It has long been known the Unites States Postal Service (USPS) is a bureaucracy that is bloated and full of waste. Numerous people are employed by the service that are simply unnecessary and clearly a waste of money. Images in popular culture of fictional postal workers such as Newman in the television program Seinfeld and Cliff Clavin in Cheers often reflect the image of postal employees quite accurately for many users of the service and have been etched in the mindsets and attitudes of the public, albeit inaccurately. The news today that the Postal Service will be eliminating tens of thousands of jobs and employees in the next year of so is long overdue. The use of electronic mail (email) has largely ended the practice of mailing letters by much of the public, effectively making the mail a government subsidized perk for use by corporations, advertisers, and marketers. It is quite within the realm of belief that the USPS will all but disappear within a generation.--
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