US Postal Service "Executives" make more money in salary than the Secretary of Defense...

[matmar]

...or US Congressmen/women ...or US Senators...

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/3312/highest-paid-us-postal-service-employees.html

[TheWraith]

1. Okay, so they're overpaid. Your point?

Even if you clipped all those salaries down under 100k, the savings would not be enough money to make up even a tiny fraction of the USPS shortfall. That's due to the pre-funding requirement for the pensions.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. If the contributed funds were invested

instead of contributing to Overpaid executives salaries ,there would be no shortfall ,executives punishment for running institutions in the ground ,bonuses.

[TheWraith]

9. No, there would still be a shortfall.

The shortfall is many BILLIONS of dollars. Billions, with a B. All these salaries together are less than one percent of the shortfall, a shortfall exists because the USPS is being placed under a hugely unreasonable expectation of funding their pension programs vastly in excess of what's expected of any other agency. It's an artificial crisis.

[matmar]

7. My point is these overpaid cretins are threatening to kill the service with their stupid decisions.

[TheWraith]

8. Their decisions have nothing to do with it.

The Post Office was doing fine until they were placed under ridiculously unrealistic requirements for funding their pensions, which no other agency is required to abide by. That's what's strangling the Post Office.

[matmar]

11. Those "strangling" requirements were okayed by the current group of morons running the USPS back in

2006 when the PAEA was passed.

These Postal Nostradamus' didn't see the oncoming speeding locomotive.

[girl gone mad]

2. They also bring in more revenue.

[matmar]

6. What?

The function of the USPS isn't to "bring in more revenue"...it's a "service" not a capitalist enterprise.

[Zanzoobar]

3. Maybe if we have them start slaughtering brown people we can cut their pay.

[jberryhill]

5. Did a service member deliver your mail today?

[Luminous Animal]

10. Whey the quotes around the word executives? These ARE executive positions and the salaries...

are not terribly high for executive positions.

[rustydog]

12. Their salaries, like postal workers salaries are paid by the purchase of stamps

Your point is....

[matmar]

13. The "Executives" make too much money for the work they do....

...and the poor decisions they've made.

[bhikkhu]

14. Those salaries are about ten times the base worker's salaries

...that's actually good - excellent, in fact. If the salaries of the guys at the top in other US corporations were held to 10 times the average salary, this would be a completely different kind of country. That 10-1 ration is an outstanding number for any industry in any country.

So - find something real to complain about!