Hot Air » Saturday delivery http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Super: Congress votes to force broke Postal Service back into 6-day delivery http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/21/super-congress-votes-to-force-broke-postal-service-back-into-6-day-delivery/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/21/super-congress-votes-to-force-broke-postal-service-back-into-6-day-delivery/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:51:46 +0000 Mary Katharine Ham http://hotair.com/?p=250839

Signed, sealed, thwarted.

Rule of thumb for governments with unhealthy debt-to-GDP ratios and trillions in unfunded liabilities. When a floundering federal agency offers to shave off some spending, take them up on it. Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe announced in February they would be cutting Saturday service from the USPS six-day regimen, calculating the agency could save $2 [...]

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Farmland

It’s Saturday, and I went out on the front porch this morning after shoveling out from Nemo and got the mail as usual. There was an advertisement trying to get me to switch homeowner’s insurance and a coupon flyer for the local grocery store. That sort of surprise waiting in the mailbox doesn’t exactly get [...]

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$2 billion in savings.

You take sixteen billion, and what do you get?  Another day shorter and lighter in debt — or so the Post Office hopes.  The USPS went into the red in 2012 by an astounding $16 billion, and needs to find ways to cut costs.  CBS News reports this morning that they will trim one-sixth of [...]

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