According to VPR, the US Postal Service proposed closing 3,600 post offices across the US, including 14 in Vermont. Meanwhile, Obama backed a plan to cut out Saturday delivery! None of these plans have been approved by Congress, so they remain only ominous threats for now.

These ominous threats lurk on the horizon because the USPS is losing money for several reasons. 1) People are purchasing fewer post office products than they used to. The USPS depends on consumers' money because it funds itself. 2) The USPS recently overfunded its pension plan billions of dollars. 3) Also the economy in general is in the toilet.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I tend not to care about the USPS because so much of what it brings me is either useless [junk mail] or redundant [bank statements]. I suppose I'm a little agitated now because I'm in a phase of amassing things for Me and My Muses, which means depending on the USPS, and I WANT MY MAIL. But, overall, the USPS to me looks like an institution that needs to make sacrifices because it is not keeping up with the times, unfortunately.