[Stardust]

^ Throw in the fact that the USPS has no ability to just shut down a retail facility if it is losing money. What other business would do that? There are 3700 retail offices that it costs more to run the utilities than it brings in revenue. That's not even counting the employee costs for those offices. Yet, when the USPS proposes closure, either 70 year-old Aunt Minnie or 40 year-old Virgil, bithces to their congressman that they can't walk the 2 blocks to the post office to collect their Social Security or Welfare check, they would have to catch the bus for 8 blocks to the next USPS office and that is just too hard on them to do! Thus, that congressman votes "NO"!