Looks like email, Twitter, Facebook and texting has finally caught up to the Postal Service. The cost of doing business is getting too great for the USPS and they will propose today, as part of their cost-saving efforts, to end Saturday service. It has been a long time coming. We are one of the few nations that has Saturday delivery.
From my point of view, it was a mistake to require the USPS to be self-sufficient. Tax-payer money should be used to fund them, then we would be able to maintain all the services we have become accustomed to.
As a stamp collector, I have watched my hobby take a beating from the cutbacks. Where there used to be Philatelic windows at some post offices, they are now shuttered or perhaps manned minimally. Interestingly, many clerks do not like giving stamp collectors the time to look at the available stamps and make a purchase, even though a purchase by a collector is 100% profit as no letter gets delivered. A few, and I do mean "few", post offices have retail stores where you can shop for postal items, including packaged stamps, as if in a store. More of those would be nice and could make money for the Post Office.
It is hard to watch the Post Office fight of this illness caused by technology, but don't fret...junk mail will keep the Post Office from dying.
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