Detail from the Washington Post. The transition to digital communications seems to have caught up with the agency - which remember has a function that is directly tied into a delegated power in the Constitution. The decision was made by the current Postmaster General and is on shaky legal ground - some argue Congress should make the decision, but the Post Office does not think Congress has the ability to make the right decision on this so is moving on its own. The decision does not save near as much money as the Post Office is losing and is upsetting postal workers - naturally.
- The postal union (the National Rural Letter Carriers Association) wants the postmaster general fired.
- Is this the beginning of the Post Office's death spiral?
- The Post Office apparently has plans for becoming more fiscally disciplined, but claims that Congress is preventing them from doing so. They are going around Congress and hoping members of Congress will eventually see things their way and get behind this changes later.
- Esquire Magazine features a long article on the post office in its current issue.
- The US Post Office is the best in the world at delivering mail - which is what it's supposed to do right?
- Here's the Wikipedia entry on Postmaster General - and here's a link to info on the most famous Postmaster General the US ever had - even if he held the position primarily during colonial days: Benjamin Franklin.
