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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 863280" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/u-s-postal-service-needs-fewer-workers-to-keep-delivering-the-mail-view.html" target="_blank">U.S. Postal Service Needs Fewer Workers to Keep Delivering the Mail: View - Bloomberg</a></strong></p><p></p><p>Here are three remarkable facts about the United States Postal Service: Its union workers have no- layoff contracts; no post office branches can be closed solely because they lose money; and, as revealed in an investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek, the service is so dependent on low- profit junk mail for revenue that it has a marketing officer tasked with lobbying banks not to switch to electronic statements. </p><p></p><p>All of which leads to an unsurprising reality: The USPS lost $8 billion last year, and has been kept on life support with $15 billion from the Treasury. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warns that it could default on those loans in October.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 863280, member: 1"] [B][URL="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/u-s-postal-service-needs-fewer-workers-to-keep-delivering-the-mail-view.html"]U.S. Postal Service Needs Fewer Workers to Keep Delivering the Mail: View - Bloomberg[/URL][/B] Here are three remarkable facts about the United States Postal Service: Its union workers have no- layoff contracts; no post office branches can be closed solely because they lose money; and, as revealed in an investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek, the service is so dependent on low- profit junk mail for revenue that it has a marketing officer tasked with lobbying banks not to switch to electronic statements. All of which leads to an unsurprising reality: The USPS lost $8 billion last year, and has been kept on life support with $15 billion from the Treasury. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warns that it could default on those loans in October. [/QUOTE]
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