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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Going Postal

     The U.S. Postal Service is contemplating closing 3600 local Post Offices in response to a rising deficit.

      Email is much cheaper and faster than "snail mail" and is used universally in business and personal communication so it is not a big shock to anyone to see this happen.

      To be fair, the Post Office implemented the latest technologies for letter sorting and delivery and emphasized bulk mail delivery over which it has a monopoly. They have even developed a very useful website. These factors may have prevented this from happening already.


     It makes one wonder if the Post Office will be an enterprise that will be put out of business because of a new technology or can the Post Office come up with a plan to insure it's survival?

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