Cut 100,000 Postal Workers, Keep Saturday Delivery - Senators

A bipartisan group of Senators has proposed cutting 100,000 employees from the U.S. Postal Service while keeping Monday through Saturday deliveries of mail. Guest hosts Richard Eskow and Brian Unger discuss on The Young Turks.

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[tph2010]

Lets cut 100 Senator jobs.

[XdazeddreamerX]

Wait... isn't Congress supposed to be working on gaining jobs?

[josephc28]

The Postal Service will need to change its business model in order to survive. If the Congress refuses to change their mandate, then perhaps, they need to privatize the postal service. Just as FedEx and UPS have added to their services. They dont just deliver packages. FedEx even bought out Kinkos. The Postal Service not only has to compete with FedEx and UPS, they have to change their services to compete with email, faxes, ipads, and other electronic means of communication.

[dogwood912]

Just announced today 35,000 postal workers will be laid off, a necessary evil I am afraid, know a guy working for the postal service, I have been with my current employer for 20 years, while he has been with the postal service for roughly the same time. I am an educated, engineer, and receive 4 weeks of paid vacation, he has a 3rd grade education and is allowed 7 weeks of paid annual leave, nearly two months off a year. The rest of us are feeling the bite, postal workers should too.

[rgard32]

LOL so it loses money fine thats ok?? LMAO complete idiot.......this is 2011-2012....EMAIL is king.....dump the postal service...

[ridewave444]

The fucking job killing Republicans at it again. We need to layoff the slimy, lazy motherfuckers in Washington, not Postal workers.

[nash984954]

When considering large numbers, it is useful to use 1 second as being equal to 1 dollar, so that 1 millon dollars would be about 12 days.of seconds. These are approximations, And 1 billion would be about 32 years, and a trillion would be about 32000 years. Spending the Koch brothers fortunes, of $45 billion, they could spend $10 dollars each second&would go broke in 144 years spending $846,000 each day. Being wealthy must be nice.

[threadsofchii]

Some services just aren't going to turn a profit whilst maintaining a dignified and respectable work environment. Poor USPS employees. :(

[ranth44]

lets cut our reps jobs, all they represent are huge companys

[vison2create]

@R4t10n4L Yes, I believe it is relevant and can reform it's business model to remain solvent. I do believe they should charge a lot more for junk mail rates, however, that will drop a lot of demand for junk mail services from the USPS. So to become profitable, they still need to re-align their labor costs and close some of their physical locations. They could keep some more of the phys locations by augmenting with other services. The British postal service did this with their system.

[R4t10n4L]

@vison2create The post office is still very relevant but, even leaving that aside, they've already cut 200,000 workers over the last 10 years. If companies want to send tons of junk mail, then charge them more and turn a bigger profit - it's still be cheaper than the private delivery services so companies will either bite the bullet or stop mailing junk.