No check in the mail for USPS – Ideas on stemming the red ink include laying off about 150,000 workers and eliminating Saturday delivery. Higher postal rates are likely. One proposal floated by this columnist: Stop delivering to rural areas.

November 22, 2011

(From Los Angeles Times) Richard Maher can't remember the last time he wrote a personal letter to anyone — and he works for the U.S. Postal Service. That's how bad things have gotten for the …

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