Saturday, March 26, 2011
THIS NET CAN'T SAVE THE POST OFFICE
Nets are for fishermen, tennis players, circus high fliers, and computers. The internet has just about killed the Post 0ffice like cars did the horse and wagon. My wife writes a letter to a cousin in Germany that we scan and send in seconds saving expensive postage and stationery .. It is only when customers chose to physically move property across mega-miles that servers stand to gain and competition favors them over the mail. Running billions behind annually the only recourse is to raise prices, again. They get no tax dollars even though thousands of employees pay into the system. We complain, unfairly, about Post Office slowness even as we take our package "mailing" business, potentially profitable, elsewhere. We complain, unfairly, when ninety percent of the time mailings get where they are supposed to go in a reasonable time. Even when we get to know the person behind the window personally. Ease up folks, like Don Slater often says,"Don't get your pants in a bunch."
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No the net cant save the post office 100% correct The govt sees that the net is a threat to its very existance of the USPS. The govt has to protect the 7.6 million jobs that it provides. Letrs not forget the Union either. The USPS is covered under the Constitution.It is a part of the govt it is protected by the govt. Yes its supposed to be self supporting but its a misreable mismananged agency such as SS Medicade and Medicare. Freedy and Fannie included.You can expect Obama to bail out the USPS with hundreds of millions of our tax dollars. See it is a part of our govt. Ask yourself this regarding the net. Why does the govt want to control the net and tax it? It is a threat to that same govt and that includes the USPS. Its not the people who have got their pants in a bunch.It's the govt who's panties are in a wad. It doesnt like domestic threats, but embraces those of our enemies.
In 1775 the postal service was established. It is remarkable that since it was legislated 40 years ago in 1971 to be an independent agency of the federal government the USPS could not find a way to stay afloat even as Fedex, UPS, DHL and other private service providers prospered.
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