[Zakeet]

You Freepers need to remember that you didn't build the Post Office ... the government built that for you!!

[youngidiot]

Damned unions. They’re running ads like crazy. Claiming that they’re being screwed by the feds - when in fact they’re only being forced to fund the absurd obligations they’ve made. Damned unions.

[DPMD]

Sounds like yet another argument for higher taxes.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

But the government will do health care so much better....

[Dan Zachary]

And these are the people we want in charge of our healthcare?

[Hodar]

•POSTAL SERVICE 3Q REVENUE FALLS TO $15.6 BILLION FROM $15.8B
•POSTAL SERVICE `LIQUIDITY CHALLENGES' REMAIN IN 2013
•POSTAL SERVICE MAIL VOLUME FALLS 3.5 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTER

Meanwhile, Federal Express is performing solidly in the black and paying dividends. But, to be fair, UPS has issued report where they predicat a cut in full year outlook due to a sagging economy.

With the advent in the internet (FaceBook, Pinterest and email), the demand for letters has dropped significantly. The only "letters" I ever get are bills, or post cards from car dealerships telling me how I need to ditch my dependable car, and incur a tremendous amount of debt and buy a new car.

For national security, we need a Post Office - however the Post Office needs to change their business model. For the past 10 years, letters have ceased to be their primary product - so scale accordingly. Increase the cost of a letter to $1, and focus on packages like the competition is doing. It's simply not practical to process, sort and hand deliver a letter for less than $1.

[Elendur]

•U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LOST $5.2 BILLION IN THIRD QUARTER
•POSTAL SERVICE LOSS Q3 COMPARES WITH $3.1 BILLION LOSS YEAR AGO
•POSTAL SERVICE 3Q REVENUE FALLS TO $15.6 BILLION FROM $15.8B
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so, the revenue has only gone down, zero point two ?
0.2 ? but the losses, have gone UP 2.1 BILLION,
in ONE YEAR?!?

[fella]

The inefficiency at my local Post Office is incredible, no wait it's quite credible because it's true. I remember a time when the P.O. was totally different. When military veterans were preferred hires instead of selected politically correct groups. When the mail was delivered twice a day in town. And if you mailed a local letter to the P.o. by 10 in the morning it got delivered that afternoon. But all that ended with LBJ and has just gotten worse since.

[A Navy Vet]

The Postal Clause was added to the Constitution primarily to facilitate interstate communication, as well as to create a source of revenue for the early United States.

Unfortunately, it would take a Constitutional Amendment to dismantle this now outdated and wasteful service. As usual, private companies provide a better service with no burden on tax-payers. So what else is new?