UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE UNION...the end is in sight!

Here is another example of a union trying to insure its own survival even though it kills the company that employs its members.

I am talking about the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE UNION which has a sordid history especially in the days when the postal service had a virtual monopoly on the movement of letters and packages in the US and around the world.

In those days, union workers could give a shit about the public and worked at their own pace no matter what the demand. Management could not demand better performance because management just could not fire anyone in the union.

With the advent of fax machines, the internet and emails; the post office has competition and needs to actually provide better and cheaper service to stay alive…but as I said, the union does not give a shit about the post office staying alive; it only care if the union stays alive.

The post office has been losing $$$ BILLIONS every year mainly due to the fact that business has been down but costs (unionized workers) have been going up; an unsustainable position. I do have to say that because of on-line shopping, its package business has increased by 8%.

Management at the USPS has been scrambling to find ways to grow the business at the post office and not by just raising the price of stamps, which they have also done.

One way the post office is trying to grow business is by allowing STAPLES (office supply store) to open mini-post offices at their stores.

The kicker is that these mini post offices are staffed by Staples employees who make a lot less than the bloated wages of the postal union employees. In fact, these mini post offices can operate at a third (1/3) of the cost of regular post offices staffed by union labor…now that is a cost savings!

Does the average American give a shit where he or she goes to mail a package; not really since it costs the same no matter where you go BUT the lines at Staples are usually shorter and that has to be a plus?

The union is saying that the post office is trying to save costs (that is so bad) and eventually privatize services. Well it sure looks like that is the only way the post office will stay alive; cannot keep losing $$$BILLIONS every year!

The union is correct in thinking that eventually post offices will have to be closed and unionized postal workers will have to be laid off or just let go; a business cannot just exist for the workers; it has to exists as a profitable business.

You will be seeing a lot of protesters at Staples stores in the near future but as in other union efforts, the protests will fall on deaf ears as more and more people realize that unionism is coming to the end of the road.