The Post Office Is Too Big to Fail?

The tax and fees-gobbling black hole we call the United States Post Office does not get much attention even when citizens complain (which I have). Watch this:

CRISIS! CRISIS, ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS:

“The United States Postal Service is losing so much money we may have to resort to 5-day service”! That dire warning proclaimed about six months ago.

No one cared; most of us use the Internet for our business. The Internet is infinitely more reliable and a great deal less expensive. The hoped-for public outcry did not materialize. Social Security is paid electronically with no need for the Post Office. If I don’t get my Netflix I can watch it on line. And a few months later:

CRISIS! CRISIS, ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS:

“The United States Postal Service is losing so much money we may have to resort to 5-day service”!

Same crisis cried to the public again, and again there was no heartburn; no one cared. After two failed attempts to scare the public in to rejoicing at the opportunity to pay more at the counter and through taxes to float a mistletoe bureaucracy, the crisis died, the fiscal disaster is now being addressed outside of the public eye. The reason we know Obama is hiding the negotiations from Fox and the public is because the USPS Unions are silent about this “crisis.” If they were not getting their usurious demands met they would be proclaiming the sky is falling and buying ads against hold-the-line politicians. The silence really is revealing

Why would a diminished and less expensive post office scare me? The post office delivers mail only when it feels like delivering mail. Last year we had 8 feet of snow in Spokane, not all was on the ground at one time. Even though my road was plowed the Post Office did not deliver my mail for five days. No store fronts at which citizens could retrieve mail after work; nothing more than a paid furlough for lethargic postal employees. I sure hope that the employees still collected their pay checks. Remember the credo “through rain, snow, sleet and hail”? The Post Office does not. While I did not get my mail for five days A FedEx delivery person made his way to my house, obviously risking his personal safety, perhaps even HIS LIFE, walked up to my door with a package. Given the choice, and I never will be, which organization would I use to deliver my mail? Obama will make sure that I don’t get that choice…250,000 union voters and that, my friends, really is “too big to fail.”

I use two stamps a month (Christmas season exempt); everything I can manage on line I do, banking, purchases to include my entire Christmas list. I use E-Bay. I pay my bills on line. My Visa and mortgages are both on line. I get my news from the Net.

The Post Office has already raised the price of stamps again and again and they will again; all with the quiet blessing of a silent congress and His Holiness. Eventually the Post Office will collapse on itself and as His Holiness did for the United Auto Workers he will buy pensions for all postal workers, using my money. I mean, hey! Why not? The workers remain quiet in the Democrat camp and the taxpayers who managed to avoid the “services” of the USPS monopoly will pay for the services they do NOT use through income taxes.

It never ends.

I don’t want to be ripped to support under-worked, over-paid and typically ungrateful government employees. I want private carriers to carry all packages and mail. “Choice and competition,” just like His Holiness proclaims is the lynchpin of health care “reform.”

Not that he ever meant that!

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