Bizarre Grassroots Scheme To Bailout Post Office On The Big Banks' Dime

LOL! Brilliant idea.  I think I'll do that with the next application I receive. Maybe I'll shove a little extra paper in the envelope so that it is heavier and the cost to the banks is greater.

Great idea with the extra paper. I mailed my first two envelopes back Saturday. I used to stuff metal shavings into a zip lock bag and mail them back in the postage paid envelope to the politcal party that we did not belong to that kept sending me donation envelopes a year after I asked them to take me off the list. I don't get the envelopes anymore.

Great idea with the extra paper. I mailed my first two envelopes back Saturday. I used to stuff metal shavings into a zip lock bag and mail them back in the postage paid envelope to the politcal party that we did not belong to that kept sending me donation envelopes a year after I asked them to take me off the list. I don't get the envelopes anymore.

I'd be careful with the metal shavings.  These days you would probably arrested as a terrorist.

i myself purposely don't use the postal mail as much as possible hoping that such a dramatic fall in volume will bring about the changes that are needed sooner

 

while there will be pain in the short term, eventually all the quick fixes and borrowing and 2cent stamp raises won't fix it and they'll have to cut, and your starting to see the sounding of some of those solutions now

 

my postal solution: go to every-other-day delivery.

you can cut 'last mile' delivery costs in half. one mailman does half the routes on Mon-Wed-Fri, and then he does a different route on Tue-Thur-Sat. high volume businesses still see everyday access, possibly with a fee. post office and drop boxes still funtion daily along with the infrastructure. in fact i would increse the post office hours most places.

mail still comes pretty much on time in this scenario; a bill that would have come on Tues, that now comes a day later on Wed is no big deal - big deal if all that junk mail you throw out comes a day later. it doesn't affect current revenue either