Sen. Susan Collins from Maine defends the US Postal Service. There was a Seinfeld episode about Kramer deciding that the USPS was outdated, because of email, and he resented getting Pottery Barn catalogs constantly. the USPS is outdated, its an elephant for politicians who want to satisfy an older population who sees the local USPS office as the identity for their community. Fact is, the sense of community has become so fractured in today's society, that the USPS office is about the only thing many small communities have for their "sense of place." My opinion: shut the whole thing down. Contract out for delivery. It would save billions of dollars. the example below is the problem: why should the federal government subsidize a national enterprise so someone in small town maine can send a letter to someone ten miles away? Heard of email? Phone? send an attach file? Facebook? come on.....
Collins passionately defended a mail processing center in Hampden, a town in northern Maine. Closing it would mean that a letter sent from one town in northern Maine to another town just ten miles away would take a 600-mile roundtrip, she said.
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