MI_Thumb said:
Probably because post offices all over are closing in small towns, because the cost of delivering/sorting/transporting mail is greater than the money taken in my postage fee's.
Not to mention all the Postal workers who have to be paid a fair wage, and insurance benefits, and pensions.
If it were a business it would be in the red.
of course, but it's not a business. it's a service provided by the government.
now... I may be CRAZY, but I don't think it's a bad thing that post office workers receive decent pay and benefits... and of course, they go out an buy things, own houses, pay taxes, and all that jazz, so their wages are recirculated into the economy. It's not like that money gets shipped to a bank in the Caymans.
sure it would be great if we could fire all of them, and hire foreign laborers who could work insanely long shifts, at starvation wages, without any sort of health benefits, insurance, worker's compensation, etc. if they get injured on the job, just throw their mangled carcass out in the fields and let them starve; plenty more where they came from. But unfortunately, we actually have to use the domestic labor pool to do the work, and employ citizens or lawful residents, and protected by federal and state labor laws... bummer, eh?
Right?