CHANGE IS ESSENTIAL

The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and United Parcel Service. "It's critical that we adjust our work force to match America's changing communications trends as mail volumes continue to decline," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in a statement.

In November, the Postal Service reported a net loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal year 2010, its fourth consecutive year of losses. Joanne Veto, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, said, "We know that we cannot look the same 10 years from now. The mail volume isn't there. We have to adjust to keep up with the mail and customer needs." She said the Postal Service would close 2,000 post offices around the United States over the next 12 months, while eliminating the 7,500 jobs. As of the end of January, the agency employed 583,000 people.

Sad, while Fed-X, UPS and hundreds of other communication giants have scurried just to stay in the info race, the “Government bureaucracy and Unions” have snail walk their way into bankruptcy. And worse, the bureaucrats refuse to turn over the “United States Postal” business to a privately owned company. It’s as if when you go to work for the government you become brain dead. It’s like they do not have to CHANGE because THEY are the government.

Let us all take this as a major “wake up call” lesson that change is an absolutely essential part of our modern culture now. If any of us, or business is ever to survive and better, succeed, we must maintain the posture of CHANGE.

By Dr Tim McClure