[muawiyah]

Postal employees with more than 2 children were usually on supplemental welfare and foodstamps (which your taxes paid for) back when postage was at the rates you cite. At the same time the Post Office Department required subsidization anyway since the revenues weren't enough to cover expenses.

Witht he creation of USPS the subsidization ceased, rates went up with inflation, and the employees went off welfare and foodstamps.

That was a win, win all around.

To argue against it is to argue for putting more people on foodstamps and welfare.

[ml/nj]

Witht he creation of USPS the subsidization ceased, rates went up with inflation, and the employees went off welfare and foodstamps. That was a win, win all around. To argue against it is to argue for putting more people on foodstamps and welfare.

I'm confused. Is the Post Office there to deliver the mail, or is it a social welfare organization? With all the great automation you refer to one would think the Post Office should have fewer employees and lower skills (if that were possible) required of the average remaining employee.

Why doesn't the government just close the Post Office down and let private enterprise do the job? I would bet standard first class mail between and within major cities would be down to a dime a piece in no time.

Let me guess, I have to pay for your retirement and health care too, beyond Social Security and Medicare?

ML/NJ