Posted on 08/07/2011 6:15:39 AM PDT by maggief
A large majority of post offices that have been targeted for closure are in Republican districts.
More than 2,500 of these post offices are in GOP districts while about 1,000 are in districts represented by Democrats, according to a review by The Hill. There were fewer than 100 stores where the district could not be determined because the zip code is represented by lawmakers in both parties.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has stressed that politics played no role in determining which sites to shutter, noting that it adhered to a strict methodology for choosing them. The USPS used a computer program to select the offices on a range of factors, including revenue and workload.
The closures would save about $200 million annually for the ailing USPS, which has urged the end of its Saturday service.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
the obamites must be using the same methodology as used to decide which GM dealerships to close
Perhaps this is some more of that “punish your enemies” stuff.
I think they would be more effective shutting down more of the urban post offices where people won’t have to go far to another.
You are correct about those of us who do a lot of business through the mail. I make two or three trips to the post office every day.
Better yet would be deliveries every other day; not including Sundays. Roughly 1/2 the number of vehicles would be needed along with 1/2 the maintenance and fuel costs.
LOL!
Just wait until obamacare kicks in, you are describing the waiting room of the gubmint medical intake office that will decide whether or not you get to see a doctor
who also will not speak English
Not so many welfare checks delivered from GOP post offices.
USPS might have a better success rate if they hired English-speaking carriers. We’ve Japanese and Hispanic carriers who could neither read nor speak English funcitonally. How they passed the exam, I’ll never know. (Although I do know that minorities get points added like a golf handicap from the git-go. At least they did when I took the exam back in the ‘80s.)
Does your town have parks, sidewalks, paved streets, libraries,benches to sit on, garbage cans on the corners?
The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one. There's a million and one unconstitutional things to be cut to right our fiscal ship before we go after the Post Office.
That’s what I would do, cut back on some of the rural deliveries (Say within a mile radius) and cut postal service to 4 days per week.
Why is no one talking about urban door to door delivery? How much does that cost?
I lived in a trailer park some years ago and had a block of PO boxes at the end of the street that worked fine.
•List of branches being considered for closing
http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/expandedaccess/statelist.htm
Not so many welfare checks delivered from GOP post offices.
This is not really surprising considering vast number of brain dead liberals live in high density population areas like cities where there are large PO already there that service many people
Plus many of these PO that are closing are small rural areas that simply don't pay for themselves.
It would not bother me in the least if they cut mail service to twice a week......95% of what the mailman puts in my mailbox I throw out before I walk into the house
Ridiculous comment...
Glad to see they are leaving Luckenbach alone!
“The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one.”
There is no constitutional guarantee that every citizen has a post office conveniently located around the corner. In case you don’t believe that, have a look:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
If the gentleman is perturbed about the nearest post office closing then he has a number of options available to him - he can switch his mail to online delivery, he can suck it up and go for a 10 mile drive (the horror!) or he can move to a community which has much greater mail traffic. I will not tolerate my tax dollars be blown on maintaining folks’ lifestyles.
Shades of the way the regime treated Chrysler dealers during the fascist takeover.
I too live way out in the country, and would have more than a 10 mile round trip to the post office.
I would have no problem if the post office quit tomorrow delivering my mail - ads, solicitations and mis-delivered mail for the most part.
Almost everything I want or need comes via UPS or FEDEx or email.
To heck with USPS. Just go away.
Not much worth picking up these days.
Social Security and Welfare Benefits Going Paperless
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/business/29checkless.html
Fine close them and require a like number closed in the other districts.
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