The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse (USPS)

NexusFi · 2014-06-01T18:51:45-04:00

The obvious solution is not even mentioned in the article. Just shut the post office down and allow private companies to compete in delivering first class mail. Of course you would probably no longer be able to send a letter to alaska for the same price as sending it across town, and half a million well-payed postal employees would no longer get cushy jobs subsidized by the rest of us. But would that really be such a tragedy? I agree with most of that. There is a national interest in keeping SOME of the Post …

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The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse (USPS)

June 1st, 2014, 06:51 PM

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You could view it as subsidized mail rather than as a job program.

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see the quote above about the Ed Show...

in a word, the knowledgable postal commentator said:
1) the USPS made over +$1B above costs
2) the funny accounting that they're subject to within the budgets that both administrations have continued makes it appear as if the USPS were in default and in need of replacement, cancellation or otherwise