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Title: U.S. Postal Service to detail major cuts affecting thousands
Source: wktv
URL Source: http://www.wktv.com/news/national/U ... tail-7500-cuts--118574294.html
Published: Mar 26, 2011
Author: wktv
Post Date: 2011-03-26 11:16:15 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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U.S. Postal Service to detail major cuts affecting thousands
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post is reporting that the U.S. Postal Service is expected to detail how it plans to cut about 7,500 administrative positions.
Postal officials previously announced plans to cut the 7,500 positions in January, and Thursday's announcement clarifies which positions are impacted.
The job cuts are expected to impact about 2,000 postmasters.
Cutting postmasters is especially noteworthy, because it will likely prompt USPS to close the post offices they operate.
Though 7,500 seems like an impressive figure, remember the Postal Service still has about 520,000 full-time workers; another 234,000 employees left in the last decade on their own volition or through early-retirement incentive programs.
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#1. To: All (#0)
I fully expect all but 1st class mail sorting and handling will be outsourced to Mexico, with illegal aliens handling much of it here within the United States.
Trucking isn't all Calderon and Obama discuss.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2011-03-26 11:16:49 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
7,500 administrative

I'll bet 25 people could do their work.
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. - G.K. Chesterton
Turtle posted on 2011-03-26 11:18:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Eric Stratton posted on 2011-03-26 11:29:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Turtle (#2)
7,500 administrative
I'll bet 25 people could do their work.

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It would be interesting to see how many of those 7,500 are minorities.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2011-03-26 11:35:28 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: Eric Stratton, Turtle (#3)

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2011-03-26 11:36:49 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#5)
That is bizarre.
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. - G.K. Chesterton
Turtle posted on 2011-03-26 11:39:51 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#5)
What is it about the Postal Service that seems to drive ordinary men mad, I wonder.
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.
randge posted on 2011-03-26 11:48:59 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, All (#5)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Eric Stratton posted on 2011-03-26 11:49:45 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: randge, Eric Stratton (#7)
What is it about the Postal Service that seems to drive ordinary men mad, I wonder.

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2011-03-26 12:11:34 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, 4 (#5)
As a freshman in college, I signed on with USPS as a part-time (20 hours/week) worker.
I lasted two weeks before bailing...my first and last .gov gig.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.
Lod posted on 2011-03-26 12:17:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#11. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, randge (#9)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Eric Stratton posted on 2011-03-26 12:25:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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