Obamacare...it's in the mail.....
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:14 pm
Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices
HOLMES MILL, Ky.—The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.
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. The law currently allows the postal service to close post offices only for maintenance problems, lease expirations or other reasons that don't include profitability.
It also wants post offices to be profitable to help it overcome record $8.5 billion in losses in fiscal year 2010.
In addition to reducing employees—it has cut staffing by a third since 1999— the postal service has sought for years to deal with financial woes by raising rates or cutting services, such as a proposal to drop Saturday delivery.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01 ... z1Byd7wyvM
Sorta makes a fellow wonder? When it comes to "healthcare" and costs? Will they close the hospitals?
Or will they "raise" the rates? Can the Fed's run healthcare? Better than the Post Office? Are you willing to bet your life on it? The answer is? In the mail.
Old Pudfark sez: "Obamacare? Sure, we'll all live happily ever after...."
HOLMES MILL, Ky.—The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.
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. The law currently allows the postal service to close post offices only for maintenance problems, lease expirations or other reasons that don't include profitability.
It also wants post offices to be profitable to help it overcome record $8.5 billion in losses in fiscal year 2010.
In addition to reducing employees—it has cut staffing by a third since 1999— the postal service has sought for years to deal with financial woes by raising rates or cutting services, such as a proposal to drop Saturday delivery.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01 ... z1Byd7wyvM
Sorta makes a fellow wonder? When it comes to "healthcare" and costs? Will they close the hospitals?
Or will they "raise" the rates? Can the Fed's run healthcare? Better than the Post Office? Are you willing to bet your life on it? The answer is? In the mail.
Old Pudfark sez: "Obamacare? Sure, we'll all live happily ever after...."
