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Old 01-19-2016, 02:17 PM   #26
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Default Re: USPS Rate increases

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The USPS is unionized. Even though postal operations have become more automated, labor still accounts for 80 percent of the USPS’s costs - wages, benefits and perks. The USPS has been able to eliminate thousands of positions through attrition, but it still possesses the second-largest civilian workforce in the country, behind only Wal-Mart. With 85 percent of that workforce protected by collective bargaining agreement, the unions have become a giant anchor on an already sinking ship.

Union demands plus government mandates is a toxic combination to fiscal efficiency - fiscal responsibility....
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