These two are idiots

The ultimate irony..........Congressman Moran made these comments via email. How freaking long does the USPS need to react to the new economy of email and internet?? We aren't talking about cutting edge technology. How can Mr. Moran refer to an entity that lost $16 BILLION dollars last year as a "well functioning system". More proof of just how clueless our elected leaders are!

I agree with TJW and Chuck. How do jerks like these people get elected.

I must have missed the part about about congressman Moran making these coments via email but he is a jerk anyway.

We need to balance the budget but we won't let this part do just that. Bunch of hypocrites. Wake up it is a business and needs to adapt to make it.

How is six-day delivery a "competitive advantage", when e-mail is 24/7 and UPS and FedEx also offer Saturday delivery?

The Post Office is much, much less expensive than UPS or FedEx for my package delivery - that is a competitive advantage.

These 2 are union reps, trying to milk everything they can out of the postal service... It's a money maker for them (union leaders) No other company on the planet has almost $100 billion in retirement funds set aside for employees who aren't even born yet!

USPS don't use our tax money but they are regulated by the government, how foolish. They need to go one way or the other in order to succeed in this e-conomy. Cutting service will damage the US. economy and place burdens on people who are using the system the most.

Pre-funding is the issue. That would almost be like pre paying for our next war. At least they could change the rate at which the postal system retirement fund is charged.

Fedex and UPS piggyback off the postal service. You send your package 2 blocks down the street and UPS will put a tracking sticker on it and ship it USPS because the cost is much less. If USPS increase the postage cost than more people will use internet/email anyways.

How about these two figure out how to raise USPS revenue? These representatives should be applauding the cost cutting measures. When was the last time anyone was happy with the service at a Post Office? The government subsidizes the enterprise, has no meaningful performance measures in place to reward excellent, service oriented employees and the government is surprised when FedEx, UPS, and others grab market share? The funniest thing to me is that Congressman Connolly is telling a Federal Agency who cannot pay their bills that they do not have the authority to implement cost cutting measures. I wounder how Americans can be outraged at the current state of our finances when this sort of stupidity is staring us in the face every day: I imagine these two on a conference call to the Postmaster General: "You cost the taxpayers billions of dollars every year and by-golly if you try to dig yourself out of that hole we are going to do everything in our power to stand in your way because my constituents need those Papa John's and Bed Bath and Beyond coupons on Saturdays too."

The only competitive advantage that the USPS has is that it is subsidized by the US Government. THAT'S IT. Take that away and the USPS would have been bankrupt, liquidated, and long forgotten decades ago.

lack of imagination. why not add electronic signing as a product to the usps. people are looking for an authoritative source for electronic exchanges, sounds like the usps could be a perfect instrument for it. ideas is what we need, not status quo.

I totally agree with the Reps. We should continue to borrow money from the Chinese and others so that I can get my mailpack circulars on Saturdays. Just the other Saturday I didn't have anything to do until my local mailman arrived. I then spent the rest of my day analyzing various paper coupon for an early-bird special at an inconveniently-located and undesirable local restaurant.

This is just an incredibly difficult choice for us to make as a country and I can't believe that we have the perseverence to pull it off. I mean, what's next? Can we, as Americans, actually eliminate the important Saturday mail delivery? After all that we've been through as a nation with the elimination of the Yellow Pages, 8 track tapes, the Washington Post, book stores, and the Twinkie? Aren't there any more "rich people" we can tax to bring back this service?

If I remember correctly we're talking about junk mail and letters wouldn't be delivered on Saturday. You will still have medications & packages would delivered and because the volume is low, Saturday deliveries for meds and packages should be before noon. I can wait until Monday to get whatever is mailed to me instead of Saturday. Congressmen Connolly and Moran should be applauding USPS for taking measures instead of crying foul about the law. Dumbass politician's and the insane laws they sponsor and pass are the problems that have put us in this financial mess.

Hey, come to think of it I've never tried mailing small business letters without a Postal service. Wonder who else I could use and how much it would cost? humm

For heaven sakes, it is just Saturday. Who can't get along with only five days of junk coming via USPS? It is about time this happened!

Most of you are misinformed. The USPS receives zero tax dollars! Not subsidized! In fact they are the only government agency that pays its own way. They are fast and extremely efficient! PM Donohoe should be replaced!

Moran thinks that the internet is a fad and will go away soon, at which point hopefully the USPS will have figured out how to "adapt".

Aint nobody got time for all that!

The USPS does get some taxpayer support.Around $96 million is budgeted annually by Congress for the "Postal Service Fund." These funds are used to compensate USPS for postage free govt mailings.

But what has really contributed to the decline of one of America's oldest institutions is not just its failure to respond to market place competition but its paralyzing contractual agreements with--you guessed it-- labor unions. Labor costs represent 80% of USPS expenses (as opposed to UPS' 53% and FedEx 32 %) . That includes no layoff clause!

Not many people will miss Saturday mail, especially in urban areas, but one possibility would be to make post offices stay open until 5 on Saturdays so if someone really wanted their mail, they could go pick it up. That might only be necessary in rural areas, where people depend on mail more that urban areas.

How is it that both gentlemen from Congress don't embrace cutting waste? Does delivering mail to tens of millions of businesses across America that are closed on Saturday's make sense to you? And my weekend would be much nicer, if I didn't get any bills delivered on Saturday's. Let's go with Monday - Friday!

They have talked about cutting Saturday mail for over a year what took these two gum drops until now to speak up and say no? Are they going to miss the sale flyers?

Connolly, Moran - everyone gets the government some people deserve.