To those apathetic about the attack on the Post Office remember

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82. I use the US post office every day it's open.

I sell on line and mail it out. In this small rural area there are NO JOBS. Last I looked we were headed for over 13% unemployment and that's based on rigged numbers. So, you are telling me the service I use every day is dying? Really? How do you think Amazon does it? They sell on line and ship out.

I can NOT get lucrative, padded contracts from UPS or FedEx like Amazon does. They save their best shipping rates for their biggest customers. We small customers have to suck it up. Except that right now the US postal service gives me the same cheap fees it gives everyone. So, now I have a thriving business.

If you do away with the US postal Service, which like guns is mentioned in the Constitution, then we rural folks will get NO Service. Just like when big corporations controlled all access to electricity, the rural areas never got the service because it was too expensive to string wire such vast distances between farmhouses. The federal government had to step in in order to ensure farmers got electricity. The same thing happened with phones. And if you destroy the US postal Service, you destroy many, many rural small businesses. Because FedEx and UPS are not going to deliver to rural areas. In fact they don't deliver to rural areas now. In very rural areas, UPS and FedEx deliver to the US post office, and the US post office delivers to the customer.

Why should the post office break even? Why? Fire Departments don't break even. Police Departments don't break even. The military Never breaks even. Libraries and museums don't break even. The DMV doesn't break even. Breaking even is NOT the goal, and never should be, of public services.