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I Would Just Start Closing Post Offices And Reducing Service In GOP Districts. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 OP
and that would be utterly unfair to the brave Democrats among us who live within those ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #1
Same here bluestateguy Feb 2013 #2
Thanks a lot. I live in a red district in a red state. Arkansas Granny Feb 2013 #3
I guess you can cut my SS when I retire too? SQUEE Feb 2013 #4
That began long ago in districts of all political colors - lynne Feb 2013 #5

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
2. Same here
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 01:57 AM
Feb 2013

and really sock it to the rural Red districts that send teabaggers to Congress.

Let them go without post offices and live by their own words: let the private sector handle all of their mailing needs, and see how they like it once they find out that the private shippers have little interest in serving remote rural communities at affordable rates.

Arkansas Granny

(31,517 posts)
3. Thanks a lot. I live in a red district in a red state.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 07:33 AM
Feb 2013

What other services that I need would you be willing to cut?

SQUEE

(1,315 posts)
4. I guess you can cut my SS when I retire too?
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:32 AM
Feb 2013

On the bright side, we can build a military base here in the county and all future firearms regulations won't apply.

lynne

(3,118 posts)
5. That began long ago in districts of all political colors -
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:53 AM
Feb 2013

- my mother retired in the early 1990's from the post office after 30 years as postmaster in a small rural community. Her retirement killed the post office in the region. They went to mail boxes with the closest post office 3 miles away. Within the last year, my community lost one of three post offices.

Closing small post offices and reducing services has been going on for 20+ years.

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