Readers' forum: USPS budget solution

Published: Monday, Oct. 24 2011 12:00 a.m. MDT

I have a solution to the post office budget problem:

First, deliver mail three times a week. Second, divide the routes into two groups. Group one delivers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Group two delivers on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

To make it easy to schedule mail carriers, have them work four six-day weeks in each five-week period and take the fifth week off.

This way the United States Postal Service would need half as many mail carriers and delivery vehicles.

Lyman Wolley

Holladay

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Esquire

Springville, UT

Maybe an easier solution would be to let the USPS operate like a private business instead of Congress micromanaging them and imposing ridiculous demands like the way the pension program has to be funded. The success of the USPS is doable, but let More..

7:13 a.m. Oct. 24, 2011
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Mike Richards

South Jordan, Utah

The postal system was ruined when the post office started charging too much for 1st class mail and too little for "junk" mail. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell us that people would find other ways to communicate when it cost over More..

7:25 a.m. Oct. 24, 2011
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Opinionated

Sandy, UT

Little cost would be saved since the extra mail carriers would still be sitting around doing nothing half the time. Remember, these are government jobs--they can't be fired or laid off.

8:44 a.m. Oct. 24, 2011
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