Newman!
I just walked into my local Post Office to buy stamps. I always go after hours and have to use the stamp vending machine. So I walked in counting my change, lifted my hand to drop in some quarters, and discovered that the machine was gone. No “Out of service,” signs, no “Sorry for the inconvenience.” Just a big empty wall. Frustrated, I walk outside and see that they’ve also removed those blue mail boxes which dot American cities like Lady Bird Johnson’s Interstate wildflowers. What kind of two-pony circus is running this?
These jokers have been over-saturating the market for decades. Think of all the places you can buy stamps and mail letters: grocery stores, post offices, pharmacies, adult book stores (just a guess, but why not?). They’ve been steadily increasing the price of stamps for years to pay for all this cruft, and people have been cutting back their stamp usage, which only adds to their financial woes! Now they’ve gone and hired some efficiency expert from Circuit City, and he’s telling them to start selling off their assets!
They’re creating this stamp shortage to inflate demand and artificially drive up prices so they can stop flushing money down the commode! How is Obama expecting to implement a national health care system when the government can’t cost-effectively send a piece of paper across the country?
Ok, I’m not really serious about most of that, but I am very curious why my Post Office has gotten rid of all its stamps and mail boxes.