The dire predicament of our mail service

According to this, things are looking bad for the U.S. Postal Service — so bad that, unless emergency action is taken, the mail service we’ve taken for granted all our lives, will cease to exist by the end of the year.

The above cited story states all the reasons for the collapse — higher costs, decreased revenues (mainly due to the Internet).

And now we have a Congress that is not going to approve increased spending for anything — especially something it feels would make government “bigger” — and a President too timid to stand up and take matters into his own hands.

I could do without Saturday mail service, but others, including powerful Congressional leaders oppose that. And I understand that would only cut expenses by 2 percent. But if it’s a question of only receiving and being able to send mail, say, three days a week or not to be able to do either at all, I’ll take the first option.

I also like the idea of closing a lot of postal facilities and incorporating them (like banks already do) in supermarkets or places like Target, Wal-Mart, etc.

Whatever, something must be done. I will admit I mail about 10 percent of the volume I used to mail a decade ago, but I depend on the mail to bring needed information (particularly magazine subscriptions) to me. We simply cannot get along without the mail.