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To: i-node who wrote (22173)	6/20/2017 6:39:34 PM
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3 Big Lies At the Heart of Republican Attacks On the Post Office House Republicans are aiming to dismantle the postal service, but their plans hinge on a few tall tales they've sold the American public. By Josh Eidelson / AlterNet September 22, 2011, 8:00 PM GMT alternet.org Excerpt: ..USPS is often urged to remake itself in the image of FedEx or UPS, but neither of those companies is bound by a mandate to serve every American. They don’t have to go places where it won’t be profitable – and indeed, some of the packages you ship through FedEx or UPS are actually delivered by the Postal Service, because it costs the private companies less to pay USPS to go to far-flung places than to do it themselves. Like providing health insurance to cancer survivors, delivering mail to remote towns is not a service private companies would rush to affordably provide if only government would get out of the way. “If we had private handlers handling our mail, we would be subject to gouging or non-delivery,” warns Rubio, a former letter carrier and the author of a book on the Postal Service. He points to the experiences of Finland, Argentina and New Zealand as examples...