They have, dude.
Some 35,000 employees took early retirement this year. They have been replaced by part-time employees with lower wages ($10-$15/hr) and no benefits for the first year -- followed by the opportunity to get health insurance with a 25% contribution.
No retirement, 401K or other, at all.
All small-town Post Offices will see their hours cut to between 2 to 6 hours a day. The Postmasters, should they wish to stay, will have their wages cut to $18/hr.
Satisfied? Did you even know any of this?
U.S. Post Office cuts threaten source of black jobs
African-Americans represent 13.1 percent of the U.S. population and 11.6 percent of the labor force, according to a 2012 U.S. Department of Labor report. Nearly one in five African-American workers hold government jobs such as mail clerks, firefighters and teachers, the report said.
"There's a long tradition of the public sector being more friendly, or less hostile, to African-American workers," said Robert Zieger, emeritus professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The Post Office is the best example."
African-Americans make up about 20 percent of U.S. Postal Service workers - and are the majority in some urban centers, representing 75 percent to 80 percent of the 5,000 letter carriers in the Chicago area, according to Mack Julion, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-post-office-cuts-threaten-source-black-jobs-180930966--business.html
Just saying