RALEIGH -- Three federal judges and several downtown businesses have joined an effort to save the historic post office on Fayetteville Street, Mayor Charles Meeker said Tuesday.I haven't got a clue as to how he plans to "get this thing turned around" Force everybody in Raleigh to start mailing letters from that particular post office?
In a press conference on the steps of the 134-year-old facility, Meeker urged the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider its decision to close the postal station, housed in the historic Federal Building. The station is slated to close July 15.
“There’s plenty of time to get this thing turned around,” Meeker said.
A credit union worker told him the fee was $5 a month. Herr was astonished. "I thought to myself, that's $60 a year," he recalls. "Who's going to want to do that? What happens when Bank of America (BAC) or Citigroup says you are going to have to pay to get your statement on paper? That's going to change a lot of behavior. It's going to affect the postal service. That's how they make most of their money."
House Republicans are less charitable. They oppose anything that could be construed as a bailout. They are pushing instead for the USPS to make deep budget cutsAhahahahaahahaha bailout for banks, who juggle immaterial goods, but no bailout for people who actually deliver something!
Is there a way for me to tell USPS not to deliver mail unless it has my name on it?A friend of mine once told me that he took a piece of junk mail marked "Recipient", wrote "NO SUCH ADDRESSEE", and put it back in his mail box. He claimed that he stopped getting junk mail.
If you look at where most of our tax money comes from and where most of it goes, it's obvious that poor rural people do not "bear the actual cost of just about everything they have/do/enjoy" -- much of it comes from taxes, which largely come from wealthier areas.i think the difference is roads are more public-goodish because it is hard (expensive) to exclude people from using roads. i think where possible it is better to have unsubsidised services and more generous transfers than subsidised services and less generous transfers.
Unless you're prepared to make the same argument regarding roads, which aren't even "sacrosanct by constitution", I don't see why the rural poor should be expected to bear the "actual cost" of the mail. That's not the way government services work, for good reason: if it was, there would very shortly be no roads, mail service, or courts in rural areas, because the people who live there cannot pay the actual cost. Do you want to live in such a Balkanized America?
And one reason your lifestyle is sustainable is because the big bad country creates so much food to contribute into the kitty. So? "Wealth" is not the only variable in play, here.The food is not 'contributed' it's paid for. Then people in cities get taxed again to subsidize the farmers. And then they get taxed even more to subsidize living in those areas. If those subsidies ended, food prices might go up but probably not by all that much.
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