@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
Splitting the business for potential sell-off.
Make it look like the taxpayer shouldn't carry the costs of an "unprofitable" business.
Trial, then introduce reduced letter deliveries- putting those posties on halftime, increasing profit by reducing salary costs. Argue that reduced letters means something has to give (lets forget here, that prices went up...to cover service costs i.e. proper deliveries)
Court a buyer, then magically the parcel profits are back in play.
Putting posties on half time is not going to work, especially in the cities.
I am near the end of the run for my postie and it is not uncommon to see him delivering here at 3-3.30pm. He has to finish the run and go back to the post office with anything he has not been able to deliver....before 5pm when the post office closes.
Most of the year he has to pick up at least one extra bag of mail which has been dropped at the half way point of his run. In peak times he picks up 2 or 3 extra bags. Packages that do not fit in the letter boxes are slowing him down even more.
