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USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service
New submitter cstacy writes "The United States Postal Service will be closing half of its processing centers this spring. Currently, 42% of first-class mail is delivered the following day for nearby residential and business customers. But that overnight mail will be a thing of the past, with delivery guaranteed only for 2-3 days. About 51% will be delivered in two days. Periodicals may take up to nine days. (Additional delays beyond this may come into play when Congress also authorizes USPS to close operations for some days each week.)"
A Republican so someone who cuts of his own legs because they are to large and unwieldy for their minimal usefullness. All that meat and bone (lets face it, muscles on a rep are in the neck) for what? Cut it off. And that brain? 25% of energy of the body? Who does it think it is?
For a postal service to work, it has to be inefficient. The same with public transport. Unless it reaches everywhere, it isn't usable. That is why early electricity producers PAID big bucks to get everyone hooked up. But they would only do that where it made sense. Getting a line out to the farms often didn't. And so they didn't.
Society NEEDS infrastructure even in areas YOU as a person never use. That road to nowhere DOES go somewhere and those people at the end need it.
Don't believe it? Go live in areas of the world where only individual interests are catered for. Somalia is nice for that. No functional government, no services. No taxes. Just protection money to the guy with the bigger gun. And the payment might be your kids. Gosh, wished you payed a tiny percent for a national police service now eh?
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