thestatedtruth.com | November 15, 2012
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) uses $250 million per day to operate and had a total of 607,400 employees as of October. This was the lowest number of total employees for the non-profit ( loss-driven) government run entity since the 1960s! Perhaps more interesting (but not surprising) is that USPS employees peaked at over 900,000 back in 1999!
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thestatedtruth.com | September 5, 2011
The U.S. Post Office has created many of it’s own competitive disadvantages , but UPS and FedEx are operating with some of the same problems. The law also prevents the post office from raising postage fees faster than inflation, but the government says we have no inflation….so that should be a moot point! Or maybe not. And….The agency […]
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Tags: Government Workers, Post Office, Postal