Logistics
Wanted: Medium-Weight Land Forces One lesson to emerge from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) is that, at times, U.S. ground forces proved to be too powerful. This seems counterintuitive when the war was won in approximately five weeks with . . .
If Only Lance Delivered Our Mail Like the mythic postmen of yore who were delayed by "neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow nor gloom of night," it seems Lance Armstrong can't be stopped from winning the Tour de France. On Sunday, he ...
Privatize Mail As the President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service is looking for solutions to the agency's financial nosedive, it ought to reach out and grab the hand brake of privatization. Without it, they are left with ...
Postal Service Needs Improved Productivity In its latest attempt to increase mail volume, the U.S. Postal Service has proposed offering new worksharing discounts for one of its largest corporate mailers ("Post Office Plan Could Produce More ...
The Compelling Case for Postal Privatization President Bush created the Commission on the U.S. Postal Service with an executive order charging the panel with considering, among other things, "the extent to which postal monopoly restrictions continue
Cluster Boxes, Not Door-to-Door Delivery The President's Commission on the United States Postal Service (USPS) met last Thursday to discuss the agency's mounting financial problems. When private businesses face such troubles, hard budget ...
Postal Commission Getting Some Sound Advice For Change With one-third of its available study time consumed, the Presidential Postal Commission has heard some sound advice on how to change the Post Office to limit future risk of failure. But it remains unclear if this ...
The Postal Service Business Model: Broken or Poorly Managed? To what degree is the Postal Service’s business model the source of the Service’s present financial problems, as compared to the failure of postal management to manage effectively within the constructs ...
How the Presidential Commission Can Fix the U.S. Postal Service The newly-appointed Presidential Commission on the U.S. Postal Service faces a powerful opportunity to steer the Service through perhaps its most critical period. But its success may depend upon its ability to ...
Proposed Revamping of USPS Retirement Obligations Is Good News, But Highlights Need for Better Financial With the recent accounting revelations proposed by the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget, $30 billion of U.S. Postal Service retirement debt goes up in smoke. A mere $5 ...