The USPS doesn't have enough business, but prices will go up on 11 May. As I said, Basically, officials increase the price per letter in an attempt to off-set the cost per letter which increases as the number of letters decreases because of past price increases. It’s a death-spiral. Added to that now are the effects of the present economic down-turn, but most of the decrease in volume is just a continuation of established trend.

[…] administrative staff positions at the district level nationwide are being reduced by 15 percent. More than 1,400 mail processing supervisor and management positions at nearly 400 facilities around the country also are being eliminated and nearly 150,000 employees nationwide are being given the opportunity to take an early retirement.

Normally, a fair share of early retirees would plan on taking other jobs. In the present economic climate, benefits would have to be higher than otherwise to induce people to take earlier retirement.

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