Save the Post Office: What you can do!

 The United States Post Office is facing financial disaster. It is losing money fast but is trying hard to remain viable. I love the Post Office. I know they have been culpable in granting bad union contracts,  have slack and sloppy work rules, have indifferent, surly and unhelpful employees, but there is something about getting a real letter that is very exciting. It is a bargain. It is personal. It is part of the old social fabric. The USPS should be preserved and we all can help.  

 I am one of the few people who still actually write letters. I have a regular schedule to send my family letters, sometime even written by hand. I rarely, and I mean rarely, ever get a response but I still do it. My mother wrote letters to me almost every week of her life. It is special to know that someone actually takes the time and makes the effort. I want them to know I care for them. 

Now I get e-mail birthday cards, some forwarded newspaper articles, stupid video and bad jokes. I accept the modern age but what an insult sometime.

USPS has been the victim of not only the Internet but also the private carriers such as Federal Express and UPS. In addition, the fax machine has cut into mail delivery, although its use is waning. Electronic bill paying means we do not mail checks anymore, although I still do. Compressing business documents from 100 pages into a PDF and sending it over the wire so it arrives before I have taken another breath is—well, breath taking.

 So what can we do to help save this government institution that has been around since the founding of the Republic? It is simple. Everyone gets those awful credit card solicitations in the mail. I get sometimes 3 or 4 a day. They contain a prepaid envelope to mail back with the application. I do not need another credit card but I do mail the envelope back to the company with nothing inside. The Company has to pay for the return mail and the post office gets the business. It cost the sender nothing. So mail away and help the beleaguered USPS. And, drop a letter in the box to your family!

 

Comments

[writers job]

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[Free Online Fax]

Great post! Sadly, the postal service is fighting to stay alive! I am also one of those people who still mails in paper checks, not only for this reason, but I just don't like using cards! That's the reason people are in so much debt! But anyway, the real reason I commented is because of the use of these new online fax services! Obviously, the use of a fax machine is dwindling but now that these are in existence, it will cut into postal deliveries even more. Sad times for such an old business!