Previously, when he has testified that the Postal Service would default on the Federal retiree health care and workers compensation payments. The escalation of the bad news suggest that all of the cost cutting efforts to date have not come fast enough to deal with declining revenue and most importantly declining revenue from First Class transaction mail.
- FedEx Corporation (Air Transportation)
- Northrop Grumman (Equipment, consulting)
- Kallita Air, Ltd. (Air Transportation)
- Pat Salmon & Sons (Truck Transportation)
- Siemens (Equipment, consulting)
- Hewett Packard Co. (IT support)
- Wheeler Brothers Transportation (Truck Transportation)
- Campbell- Ewald (Advertising)
- Accenture (Consulting, IT support)
- IBM (EXFC measurement, consulting)
- Mail Contractors of America (Truck Transportation)
- United Parcel Service (Air Transportation)
- Continental Airlines (Air Transportation)
Some contractors may stop work on contracts until payment is received. Some may decide not to provide any more product or services after payments stop. Given that nearly all inter-city transportation involves contractors, the greatest risk to service would come if the cash shortfall is large enough to prevent the Postal Service from paying its transportation contractors.
The Postmaster General's testimony requires Postal contractors to assess the payment risk. Unless the Postal Service begins talking to its contractors now about the payment risks that contractors face, they may asume that the risk is quite high. Such an assummption could create significant challenges for the Postal Service in providing the mail and parcel delivery services that are critical to the economy in the 4th quarter of 2011 and beyond. The sooner the Postal Service can allay fears of contractors the sooner they can ensure that Postal contractors continue to act as the partners that they are.
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Mr. Donahoe seems to be posturing but then the ongoing dance with Congress is becoming slightly surreal. In her remarks to the Senate the other day Ruth Goldway of the PRC referred to the fact that the Postal Service was apparently already moving ahead with plans to close several thousand offices. This in spite of the fact that any legislation would give the PRC review obligations for a service change of that magnitude.
Every iteration of Mr. Donahoe's strategic plans includes mass closings of retail facilities. The problem with that is that individual congressmen of both parties take tremendous heat for closures. It appears that Mr. Donahoe is milking the crisis narrative to its most sensational extremes. Doing that fosters an atmosphere that would give Congress the cover to do unpalatable and unpopular things like allowing mass closings.
This is less a crisis than a manipulation of public sentiment to create space for Mr. Donahoe's preferred plan.
USPS aylready lost business to these competitors in the past, that's why they're here. Keep cutting SERVICE, like Saturday delivery, and they will lose even more, as others will pick up the business. The postmaster general (capitalization left out) should start by cutting from the top...do they ACTUALLY BRING YOU Your mail? NO, they make money watching YOUR money come in, to pay for their 'perks.'
LETS GIVE THE BOY'S AT THE TOP ANOTHER "PAY FOR PERFORMANCE BONUS"
The premise of this article is ridiculous. It is quite clear WHAT will not be paid, if you had been paying attention to the hearings that have been conducted within the last two months. The payment of the sums that the USPS has been assessed in error by the CSRS and FERS SYSTEM in addition to the UNUSUAL PREFUNDING SUMS in the amount of OVER FIVE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR by the 2006 LAW are the most likely targets of SELECTIVE NON-PAYMENT.
And so what??
IF Congress had done it's job properly, the USPS would not be in this predicament.
Again...SO WHAT?
I saw this coming! Once Congress put it to the PO in the reorg act, ergo, getting an extra 5 billion a year to waste, now they are borrowing against OUR retirement funds, and now we can't make payments because Congress won't do what is right and stop that unreasonable payment that no other agency has to make plus we overpaid into it! We will never see the money back, come on, we're talking about Congress! The "what's yours is mine, what your kids have is mine, what your grandkids might have at minimum wage is mine, I'll take it give it away anyways... By the way I love you re-elect me" people.
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