Kosmo had it right

The office of the GAO (General Accountability Office) released a statement today stating the USPS faces a potential loss of $7 billion this year which equates to roughly $19 million a day; or 799k an hour; or over 13k/minute. So if my math is right, in roughly the 3-5 minutes it will take you to read this USPS will have lost more money than the median household income in the USA . The question is why do we continue to let his happen? Do we really need the mail?

I for one do not, and would submit none of us do. All my bills are sent me to electronically, in fact almost every bank in the country offers you a discounted rate (usually a .25% discount or some other incentive) to sign up for estatements, so clearly we do not need the mail to make sure we get our bills, and we do not need the mail to pay or bills either. If you are still mailing in a check for your monthly mortgage, car, loan payment please join the rest of us in the 21st century and pay those online. Stop using aerosol hairspray and making mix tapes while you are it too.

What else is there that you get in the mail that you must continue to receive? Virtually everything you order online is shipped via FedEx or UPS, whose service is a little more expensive but is about 7 billion times better. And while yes I will stipulate that the world has gotten a little too impersonal, tell me when was the last time that motivated you to drop someone a letter in the mail?

The USPS is a dinosaur that serves as nothing more than a monument to government waste. The service is horrible and we do not need it. In a sane world, where the government was truly held accountable to the people, tomorrows headline would read "USPS goes the way of the dodo". Please save me the nonsense of telling me how many more people that would add to the already long list of unemployed, surely that would cost a lot less than continuing to operate at a $7 billion annual loss. Face it, Kosmo Kramer had it right, he was way ahead of the curve, it's about time we all cancel the mail.