The Budgetary Woes of the USPS

[ArmorPierce]

Whilst I agree that these jobs shouldn't make top dollar, there are other lowly level white collar jobs such as office clerk that requires about the same skills or less than these seemingly lowly jobs yet they are often paid more. Reason I think is that there is a general disdain against these jobs for some reason and people just see them as lowly and beneath them even though the people doing these jobs are as qualified as someone being an office clerk.

I don't quite follow you here. If people have a disdain for security guard jobs, then less people would be willing to do them, which in turn would mean that employers would offer higher pay to attract people.

What I mean by disdain is that they look down at you as if you don't know anything and are expendable. The reason that they don't respond by getting another job is that they can't get any other better paying job. In that post I wasn't talking so much about security jobs as some other jobs though. A lot of security jobs do seem to consist of mostly fighting boredom but I guess that would vary from job to job.

[Broomstick]

Frankly, I hope a lot more than 10-15K of the oldsters take early retirement. If we can just replace them 1 for 1 with young schmucks who can work a full forty hour week and don't have years of accumulated sick leave, it will mean a lot less overworking of my tired ass.

The only hitch is that quite a few of those oldsters may retire, but they won't stay home, they'll go looking for work because they'll have a need (real or perceived) for more money. Which means more competition for everyone already looking for work.

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Frankly, I hope a lot more than 10-15K of the oldsters take early retirement. If we can just replace them 1 for 1 with young schmucks who can work a full forty hour week and don't have years of accumulated sick leave, it will mean a lot less overworking of my tired ass.

The only hitch is that quite a few of those oldsters may retire, but they won't stay home, they'll go looking for work because they'll have a need (real or perceived) for more money. Which means more competition for everyone already looking for work.

My post was strictly with regards to the workload to workforce ratio as it currently stands in the USPS. Macroscopic ripples affecting the national economy are well beyond my worm's eye view and personal knowledge base.