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

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136. 155,000 jobs by 2016

The postal service wants to eliminate 155,000 positions by 2016.
You cannot compare the USPS to FedX or UPS because we have to go to almost every delivery address 6 days a week and they don't.
We have been delivering packages for FEdX and UPS for quite awhile now.
I have been working there 28 years. We have gone from 50 clerks to 20 clerks. We still get 5 semi trucks of mail 6 days a week. They are not always full but it's still enough mail considering we only have about 7 clerks and 3 mailhandlers who actually sort this mail.
They are going to close a processing center in our area and send the mail to a center about 50 miles away to be processed. The center where it is being sent does mostly priorirty mail. Right now when that center is overwhelmed or understaffed they can't handle the mail volume so they send it to us unsorted and we have to sort it. If they are having problems now how are they going to handle even more mail?
Then to all of you who don't give a damn if the postal service closes because YOU don't need or use it consider this it's not just postal jobs that will be lost. It will be all the jobs that are related such as truck drivers who haul mail,the businesses they buy fuel from, etc. It will effect jobs where newspapers and magazines are produced. Increased shipping costs may cause layoffs at some businesses. Then the local areas that lose business from postal employees. In our local area including all the employees that would be a loss of 3 to 4 million potential dollars spent here.
Once the postal service is gone how can you be sure that all those free things on the internet will remain so? Most of my bills will charge me a fee if I want to pay by phone and it's more than 45 cents.
I saw one of Issas meetings on the postal service, The idiot didn't even know how much a stamp cost. One of the other idiot Republicans on his committee bragged about using FedX and UPS. The joke is on him because theres a good chance the postal service delivered his packages.
I agree that there needs to be some changes. It would be a big help if we had intelligent managers but we don't. There is a lot of money wasted by their stupidity.