Posted 1/28/2009 06:30:00 PM by Douglas

The United State Postal Services creeps ever further towards irrelevancy.

Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week.

If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday.

Can they skip the day they bring me all my fucking bills? I'd vote for that one! It gets better:

"A revolution in the way people communicate has structurally changed the way America uses the mail," with a shift from first-class letters to the Internet for personal communications, billings, payments, statements and business correspondence.

And why was that? So less people are using your services, and even though you're charging us more and more for it, you're still not breaking even. Yet you continue to give discounts to those douchebags that flood my mailbox six days a week (for now) with crap that goes right into the trash? You should be required to bring my mail seven days a week 'till ValuPak pays their share of the haul.

The Post Office is one of the libertarians favourite target. Is there a better example of government waste? Is there any office, beside the DMV (another popular libertarian fodder topic), that you waste more of your life dealing with people that don't give a shit if you've been standing in line for 45 minutes? I can't think of any, but maybe it's there's no other line you have to wait through because it's a government monopoly.

FedEx and UPS are ready to pick up the slack when you're ready to officially admit your obsolescence.