Current Postmaster General and current board member of competing company FedEx is claiming we need to raise prices and cut FERS contributions, but how about a better option.
How about we cut all the middle managers that do fuck all for us and take up $100k+ a year doing very menial jobs. There's so much overlap and so many jobs can be eliminated above the people doing the physical work delivering and sorting your mail. We have many offices with an abundance of supervisors yet they keep having hiring events for more supervisors. Locally to me we have 3 offices that could easily have it's management combined to have 1 postmaster for 3-4 of them, yet every installation has a postmaster and multiple supervisors. There's people making over $100k a year, plus usage of a postal vehicle to drive around from office to office to tell us how to submit customer leads for mailing services in the scanner, something that could be a stand-up topic.
The PO is so goddamn top heavy it's ridiculous. They tell us we waste time and money because we sit somewhere for an extra 2 minutes taking a break to cool off or warm up, but we can have 3 supervisors and a postmaster sitting around the office chit chatting all day no problem.
That's where the PO is losing money, not FERS, not fuel costs, it's overstaffed management
Edit: Also, losing money is fine for us, we are a SERVICE not a corporation, there's no shareholders, we're not for profit, we're a federal service. Is it better for us to have money? Yes, we desperately need new trucks, the LLVs are dying rapidly and parts have stopped being made. We can make other changes than cutting retirement to cover that cost as I've already stated