this should be good: the postal service is going to be cut drastically next year, they are just waiting for xmas delivery to be over. What does this mean? no saturday delivery, so what. Most importantly, all those small post offices in obscure rural towns will be closed. the USPS is classic government, even though it is a corporation ( a gov corporation, like the TVA). It has to accomplish a congressional mandate, to deliver mail everywhere, regardless of cost. Rural american enjoys a post office in every small town, regardless of need or cost. they will be the first to go. Post offices in NYC will not be closed; however, the post office in Perkins, OK ( i used to rent a small ranch house there) will be closed. the irony, is that those most affected by the USPS closures will be rural residents, those who support conservative republican efforts to cut government and the USPS. the USPS has been subsidizing small town America for eons, and now this is over. Our government subsidizes farms, small town post offices, and rural residential mortgages - without the US government, those anti government rural, fringe cult christian communities would have become ghost towns decades ago. Does this mean an new exodus to the cities? Will rural America become decimated? Will Congress be reapportioned, and become more urban and Democratic? Will the republicans self destruct by eliminating the USPS? What a zoo.
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