Comments on: No more mail? Ben Franklin is rolling over in his grave

By: Al

Al — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0000

“Donahoe and his predecessor, John Potter, have warned for years of the problems and stressed that the post office will be unable to make a mandated $5.5 billion payment due Sept. 30 to a fund for future medical benefits for retirees.”

From the article.

This grossly unfair bill requires the USPS to fund medical payments SEVENTY – FIVE YEARS into the future, paying for workers not yet even born!!!!

By: woody188

woody188 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:33:28 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. Why continue to give away bulk mailers at 21.7¢ to 27.6¢ and non-profit at 11.5¢ to 17.4¢ when it’s causing you to go into bankruptcy?

Why should our tax dollars subsidize all that junk mail that just ends up in the landfill and recycle bins?

By: Carl Nemo **==

Carl Nemo **== — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:56:13 +0000

The ‘good’ Postmaster General looks a bit jowly to me, like he and his ‘management’ associates have been spending too much time at the trough rather than engaged in solid business practices…no?

I’ll provide an extract from the “Government Fraud and Waste Report” my brackets.

Re: Item 8

A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. [In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, including “over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold.” The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.][8]…OINK!

This dear reader is representative of how government “employees” from the President on down to the least U.S. Government employee both treats and respects U.S. tax dollars which now represents pure debt except it’s on the national CC issued by international bankers.

Carl Nemo **==

By: Sandune

Sandune — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:35:30 +0000

In the last couple of months I have tried to contact many of my old pals who scattered all over the west coast. I have some of their addresses but none of them seem to have email. I have moved all over California and Arizona with the same email address. I leave messages for them to email me and have received no answers. Many have remarried and I do not have their names. I assume they do not want to contact anyone again.

Taking away my mail would be a disaster as I do not trust the banks to electronically handle the paying of my bills.

By: Almandine

Almandine — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:54:27 +0000

Increasing the postage rate for all that junk mail would fix the system.