Strange that about the only thing keeping the Post Office afloat right now is junk mail and bills. And they are trying real hard to get everyone onto paying their bills on-line instead of waiting for the bills in the mail and sending them checks in the mail. As I've said many times in the past....on-line bill paying and banking is just not safe.

Both junk mail and bills are tools that corporations use to get us to spend more of our money. There sure is a lot of hypocrisy by these corporations.

But, for me, they are just wasting their money in sending me junk mail. I have never responded, nor would I ever be tempted to respond to any of these junk mailers. Just have to mentally turn an annoying situation into a laughable one...silly fools think they are going to get any of my money...they are just wasting theirs....and, at least, it keeps the Post Office in business.

The bills, of course, I have to pay and I have no problem with that. But I sure would have a big problem if I had to pay bills on-line. Not safe!!!

Maybe the Post Office should just raise their rates on businesses that send junk mail...those idiot junk mailers will never stop...what are they going to do without a post office...send all their junk mail by UPS?

This is another victory for the country of Brown Brothers & Harriman. See what Brown can do for you.

They are not only dismantling a once secure and cherished U.S. tradition, your mail person, but casting their 75 year old private unpaid pipeline and railroad mortgage debts onto the backs of the public.

2006-75 years= 1931.

In 1931 the Florida East Railroad commenced the longest railroad bankruptcy in U.S. history which was settled $.40 on the dollar in 1970 just in time for the Penn-Central bankruptcy (lost governement bail-outs) and the "creation" of Freddie Mac.

In 1931 The Wabash was in receivership.

1931 Aetna bonded Bechtel for the Hoover Dam, Bechtel being the only bidder who could afford the bond. Revenue Bonds were issued for the dam. ("Aetna formally crafted a pension product in 1930")

1931 Pipeline mortgage of the North American Pipeline (these are usually 50-75 years)

2/8/2006 Effective repeal by Congress of the Public Utility Holding Company Act

Bif and Dif

March 31, 2006, the FDIC merged the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) into a new fund, the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF). 3/31/2006

3/31/2006 (WAWA- Carlyle National Office Partners) NOP 1001 Fourth LLC assigned Safeco mortgages to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

(aka ABN AMRO) SAFECO MANAGED BOND TRUST Expiration Date 03/31/2006

More of what Brown did for you in 2006, they fixed your freight costs for the future:

6/30/2006 : NEW ENGLAND MOTOR FREIGHT, INC. Origin: NEW JERSEY (Shevell)

6/30/2006 ( North American Van Lines) SIRVA SETTLEMENT, INC. : 6070 PARKLAND BLVD, MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH 44124: 2006070300074 Status: Active Creation : 6/30/2006 Original Creation : 1/31/2000 Original Creation State: OH

EASTERN FREIGHT WAYS, INC. 09/13/2006 State NEW JERSEY Agent MYRON P SHEVELL Name & Address NANCY SHEVELL SAME Agent Zip 62703

"In November 2006, Prince Bandar, the former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, now back in Riyadh as the national security advisor to King Abdullah, orchestrated a secret visit to the Kingdom by Vice President Dick Cheney. The primary topic was Cheney's promotion of an American military strike against Iran,"

12/8/2006 12/08/2006 Entity Name: BAIN CAPITAL (CC) IX OFFSHORE, L.P.

In 2006, Scott Rothstein was busily engaged with North American Van Lines Beltmann Group. 22 To ROTHSTEIN,SCOTT BELTMANN GROUP INC 12/18/2006 Release/ Revoke/Satisfy or Terminate O 43285 641 106679157

i like that idea., raise the junk mail rates. wonder if each piece @ .40 cts ea would thwart the pile i have to shred each week!

Rural folks (and voters) will be hurt, as well. There are millions that don't live near cities or towns (i.e, where a Post Office would be) and millions more with no access (or desire to be tied) to computers. The only answer is to turn the House and the Senate DARK BLUE in Novemeber.

Mail isn't "cool" anymore. I think another factor is the idea that messages have to be sent quickly and with importance. If it's not texted or tweeted or whatever somehow that means its antique and useless. At least that's my take on a lot of what passes for "information flow" today. I sit down and occasionally send letters, I mail my amateur radio contact (QSL) cards, I send post cards from foreign places. And my 20-something students think I'm crazy to actually use postage stamps.

More seriously, there's a high end Eastern attorney whom I've been working with. Every single document the firm has sent had to go out by FedEx--got to be there quick, got to be sure, mail isn't good enough. Move, move, move, and use messengers. (Unless they've included a FedEx SASE I send them back by USPS. The mail works fine.) But if this is indeed a common mindset in business today then it's no wonder that the Postal Service has problems.

I have to correct thom.I am a UPS driver and we are all union teamsters.

"More than half of the 415,000-member UPS workforce is unionized, primarily with the Teamsters. FedEx has 280,000 workers, and only 5,000, all airplane pilots, are unionized."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/12/08/fedex-and-ups-feud-over-u...

My father worked for the post office and he was able to send his two children to college, take a two week vacation on Cape Cod every summer and buy a very nice house. My mother didn't work when I was young, yet we had enough to eat and very happy holidays. If it weren't for the union benefits, I would have died as a young child from an ear infection. Thank God we had health insurance. My father got a decent pension and his widow is helped by that. This is the kind of life that has slipped away from most of Americans. Too bad. I do blame the Reagon/Bush years for opening the door a crack to the Right wing vultures who don't care about America, they only care about money. These CEOs are unpatriotic and I can't understand why ordinary Americans keep voting for them. All these union jobs have been shipped overseas to countries without protections for their workers, these companies are free to use child labor and poison not only the environment but their workers. Shameful. Then the Right wing voted twice in recent years to stop the tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas. We have lost our tax base to move this country forward, we continue to watch our jobs go overseas and watch as the rich hide their money in overseas accounts which is amounting to trillions of dollars. The right wing doesn't want to close the loop holes in the tax system, nor do they want to raise taxes on the rich. It is not fair that people who work pay check to pay check pay 30% in taxes whereas the wealthy live off their riches from family money or investments and they pay either no taxes or very little. Romney only paid 14%. How is that fair and how is that patriotic? The rich only use the rest of us as fodder in their "games", Their goal is to get rid of the middle class, get rid of the uinions, college students so burdened by student loans they dare not speak out, because they owe their sould to the company store. The rich have bundled and manipulated morgage securities, was bailed out by the tax payers and then they turned around and blamed it ob poor people. And instead of lending out money they have stuffed it away to make their books look good and pay out large bonases. They think we are not watching them, but we are and we are not far away from, "Off with their heads".

Good points. I pay my bills online and use the postal service for personal mail and packages.

Back in the 90's, I was doing some temp. work and ended up at Pitney Bowes for one entire day at MSoft. I did not return due to transportation issues, but I was amazed at the culture there at MSoft. The feeling I had was very weird while there.

Gordon Lightfoot Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Wreck Of The U.S. Postal Service

Our Postal Service was founded in 1775 with Benjamin Franklin being our first Post Master.

The Postal Service is in trouble because of a 2006- law that requires the Postal Service to pre-fund the cost of retiree’s benefits for the next 75 years in 10 years time.

o other company or agency in America is required to do this.

n June 2011 legislation was introduced which will be the Wisconsin of the Postal Service if it becomes law. It will dismantle collective bargaining and forbid payment of severance pay to retirement-eligible employees. And reduce delivery services and close plants and post offices.

Another bill which would prevent the financial collapse of the USPS – without closing thousands of post offices, eliminating hundreds of mail processing facilities, delaying mail delivery, laying off 120,000 workers, cutting postal workers’ pay, or ending collective bargaining rights.

We are in the fight of our lives but people have voted wrong for too long and done nothing to help preserve their jobs over the years. People tell me it doesn’t matter what we do as we are doomed anyway.

Their mind is made up even before the studies are done.

All we can do is say we went down trying to keep our Eagle from drowning to keep service for the American people and jobs and benefits for the workers.

Many people will never give up until all services that help us including the Postal Service are bled and dead. Common sense is not in the makeup to improve the economy, only the rich get richer and the poor poorer.

Private companies will not deliver to the rural areas or inner cities and the elderly will not get their medications.

We will have a museum of our defunct Postal Service.