Life Goes On

Despite inflated claims that the Internet has pushed the USPS off the map, virtually everyone depends on the Postal Service for something. On my daily rounds as a letter carrier, I delivered remittances to businesses, medicines to sick people, checks to pensioners, valuables to jewelry stores, candidate information to voters, election ballots to City Hall, periodicals and newspapers to subscribers, passports to travelers, drivers licenses and plates to vehicle operators, cremated remains to funeral homes, gifts, cards and letters to loved ones, movies to viewers, and bills to nearly everyone, and I collected tubs full of outgoing mail from businesses.

In other words, there is a great deal of money to be made if the privatizers succeed in their grab at the Postal Service.

— What’s Behind the Postal Crisis? Privatization. (via newmodelminority)

(Source: indypendent.org, via newmodelminority)

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