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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
The Post Office,Social Security,Medicare,Amtrack and everything else the government runs is broke............just turn the mail over to UPS and it will get done right for less money
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So sorry SAMIAM, wrong answer. As the Professor said, this quasi-government agency is pre-funding employee's retirements whom they haven't even hired yet. Why? Because Congress made them do it back in Nixon's tenure whose administration created the USPS rather than the Department of the Post Office. Actually not a bad idea, but in times of economic trouble we see the fallacy of such an edict.
I don't work for the USPS, but I deal with the world postal industry everyday. Don't condemn them for what is happening right now. There is plenty of things they have screwed up, but this current situation where they must close offices and cut back on delivery isn't one of them.