Meeting About The North Side Post Office - Friday, February 17

[jay]

This is another contrived problem dumped on the post office.  The PO has been mandated to prepay future retirees' health care benefits in advance to cover the next 75 years and to make these payments over a ten years period.  This payment amounts to roughly 5 billion dollars per year.  That's money the post office just doesn't have sitting around.

[Towntalk]

From what I've learned, it's not the fuel that is causing the woes for the Post Office, but is their pension plan.

[jay]

As the cost of gasoline rose, many businesses passed along a fuel delivery surcharge to their customers.  Tho Post Office, which uses a lot of fuel, did not have the luxury of passing on a temporary surcharge to its customers.

[Towntalk]

Unfortunately the bulk mail that the Post Office handles helps pay the bills.

Talk about junk mail, I get more junk mail via E-mail than I get via the mailman.

[Towntalk]

AMEN BROTHER!

[jay]

The governing body of the post office (might be the postal commission) does not allow the post office to increase first class rates and junk mail rates as needed.  Any increase is tied to the CPI.  If any rate should increase, it is the junk mail rate.  I get more junk mail than regular mail and I don't want the junk mail.

[Towntalk]

Youngstown's North Siders: Don't close our post office

http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/feb/18/by-robert-guttersohn/

[jay]

What I found sad was that so few people came to the north side post office meeting last night.  The TV coverage showed about 20 people in the room.  There were a lot of empty seats.

Apathy

[Towntalk]

Jay: You forget that a postal substation will open at Giant Eagle on Belmont Avenue and should be up and running in March and they'll be doing more than selling stamps. Don't know if they'll have postal boxes, but beside that, they'll have just about everything else.

[jay]

The powers-that-be claimed there are seven postal facilities within three miles of the north side post office.

Five of these "locations" are actually stores that sell stamps as a convenience to their customers.

[Towntalk]

1716 Guadelupe Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio, 44505 ...330-743-6602

[Rick Rowlands]

There is a north side post office?  Where is it?

[jay]

A Meeting About The
Fate of the North Side Post Office

Friday, February 17
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

- Location -
United Methodist Community Center
139 E. Boardman Street
Downtown Youngstown