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		<title>By: EJ Bell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EJ Bell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom, the USPS employees wanted collective bargaining in 1971. They also wanted to stay on the CRCS. Someone has to pay for the $82K  average salaries and health benefits for these people. Should it be tha American taxpayer? Why not? We pay for Congressional and Senate retirees so why not theUSPS? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, the USPS employees wanted collective bargaining in 1971. They also wanted to stay on the CRCS. Someone has to pay for the $82K  average salaries and health benefits for these people. Should it be tha American taxpayer? Why not? We pay for Congressional and Senate retirees so why not theUSPS? </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth will be buried by Congressional hacks and as the Postal Service provides a &quot;Service&quot;,  
if someone does not like it they can go to a competitor and see if they like that service any  
better and at a very much higher cost. America already owns the Postal Service and it is run  
to cover costs only, no profit which keeps it affordable for all Americans. What is going on  
needs to be exposed to the American public but that will most likley never happen. Hundreds  
of thousands of Postal jobs have been done away with over the past two decades and  
will not be available as family supporting work in the future. It is not the Postal Service that  
has pushed our economy into a hole causing financial shortages in every business in  
America, do away with the PO and we will be closer to leftist programmed destruction of  
all of our institutions.................................William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The truth will be buried by Congressional hacks and as the Postal Service provides a &quot;Service&quot;,<br />
if someone does not like it they can go to a competitor and see if they like that service any<br />
better and at a very much higher cost. America already owns the Postal Service and it is run<br />
to cover costs only, no profit which keeps it affordable for all Americans. What is going on<br />
needs to be exposed to the American public but that will most likley never happen. Hundreds<br />
of thousands of Postal jobs have been done away with over the past two decades and<br />
will not be available as family supporting work in the future. It is not the Postal Service that<br />
has pushed our economy into a hole causing financial shortages in every business in<br />
America, do away with the PO and we will be closer to leftist programmed destruction of<br />
all of our institutions&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;William </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shut down to Post Office and privatize, easier said than done. The information I read on the  
problems of the PO is like all partial information not worthy of the conclusions made. First of  
all the Post Office business model is to operate without making a profit, only cover the  
expenses. Tax payers are not funding costs, users are, close the PO and you will have  
no inexpensive shipping of mail or packages, be prepared for obscene hikes.   
  
The Congress has been feeding off of Postal funds for years and it seems to cover up the  
hundreds of billions sent to the Congressional fund vapor hole, they would see it gone and  
no one will ever see the retirement funds, health benefit funds that most postal workers   
can not afford to carry, espescially into retirement on small pensions. It is not what you  
think and the truth is not coming out and never will, it will be a screwing of our citizens  
by greedy elite scoundrels who are screwing everything up today in our Nation.........William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shut down to Post Office and privatize, easier said than done. The information I read on the<br />
problems of the PO is like all partial information not worthy of the conclusions made. First of<br />
all the Post Office business model is to operate without making a profit, only cover the<br />
expenses. Tax payers are not funding costs, users are, close the PO and you will have<br />
no inexpensive shipping of mail or packages, be prepared for obscene hikes.   </p>
<p>The Congress has been feeding off of Postal funds for years and it seems to cover up the<br />
hundreds of billions sent to the Congressional fund vapor hole, they would see it gone and<br />
no one will ever see the retirement funds, health benefit funds that most postal workers<br />
can not afford to carry, espescially into retirement on small pensions. It is not what you<br />
think and the truth is not coming out and never will, it will be a screwing of our citizens<br />
by greedy elite scoundrels who are screwing everything up today in our Nation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;William </p>
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		<title>By: Ziggy Zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ziggy Zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otama; 
 
Pre-retiree health benefits are mandated to be funded even though there are no such funds available. 
 
Yes, because if the Obama administration says the pensions are funded it has to be true because the Office of Budget and Management and all the rest of the accounting wh0res wouldn&#039;t lie any more than you would. 
 
If it is funded then where is the actual money? Projected windfalls are composed of just that: Wind. Just like you! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Otama; </p>
<p>Pre-retiree health benefits are mandated to be funded even though there are no such funds available. </p>
<p>Yes, because if the Obama administration says the pensions are funded it has to be true because the Office of Budget and Management and all the rest of the accounting wh0res wouldn&#039;t lie any more than you would. </p>
<p>If it is funded then where is the actual money? Projected windfalls are composed of just that: Wind. Just like you! </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JacksonPearson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agree...   
We have a volunteer non profit charity group, that mans a small U.S. Post Office, that&#039;s very busy, and smoothly run. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agree&#8230;<br />
We have a volunteer non profit charity group, that mans a small U.S. Post Office, that&#039;s very busy, and smoothly run. </p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pensions , CSRS and FERS , are both funded 100%.  This is not the problem.  Misinformation is the problem with some of our newspapers.  Do some research.  The 2006 PAEA law mandates that the USPS prefund future health benefits for future employees to the amount of $75,000,000,000 in a ten year time period.  This is employees who not even born yet.  The USPS is the only company, public or private, that does this.  Get the story straight.  The pensions are not the problem.  The 2006 PAEA law is the problem. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pensions , CSRS and FERS , are both funded 100%.  This is not the problem.  Misinformation is the problem with some of our newspapers.  Do some research.  The 2006 PAEA law mandates that the USPS prefund future health benefits for future employees to the amount of $75,000,000,000 in a ten year time period.  This is employees who not even born yet.  The USPS is the only company, public or private, that does this.  Get the story straight.  The pensions are not the problem.  The 2006 PAEA law is the problem. </p>
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		<title>By: AnOrdinaryMan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AnOrdinaryMan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is why contract post offices usually are more efficient than the standard government run P.O.&#039;s.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is why contract post offices usually are more efficient than the standard government run P.O.&#039;s.  </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[slider 96]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually , everyone really knows that it is the internet that&#039;s taking the biggest chunk out of USPS revenue . In addition there is the LAW , that the USPS have its pension funded 75 years out . Rural America will  always need the postal service  thus there will always be a USPS , trimmed down yes , but that will be by attrition .  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually , everyone really knows that it is the internet that&#039;s taking the biggest chunk out of USPS revenue . In addition there is the LAW , that the USPS have its pension funded 75 years out . Rural America will  always need the postal service  thus there will always be a USPS , trimmed down yes , but that will be by attrition .  </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JacksonPearson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;&quot;Should We Keep Trying to Save the United States Postal Service?&quot;&lt;/i&gt;   
Absolutely not. Privatize the Postal Service ASAP.    
It&#039;s a proven fact that government controlled anything is a recipe for failure, and endless bailouts. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&quot;Should We Keep Trying to Save the United States Postal Service?&quot;</i><br />
Absolutely not. Privatize the Postal Service ASAP.<br />
It&#039;s a proven fact that government controlled anything is a recipe for failure, and endless bailouts. </p>
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		<title>By: Ziggy Zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ziggy Zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the USPS shuts down, who will deliver my 2009 Inauguration Day commemorative souvenir? NOOOO! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the USPS shuts down, who will deliver my 2009 Inauguration Day commemorative souvenir? NOOOO! </p>
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		<title>By: BLJ</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BLJ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A useless money pit for the most part. The service here in Chicago is brutal.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A useless money pit for the most part. The service here in Chicago is brutal.  </p>
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		<title>By: J.Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[J.Scott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I totally agree with your statement of, &quot;everything started by the gov&#039;t eventually turns to crap&quot;, espiceally as it relates to a do nothing/ disfunctional Congress led by an incompetent leader.  I know of no other business or organization, public or private, who has to pre-fund 100 percent of its future health benefits.  To have this legally enforced upon a business or organization by Congress, is incomprehensible.  It does not surprise me to see lobbyists from Fed Ex and UPS, Mrs. Paul Ryan being among the culprits, stepping on the necks of American workers and the American people as it relates to our Consitutional right for having a postal system.  The United States Governement, a once great idea, but as AdianK would say this too has turned to, &quot;crap&quot;. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree with your statement of, &quot;everything started by the gov&#039;t eventually turns to crap&quot;, espiceally as it relates to a do nothing/ disfunctional Congress led by an incompetent leader.  I know of no other business or organization, public or private, who has to pre-fund 100 percent of its future health benefits.  To have this legally enforced upon a business or organization by Congress, is incomprehensible.  It does not surprise me to see lobbyists from Fed Ex and UPS, Mrs. Paul Ryan being among the culprits, stepping on the necks of American workers and the American people as it relates to our Consitutional right for having a postal system.  The United States Governement, a once great idea, but as AdianK would say this too has turned to, &quot;crap&quot;. </p>
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		<title>By: Moliminous</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moliminous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It&#8217;s the pensions and benefits that make the Post Office unsustainable, but the same thing can be said about the public school system...  The difference is that the United States Postal Service is not just unsustainable, it&#8217;s of dubious relevance to the future.&quot; 
 
The author makes a serious, fundamental error in judgment and conclusion.  The &quot;public school system&quot; is EXACTLY the same as the postal service.  The bloated bureaucracies of both have no relevance to the present or the future.    
 
We don&#039;t need &quot;the Postal Service,&quot;  we need A postal service, one that is cost-effective, on-time and efficacious.  Several exist already... and there&#039;s one in particular.  With the curtailment of Saturday mail as a solution to their fiscal problems, it&#039;s estimated that there will be NO mail service by 2018.  Maybe that&#039;s as it should be. 
 
As for schools, I strongly suggest and support a Separation of School and State.  Parents are the primary educators, not the state, not the federal government, nor its unions and thugs.  Parents.  Give them the choice and they will decide appropriately.  
 
The (federal) government has very few Constitutional mandates (though they have usurped power and control from the citizens for years).  They have NO mandate in education, nor should they. Yet they stick their collective noses in where it doesn&#039;t belong.  They are asked to protect our national borders but they continue to ignore those laws or dismally fail in their solutions (eg., Fast and Furious).  A Postal Service is mandated but in this they have failed as well and continue to fail (I haven&#039;t received my home mail before four p.m. for over 30 years).  They&#039;re supposed to establish and maintain a monetary system; instead, they created a bogus EBT card system that has no over site, no exit strategy and no consequence for abuse.   
 
The sitting President has the Midas touch in reverse.  Everything he touches turns to _ _ _ _.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;It&rsquo;s the pensions and benefits that make the Post Office unsustainable, but the same thing can be said about the public school system&#8230;  The difference is that the United States Postal Service is not just unsustainable, it&rsquo;s of dubious relevance to the future.&quot; </p>
<p>The author makes a serious, fundamental error in judgment and conclusion.  The &quot;public school system&quot; is EXACTLY the same as the postal service.  The bloated bureaucracies of both have no relevance to the present or the future.    </p>
<p>We don&#039;t need &quot;the Postal Service,&quot;  we need A postal service, one that is cost-effective, on-time and efficacious.  Several exist already&#8230; and there&#039;s one in particular.  With the curtailment of Saturday mail as a solution to their fiscal problems, it&#039;s estimated that there will be NO mail service by 2018.  Maybe that&#039;s as it should be. </p>
<p>As for schools, I strongly suggest and support a Separation of School and State.  Parents are the primary educators, not the state, not the federal government, nor its unions and thugs.  Parents.  Give them the choice and they will decide appropriately.  </p>
<p>The (federal) government has very few Constitutional mandates (though they have usurped power and control from the citizens for years).  They have NO mandate in education, nor should they. Yet they stick their collective noses in where it doesn&#039;t belong.  They are asked to protect our national borders but they continue to ignore those laws or dismally fail in their solutions (eg., Fast and Furious).  A Postal Service is mandated but in this they have failed as well and continue to fail (I haven&#039;t received my home mail before four p.m. for over 30 years).  They&#039;re supposed to establish and maintain a monetary system; instead, they created a bogus EBT card system that has no over site, no exit strategy and no consequence for abuse.   </p>
<p>The sitting President has the Midas touch in reverse.  Everything he touches turns to _ _ _ _.  </p>
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		<title>By: AdinaK</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AdinaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eventually, everything started by the gov&#039;t turns to crap, spending money they don&#039;t have ensures that insolvency will follow. 
 
In order to run efficiently, only those with experience in capital ventures should take over. Alas, teaching gov&#039;t dependent minds to shift gears is akin to making a silk purse out of a sow&#039;s ear. 
 
Adina Kutnicki, Israel - &lt;a href=&quot;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eventually, everything started by the gov&#039;t turns to crap, spending money they don&#039;t have ensures that insolvency will follow. </p>
<p>In order to run efficiently, only those with experience in capital ventures should take over. Alas, teaching gov&#039;t dependent minds to shift gears is akin to making a silk purse out of a sow&#039;s ear. </p>
<p>Adina Kutnicki, Israel &#8211; <a href="http://adinakutnicki.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://adinakutnicki.com/about/</a> </p>
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