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To: Les H who wrote (91834)	4/9/2001 2:56:57 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 436258

>>Since 1980, despite falling postal demand, the Postal Service has increased its workforce by 36 percent. It now employs more than 900,000 people. Meanwhile, despite multi-billion dollar outlays on technology upgrades, USPS's productivity is expected to be an anemic 0.7 percent this year and has had only an 11 percent increase in productivity over the last 30 years. In addition, the Postal Office had $9.3 billion in debt at the end of fiscal year 2000 and has no repayment program for this mounting debt. The only things propping it up are its special tax breaks and government-granted monopoly status in the First Class Mail business.<< nothing a little hedonic chain weighted dollars couldn't take care of... ;-)