what a great suggestion. I'm going tomorrow.. and I'm sending a package out, and I'm buying some stamps. Let's keep the post office going.

Thank you. There is also (for those of us with mail-in-voting) a drop box to leave one's voter form. I'm not sure who picks up the votes but you don't even have to use the mail as it's part of the voter process. After all the local communities save a ton of money not using poling stations (in the city of Seattle there were thousands of such stations). They could at least put some of that money toward getting the votes to the tabulation stations.

See my post above...WE have a lot of power here

I thin it was back under the last Bush administration that republicans passed a bill that said the postal servie must fund their pensions something like 75 years in advance, meaning they have to fund pensions for people they haven't even hired yet. The purpse was to force the post office to lose money, so they could justify privatizing it. They have been tryign to privatize the USPS for a long time.

Of course if the post office ever were privatized, the services would get worse and the prices would go up as corporations looked to squeeze more profit out of it. The net result would be that people would start using email, and digital means to communicate and the corporations would either go bankrupt, or be in need of constant government bailouts. We'd be faced with constant government bailouts or no postal service at all.

Better to keep the postal system as an independent government service.