Bush mismanagement may reduce mail to 5 days a week

Gee, thanks a heap, Katherine Harris.

If you pay more and more for a service, you at least have a right to expect it to perform better. But BushAmerica was a Bizarro World where the exact opposite happened.

Now - thanks to 8 years of Bush's mismanagement - the Postal Service is running such a deep deficit that it's now considering delivering mail only 5 days a week.

How can it run a larger deficit when we've been paying exponentially more for postage? One doesn't have to look too far to see why: The Postal Service keeps lowering the price to send junk mail, which slows down the entire system. For years, junk mail has been the biggest burden to the Postal Service - and the most costly for average households, as it gets subsidized more and more by skyrocketing stamp prices.

Junk mail is one of America's costliest forms of corporate welfare outside the bailout debacle.

Not only do stamps cost more. Public mailboxes have been dwindling in number, post office hours have been cut, and even home mail pickup has been slashed. Only under the type of mismanagement that's almost synonymous with modern American conservatism can fewer services and higher prices actually be followed by a bigger deficit.

The Postal Service has now asked Congress to abolish the law that requires 6-day mail delivery. Before Congress bites, it ought to pass a law requiring the Postal Service to make junk mail pay its own damn way instead of having us subsidize it.

(Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/28/national/w115921S52.DTL)