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发帖数: 2538 | 1 The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $11 billion this year, and it's
running out of cash.
Barring a bailout or massive restructuring, the Postal Service says, the
organization may stop operating early next year.
That's a frightening thought. But it's also one designed to get everyone's
attention. And now the question will be whether anyone with the power to do
anything about it actually does something intelligent.
Approaching this problem intelligently starts with analyzing what's wrong
with the USPS. And the answer, according to the New York Times, is twofold:
The volume of physical mail has dropped more than 20% in the last five
years and is projected to keep on dropping, thanks to vastly more efficient
information delivery via the Internet
The US Postal Service's compensation and benefits contracts with its
employees leave it unable to reduce its costs fast enough
The current situation of the organization is obviously a major problem, not
just for the Postal Service, but for the country. The U.S. Postal Service
employs 653,000 people, and with the national unemployment rate already
running over 9%, the country can't afford to lose more jobs. Thanks to the
Postal Service's generous benefits and pensions, moreover, these are "good"
jobs--ones that pay employees far better than they might get from private
organizations.
But these jobs are one reason the U.S. Postal Service's labor costs are 80%
of its total expenses, versus an average of 53% and 35% for private
competitors like UPS and FedEx, respectively. And they're also the reason
that the only way out of the U.S. Postal Service's current mess is to vastly
restructure its operations, reducing the organization's workforce and labor
costs.
If the U.S. Postal Service were a private company, the solution here would
be simple (if painful). The organization would file for bankruptcy and be
completely restructured. Many services and jobs would be changed or
eliminated, and the organization would be "right-sized" for the new reality,
just the way car companies like General Motors were three years ago.
This would obviously be a very painful process, especially for those work
for the USPS. Over the long haul, however, it would be healthy, not just for
the organization but for the broader economy. Devoting so much productive
capacity to delivering pieces of paper when technology is making much of
this unnecessary is not helpful for the economy long-term. It just preserves
an anachronistic tradition. Just as the economy transitioned away from
farming to industry, the economy will eventually transition away from the
physical delivery of mail. This transition will take time, but it will
happen, and the economy will eventually be stronger for it.
Because the USPS is a government entity, however--and because the US economy
is in such a fragile state--a wholesale restructuring of the USPS will
probably be avoided at all costs. Instead, we'll probably get half-measures
that just postpone the day of reckoning and kick the can down the road. | m********c
发帖数: 13337 | 2 USPS不是国企。
【在 f*********0 的大作中提到】
: The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $11 billion this year, and it's
: running out of cash.
: Barring a bailout or massive restructuring, the Postal Service says, the
: organization may stop operating early next year.
: That's a frightening thought. But it's also one designed to get everyone's
: attention. And now the question will be whether anyone with the power to do
: anything about it actually does something intelligent.
: Approaching this problem intelligently starts with analyzing what's wrong
: with the USPS. And the answer, according to the New York Times, is twofold:
: The volume of physical mail has dropped more than 20% in the last five
| l*******n
发帖数: 1867 | 3 我说你也学学人家dreamer女神
奔个轻灵飘逸
林静谷幽的
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【在 f*********0 的大作中提到】
: The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $11 billion this year, and it's
: running out of cash.
: Barring a bailout or massive restructuring, the Postal Service says, the
: organization may stop operating early next year.
: That's a frightening thought. But it's also one designed to get everyone's
: attention. And now the question will be whether anyone with the power to do
: anything about it actually does something intelligent.
: Approaching this problem intelligently starts with analyzing what's wrong
: with the USPS. And the answer, according to the New York Times, is twofold:
: The volume of physical mail has dropped more than 20% in the last five
| d***y
发帖数: 8536 | | e**o
发帖数: 6038 | 5 美国的快递没几个像样的
来美国之前骂中国的快递烂，到了美国之后发现美国的更烂
【在 d***y 的大作中提到】
: USPS的服务质量烂得一塌糊涂。关门吧，丫的
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