I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here…
I had inklings that things were being distorted, but it seems the truth (as is so often the case in our ‘great’ society) is far worse:
Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Destroying-the-Postal-Serv-by-Chuck-Zlatkin-110905-492.html
Not that I personally give a damn about the postal service, but it seems quite clear that the ‘problems’ it is having are all political in nature and seems clear to be part of a deliberate effort to destroy it. Not unlike the efforts to destroy social security and medicare.