Indiana Post Offices the USPS Wants to Close

[CarmelHP]

The Postal Service would make money if not for the $5B Congressionally mandated annual payment for retirees' future medical costs. This past summer they had to withhold making their FERS contribution because they've run out of cash.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Maybe it's time to reboot. It used to work, why can't it again? Trouble would be so many busybody dogooders would worm their way into it, you'd wind up with something more byzantine than what we have.

 

[TopDog]

they are closing a lot of small offices with postmasters who have not been there long so they dont have to pay pensions....the upper level at the usps is just business stupid. Although a lot of letters and bills are no longer needed in paper version because of the internet, however they do a lot of things wrong. For example, they pay postmasters from Lafayette to run offices in Parke county when they could use more local postmasters. They pay these people a ton of money in mileage, etc when they have qualified people 5 minutes away. Many postal workers are horrified to make even the smallest mistake like scanning a piece of mail 2 minutes later than they should (they also get in trouble if they scan too early) when the upper level people are throwing huge amounts of money away.........it wont be too long and we will no longer have a usps which is too bad because that is a hell of a lot of jobs.

Someone can verify this if they want. But I remember reading about tons of money being wasted by the USPS sponsoring races cars, owning a yacht, etc. They have gotten away with waste and incompetence at the top for many years.

I remember years ago a friend of mine, a retired Navy Chief starting off at the post office in Memphis TN. He got fired for sorting mail too fast. He was warned once to slow down and he did, but he still was not working slow enough so they fired him. What a scam.

 

[MrHank]

that sucks.. mines on there (canaan)

My mom is the Postmaster there, she is really upset about them closing her location.

 

[TopDog]

My mom is the Postmaster there, she is really upset about them closing her location.

Not to mention the effect it will have on the annual pony express run.