USPS creates jobs Part 2

Alright, you got the idea, right!  The current USPS mail carrier routes are each an 8 hr per day job, and they would be cut to 4 hrs per day, or part time.  This creates more jobs.  This is kinda what they do in Germany and why they're the most successful economy in the Eurozone.  Population growth statistics alone means we have to be thinking of creating many more jobs, of any type.  Now a 4 hr daily route could mean a very good thing for us; it means we could all get our mail by 1 pm if all the carriers started at 7 am or so.  I'd pay more for that.
Now this raises the question. How do we pay for this service?  The current backhand system is defective we know; it doesn't pay the true costs. And I really want all non-profit organizations to break even at a minimum, and all other businesses to make a profit and share some of that profit with their employees and owners/shareholders.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Being a very good mail carrier takes agility, endurance and experience; a license or certificate to deliver mail is not required.  However, I consider it, like most jobs, to be very important and critical to society, so we must pay for it fairly. So, number 1) Is it more important to always get your mail by 1 pm or 6 pm?  If you want it by 1 pm every day, than you should pay a small premium for that, its only fair. The mail carrier should also get a piece of that, and would encourage bidding on morning routes.  2) What's a fair rate to pay our 24 hr per week mail carriers, and what health benefits and retirement benefits should they get?  Remember, this is not a full time job.  Even so, we know the Minimum Wage isn't enough for a dog to live on, especially after you take out all the Fed, State and sometimes City Wage taxes (City Wage taxes must be abolished, along with residency laws - that's why we have cars - to get to work anywhere), plus Medicare, Social security, disability tax, unemployment tax, and any health bene or retirement contributions (and there should be some, even tho this is part time).  I'll give you an example:  my wife is a retired teacher (25 years), so she's a good teacher.  She was subbing for a friend and third grade teacher at a local elementary school for three days in a row.  She got up at 7 am to be at school by 7:30 which started at 7:45.  Taught all day from specific lessons and plans prepared for her by the regular teacher (in other words - she worked, the kids didn't just read all day). School let out at 3:15 pm.  After making notes of the day and going over the next day's lesson plans, she got home at 4:15 pm, a full day by any standard. She got 15" for lunch, which she brought in herself.  The Board of Education paid her $75 gross per day, which netted out to $44 per day.  That's for 7.5 hrs per day.  And that is at the rate of $10 per hour, not Minimum Wage of $7.25 or $7.50 per hour for a full time job doing something else, which would be much less!  So we know compensations rates are all screwed up at every level, especially the top 1% (but that's another blog).  So 3) Say we pay our mail carriers $10 per hour, 24 hrs per week, that's $240 per week, or $1032 per month for $12, 384 per year, less 41% assuming regular taxes and benes (based on above example), or $7,307 for the year.  Ok, so even tho its part time, and over half a 40 hr workweek, we really don't want to see our hard-working mail carrier only make that much, do we? The US poverty rate wage for a family of four in 2011 is $22,350 (vs $12,384 at $10/hr for our part time mail carrier).  I could not find a statistic which would tell me whether the $22,350 income was gross, or net, of taxes and stuff.  So here my analysis ends.  (If you know, let me know).  Either way, our mail carrier can't support himself, let alone a family on this wage.  So what do we do?  See Part 3.