Honda offers buyouts, cuts pay in North America

[Detroitej72]

By that example, then you must feel the U.S. Postal Service is corrupt.

[ccbatson]

At least incompetent....if they had a motive, or were pressured/bribed, then they would also be corrupt.

[Flanders]

At least incompetent....if they had a motive, or were pressured/bribed, then they would also be corrupt.

It would be interesting to read your reason[[s) why you think the USPS is incompetent, that is, if you ever were employed by them and had the slightest clue about how it operates, including the tremendous cost of providing physical security, accountability and integrity for the US Mail in the form of the Office of the Inspector General, which you do not.

So don't bother.

Privatization creating regional competition for the most lucrative delivery areas of the US would prove to be a logistical nightmare, and the USPS is the very last physical means of resort for communications, in the event of a national emergency, especially if it involves a long or short-term loss of electrical power to certain densely populated areas of the US. There was a segment on NBC News recently about Chinese and Russian crackers attempting to gain access to the power grid through the internet in order to hack into the utilities' servers and gain control of some, if not most of it.

That said, I am all for permitting bulk/junk mail to be delivered by private companies, as long as they have no direct access to pick-up and delivery USPS mailboxes, or first class, certified, and registered mail, parcels, and packages. I would happily provide a separate mailbox for private carrier delivery of junk mail, with a hole in the bottom of it, and a trashcan placed directly below the mailbox.

[Sstashmoo]

USPS is an excellent service.

[ccbatson]

Running out of money next year is not what one would consider an excellent service.

[Detroitej72]

Where is your source for that comment?

For the last, oh, 20 years or so, there have been silly acusations that the postal service is going broke, all eventually being proved false.

While your at it, do you think we should privatize the police, fire and military as well, since they are clearly socialist run departments?

[ccbatson]

AP...2 weeks ago. I know they will not actually go broke and that this is an effort to justify cost overruns and raiding taxpayer funds.