if you end the state monopoly and let anyone, not just USPS, deliver non-urgent first class mail, --- there's not a monopoly anyone can start a mail delivery company all you need is your own designated mailbox for your customers
On Sep 9, 10:40 am, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-shar... > > 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-do...) , > > 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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