U.S. Senate measure seeks to slow post office closures
April 24, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The U.S. Senate adopted a measure Tuesday pushed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota to give communities a chance to fight the closure of post offices and sorting facilities.
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So no one wants to loose their postal facilities, I can understand but now ask the question how does the postal service keep from loosing money if they do not close some existing facilities and consolidate. There is no easy bullet to this but question why are they trying to prolong the inevitable if that is going to happen.
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Nothing generates more mail or phone calls to Congress than the closure or relocation of post offices. The highest priority for Congress is re-election. So they will order the postal service to keep the post offices for as few as 100 homes open. But they won’t do anything to solve the problem. That’s not their problem; their problem is their jobs and their pensions.
They could start by exempting the postal service from having to make pre-payments on pension and medical benefits for retirees.
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Good point, ray!
How many private companies have to make prepayments on pension and med bennies?
Then again, how many private companies even have that kind of thing anymore?
Thanks again to big business?
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