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Seriously.
Along with this, I've also started getting all of my neighbors mail, I assume because they dont feel like sorting it by apt#.

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This sentence is killing my brain.

No way this protest happens...... Just go to the Post Office and look for a supervisor which there never is one. They don't work as it is so how can they organize any sort of protest.

yeah, the USPS should be charging loads more than they do, but everyone would throw a hissy fit if they had to pay the actual cost for shipping a letter or package across the US.

Operational inefficiencies aside, they have been operating with handcuffs on for a very long time. Do we really think 44 cents is the actual cost to take a letter from here to anywhere in the country, usually within two days? That's certainly not what a private company would charge - FedEx and UPS use the USPS for ground service (UPS moreso for remote locations) and reap a very handsome profit on the skim.

If the union had any brains, they would be busy coming up with a rescue plan for retirees in the pension system, whilst getting recent hires into a defined benefits plan.

They would also be busy working out an attrition system to make the layoffs as painless as possible. There just isn't that much mail to be delivered now days (outside of junk mail).

They would also be busy lobbying Congress to free the USPS from mandates that prevent it from making the changes a private business would make to gets itself back to profitability.


Instead, we get protests to I would assume, demand the govt. (us taxpayers) bail out the USPS.

There is no more money left for that. What money is being spent, 40% is borrowed or created out of thin air. We are already broke.

The USPS is going to have a brutally hard landing.. and will deserve it.

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Not sure what they mean by "area", but according to this there are only about 22,000 USPS employees in the entire state.

I would expect some of these workers to arrive late, some to get lost on the way, and some to not show up at all.

Perhaps if they delivered the mail more than 3 times per week they wouldn't have so much to worry about.

Union workers to rally today at Journal Square in Jersey City to denounce plans for U.S. Postal Service mergers and closings that they say could cost 30,000 jobs in area

Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 3:00 AM
By The Jersey Journal

Local union workers will descend on Journal Square this afternoon to protest the U.S. Postal Service?s plan to close distribution centers and slash jobs.

The USPS announced two weeks ago that it will study closing or consolidating 250 processing facilities nationwide in an effort to save up to $3 billion annually.

This area could lose 30,000 jobs alone, which could have a ?lethal impact? on the ability for postal workers to process and deliver the mail, representatives of local postal unions said in announcing the protest, which will begin today at 4 p.m. at Journal Square Plaza.