swtlione, can you elaborate your comment? It currently makes no sense to anyone else?

Also I think there are some great ideas here...
-cutting mail delivery to 4 or 5 days is perfect! It doesn't mean counter service can't be available on saturdays though.
-closing small PO's is a good start.
-I also don't think raising the stamp prices are gonna help them out...?? They're out pricing themselves.
-They should expect cuts in healthcare and benefits like everyone else. AND working longer hours for the same pay.

Life is hard even at the post office....

swt, maybe those families need to do something about that, like CHANGE with the times.

The Post Office needs to adapt and downsize. Nobody is going to give up the convenience of e-mail to keep letter sorters and carriers busy. We aren't still sending telegrams to keep Western Union workers employed. I used to support dial-up Internet customers and lost my job as cable and DSL Internet access wiped out that market locally. The Post Office won't go away, but it will have to shrink quite a bit.

I pay most of my bills via the mail but some online. I do this because of a few incidences where for example: I paid a bill, put it in the mail (within the recommended 7 to 10 day period)and much to my surprise I got a call from a woman about 2 weeks later who apologized and said it was in with her home mail and she opened it and then realized it was a bill payment addressed in another state but somehow ended up being mailed to her in Beloit. She saw my phone number on my check and called me to let me know. Guess what? The company still zinged me for paying late even though it had been postmarked and paid on time. I have had mail disappear and cards that I mail to people that never get them?? Plus you tack on those big bonuses that the top execs were getting people get a little upset... I understand times are hard for alot of people now. My husband lost his job when the company shut down and he had been there 13 years. The government expects the people to deal with it and learn to do with less so why shouldn't the government follow their own expectations and learn how to live on a budget and do without some things like the rest of us have been expected to do?

Seems as if no one has family who works for the post office. Cutting Saturday mail would be bad. People don't realize paying bills online are slowly screwing them and their families over.

I think they said if they took a day away it would not be Saturday because some people have work hours that makes it impossible for them to get to the post office except on Saturdays (for mailing packages, getting special products, etc..)I know my work hours do not allow for me to get to the post office except on Saturdays. They are closed when I leave to go to work and by the time I get off work and get back to town.

Does this mean Obama is soon to be the new United States Postmaster General??? (God help us)

I agree with the stopping of Saturday mail.
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I also don't understand that with email, fax, etc., that the post offices surely don't have as much mail to sort as before those came into fruition (sp?). I would like to see them raise the bulk mail fees so that the quantity of junk that actually does come in my box could be lowered or eliminated. It just goes in the trash anyway.

hannah- the water dept will deduct your bill from your checking account(debit). You just have to sign up.

Since Al Gore "created" email, why didn't he help the government by getting on the ISP bandwagon for email? Oh ya, he was busy scaring everybody into thinking the world was melting from cars and cow poop. He clearly is a patriot.

"We all have jobs and an endless supply of money so please, government, enough of trying to provide us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Besides being sarcastic, can anyone point out whats wrong with this statement? If your at a loss, try reading The Declaration of Independence.

It makes sense for the post office to shrink during a recession. And I agree with cutting Saturday mail delivery.

'Another' performed a nice thread jack and said: "A tenet of free market is competition. If you have one provider for anything, they set the price. There is no incentive to excel or even do anything above mediocre.
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Excellent point! You've just described the state of private health insurance for average americans, if they have a job that provides insurance.

'Another' said: "Oh, and they can decide when your condition is too expensive to worry about. Gotta watch those dollars and put them where they're going to do some good. If your 53 and have cancer, we'll pay for you to off yourself but not treat the cancer? Sorry, that costs too much. We need to save the cash for people that are of more use to society."

You might want to get ahold of some real health care facts, instead of getting all your ideas from entertainers. Euthanasia is illegal, and not part of any health care bill.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/070...

The Janesville Post Office could close the downtown branch and save the rent and duplication of services there. Ending Saturday delivery is another option. That would ease the personnel scheduling a lot.

What next? Government food? You know all those for-profit farmers, grocery stores and restaurants are just going to make a necessity of life unreachable for some. It's not fair.

A tenet of free market is competition. If you have one provider for anything, they set the price. There is no incentive to excel or even do anything above mediocre.

Oh, and they can decide when your condition is too expensive to worry about. Gotta watch those dollars and put them where they're going to do some good. If your 53 and have cancer, we'll pay for you to off yourself but not treat the cancer? Sorry, that costs too much. We need to save the cash for people that are of more use to society.

Bailout coming. The post office has a union, so lets rip on that as we did the UAW. Going postal here.

There large portions of Wisconsin that are still largely undeveloped. The USPS has to account for growing communities.

I see no point in having six days of delivery. It could easily go down to four or five.

Not to start a fight or anything, but I am just asking, why wouldn't some of our local small town post offices such as Afton and Avalon not be closed? Both towns are close to much larger post offices in Janesville and Beloit which could handle the overflow from them closing. Not that I would like to see them close,as a small town post office is generally the hub of a community but from a FINANCIAL stand point I would think it would make sense.
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Like I said, I am just asking...anyone have a answer?

You're right. Lets get the government out of health care for our vets. Let the vets go out and find health care for themselves from private insurance companies. The big corporate insurers will run things much more efficiently and cheaply. They would never raise prices to make a profit.

Hey government, please leave us alone and let us find our own health care. Everybody for themselves and private insurance companies who's number one priority is to make a profit off of denying coverage to those in need.

We all have jobs and an endless supply of money so please, government, enough of trying to provide us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

ask the Vets how well the Government runs health care! The Veteran's get crap healthcare from the VA, it's pathetic, and so is OsamaBama's plan.

Yeah, no doubt. You know because affordable health care for all is exactly like receiving mail.

Another government run enterprise on the brink, hmmm give em healthcare too