Entry # 2 Something stinks at the post office

Hello again! I ran across something online today that I just have to share with you. On the United States post office website I was reading about  Post Master Donahoe's proposal to congress regarding a five day delivery, six day package delivery schedule. In his report he stated that "the postal service was losing 25 million dollars a day". Donahue urged congress to work quickly, stating the only way to save the postal service was to increase revenue and reduce operating expenses. I continued on and read another report that stated that 80 percent of Americans would vote for that reform .I immediately thought of a few of my friends and clients that are letter carriers, and wondered how they felt about all this. I decided to go to NALC.org to read about it all from the carriers perspective, and this is what I found .NALC President Rolando had a valid response to Donahoe's proposal. Apparently post master Donahoe's report to congress, the report that eighty percent of Americans polled said they would vote for, has some flaws.When later questioned Donahoe agreed he had not studied the impact that the lost mail flow and revenue would have on the bottom line. If he did not really study it, how could he know that was the only answer? He also confessed that the 25 million dollar a day loss was only an estimate ,and almost completely left out the part about prefunding. He did mention it in his report, but down played it when in reality prefunding is responsible for 80 percent of the daily profit loss. Prefunding is the funding of the postal worker pensions for 75 years ahead. No other public agency or private company in the United States has such a plan in place for their pensions. Perhaps the postal service could plan a little less for the future and attempt to stop themselves from sinking right now.Had I never looked at this story from another perspective I may have been led to believe all that Post Master Donahoe said. Like the 80 percent of the American's polled, I just might have bought it.