"Senate proposals seek to delay Postal Service closings" April 25, 2012
WASHINGTON - “Individual congressmen can try to save their post office this year or next year and get some brownie points with the electorate for that, but this thing doesn’t work anymore,’’ said Elaine Kamarck, a Harvard University lecturer who led government modernization efforts in the 1990s, during President Bill Clinton’s administration.
And that is coming from your "friend."
Actually, they still make candles.
And speaking of obsolete....
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Also see: The Poor Post Office