Post Office Eyes 1,600 More Branch Closings

So congress is going to heap requirements on the Postal Service without doing anything to help its situation? They'll just pass a law forbidding more closures but not start funding them again. If they are going to require offices to stay open they should have to financially support the postal system.

There are a lot of small magazines that have been hurt by the Post Office's problems. Rates for periodicals have increased and that means that political cause publications or mailings of non-profits are more expensive, eating into the ability of such magazines to provide good coverage or even survive.

Maybe the PO can keep all the small branches open if the Congress will underwrite them in the name of the first ammendment and the free exchange of ideas to help keep periodical shipping rates down.

Frelance Minion of NE 4:28PM September 02, 2009