I don’t know about you, but I get an awful lot of junk mail, free magazines and catalogs that I rarely do more than skim through but for some reason can’t resist signing up for, lengthy policy declarations and “privacy policy” notices that I don’t even bother to take out of the envelopes they come in, let alone read, and the occasional bill from some unenlightened philistine company (typically it’s from some government looking for property taxes or something; haven’t the teabaggers put an end to taxes yet?) that refuses to skip the paper and just go with e-bills. In short, other than parcel post and the occasional priority mail envelope, I could live without the USPS (besides, now my mailbox is about 360 feet from the house, so it’s a pain to check).

Fortunately, with Republicans now running the show in the House, the Senate Democrats still feckless (yes, they have no feck), and the office of the President of the United States being more or less vacant, we may soon see an end to mail delivery as we know it. The USPS lost $8.5 billion last year, and between the fact that nobody uses the mail much these days, its mandate to provide delivery everywhere in the US at the same cost, and the fact that Republicans are no doubt salivating over handing over the PO to their buddies in the private sector, I don’t see how things can stay the same. Get ready for $5 first class mail rates.

Oh well, time to get ready to get some work done around here. Have a good one.