[Presbyterian Reporter]

Every time a USPS story is posted the apologists come out in force to defend the institution.

Which leads me to believe that a clause in the USPS union contract is to rebut any statement against the USPS that appears on any website.

[Oldexpat]

I don’t know how all the junk bulk mail pays it’s way. Everyday I get a bunch of junk mail that is a majority of the mail. I suggest they cut Sat. delivery and raise prices on bulk mail.

[COBOL2Java]

Which leads me to believe that a clause in the USPS union contract is to rebut any statement against the USPS that appears on any website.

Hey, what do you think the other two clerks are doing while the one clerk is handling all the customers? They're surfing the web and responding to posts complaining that postal workers have nothing better to do than surf the web!

[newzjunkey]

No apologist here, they need to clean up their pension and benefits, but there’s no denying the USPS is specifically authorized by the Constitution.

[muawiyah]

You are paranoic. There's actually very little effort expended to squarsh critics like bugs ~ that's because they are almost all hopelessly ignorant of the reality of the situation or they work for beneficiaries of some sort of internal cross-subsidization (nonprofit mailers, periodical mailers for example).

UPS actually has employees on the rolls whose job is to seek out postal situations and add their criticism. They even go to rate commission hearings and testify against USPS requests for rate increases that result in prices lower than UPS.