possible trouble with the US Post Office

[Dominic]

Cutting their work-force is not a solution. My buddy's troubles were caused by the local PO cutting their work-force and using temps.

The PO needs to focus on being a reliable courier for goods more than letters. Cutting their labor-force will not help with this. They will enjoy short-term savings, but long-term decline.

Dom

[JediTricks]

Cutting their work-force is not a solution. My buddy's troubles were caused by the local PO cutting their work-force and using temps.

That is not cutting the workforce, that is using inferior labor for the same job.

Anyway, they need to work smarter, not harder. If they say they aren't needed as much, then it shouldn't be a problem to shrink the workforce. But if they claim they need to charge more, then the problem isn't that people are using their services less because otherwise they'd have no trouble shrinking the workforce. So they're lying, which I've always suspected, nobody was mailing anything that much in the early '90s before email swept the nation either, the USPS is just scapegoating because they are mismanaging their business as usual.

[Dominic]

I would imagine normal correspondence has gone from paper to digital form.

But, yes, cutting costs by getting cheaper (and less reliable) labor is a bad move.

Dom
-notes that you cannot email toys.

[Shockwave]

Dom
-notes that you cannot email toys.

But don't you wish you could though? I long for the day when transporters are actually invented and we can just beam stuff somewhere our damn selves. Or better yet, replicators which would allow you to just download toys. Imagine being a kid on the Enterprise: "Computer, 1 G1 Optimus Prime, grey roller." and then zap! there it is.