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In reply to the discussion: Some things about the USPS [View all]alp227
(32,006 posts)46. Indeed. I wonder if the same people who buy $1.00 soda from the vending machine daily
would COMPLAIN about paying the same price to mail letters, bills, etc.?
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yet another public institution people are apparently okay with the republicans destroying
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2013
#1
My postman made an off color comment once when he handed me my Time magazine
Dustlawyer
Feb 2013
#19
Indeed. I wonder if the same people who buy $1.00 soda from the vending machine daily
alp227
Feb 2013
#46
In Switzerland, we pay the equivalent of $1.09 for a first-class stamp and it's not a burden.
Heidi
Feb 2013
#49
And UPS and others are allowed to skim the cream off the top of the mail business.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#10
If the Postal Service hadn't been forced a Rep Congress to fund 75 years of retirement benefits,
amandabeech
Feb 2013
#36
Imagine: Gov demands in 10 years, pay your retirement, your child's, that child's, 75 years worth.
Festivito
Feb 2013
#13
unfortunately it seems we can be talked into almost anything in the name of saving money. We are
jwirr
Feb 2013
#31
Ed touched on it tonight. The people that will suffer the most from no Saturday delivery
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#44
You should look into how the USPS is forced to subsidize FedEx and UPS by Congress.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#48
Why would we need to raise rates, if the USPS could get out from under from prefunding the
RC
Feb 2013
#54