Postal supervisors: Obama swipe “a kick to the chest”

Federal news, government operations, agency management, pay & benefits - FederalTimes.com

The National Association of Postal Supervisors has fired back at President Barack Obama for dragging the U.S. Postal Service further into the health care debate. In an Aug. 14 letter, NAPS President Ted Keating accused Obama of using the Postal Service as a “scapegoat” and unfairly painting it as “an example of inefficiency” during a health care town hall meeting last week. Obama told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11 that private health care insurance providers should be able to compete with a government-run public option because “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. … It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

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Oops! That's one union that won't be backing Dear Leader in the future.

Well, the postal union will just need to get over it. President Obama spoke the truth. The USPS is a model of inefficiency and bureaucracy, and something really needs to be done to make the USPS profitable once again.

celticlord said:

Oops! That's one union that won't be backing Dear Leader in the future.

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The repeated crude rhetoric makes it difficult to take your posts seriously. :roll:

We get it. You think Obama is comparable to Kim Jon Il. How original.

I'm glad others are turned off by celticlord's obsession with calling Obama "Dear Leader." :2wave:

quatrotritikali said:

Well, the postal union will just need to get over it. President Obama spoke the truth. The USPS is a model of inefficiency and bureaucracy, and something really needs to be done to make the USPS profitable once again.

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And thus, why we don't need a USHS.

quatrotritikali said:

Well, the postal union will just need to get over it. President Obama spoke the truth. The USPS is a model of inefficiency and bureaucracy, and something really needs to be done to make the USPS profitable once again.

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I'll take "What is the future of nationalized healthcare for $500, jak"....... :lol:

Obama has the knack to make stupid mistakes lik this, yet, the media does not seem to hold his intelligence to the same standard as the last one. :shrug:

celticlord said:

Federal news, government operations, agency management, pay & benefits - FederalTimes.com



Oops! That's one union that won't be backing Dear Leader in the future.

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PBO seems to be throwing alotta people under the bus nowadays.

apdst said:

PBO seems to be throwing alotta people under the bus nowadays.

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Not entirely a bad idea....anybody who has ever been involved with government ways of doing business will tell you that waste is rampant...

My 12 years on active duty Navy was my initial exposure to waste. I saw more of it in the schools in Arizona. If the money is there, they will find ways to spend it. Right now many schools and colleges are running a surplus business that supports many full time employees. They are replacing video and audio mixers, cameras, mixing boards, computers and monitors, etc. not because they NEED to, but because they WANT to replace what they have with whatever NEW crap is on the market. University employees are not going to be any more productive with flat screen monitors than with CRT monitors. If something gets REALLY old, or fails and needs repair, yes, get the new stuff, but wholesale replacement of technology just because new stuff is available is a waste of money. I have purchased security video equipment for pennies on the dollar, and the VCR's those systems use are top of the line. Imagine paying around a thousand dollars for a VCR that can record up to 72 hours, using it less than a year, then selling it for ONE dollar.
And to scale this up a bit, we have thousands of airplanes sitting in the desert in Arizona, in storage, supposedly ready to use if needed. Maybe we didn't need to build so many of certain models in the first place?

I'm pretty sure it's more about making careless statements which alienate groups, which is something Obama seems pretty frickin' good at.

quatrotritikali said:

Well, the postal union will just need to get over it. President Obama spoke the truth. The USPS is a model of inefficiency and bureaucracy, and something really needs to be done to make the USPS profitable once again.

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In terms of government inefficiencies, the Post Office isn't up on that list. Things like the Department of Education are well higher on that list than the Post Office.

Excuse Maker in Chief blames yet again

whom HASN'T he targeted?

he's gone after doctors, insurance companies, cable tv, town hall attendees, george w what's-his-name, rush limbaugh, the rich, cambridge cops, republicans, his own party which has failed to get health care done

he's criticized pelosi's congress for not writing up a plan with his "favorite" pay-for provision, taxing cadillac benefit packages, not part of waxman/rangel, a mere proposal in the senate by john kerry, and an idea for which THE CHIN savaged doddering john mccain during campaign

meanwhile, maxine waters has called out rahm the ram for recruiting too many bluedogs, and gene green of houston has questioned the palsied speakeress' perspicacity for bringing up cap and trade before doing health care

THE CHIN threw his own gramma, that typical white person, under his bus

and his "spiritual mentor," as well, the man from whom he got the title for his first book, "audacity of hope," the man who just a few weeks before assassinating him THE CHIN said he could no more turn his back on the rev and his GD church of chickens roosting than he could his own community

who's next, obama?

gallup?

the american voter?

LOL!

Since anybody with a brain knows the President meant that the USPS operates at a loss in order to provide services at a low price-point--I think the majority of postal workers know that and this is just partisan hacks trying to make the embarrass the President.

Next.

partisan hacks

like ted keating

national association of postal supervisors

LOLOLOL!

Ikari said:

In terms of government inefficiencies, the Post Office isn't up on that list. Things like the Department of Education are well higher on that list than the Post Office.

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True. At least the post office actually provides a service.

Catz Part Deux said:

True. At least the post office actually provides a service.

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I think the Post Office does OK. I get nearly all my mail nearly all the time. Which is not bad considering they deliver billions of pieces per day. And being able to send a letter across country for less than 50 cents isn't bad. That being said, if I REALLY needed to make sure something got somewhere by a certain time I'm not using the Post Office. But I give them a solid B. And in terms of your average government bureaucracy they get an A.

usps is bankrupt by 6 bil, and it's begging congress to change its mandate that mail be delivered six days a week, wants to cut a day

Postmaster General: Mail Delivery May Be Cut Back Due To Struggling Economy - cbs2chicago.com

january, 2009

Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery per week, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday.

Postmaster General John E. Potter asked lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week.

Faced with dwindling mail volume and rising costs, the post office was $2.8 billion in the red last year and, "if current trends continue, we could experience a net loss of $6 billion or more this fiscal year," Potter said in testimony for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee.

And, despite annual rate increases, Potter said 2009 could be the first year since 1946 that the actual amount of money collected by the post office declines.

"It is possible that the cost of six-day delivery may simply prove to be unaffordable," Potter said. "I reluctantly request that Congress remove the annual appropriation bill rider, first added in 1983, that requires the Postal Service to deliver mail six days each week."

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