Agency should embrace technology to reduce footprint, create jobs
By: Tony Nocito, ABCOV® Conversion Systems, LLC
My friend, John Crudele, who writes three plus columns a
week for the New York Post on economic issues and one on personal financial
advice, has written several articles concerning the Post Office’s financial
debacle.
In John’s last article he addresses the massive $5.2 billion
loss the Postal Service has suffered in the last three months. In previous articles and in the last article
as well, he addresses the fact that stamp forgery is one of the issues that
have caused this loss.
I like John. He’s got a unique sense of humor (read his
column), we play golf, have dinner and have lunch several times a year. But as
much as I agree with John, over 99% of what he writes and predicts is true, my
personal opinion is that stamp forgery may be an issue, but only a small issue
compared to the explosion in electronic technology.
John says that if a real businessperson took over the Post
Office they won’t allow their stamps to be forged.
A real businessperson wouldn’t walk into a business that is
colossal, out of control and losing $20 billion plus a year. They would let the taxpayer continue to pay. But
if a businessperson did run the Postal Service, there would be immediate and
drastic cut backs in every sector. Then they would look for or have developed
new technologies that eliminate all physical mail, except packages, and maybe,
Certified Mail.
Now think about the positive effect this mail technology
would have on our environment: no junk mail; a lot less motor vehicles on the
road; a lot less garbage to dispose; a lot less paper to recycle; a lot less
carbon emissions; and a lot less traffic. GREEN AS HELL--- RIGHT!
Well you say, what about the people who work at the Postal
Service? They will be unemployed and our
unemployment rate is too high now!
The answer: retrain the people who work for the Postal
Service to use the new technology.
Just as the waste industry is retraining everyone who has
garbage (that’s everyone) by restricting weekly pick-up to one garbage bag, and
requiring recycling or, in some cases, if you don’t recycle, no garbage
pick-up. The aforementioned is starting to become law in many states.
The waste industry is consistently reinventing and
developing itself with new technologies to deal with the colossal ever growing
problems of waste disposal and landfill space shortage.
Instead of technology eliminating jobs in the waste
industry, it has created jobs.
Think about it Postal Service!
