Here’s an article from the Post about some draconian measures the US Postal Service is planning to take to work its way out of a deep financial hole, including breaking labor agreements, cutting more than 100,000 jobs and withdrawing from federal health care programs.
But this passage jumped out at me …
During the past four years, the service lost $20 billion, including $8.5 billion in fiscal 2010. Over that period, mail volume dropped by 20 percent.
Those are big, big losses. And apparently accelerating ones. But look at that last statistics: mail volume dropped by 20 percent over the last four years. And while some substantial part of that is recession-related, it is hard to imagine that trend won’t accelerate. Read More
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