Between texting, email and online banking, I'm not even sure how much a stamp costs now. Looking back, I think the last time I remember buying a single stamp, it was somewhere around $0.36. Postal mail is just becoming obsolete. I have sympathy for the Postal Workers but the world and technology keeps moving ahead.

This is nothing.....just wait for the taxpayers to go on strike.....thta will be smething to talk about.

this is a prime example of the machine getting too big to support itself.
100% paid pensions, best medial in the nation, prime pay, vacation time, and just about every holiday.
Not one single private company can afford business like this, its time to modern up the system and get in line with realistic benefits that it can afford to offer.
The days of these type of open checkbook benefit packages are over, but the 7 figure a year executives and 6 figure a year union executives cant seem to agree on cuts, so the little guy loses his job, loose the union and loose the over paid exec’s the post office will prevail

If this was a private company they would be out of business a long time ago. Like the Pony Express and Solyndra etc., etc., etc., "their time has come", enough of the taxpayers money thrown down a rat hole. Sell it (Bain Capital) and let the market dictate the cost. One idea no more free mailing for the troughers in congress.

Maybe we should be asking their union why they didnt make concessions to reflect the realities of todays economy. I liken it to all my friends who are unemployed yet their tax dollars are paying the salaries of all the union employees at General Motors. Ask them how they feel about trying to pay their bills and eat while others are living worry free on the government dole.

Maybe they haven't heard what's happening in CA, where even the liberals are waking up to reality: the the people who have to pay the bills, are finally speaking out. We can no longer give our public employees better pay and benefits than what any of us receive. The public gravy train is about to stop and all the bloated riders are going to have to start pulling just like we taxpayers have been doing for ages. We're no longer going to held hostage by the greedy unions.

Couldn't this poll just be a yes/no thing and not have it make assumptions about the reasoning for my opinion?

yes or no questions are usually skewed to an agenda. I like the way Mary sets these up, it gives everyone the ability to express their point of view.

Privatize the system. It's time to stop pouring good money into a system that is antiquated.

Funny, I don’t remember any hunger strikes when ATM machines took jobs from bank workers, or when on-line travel rocked the travel agency world. It’s no fun when markets change and you realize your job is no longer needed. I can sympathize with that. But that doesn’t mean I want to pay billions more to support and outdated business model. Keep cutting until it consistently breaks even.

greedy unions is the cause of a lot of this mess.
Back in the day when work places would be dangerous and employers didn’t get held accountable for workplace safety and ethics, I agree Unions came to the rescue of the people and forced companies to give employees workplace rights, safety and dignity. That has been long lost and turned into a money machine, unions get richer and fatter, the companies get forced to charge more to support the Union contracts, hence the public ends up paying. In the real world jobs have pay caps, you will NEVER make $87,000 flipping a burger at McDonalds in our foreseeable future.
But with a Union behind you, it says that every x years you’re due a raise and a COL increase regardless of profits. SO that person sorting our mail, or delivering it, while the job would cap out at say $18.00, union says that because they have done that job for 20 years, they have to be paid $29.50 an hour.
Free enterprise, yes Im for that, Capitalism, yup im for that too.
Being forced to pay someone more because they do the same job year after year and do not move up in ranks, responsibilities or into management,,,HELL NO
Want more pay, better yourself, educate yourself and apply for a better position.
In times when employee’s elect to forego union contract raises to save jobs or hold off layoffs, have you ever heard of a union lowering its percent of an employee’s pay?
Unions are out dated and need to be removed from the system,