The USPS postal service is near default and bankruptcy every month. USPS consultants have their own views on cause and effect. I saw two separate reports last month on Facebook membership growth and USPS revenues. If you believe statistics you don’t even have to put labels on a fair comparison chart to see what is happening.
Facebook exponential growth, in the last two years, is inversely proportional to the USPS negative exponential rate of revenue loss. In other words, blame Facebook. Look at the graph supplied with this article. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or even be as smart as a fifth grader, to see why the post office is in trouble.
There are some things that the post office could do but there is one problem stopping them, Congress. The post office is not a governmental agency, used to be but is not now. However, they are still burdened by the same government regulations they have always worked under. Those regulations divine what the USPS can do and not do.
Ideas on How to Save the USPS can be found at this link. Those ideas come from various consultants who have published ideas. The question is, will Congress get off their butts and do anything to help the USPS. Fat chance right, it might help or hurt one party or another.
So now the post office, instead of acting like the private enterprise it is supposed to be, is doing the only thing it can do; cut expenses. Most likely 20,000 jobs are on the block. Now we know why the Republicans would never help out USPS at this time. It might help the Democrats.
Don’t get me wrong. The post office has been its own worse enemy for years. They should have and could have been screaming bloody murder, and publically too, at Congress. They could have stopped the mostly scam and spam unwanted third class mail and saved a ton of money. No one would complain about only getting mail they wanted in their mail box.
So the question is, does it really matter any more? Is it too late for the USPS postal services to get their act together? Once thing for sure, the cannonball express named Facebook won’t slow down its exponential growth. The US post office must adapt or it will soon be gone. Will you really care? Let me know what you think.