One function of the United States government is to provide a mail service for the people of the United States. Our current government has vested the sole duties of providing mail service to the United States Postal Services, which is an independent federal corporation (Legal Information Institute, n.d). This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of housing the postal service function in an independent public body, the executive departments, and the Executive Office of the president. Furthermore, this essay will explain who are the beneficiaries of housing the postal service function in each of the executive departments.
The United States Postal Service is an independent federal corporation where the service of providing mail (Legal Information Institute, n.d). A disadvantage of having the postal service located in an independent executive agency is that they sometimes there is weak management in public bodies compared to managers who work in private industries (Bishoni, n.d). According to Shafritz, Russell, and Borick (2010) the benefit of having a service, such as the postal service, in an independent federal corporation is that the corporation can generate its own revenue (p.91). Independent Federal Corporations are self-supporting and are able to operate as commercial businesses (Shafritz et al., 2010, p. 91). To illuminate, the United States Postal Service generates its own revenue from selling “postal items,” rather than using taxpayer’s money (Longley, n.d). According to Shafritz et al. (2010) most independent executive agencies have to submit a budget request to the Office of Management and Budget located in the Executive Office of the president (p.91).
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...c body such as the United States is able to expericene some autonomy and acts as a commercial buisness. As a member of the executive department the postal department would have a say in the creation of legislation through the president and congress. Lastly through the Executive Office of the president the postal service would be directly under the president where it would help the president as well as directly influence legislation. One question is whether postal services is important enough to be housed that high in the executive branch. I believe that it is not and that our current United States Postal Service does an okay job. Postal services in early United States history was more important that it is today. If the postal services were housed at the cabinenet level today it would not be as important than other cabinents that deal with our country’s defenses.
The following case describes FedEx’s transition from a single segment Express shipping company to a fully integrated, multi-faceted corporation. At the beginning, Federal Express was an air express transportation system designed specifically for shipping time-sensitive items like urgent documents or medicines. After receiving a large investment, Federal Express began its first night of operations on April 17, 1973. Within the first 10 years, Federal Express became the first U.S. start-up to achieve $1 billion in revenues. Nevertheless, in the late 1990’s with the development of technology, FedEx began to express concern in some areas of business. E-mail, its competitors (UPS), new innovative supply chain strategies with low production
In addition to the national headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Postal Service consisted of regional and field division offices that together supervised 37,683 post offices, branches, stations, and community post offices throughout the United States. It was the second-largest civilian employer in the United States during the early 2000s, behind Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (USPS Annual report, 2005). With all these employees and offices, the Human resource department has a huge responsibility.
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I enjoyed reading your post this week. It is a good choice to analyze and evaluate USPS. At first, I love this federal service. They work properly. The USPS has technologically improved itself year by year that its history speaks itself that is “In the more than two centuries since Benjamin Franklin was appointed our first Postmaster General in 1775, the Postal Service™ has grown and changed with America, boldly embracing new technologies to better serve a growing population” (USPS, About). Through the years, USPS tried to serve well enough with some competition with some other private postal services in the US, and so USPS picked some days as significant to compete in this rivalry field.
The United States Post Office in our society today is not the one we used to know, the USPS’s demand of paper mail has declined, they cannot flourish in a dwindling economy, and they have cases flowing in complaining of unwanted mail. In June 1788 the Constitution was ratified, in which gave congress the right to establish the Post Office, and post roads, as seen in Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. The Post Office was expanded and continued until a year later in September of 1789 when President George Washington, directed the first Postmaster General, Samuel Osgood (The Constitution and the Post Office). By this time there were seventy-five Post Offices and over 2000 miles post roads in which already existed.
As a retired United States Postal Service employee, I can tell you from experience that working there is a life changing and rewarding experience. It’s a job that gives you a sense pride and accomplishment at the end of your workday. Furthermore, it can be an outstanding opportunity for someone without a degree or with limited formal education. Working for the Postal Service has the potential to improve your quality of life with exceedingly competitive compensation and benefits.
This Generation lives in the world of comfort, a world that always provides faster, lighter, bigger and better things to make one’s life comfortable. With the great inventions in our hands more people have started to use electronic messages actively. As the manufacture, science, and techonology developement shoot up to the sky, the United States postal Service (USPS) watched people forgetting how to write “real” letter (Doc F). While the world transform with new generation and definition of “real” USPS gling onto the history and bases.
...tical decisions that Starr talks so much about. The decision by AT&T and the federal government to regulate AT&T is the most noticeable instance of this, as well as possibly part of the cause for the legislation concerning the post office. We also saw that sometimes organizations could form symbiotic relationships with the socio-technical system where both the user and the system itself greatly benefit from mutual cooperation. The telegraph showcases this principle with its relationships with railroads and, most notably, the Associated Press. In the end though, the point is that it is never a single factor that determines the growth of institutions as influential and as widespread as the post office, telegraph, and telephone. Systems such as these must always be analyzed from multiple perspectives in order to really see why their development occurred the way it did.
As a retired United States Postal employee, I can say from experience that becoming a postal employee is a life changing and rewarding experience. It’s conveys a sense of pride and accomplishment at the end of the workday. Furthermore, it can be an outstanding opportunity for someone without a degree or with limited formal education. Working for the Postal Service has the potential to improve a person’s quality of life with exceedingly competitive compensation and benefits. I began working for the Postal Service as a temporary employee, worked my way up through the ranks, and retired as a manager.
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The United States of America is one of the most powerful nation-states in the world today. The framers of the American Constitution spent a great deal of time and effort into making sure this power wasn’t too centralized in one aspect of the government. They created three branches of government to help maintain a checks and balance system. In this paper I will discuss these three branches, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial, for both the state and federal level.
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At one point or another, we have all held and opened a piece of mail. Whether it was a birthday card, a letter from a friend, or even a bill, we have all held a piece of paper that was sent from somewhere else. Even in the age of Facebook and email, it is likely that you have held a piece of mail and most likely, the way it got from point A (the person sending the mail) to point B (the person receiving the mail) was through the United States Postal Service, or the USPS. In the past decade, the postal service has experienced a decreased volume in their letter mail. In fact, for the postal service, the volume of this letter mail has been "falling at a rate not seen since the Great Depression" and it is believed to be because the "substitution [of snail mail] to Internet-based communications" (Geddes). The postal service has started to experience such a decline in funds that they now face the issue of staying afloat. The United States Postal Service has to dig their way out of rut in order to keep from going down into extinction. Peter Rorvig, a United States postal worker in Zirconia, North Carolina, talks some about the USPS's struggles and the involvement that Congress has with the USPS in his blog "More Normal than Not." This passage raised two outside questions, exactly what is the postal service trying to do to solve this decline in funds and how much is Congress actually involved with the USPS?
Government provides an extensive variety of services at different levels. It can be described as layer cake or marble cake. In reality, each level of government concentrates on different areas or services. Intergovernmental system is a world of combined functions and assistance between levels. The combined system gives assistance but also creates administrative cross-pressures. The job of government varies by level; the local government focus on goods and services, states focus on goods and services and also administer federal grants especially for welfare and Medicaid while the federal government focuses on national defense. Depending on the particular form, government generally carries out the desires of the people. The job of the government
Wilson makes a comparison between the government systems of America and Europe and his intentions were not necessarily for America to do the same as Europe, but for us to explore and research other governments and public administrations, so that we can analyze and master our own. It is questionable why other governments have been more successful with certain matters than our own here in America. Wilson expresses relevant concerns and arguments that government systems should be further studied and improved as, it is crucial and ultimately beneficial to the nation and it’s