My Post Office Closed – Now What
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What would you do if your nearest post office closed?
What would you do if your nearest post office closed?
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Due to the rising costs of doing business, the United States Postal Service is pondering on the closure of approximately 3,200 local post offices, leaving many workers unemployed. That is bad news for the majority of us who depend on our post office for regular mail delivery and other services. Living only five minutes away from the local post office, our family would need to alternate offices and drive a few more miles hoping that the second nearest.
On March 21st, the U.S. Postal Service said that it will offer early retirement to 150,000 workers, eliminating 1,400 management jobs and closing six of its eighty district offices. How would you feel if your local post office closed? Not only is the post office thinking of closing some of its offices, but a number of other establishments have also been closed as a result of our current recession. In addition, if you log on to AOL, you can read about the types of businesses and establishments that are planning to close down soon. U.S. employers cut 539,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October, according to government data on Friday that signaled the economy’s steep decline might be easing and gave the stock market a boost. The U.S. economic recovery act enacted in February has yet to deliver on a key promise made by supporters such as President Ba rack Obama: creating thousands of jobs through transportation and infrastructure projects
There is a possibility that mail service in the United States will change. Either the media or our local post office will advise us on how to proceed if such a change does occur. Hopefully, it won’t be too drastic and cause anyone any major inconvenience.
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I am really discouraged about post offices closing everywhere. They took out all the mailboxes off the street corners. They took out all the pay phones off street corners. They want to force everyone to buy cell phones, and computers. The poor can not afford these things. I do not like the way technology has taken over everyones lives. We have no choices any more. We are forced to ride with the flow, yet our incomes are going backwards. How is this all going to end up?