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...United States Postal Service recently announced its plan to cut Saturday mail delivery in the face of growing deficits and decreasing mail volume. The cuts have widespread public support from 71 percent of Americans, including majorities of both political parties, even though the projected job losses are undesirable for a country just exiting a major recession. Simultaneously, the reiteration of the USPS’s financial woes has prompted some calls for the agency to fully privatize. We support the Saturday service cuts as an unpleasant but necessary money-saving measure; however, we reject any calls for the Postal Service...
...true that the USPS right now spends more money than it earns. It predicts an operating loss between six and 12 billion dollars this year. But to presume that our nation’s postal service must take in more money than it spends is to treat it like a privately owned delivery company when, in reality, the USPS is a social service. Indeed, postal service is one of the fundamental functions of our government. The Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to “establish Post Offices and Post Roads” in between the powers to coin...
...debt with unnecessary services and then to need to make massive cuts in the future. Furthermore, because the job losses due to cutting service on Saturdays will occur primarily through attrition via retirement and early retirement packages, they will not do the economy too great a disservice. Thus, the Postal Service should continue ahead with its well-researched plan to cut costs but should retain its privileged public position in the years to come...
...ineffectual leader, unable to provide a clear direction on policy or control a three-party ruling coalition that is a grab bag of politicians with contradictory ideologies, from relative conservatives to outright socialists. Open disagreements have broken out between Cabinet members, especially over the controversial privatization of Japan's postal system - a free-market initiative begun, not incidentally, during Koizumi's term as Prime Minister. "Whenever you try to get down to reforms you're bound to face difficulties," Hatoyama says, but he insists he has the support of the DPJ and is working cooperatively with his coalition partners...
...good thing the unofficial motto of the u.s. Postal Service--"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"--doesn't mention Saturday mail delivery. Because that may soon be history. On March 2, Postmaster General John Potter announced that major cuts, including an end to weekend service, would be needed to prevent a projected $238 billion loss over the next decade that is largely a result of fewer letters and packages being sent. It's the first time in USPS history that a lack of mail...