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Beth C:

--- Quote ---We have a business model that is failing. You can’t continue to run red ink and not make changes
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Here\'s a novel idea, Mr. Donahoe: You want to change your failing business model, how about IMPROVING service instead of making it WORSE??

This pretty much knocks me out of shipping/receiving birds, since we never had 1 day service to begin with. In order to send or receive anything in less than 2 days, I had to drive to the main post office in Kinston, which is an hour away. Inconvenient but doable. But now that post office is one of the ones on the chopping block. If it closes, the main hub will be almost 4 hours away. Even if they continue to ship lives, I don\'t feel comfortable with a bird in transit that long. I had a bird last year that inhaled some shaving particles in transit and was wheezing when I picked him up. He cleared everything out in a few days and was fine, but I wouldn\'t have wanted him to be in that box another 24 hours.

I wonder how the trucking company my brother-in-law works for feels about feathered hitch-hikers...

OldChurchEggery:
I recall good ol\'Andy Rooney discussing the Post Office years ago on 60 Minutes. His original topic was annoying, unsolicited credit card offers. His suggestion was a good one- use the postage paid envelopes to send back junk mail. The credit card companies would have to pay the postage while the USPS got the credit for carrying the letter.

Now, it would take a grand-scale effort to make a big enough difference to save the Post Office, but I do it whenever we get those offers. I think this latest move by the Post Office will drive away even more customers, especially if they eliminate Saturday hours. Saturdays are the only occasion I have to go to the Post Office and mail packages to my sister out West. For working America, limiting Post Office hours means we just won\'t use them anymore. It will be the FedEx kiosk in Office Max and the like that gets the business.

Beth C:

--- Quote ---use the postage paid envelopes to send back junk mail
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I\'ve done this for 20+ years but never met anyone else who did! I didn\'t know about Andy Rooney, but maybe I got the idea from someone who saw that, don\'t remember anymore.

ParadiseFoundFarm:
This is an old song to me.  I would like the rules to be the same across the board.  If it costs me X to send something then it should cost the junk mailers X to send something.  If congresspeople make laws to govern us then they should be subject to the same laws.  If insider trading is OK for congress then it should be OK for Martha Stewart or me.  If police can speed on the highway then so should I or you.  

Birch Run Farm:
UPS ships aquarium fish and reptiles overnight.  Much of the overnight shipments from the USPS seems to be handled by Fed Ex.  

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