Comments on: Two Fremont post offices at risk of closure

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:06:44 +0000

The USPS should buy the internet, then they can charge to send email.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:06:01 +0000

Neighborhood office is more useful than a daily delivery. Why not deliver every other day? The bills and the junk could sure wait and the USPS could save half delivery staff and trucks with no impact on consumers. Will not people from closed office areas go to UPS and FEDEX instead of traveling to remaining USPS offices? Really dumb move but what can you expect!

By: Andrew Cavette - Former Intern

Andrew Cavette - Former Intern — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:01:24 +0000

“The first post office in Alameda County was established as Mission San Jose in 1850…” – Philip Holmes, Fremont Historian

That’s before California became a state.

By: Marty

Marty — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:52:27 +0000

Bbox, a good read:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/08/02/MN141928G9.DTL

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:13:40 +0000

It occurs that perhaps someone reading this blog might not recognize the references I was making -

Here was Matt’s article which ran in the Saturday edition -

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12967216?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:59:38 +0000

“…since all aspects of gov and the private sector MUST learn to be more efficient..” -

Like the Fremont folks that (according to our Mayor) should be “commended” – - – for taking a “freeze” in base salary AND RECEIVED a 5 and 10% *increase* in employer-paid health care benefit. . .. ????

WHILE – “Several cities have cut employee salaries in recent years” and “Most Newark employees have agreed to salary cuts each of the last two years. Union City employees have gone two years without a raise” – AND WHILE – many, many in the private sector have been recieving CUTS in base salary AND have been asked to pay 100% of any insurance premium increases FOR SEVERAL YEARS now. . .. . but our employees should be “commended” – I guess for their . . . . *sacrifice* ???

Good article, Matt !

By: Lou Vandelay

Lou Vandelay — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:16:40 +0000

As Bill Maher recently said:

“The federal government telling Detroit how to make cars, or Wells Fargo how to run a bank. You want them to look like the Post Office?”

Yeah, actually. You mean the place that takes a note in my hand in L.A. on Monday and gives it to my sister in Jersey on Wednesday for forty two cents? Well let me be the first to say I would be thrilled if America’s health care system was anywhere near as functional as the Post Office.”

Yes, there are great alternatives to the US Mail these days, but we still need them. I’d rather cut back on delivery days than cut back on post offices. I go to Niles because I don’t have half a day to waste standing in line at one of the larger offices.

By: Andrew Cavette - Former Intern

Andrew Cavette - Former Intern — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:15:53 +0000

Severely tragic.

By: WSresident

WSresident — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:39:44 +0000

This is good news for the users since all aspects of gov and the private sector MUST learn to be more efficient. Like BART employees found out, we are experiencing a new paradigm What was our birthright of 100% paid for pension and healthcare is now a shared program. I don’t need Saturday delivery, I don’t even use the mail but once per month. Stamps at ATM, on-line, UPS.

Let’s clean house. Yes jobs will go away, but last time I looked, we don’t subsidize the horse and carriage business