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Killing the postal service step by step liberal N proud May 2014 #1
How is walking to the end of your driveway going to kill the post office? Travis_0004 May 2014 #2
This alone may not seem like much for those who live in sub-divisions and never enjoyed door step liberal N proud May 2014 #5
USPS will still deliver to your door. MohRokTah May 2014 #6
Nope it will not be the same standingtall May 2014 #7
USPS And FedEx don't deliver normal mail. eom MohRokTah May 2014 #9
UPS and FedEx will deliver just about anything standingtall May 2014 #10
Key term: "Pays them." WinkyDink May 2014 #23
Exactly standingtall May 2014 #26
It's funny Lee-Lee May 2014 #25
A lot of my UPS gets transfered to USPS BarbaRosa May 2014 #35
The one thing that UPS & FedEx do not do is a daily delivery. The USPS is still the only one that jwirr May 2014 #28
Another article stated that the elderly and disabled would be exempt Lurks Often May 2014 #11
Oh, right. The three little old ladies on the block will get specialized deliveries. HAHAHA. WinkyDink May 2014 #22
Not everybody has a driveway standingtall May 2014 #12
What makes you think it's "a few"? My mother's entire neighborhood, if not town entirely, is door/ WinkyDink May 2014 #24
What driveway? Gormy Cuss May 2014 #41
I urge all concerned people to join the boycott of Staples KurtNYC May 2014 #3
I think a big part of this TBF May 2014 #4
BINGO. WinkyDink May 2014 #21
You got it~! shanti May 2014 #29
Yes, that would be a better explanation because I am sure that they will need less route walkers if jwirr May 2014 #34
Doesn't matter if it's coming TBF May 2014 #36
Personally Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #8
I understand the distaste for junk mail, but I will tolerate it only because Skidmore May 2014 #14
The junk mail that you hate subsidizes the mail that you love. Orrex May 2014 #17
I don't even understand how they intend to do this starroute May 2014 #13
We are in a very small village which had a post office until Skidmore May 2014 #15
They should make a pile of mail at the geographic center of the country Orrex May 2014 #16
This isn't new- it started years ago Lee-Lee May 2014 #18
There's a 1998 law that provides door delivery for disabled and elderly frazzled May 2014 #19
Yeah this bill is stupid standingtall May 2014 #38
They have always had to fill it out frazzled May 2014 #47
My 89-year-old mother can't make it any further than her porch. WinkyDink May 2014 #20
We have a box at the end of our driveway which means we walk to get our mail. I have seen some jwirr May 2014 #27
we haven't had home delivery for 15 years.... mike_c May 2014 #30
Our nearest post office is Skidmore May 2014 #31
Where do I sign up? DesMoinesDem May 2014 #32
Instead of throwing in the garbage standingtall May 2014 #33
to be fair, the USPS doesn't send any junk mail to you at all.... mike_c May 2014 #40
If my email provider got paid by spammers to deliver spam to me DesMoinesDem May 2014 #42
Making people in the 'burbs get mailboxes would be a great help underpants May 2014 #37
It would be a great help standingtall May 2014 #39
It helps the postman Politicalboi May 2014 #43
Again not everyone has a driveway standingtall May 2014 #46
Why do Republicans want to destroy the best of America? Baitball Blogger May 2014 #44
The ongoing nefarious incremental privatization of our government and country, against the Zorra May 2014 #45
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