Postal Service to launch clothing line in 2014

[steve2470]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/postal-launch-clothing-line-2014-223202293--politics.html

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Chanel. Dior. Armani. Vera Wang. U.S. Postal Service?

The cash-strapped Postal Service announced Tuesday that it has inked a licensing deal with an Ohio-based clothing company to produce a line of apparel dubbed “Rain Heat & Snow.” The attire aims to reach well beyond T-shirts and baseball caps to include “wearable electronics”—like jackets with iPod controls built into the sleeve, USPS spokesman Roy Betts explained to Yahoo News.

“If you like your iPod, you can plug it right into your jacket, regulate the volume and make your selections right on your sleeve,” Betts said in a phone interview. There will also be shirts that help wick off sweat, he said.

What about lingerie? Betts just laughed, so a racy line of USPS lacy unmentionables (perhaps dubbed "Saturday Deliveries"?) is probably not on its way.

[Kingofalldems]

1. They have excellent union made clothes the employees wear

Good idea.

[clydefrand]

2. They may be good clothes,

but I think it is so we can start delivering our own mail.

[SoCalDem]

3. Brand name?

Goin' Postal

[joeybee12]

4. My first thought...The Onion?

I can't see it...then again, I'm not a fashionista.

[magellan]

5. This does nothing but sadden me. n/t

[TM99]

6. Of course, selling a line of clothing

focused on frakin' iDevices is a sure way to save the USPS from being privatized.

Cut the damned pre-funding of pensions, consolidate locations, and then begin to integrate new technology in a serious and real manner.

This is just so sad and ridiculous.

[maryland native]

7. Cliff Clavin

Perhaps he should shill for this product line.

[msongs]

8. anti-union democrats could fix the retirement system mess causing USPS failure but they don't nt