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snowguy716
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2011, 03:29:09 AM » |
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I'd like to reassure the postal service that I will not sign any reform bill into the law that just slashes and burns the postal service, the consequences be damned. The recent charade by the senate and the lack of commitment by senators on creating meaningful reform that helps, rather than hurts the postal service did nothing but scare the living daylights out of everybody. I want to reassure you that new attempts at reform will not do this.
Of course the reform will require labor cost reductions and a reform of services provided to keep mail delivery fast, competitive, and most importantly, relevant in the age of electronic correspondance and private package carriers.
That said, I do not think greatly reducing services to save costs will help. In fact, I think it will hurt. That will only send the postal service into a permanent tailspin as demand falls further requiring more service cuts and so on and so forth.
Instead, I would favor a system that will probably see an increase in prices but focuses heavily on the quality of service in order to draw more customers. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to and the Atlasian postal service can never compete with a much more convenient and free service like e-mail.
The postal service will have to shrink to a certain degree, but we can achieve that without drastic measures that leave people angry and jobless. The postal service will survive and do well if it can deliver mail and packages quickly and efficiently at competitive prices. That is what the reform package will focus on.
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