As a Chuckatuck resident I admit I would survive if the Chuckatuck post office closed but I would surely miss seeing the one person gang that flies around it at lightning speed seeing to customer needs. Jackie Knight in a way is Chuckatuck, who has not met her, who has not handed her a package to mail? It is always a pleasure to see her “one man band” operation, very busy but always a smile and a hello. Now it’s 10:30 to 12:30 only and you may be in a longer line.
Consider the recent meeting where those volunteer literacy tutors were honored for what they do...teach those who somehow got behind how to read. Tutors give their time to help others enjoy books. The gathering at Pruden Center was to show appreciation to them but we wish we could have seen THEIR names in the paper. The speaker who bestowed the honors was named and even pictured at the lectern, so we won’t mention her name. But we do mention Andy Damiani and thank him for putting November candidates on the spot in his soon to be released Roundtable Talk. Our endorsee for Council, Duman the car man, looked good. Almost all the candidates showed…be sure to vote.We definitely need some changes.
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Now that the PO has decided to cut its operations. What happens to Jackie as a employee? Chuckatuck as I see this is still its "own community."I imagine that many have asked this question of her and of themselves.
We have serious issues with the PO, its services the beuracratic way its run and its union.
To privatize or not to privatize--that is the question? Dare we end universal first class postage rates? When we send Christmas greetings to our cousins around the block it costs .44 cents. When we send the same greetings to cousins in located all over the country it costs .44 cents. So, tell me. Are we paying too much to send our card around the corner, or are we paying too little to send those cards a thousand miles away?
Can the free market do a better job?
Maybe it would. But rest assured that the cost of delivery—based on where a letter is sent, or where it is forwarded and how it is secured--will probably be higher and paid directly by the customer who uses the actual service and not indirectly by the taxpayers who now subsidize the Postal Service's losses.
The problem with the Post Office is that it is controlled by Congress. Their are executives that have nothing to do with the mail making $150,000-$230,000 a year, before their million dollar bonus's kick in.
[www.postalemployeenetwork.com
The post office is failing and losing money but the people running it into the ground are making millions. So yes, lay off the lowly workers who make about $40,000 to $55,000 a year and actually do all the heavy lifting.
(Jackie Knight come to mind?
Remember this, the Congress controls the Post Office but the Post Office is self sufficient, no tax money goes to them, postage pays the way. But they are now probably going to go look for a government bailout which in turns means that the citizen/taxpayer will be dependent upon it. So please, lets continue to downgrade America till we are a 4th world nation. No manufacturing jobs, less energy production, looking forward to the blackouts and brownouts while we pay more for the energy the government lets us have. Every one on welfare, but you have to get direct deposit because you wont know when the mailman will deliver your check.
I couldn't help but notice the EDA table at the Peanut Fest was never set up. Lots of city offices were well represented but not a single member of that authority was willing to set up a table.
What could make these pillars of the comunnity shy away from the public? Could it be the loss of USJFCOM, Boeing and now Raytheon on top of the mounting job loss elsewhere int he city? Or was something said at an EDA closed door meeting that was better left to a few appointed mercenaries than allow the public to participate in the bad news as well as the good. Here's a hint, there's more bad news to be released after the November election.
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