In reply to "Postal cuts to slow delivery" (Dec. 5):
Current postal rates as well low; elevate prices, do not shut centers
Analysts guess the U.S. Postal Service's $14 billion shortage could be separated if the cost of a first-class stamp were increased to 63 cents. In Western Europe the cost of a first-class stamp ranges from the homogeneous of 75 cents to 95 cents.
This is simple: We have under-priced a profitable service.
Solution: excellent melody the stream system; strike the cost of a firt-class stamp to 63 cents and correct ceiling the cost of mailing junk letter before you lay off 35,000 employees and tummy an efficient system.
Dan Laurent
Charlotte
Candidates are similar to cars; Newt's a model I won't purchase once again
Candidates remind me of automobiles. When I see Newt Gingrich I think of Chrysler products: They look great in the showroom, expostulate great during assessment drives and the deals be present unbeatable. Get it home and for a partial while, no worries. Then things beginning to happen; a tiny repair here, a complaint there. Repairs are deceptively costly with no guarantees they'll put together the problem.
Before long you noticed that you paid for a pig-in-a-poke an! d flog y ourself since you paid for similar models in the past with the same defects.
Jon Schuller
Charlotte
In reply to "How China can speed up Charlotte biz" (Dec. 4 Opinion):
Instead of expanding China operations, spread at home
Mayor Anthony Foxx's mainstay about his China outing was interesting, but before the initial section was done, it mentioned they had "brought together a number of Charlotte-based firms with fascination in developing or expanding operations in China."
At Cracker Barrel every fondle and XMas embellishment I saw not long ago had "Made in China" on the bottom. Turn products upside down at Wal-Mart, other big-box stores, and elsewhere and it says the same.
Please, will you inquire a few Charlotte-based firms to emanate or spread operations here?
Roberta L. Dees
Charlotte
In reply to "Singerman should be in tears and here's reason why" (Dec. 6 Forum):
GOP-initiated privatization in supervision pushing up expenses
This year the Project on Government Oversight, a inactive organisation that studies sovereign supervision waste, published a investigate on the cost to taxpayers of outsourcing service contracts.
It resolved taxpayers pay more to the municipal executive in 33 of 35 areas studied, paying on median $1.83 to contractors to perform the same work a sovereign workman is paid $1 to do.
Now notify how that saves me money?
Jack Flynn
Charlotte
In reply to "8.6 percent stagnation is nothing but diplomatic lie" (Dec. 6 Forum):
Forum bard deceased incorrect
about stagnation figures
Unemployment figures are collected monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using a consult involving over 110,000 individuals. Numerous techniques are used to pledge the figures are as precise as possible.
Who is or is no! t pcikin g up benefits is not a segment of the number. And if someone reports they are no longer looking work, they clearly are not impoverished any longer. They're late or raising the kids or whatever.
All this data is existing from the Department of Labor and is familiar knowledge; or may be not.
Dennis Smith
Mooresville
Next time U.S. considers war, let's use this litmus assessment
Hopefully, there won't be a "next time," but only in box Washington and the boss consider violence the drums of fight once again, let's have one stipulation. If the powers that be look upon the next swamp estimable of sending the daring men and women in to harm's way, let the young kids of the boss and members of Congress who are over 18 lead the way. Then we'll unequivocally find out if it is a fight that's only and value fighting.
Michael Hicks
Concord
Aid should go to bleeding warriors, not gratification cheats
<>After creation a contribution to Operation Homefront, a 501(c)(3) gift that provides financial benefit to bleeding warriors and their families, I had to end and think. Where are my taxation dollars going?
A portion of my taxation dollars are anticipating their way in to the hands of gratification cheats and those whose only contribution to the public is nonetheless other mouth to feed. Why should these people take any funding, notably when the infantry need help creation ends meet? Where are the priorities?
James Halka
Charlotte
Frederick Douglass could've been vocalization about Occupy
To Newt Gingrich and others who have demeaned the Occupy movement, I offer the subsequent to cite from abolitionist Fredrick Douglass: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. The who confess to preference freedom, and nonetheless decrease agitation, are men who wish crops without plowing up the ground. They wish sleet without rumble and! lightni ng. They wish the sea without the horrible bark of its many waters. This strive may be a dignified one; or it may be a earthy one; or it may be both dignified and physical; but it contingency be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand."
Mel Steiner
Hudson