Obama admin silent as USPS lays off 35,000 workers...with more layoffs to come

[The Genealogist]

4. Springfield, MO, where I live, is losing its processing center

and I think Cape Girardeau, MO is losing theirs as well. Lots of people are going to be left without jobs. Then there is the small post offices that will be closed. This is going to hurt small towns and rural Americans. The situation with the USPS is disgusting. All this apparently goes back to that damned pension funding requirement that was implemented a few years ago. No doubt this came about as the result of some lobbying and good-ole-boy back slapping between legislators and their buds at private shipping companies. I've even seen people on DU act smug about post offices closing, saying or implying that maybe now everyone will be drug into the 21st century. Well, just wait and see what it will cost to send mail through those private shipping companies. People everywhere will be crying to have the USPS back, once the RW has finished killing it off.