the overlords don't want us to travel or communicate... divide and conquer in every way imaginable.

The post office is for the people, affordable and reaches everyone, that could end.

Then they and their cronies could buy it up, privatize it and make their fortunes...just like they are doing with their private prisons and the public schools.

if they cut down residential delivery to three, or even two days a week. I get all my bills through email, and I pay them online, too. It's expensive to visit every house in the United States six days a week, and unless Congress wants to raise the price to send junk mail, we cannot afford babysitting for folks who live in the sticks. Oh, sorry, it was called "human connection", and as I recall from living in rural communities, people there had a lot more of it than big city folks do.

...McCall, ID. Population ~3,000. Everybody had a PO Box, NO RURAL delivery. I guess "sticks" is all relative.

Nevertheless, I think you may have missed the point.

The post office doesn't have a revenue problem--other than the one created by having to fund pensions TODAY--FOR FUTURE EMPLOYEES THAT AREN'T EVEN BORN YET. My understanding is that the Post Office has operated without a dime of taxpayer money since 1971. [link:http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2927#.URc-3x3LS7y| It will become more likely that they'll have a revenue problem, however, if they lose the business that they make good money on (packages) because of reduced delivery.

Then there's the union-busting and privatization problems. Privatization always ends up costing the people more. Same for reduced competition.

Pay little attention to the picture of a major Atlantic seaboard state you see next to my posts, I've been living here about six years, but my heart is still in the state of Washington. I lived in Montesano, just a few hundred folks more populous than McCall.

While I hear that overfunding of pension and health benefits is the problem, I simply cannot think of another company or government entity that has anything than an underfunding situation in both of these cases. Most companies have a base fund that is designed to take the shock from a bad year or two, but the premise of funding remains: Those retirees are ONLY going to get health and pension benefits if the company itself is still doing a thriving business for decades to come.

I really don't envision the USPS existing in fifty years, and I think it's possible that it will disappear in as little as twenty years. Even the dufuses who send me umpteen catalogs a year for the past half decade (based on one single highly-discounted purchase I made from them through a posting on BensBargains.net) will eventually figure out that direct mail simply doesn't work like it used to. All of the remaining technophobes will either die off or adapt, because it costs too much for their creditors to send them mailed bills, and there will be charges associated for getting a printed bill.

Why not provide enough money for retirees of a dying industry?