Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices

Heres the thing. People continually bitch about the cost of mailing things. YET I wonder how many of these same whiners would get out in the elements day after day and deliver mail themselves? MAYBE 1 in 50. And postmen/women aren't making the big bucks either. I'm so sick of this country anymore with the day to day whining about the government, or how someones "rights" are being screwed over. This country has become a bunch of lazy-assed whiners all looking for someone to do everything little thing for them.

Those who work in the mail rooms aren't making much, but carriers do make more than alot of employees in jobs that work in as bad if not worse conditions, with no special health care or retirement benefits.

Alot of workers in the country work in dirty unsafe conditions every day for less pay, with no benefits, no paid holidays off, and if they try to save their bosses money by cutting across my grass rather than use my sidewalk I can tell them to get their ass off my lawn.

I'm not against carriers or paying for a package, but my former neighbor who was a carrier started out at the same wage it took me years to get to in a factory and I deal with far more health risks in the industrial setting, I don't get MLK day or half the other federal days off, and my health insurance and retirement aren't as good. I appreciate mail carriers having to walk around in zero degrees or 110 degrees to get my mail here, but they are better off than alot of those they deliver mail to.

I agree with the idea of putting offices inside stores or other ways of cutting costs, but we're probably wasting more money in a couple days trying to reform religious idiots in Iraq than the USPS loses in a month. I heard a woman on TV once say that she had a postal job that wasn't bad pay compared to others, but she had to give it up because with her 4 kids welfare and medicaid was better. Seems there's more logical places where the cost cutting needs to be done.