Post Offices Face Hurdles in Efforts to Diversify.

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Well before online bill paying was popular, the Postal Service in 2000 began operating a secure system that would have allowed it to remain the primary conduit for most Americans’ monthly payments. But the Internet industry objected, and Congress successfully pressured the Postal Service to abandon it.

The same pattern has repeated several times over the last decade, with the Postal Service identifying a way to cope with the decline of traditional mail, only to have companies — and ultimately Congress — object.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/us/postal-service-seeks-to-widen-activities-and-revenue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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1. Obviously, the PO is socialist.

It's gonna suck for Congress when there's no USPS to provide the franking privileges they've come to love and abuse.