"Postal slowdowns have businesses fearing the future" by Ron Nixon | New York Times, July 05, 2012
WASHINGTON — Dozens of local newspapers say papers are being delivered late or not at all, causing them to lose advertisers and subscribers....
That's why I get mine off the rack. I need a breakfast, readers.
A decline in mail volume, particularly first-class mail, which accounts for the bulk of revenue, has produced steady losses for the Postal Service — an average of $1 billion a month in the first half of the fiscal year — and forced it to propose closing about half its processing centers and cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Because of the unmentioned, omitted, and unreasonable requirements to fund the pension system.
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Related: The Poor Post Office
Maybe leaving that out is delaying the delivery -- and making me wait longer in line!
