Rethink Plan For Post Office
By The IntelligencerMail sorting employees at the Steubenville Post Office have taken on more work during the past year - and have done it very efficiently, according to Robert Frazee, president of the American Postal Workers Union local at the facility. The Postal Service's reaction to that is a plan to move sorting equipment and 10 employees out of the Steubenville Post Office.
By definition, that will mean a decrease in service for local customers of the post office. The agency's plan is to relocate some mail sorting jobs to Youngstown.
This is not the first time area residents have heard of a Postal Service plan to consolidate operations at the cost of service to local communities. Much the same thing is planned for the post office in Wheeling.
A Postal Service official in Ohio said that "what is going on in Steubenville is going on all across the country." In other words, the agency has reacted to a general efficiency study by adopting a nationwide plan - regardless of whether it makes sense in individual communities.
We urge Postal Service officials to reconsider their proposals for both Steubenville and Wheeling. We doubt that they will save much, if any, money. On the other hand, we have no doubt that service - part of the federal agency's name - will suffer.
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SphinxRising58
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10-29-09 11:23 PM
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Mikey: lookout, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, he-he, lol As to local post offices, let's see, we have one in Warwood ( totally unrequired given how small the area is ), one at 12th st. ( also unrequired given the main post office a few blocks away ), and then the main post office, all for a city that is losing people like flies because they are moving to places where the jobs are, duh. So Mikey wants to keep places that cost tax dollars, places that could be closed so as to permit savings of millions, & Mikey declares the end of the world, lol How did you get your job Mikey, sleep with the owner's wife or daughters? lol
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TruthSeeker
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10-29-09 1:44 PM
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What facts does this newspaper have that definitively shows that moving those jobs mean a decrease in service for local customers of the post office? None. What is the purpose of this editorial, Mikey? Are you paying a political debt? Sure seems like it.
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EllisWyatt
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10-28-09 9:03 PM
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66 private sector workers lose their jobs, and that is "good news". 10 government workers might lose their jobs, and that is "bad news". More evidence as to why West Virginia is at the bottom of the barrel in every economic category. BTW, "jobs saved or created" is one of the biggest lies ever told. If you really believe that such hogwash can be measured, you are truly a tool who lacks a single independent thought.
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Curmudgeon
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10-28-09 9:42 AM
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This seems to be another instance of the Intel. switching positions when an issue turns local. Time and again we hear that government run programs are inefficient and wasteful and should be run like businesses in the private sector. Then, when the Postal Service proposes businesslike changes in order to save taxpayer money, we hear how such a change is unfair and outrages. Perhaps our fair and balanced newspaper should investigate the term "hypocrisy".
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bassman
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10-28-09 7:32 AM
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If some loose their job, will it be counted against the 30,000 jobs created or saved by Obama?
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SphinxRising58
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10-28-09 2:39 AM
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Yes, let's keep post offices that are barely used operating at tax payer's expense so a relativelt few people in Wheeling can retain their obsolete jobs instead of going with cost cutting methods that will save millions over years to come, as after all, it's not Mikey's money he is talking about spending, is it?
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