Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is making a top-to-bottom case for prompt passage of a Postal Service reform bill that if defeated, he says, would deny seniors their beloved junk mail.
“I’ll come home tonight here to my home in Washington and there’ll be some mail there,” the Nevada Democrat said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “A lot of it is what some people refer to as junk mail, but for the people who are sending that mail, it’s very important.
“And when talking about seniors, seniors love getting junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
The bipartisan bill includes restructuring pension plans for Postal Service employees, and introduces new technology and other efforts meant to help the agency stop losing money.
Reid said 30,000 post offices across the country will close if the legislation fails, many in rural regions without Internet service and where many seniors still rely on the mail service to deliver their medicine. He is expected to attempt to get a vote on the issue within the next couple of weeks.
“Elderly Americans, more than anyone in America, rely on the United States Postal Service, but unless we act quickly, thousands of post offices … will close.”
(Source: Fox News)
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Spoken like a true democrat. Who cares that its losing money? Its government (doing a bad job once again trying to run something efficiently) so who cares? We have to keep pumping money into a losing proposition and not care about the profits. That’s the way it works in a socialist country which is what the dems would love to turn this once great country into. And then we’re supposed to trust them to run healthcare for the whole country giving them control of 1/6th of the entire economy.
SO NOW THE SPONSORCRATS, WANT TO USE MY MONEY TO SUBSIDIZE JUNK MAIL?????
He might have been a bit tounge in cheek. However communities with low internet usage (e.g. the frum community) are still using the mail and would have trouble adjusting if the government abolished mail service. Also there are privacy issues if the government has to maintain a national register of email addresses for the online replacement of first class. We should resign ourselves to higher postal rates (they are talking about $1 for first class, with reduced delivery). It probably will be another few years before snail mail joins typewriters, ice wagons and vinyl records.
If the postal service was abandoned there would still be physical mail. It would just be run by UPS and FedEx and be way better.
The shutdown of the USPS will not be the end of paper mail, it will be the end to GOVERNMENT RUN paper mail. Private companies will take the place to deliver mail. A similar situation happened in New Zealand, I believe. This is another attempt by the Democratic leaders to have the people believe that if the government isnt in charge of something it wont exist.
Yeah harry reid is one of the seniors that depend on junk!