The US Postal Service is on a tear, shutting down post offices right and left across the country. I’m looking for stories from communities where this is happening. It’s happening right now, in Ukiah, California, located 100 miles north of San Francisco in Mendocino County.
The Postal Service has to close a couple thousand post offices, it says. Otherwise, it won’t have enough money to contribute to its pension fund. And, besides, use of the US mail is way down, putting the Postal Service in the red.
The Postal Service is the only governmental entity that is forced to pre-fund its pension fund. Congress could change that in a heartbeat, but hasn’t. Apparently, Congress prefers to sit by while the Postal Service closes properties on the National Register of Historic Places, even some that include original art commissioned during the New Deal. More below the fold . . .
