For once the LW-N (left wing-nut) media has been caught building a mountain out of a cow patty. They have portrayed the long known, ever ignored problems over at the Post Office in political terms. No matter what, it always boils down to something the Republicans did...or didn't do.
More hogwash.
Truth is - from time to time, institutions become out dated, obsolete, or simply die. Come to think about it, you could apply that statement to our past and current Congress'.
The Post Office came into being early in out Nation's life. It hasn't changed much in it's design other than adding newer machinery to assist its manpower. True, we don't use horses to deliver the mail 'out West'; we use horsepower, still 'ridden' by a person. Machines aid in the sorting and destribution of mail, but in the end, it comes down to a postal carrier 'out there', somewhere, to do the final mail sort and delivery.
For at least the past 60 years, the postal workers vs postal managers (who rose from the ranks of the postal workers) have been at war. Why WAR? Maybe it's because so many of these fine folks come from the ranks of ex-military personnel. However, the war is real and viceral. It's replete with sexual favors, cronyism, unrelenting power plays, demogogery, un-revied and un-challenged decision making, and horribly poor promotion standards (ie, you could 'sleep your way' up the ladder - uh, without the sleeping part).
I have always been totally against unions and what they signify. I have to state, however, that if an old time, un-corrupt (important differentiator), union was still necessary, it would be at the Post Office. An amazing coincidence is that the personal attrocities carried out daily among Postal managers and supervisors is all about how the government manages to screw up anything it touches. Had the Post Office been a legitimate corporation, then Congress would have had never ending hearings on civil rights violations, employee mistreatment, employee harassment to the point of suicide or murder-suicide ("going postal"). But of course, the Post Office is government at its worst, so we hardly ever hear about the huge problems. All we hear about is how broke they are. Hmm mmm, human: mistreatment, managerial atrocities, out of control management a meddling congress, and ... Unions? That can't be, can it??
Ah! That brings me back to my original premise - no unions needed. Today, the unions are all about money, not employee protection or support. Because of this, we have two, not one, miserable organizations running a business ... a recipe for failure.
Is the Post Office dead? In its present iteration, a definate YES! For at least two decades the principle revenue producer for the Post Office has been advertising, otherwise known as "Junk Mail". Trust me, once the marketeers figure out how to make internet junk mail as convenient and profitible as the paper flyers they force on us every week, the Post Office as we know it will be gone. Of course, the dimwits at the obama administration could regulate the internet advertising industry to death and kill it, too!
Right now we have a Congress that is trying to revive a corpse. Forget it! It's dead! The Post Office is (wink, wink) a private corporation. Yeah. Right. It's on life support forever. Without government cronyism, er, I mean oversight, the post office would utter a loud gurgle, roll over, and die. The Congressional answer should be - life support until other technology catches up to, or superceeds what little is left for the Post Office to handle, Registered mail is one, and about gone. Some place to receive and send mail so we cover personal stuff going overseas, and a tiny, limited, amount of other sevices. We have two or more good package services, the influx of package delivery from users who have been "spiritually" stuck with using the Post Office should cause a decrease in cost for package delivery.
How about the "poor employees". Most of the valued, hard working employees will be absorbed by private business. The losers will be gone, just as the lousy teachers should be history. As for post office management? I give them an overall grade of "Z-". These jerks would be a great group for the Emanuels (Rahm, Zeke, and Ari) to begin experimenting with their beloved practice of forced euthinasia. Oh, forget Ari; he may have been killed by Zeva while attempting to murder Jethro...
God Bless America! God Save America!
Truth is - from time to time, institutions become out dated, obsolete, or simply die. Come to think about it, you could apply that statement to our past and current Congress'.
The Post Office came into being early in out Nation's life. It hasn't changed much in it's design other than adding newer machinery to assist its manpower. True, we don't use horses to deliver the mail 'out West'; we use horsepower, still 'ridden' by a person. Machines aid in the sorting and destribution of mail, but in the end, it comes down to a postal carrier 'out there', somewhere, to do the final mail sort and delivery.
For at least the past 60 years, the postal workers vs postal managers (who rose from the ranks of the postal workers) have been at war. Why WAR? Maybe it's because so many of these fine folks come from the ranks of ex-military personnel. However, the war is real and viceral. It's replete with sexual favors, cronyism, unrelenting power plays, demogogery, un-revied and un-challenged decision making, and horribly poor promotion standards (ie, you could 'sleep your way' up the ladder - uh, without the sleeping part).
I have always been totally against unions and what they signify. I have to state, however, that if an old time, un-corrupt (important differentiator), union was still necessary, it would be at the Post Office. An amazing coincidence is that the personal attrocities carried out daily among Postal managers and supervisors is all about how the government manages to screw up anything it touches. Had the Post Office been a legitimate corporation, then Congress would have had never ending hearings on civil rights violations, employee mistreatment, employee harassment to the point of suicide or murder-suicide ("going postal"). But of course, the Post Office is government at its worst, so we hardly ever hear about the huge problems. All we hear about is how broke they are. Hmm mmm, human: mistreatment, managerial atrocities, out of control management a meddling congress, and ... Unions? That can't be, can it??
Ah! That brings me back to my original premise - no unions needed. Today, the unions are all about money, not employee protection or support. Because of this, we have two, not one, miserable organizations running a business ... a recipe for failure.
Is the Post Office dead? In its present iteration, a definate YES! For at least two decades the principle revenue producer for the Post Office has been advertising, otherwise known as "Junk Mail". Trust me, once the marketeers figure out how to make internet junk mail as convenient and profitible as the paper flyers they force on us every week, the Post Office as we know it will be gone. Of course, the dimwits at the obama administration could regulate the internet advertising industry to death and kill it, too!
Right now we have a Congress that is trying to revive a corpse. Forget it! It's dead! The Post Office is (wink, wink) a private corporation. Yeah. Right. It's on life support forever. Without government cronyism, er, I mean oversight, the post office would utter a loud gurgle, roll over, and die. The Congressional answer should be - life support until other technology catches up to, or superceeds what little is left for the Post Office to handle, Registered mail is one, and about gone. Some place to receive and send mail so we cover personal stuff going overseas, and a tiny, limited, amount of other sevices. We have two or more good package services, the influx of package delivery from users who have been "spiritually" stuck with using the Post Office should cause a decrease in cost for package delivery.
How about the "poor employees". Most of the valued, hard working employees will be absorbed by private business. The losers will be gone, just as the lousy teachers should be history. As for post office management? I give them an overall grade of "Z-". These jerks would be a great group for the Emanuels (Rahm, Zeke, and Ari) to begin experimenting with their beloved practice of forced euthinasia. Oh, forget Ari; he may have been killed by Zeva while attempting to murder Jethro...
God Bless America! God Save America!
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