you people really are concrete bound unthinking apes if you end the state monopoly and let anyone, not just USPS, deliver non-urgent first class mail, FedEx and UPS will not be the only ones to get the business
Anyone, including groups of unemployed people, could legally start a local company and offer to pick up and deliver mail locally or regionally. It would not even require much capital You foolish idiot statists have been keeping poor people from going into this and many other businesses for decades This is why you, or at least your masters, must be sent to the guillotine On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > *The USPS is NOT losing money. It is the way they are forced to play with > the books.* > *I am telling you FED X and UPS want the business. The PR is to diss the > service and claim the private sector could do better. tth* > *If you think it sux now, just wait until it is privately managed.* > In a message dated 9/9/2011 11:13:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Treasonous, scum bag Republicans claim that the USPS having a shortfall > (due to GOP legislation) of over a Billion dollars means it has to go, even > though it is a Constitutionally mandated service to America, yet... > > ...GW Bush gave Bank of America *TWENTY BILLION* taxpayer dollars to bail > them out of hard times, and guaranteed (backstopped) *118-Billion* dollars > worth of crap assets and stocks for them to make it easy for Bank of America > to fuck over the American people > http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/bofa-shares-falter-reports-needs-new-tarp-money/ > and consider just how much we handed to Bank of America alone is the > equivalent of *("A tightly packed stack of new $100 dollar bills totaling > a billion dollars would be 4,000 feet high or about three Sears Tower > buildings stacked one on top of each other.*" > http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2009/09/22/how-much-is-a-billion-dollars/ ) > , > or in other words, in a more common denomination of a 20.00 dollar bill, > President Bush handed to Bank of America a stack of 100.00 taxpayer bills > over Seveny Six Miles High, not just higher than the earths atmosphere, but > well out into space... to keep BofA going, and how do they repay America? > > They repay America by helping the Republicans talking point of "no Jobs" by > adding 40,000 to the unemployment rolls. Republicans are doing everything > possible to make sure as many Americans as possible are out of work come the > next election. They are BANKING on it. > > Sarge > > > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> >> [image: http://www.reuters.com/] <http://www.reuters.com/> >> >> Bank of America Corp officials have discussed slashing roughly 40,000 jobs >> during the first wave of a restructuring, the Wall Street Journal said, >> citing people familiar with the plans. >> >> The number of job cuts are not final and could change. The restructuring >> aims to reduce the bank's workforce of 280,000 over a period of years, the >> Journal said. >> >> BofA could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside >> regular U.S. business hours. >> >> The Journal said BofA executives met Thursday at Charlotte, North >> Carolina, where the bank is headquartered, and will gather again Friday to >> make final decisions on the reductions, putting the finishing touches on >> five months of work. >> >> Investors are pressing BofA to improve its performance after it lost money >> in four of the last six quarters and its stock has fallen by half this year. >> >> The Journal said the proposed job cuts may exceed BofA's last big cutback >> in 2008 when it called for 30,000 to 35,000 job cuts over three years. That >> move was triggered by an economic slowdown and the planned takeover of >> securities firm Merrill Lynch & Co. >> Earlier this month, the Charlotte Observer reported that BofA executives >> were discussing plans to potentially shed 25,000 to 30,000 jobs over the >> next several years. >> >> BofA had earlier planned to cut 3,500 jobs, its Chief Executive Brian >> Moynihan had said in a memo to staff on August 18, as it tries to come to >> grips with $1 trillion of problem home mortgages. >> >> BofA announced a far-reaching reorganization of its senior management team >> on Tuesday, which included the departure of consumer bank chief Joe Price >> and wealth management head Sallie Krawcheck. >> >> Banks are shedding jobs worldwide as stricter regulations and a tough >> second quarter for trading income take their toll on investment banking >> units in particular. >> >> More than 70,000 staff cuts have been announced this year or are reported >> to be in the works at U.S. and European banks, some of them to be lost over >> three or four year programs. >> >> Bill >> >> "Statistics are no substitute for judgement" >> >> In a message dated 9/9/2011 9:10:49 A.M. 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