Wharf Rat's Home - A Shipmate Who Never Made it to Sea.: U.S. Postal Service Faced with Heavy Deficit and Hard Decisions - Current Rates, News and Information about Reducing Debt

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The USS Olympia is a cruiser that fought in the Spanish American War in 1898 and has been preserved in Philadelphia. She's a one of a kind ship, a national historic monument, and in danger. She needs approximately $10-15 million in repairs to keep her a viable museum for years to come. If you have the resources, or connections to those resources, please consider helping. (full disclosure - there is no financial benefit to me to ask the question - we need to save this ship for posterity). Please contact me at 612-599-1935 or bdskon@fedex.com if you have additional questions.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

U.S. Postal Service Faced with Heavy Deficit and Hard Decisions - Current Rates, News and Information about Reducing Debt | Go Banking Rates

U.S. Postal Service Faced with Heavy Deficit and Hard Decisions - Current Rates, News and Information about Reducing Debt Go Banking Rates

Sorry folks .............. Wharf Rat digresses from Navy issues because Wharf Rat works for none other than The FedEx Corporation.

Our company has had to make hard decisions on employment levels, salaries, benefits, and other expenditures - including aircraft purchases over the years.

The United States Postal Service, and I'm not going to completely hammer away at the service provided because we all like our mail, has in no way adjusted to the reduced level of mail. They've maintained the same size work force because of union contracts, with a 22% drop in revenues. What do you think is going to happen? No way do I want to see it go away - but my goodness, the Wharf Rat could do a better job of managing it than what is happening today.

Read the article - lets see if it draws your comments. Especially read the last paragraph.