Why we still need the United States Postal Service

(from Occupy Chicago)

@Tomthunkit: #USPS employs 235,000 Veterans, 40,000 disabled people and doesn't cost taxpayers one dime in taxes. #UniteBlue

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update: 
Digby weighs in on the decision to cut back services at the USPS (it's about politics and race and gender--surprise!). Here: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/post-office-blues-its-all-about-politics.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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(via Longreads)

from Esquire:
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/post-office-business-trouble-0213?page=all&src=longreads&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=e2f59

teachers, firefighters, policemen, sanitation workers, toll booth operators, custodians--some will tell you that our economy is wobbly b/c of the exorbitant cost it takes to pay, provide benefits for these workaday folks. Thoughtful, considered explanation of why we still need the postal service (and why UPS and FedEx agree).

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more public money going to private pockets . . . 

We see this sort of thing more often it seems--from the bank bailouts to the private contractors left in Iraq, etc. Allowing private companies to profit from taxpayer money w/out the usual rules, regulations, and most importantly, oversight.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-corrupt-privatization-of-our-public.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter