The Postal Service is teetering on the edge of oblivion, due to a combination of factors, not least of which is the rise of email. Basically, no one sends letters via snail mail anymore.
I'm honestly surprised the USPS has held on this long- when even the ancient and venerable Royal Mail has to be partially privitized to stay alive, it's probably inevitable that some kind of partial privitization is going to have to take place. The workers will of course get hosed through a combination of government short-sightedness (we should have been tackling this in the Clinton Administration, for cryin' out loud) and union overreaching (they fought for way more than the Postal Service can now afford to give). All of which lays bear the stark choices facing workers in America today: do you sacrifice cushy benefits so you can keep a paycheck or do you fight for every scrap and risk blowing the whole thing up and not having a job if you lose?
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