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"Postal Service moving ahead with $3b in cuts; Changes could end next-day mail delivery" December 05, 2011|By Hope Yen, Associated Press
The changes would provide short-term relief, but ultimately could prove counterproductive, pushing more of America’s business onto the Internet. They could slow everything from check payments to Netflix’s DVDs-by-mail, add costs to mail-order prescription drugs, and threaten the existence of newspapers and time-sensitive magazines delivered by postal carrier to far-flung communities....
The cuts, now being finalized, would close roughly 250 of the nearly 500 mail processing centers across the country as early as March. Because the consolidations typically would lengthen the distance that mail travels from post office to processing center, the agency also would lower delivery standards for first-class mail that have been in place since 1971.
Currently, first-class mail is supposed to be delivered to homes and businesses within the continental United States in one to three days. That will lengthen to two to three days, meaning mailers no longer could expect next-day delivery in surrounding communities. Periodicals could take between two days and nine days....
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in an interview: “We have a business model that is failing.’’
Same for newspapers.
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ESPN The Magazine and Crain Communications, which prints some 27 trade and consumer publications, said delays to first-class delivery could ruin the value of their news.
As if it were worth something.
Their magazines are typically printed at week’s end, with mail arrival timed for weekend sports events or the Monday start of the work week. Newspapers, already struggling in the Internet age, also could suffer.
“No one wants to receive Tuesday’s issue, containing news of Monday’s events, on Wednesday,’’ said Paul Boyle, a senior vice president of the Newspaper Association of America.
That's not the problem; it is the agenda-pushing lying.
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