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In reply to the discussion: Congress is being bribed to kill the Postal Service. Even though they do better than FedEx or UPS. [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)91. As a former USPS city carrier, I never use anything but the post office. Those
other services can drop dead. I hate that the Congress is bought off enough to try to KILL the post office -- it's just immoral.
I would love to see millions of people sending letters again; I know it won't happen, unless a fad starts or something, but as convenient as e-mail is, it will never make it to the next generation so they can see, for example, a letter or post card written by a grandmother they never knew. It's pretty sad.
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Congress is being bribed to kill the Postal Service. Even though they do better than FedEx or UPS. [View all]
riqster
Dec 2013
OP
I don't hear any reports about the postal service scrambling to deliver late Christmas packages
liberal N proud
Dec 2013
#1
Good one to use. I just don't hear many complaints in my area. It's mostly wingnuts who say it here.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#32
Unfortunately they could. They already got the ruling back in 1969 or 1970.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#71
The USPS got all my xmas packages there a day before they said they would this year.
cags
Dec 2013
#25
If only one of these three services survives I prefer it be the US Postal Service.
GoneFishin
Dec 2013
#43
Seems fair to me. But then, UPS isn't giving me tens of thousands of dollars in bribes.
riqster
Dec 2013
#54
These same "bribes" are what is ruining this country by taking away any semblance of Representative
Dustlawyer
Dec 2013
#50
USPS Flat Rate Priority shipping. Free franking. Best things ever for personal and small business.
haele
Dec 2013
#52
K&R. USPS regularly delivers for UPS/FedEx in areas that the others deem "unprofitable".
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#86
USPS should offer encrypted privacy rights protected email, as well as mobile internet/phone service
grahamhgreen
Dec 2013
#90