Political & Elections

soccerguy315 · Guru

RE: Is your post office on the hit list?

BigG · Guru

Why sure. Let's let the hack and slash guys recreate their private business success with the Post Office. Stock prices have benefitted SOOO much from that philosophy.

Elimination of rural Post Offices will do almost as much to destroy the fabric of American society as the outsourcing of jobs to China.

Let's just cram everybody into the dying cities. Then when China finally decides to nuke us, they can save money on bombs.

Could Washington be more clueless or out of touch?

Let's see. The Feds already don't want to protect the borders, really fix the economy or end lost wars. Now they don't want to deliver the mail.

King George did better than that.

-- Edited by BigG on Monday 24th of January 2011 02:38:30 PM

-- Edited by BigG on Monday 24th of January 2011 02:40:34 PM

-- Edited by BigG on Monday 24th of January 2011 02:43:04 PM

SamuraiLandshark · Guru

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576094000352599050.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStoriesyhoofront

"Beginning in March, the agency will start the process of closing as many as 2,000 post offices, on top of the 491 it said it would close starting at the end of last year. In addition, it is reviewing another 16,000—half of the nation's existing post offices—that are operating at a deficit, and lobbying Congress to allow it to change the law so it can close the most unprofitable among them."

"A disproportionate number of the thousands of post offices under review are in rural or smaller suburban areas, though the postal service declined to provide any estimate on how many beyond those slated to begin closure in March might ultimately close or which ones are being targeted."