brain]

You're right, it's simply absurd that he thinks that makes any sense.

How doesn't it?
That's what happened in Britain. The government opened up the post to private companies, they instantly jumped at corporate deliveries and other nice profitable parts of the business leaving the unprofitable stuff which still had to be done to the Royal Mail. It did not end well.

Works in Sweden.

[Razgovory]

You're right, it's simply absurd that he thinks that makes any sense.

What makes you think the opposite?  I mean, besides blind obedience to ideology.

[Zanza]

How doesn't it?
That's what happened in Britain. The government opened up the post to private companies, they instantly jumped at corporate deliveries and other nice profitable parts of the business leaving the unprofitable stuff which still had to be done to the Royal Mail. It did not end well.

Works in Sweden.

In Germany too. Deutsche Post has grown to become the biggest logistics company in the world since privatization and makes reasonable profits each year. The minority of the government gets a nice divident each year. Much better than the bottomless hole it was before privatization.

[Richard Hakluyt]

You're right, it's simply absurd that he thinks that makes any sense.

How doesn't it?
That's what happened in Britain. The government opened up the post to private companies, they instantly jumped at corporate deliveries and other nice profitable parts of the business leaving the unprofitable stuff which still had to be done to the Royal Mail. It did not end well.

That's a failure of regulation. One needs to tie in the obligation to deliver post in the Hebrides to the right to make loadsamoney delivering letters within Britain's cities. Or get rid of the cross-subsidy, which I wouldn't favour myself.

[Zanza]

Are there any privatization success stories in Britain?