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The Postal Service is unable to demonstrate that it saves money by outsourcing, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, because it has no comprehensive mechanism to measure savings.
“Without cost-savings data, postal managers, stakeholders and Congress cannot assess the risk and value of outsourcing,” the GAO concluded. Nonetheless, the USPS will continue to “explore outsourcing opportunities” and is considering another major outsourcing initiative involving its bulk mail processing network, the report noted.
The GAO recommended that the Postmaster General establish a process to track the results of outsourcing activities that are subject to collective bargaining and report the results to Congress. Although the Postal Service generally agreed with the report’s findings, the USPS disagreed with recommendation to provide Congress with the information about the results of outsourcing.
In its study, Data Needed to Assess the Effectiveness of Outsourcing [PDF], the GAO cautioned that the inability of the USPS to provide accurate data could make it difficult “to generate support for future outsourcing efforts.”
NOW I SEE WHY YOU WON’T PUT YOUR NAME DOWN, BECAUSE YOUR AN IDIOT!!!!! THE CUSTOMER ALREADY PAYS WITH THE PRICE OF THE STAMP DUMB ASS…MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO US ALL A FAVOR AND QUIT I’M SICK AND TIRED OF WORKING WITH STUPID PEOPLE, IF YOU WANT A FEE GO WORK FOR UPS JACK ASS…THE USPS IS A SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC 6 DAYS A WEEK!!!! AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL CONTINUE TO…. WE NEED TO GET A NEW PMG!!! AND SOME SMARTER EMPLOYEES SO QUIT…
If they truly wanted to save money, they would cut out Saturday delivery.
What do customers pay to have mail delivered to their house six days a week? ZERO!!!
If they need mail service on Saturday, they need to pay a fee for it. . .that would generate some revenue. . .
We need another VP of outsourcing.
What a shocker that postal management doesn’t know where their money goes. It was the first lesson I learned as a new employee: There are no budgetary considerations for what management does to the service. I hope these senior level managers remember that if I get laid off, you get laid off, dummy. Obviously this latest batch of senior management needs to retire and soon. They exhausted all their ideas scheming their way to the top.
And perhaps if they investigate further they will discover that the “contractors” are relatives or former managers of the USPS.
Perhaps if the gather a list of all the private contractors arrested so far the GAO might get a hint. Also the felony convictions of those awarded a contyract might shed some light.