The USPS is going the way of other old world technology. It would already be gone were it not for the moronic support that is receives from congress. If ever there was a government agency that should be cut, is destined to be cut, it is the USPS.
Only problem: It is, unlike the EPA, the DOE and most other useless government entities, specifically mandated in the Constitution. In other words, it will take a Constitutional amendment to get rid of it. So basically, fat chance. But they are, inexplicably, able to somehow cut staff. Read about it in
this article:The US Postal Service plans to slash its workforce by 20 percent, eliminating 120,000 jobs by 2015 as it struggles to stay solvent, The Washington Post reported late Thursday.
The newspaper, citing internal documents, said the Postal Service's plan is in addition to the 100,000 other jobs it expects to shed through attrition as employees leave the company or retire.
The workforce reduction would come mainly through layoffs, with the remainder through buyouts and early retirements.
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The service already has slashed 110,000 jobs, or 16 percent of its workforce, in the past four years.
In July it unveiled a plan to close more than 10 percent of its post offices throughout the United States, and on August 5 it warned that it risked being unable to meet its financial obligations in September.
I don't know what happens in about ten years when nobody uses the USPS anymore but that's the way it's headed.
Know what else is on the way to extinction? Phone books in general but especially the Yellow Pages. I predict that in another five years (ten at the absolute longest) the Yellow Pages will be extinct. Yellow Pages advertising is a total rip off for starters. It costs a fortune and most of the ads that are in them are next to useless in their primary mission: getting someone to call. More and more people (especially the young) don't use phone books. They either do a web search or they use social media to pick places to go, services to use, etc.
The Better Business Bureau is another dinosaur that will soon be killed off by a much better service: Angie's List.
Just my two cents on progress and technology as they relate to business/marketing (the USPS is most definitely in that mix) and the ever changing landscape.