re: USPS/Amazon losing money question...

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Modelo is a Mexican beer. It’s called targeted advertising, you tool.

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frick you,promoting illegal immigration has nothing to do with beer.

The idea that people who want border control are against legal immigration done the correct way is a God damned lie.

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These marketing departments are having a tough time learning a lesson.

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White male conservatives were not the target market silly.

Watch the comercial again and pretend you are a Mexican immigrant, the target audiance, and it is a bit more appropriate.

Raise the price of the postage stamp.

Deliver mail three times a week cutting the need for personnel in half in bigger cities. Create Group One and Group Two. Group One gets Monday, Wednesday and Friday delivery and Group Two gets Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday delivery.

You can’t make changes quickly, it’s too political. It used to serve a valuable function to the community but that’s not really the case with email. Something on the order of 50% of their volume is junk mail.

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So Amazon is actually making them money by keeping their deficit lower than it would be if they did not ship for Amazon. In short, Trump is full of shite with his tweet about Amazon and the Postal Service and his sheep fall for it like everything else.

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nailed it!

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Trump is full of shite with his tweet about Amazon and the Postal Service and his sheep fall for it like everything else.

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nailed it!

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Not really.
The truth is somewhere in the middle.

While package shipment is profitable, the USPS has undercharged average per parcel pricing by up to $1.50/pkg. They are still making money. Just not as much. However, in Amazon's case, cost of Sunday delivery must also be factored. When it is, profitability is questionable.

The USPS ships ~40% of Amazon's goods. Would they lose that business if they raised their rates? Possibly. Would that increase % of deficit? Yes.
Would it also shrink the size of the USPS workforce? Probably. Would the combination of a smaller operation with a higher deficit fraction shrink the size of the USPS cost to taxpayers? The answer is probably so, but it's not cut-and-dry.

The USPS runs chronic deficits. Those deficits are due in large part to pensions and other employee benefits. Cutting the size of the workforce could well cut the deficit, not necessarily as a % of earnings, but as a gross number. i.e., taxpayer cost of a $25Billion company running a 25% deficit vs a $15Billion company with a 35% deficit. Obviously neither is desirable, but the 35% deficit actually saves $1Billion/yr.

So that is where the Amazon deal gets dicey,

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I once read that the USPS losing money was not due so much to its delivery system, but rather all the money tied up in its pensions

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it's part of it. It's a combination of three things

Guaranteed pensions

Unionization of the postal workforce (guaranteed yearly raises regardless of performance, nearly impossible to fire anyone) They had a postal worker caught on camera in baton rouge literally getting into a fist fight with someone and he still has a job.

Inability to raise postage costs to reflect inflations due to government bureaucracy.

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You guys are real pieces of work. You really have a problem with pensions and making sure people are taken care of when they retire. Do you even hear yourselves? bunch of douchebags.

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Well, TD isn't a fan of participation trophies.

My guess is that a lot of this is inside jobs.....USPS driver gets a homeboy to follow him on route and tips him off to the packages that he should swipe after delivered.

I just throw it into the ditch. Garbage cans and "recycling bins" are for Commie hippies.