On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:40:19 -0400, wrote:

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:25:36 -0700 (PDT), Higgs Boson
wrote:

On Sep 14, 11:45*am, Red Green wrote:
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I'm planning to build a fence and need fence posts. *I went to the
POST OFFICE to buy the posts. *They said they dont sell posts.....
What the ****..... why are they called the POST OFFICE if they dont
sell POSTS?

That's why they lost $3 billion in 3 months.

Who ever said the Post Office has to be profitable? Are other govt.
offices profitable? Hell, no; they suck up our tax $$ to pay for
sloppy, inefficient political appointees who **** all over the work of
dedicated Civil Service public servants.

Wrong! (as is usual for the HiggsBozo). The USPS is an independent branch of
the US government. It is *supposed* to be self-sustaining. Of course, so is
AMTRAK. Remember CONRAIL? All *very* good examples of why the government
should not be in health care, or any other area where the private sector can
be.

He's not wrong. He asked a question.

*SHE* most certainly did not. The sentence may have been followed by a
question mark, but it most certainly was a statement.

The answer is that the US post office was made into a corporation-like
independent agency in 1971 (under Nixon) as a result of a postal strike.

The idea being that it would run more efficiently that way and require
less money.

Of course everyone likes to complain about postal rates and the post
office has to create "emergencies" so that Congress will grant them rate
increases.

Do they have to make a profit? No, it's worse. They have to do what
Congress tells them to do.

BTW, the USPTO is also self-sustaining.

The US Post Office has not received US tax dollars since the 1980s.

Exactly where are the billion$ coming from?