Re: George Will's Nov. 27 mainstay "U.S. letter and a privatized future":
I went to work is to U.S. Postal Service in 1958 and late 38 years later. Back then, it was a supervision group ample similar to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, but a couple of years later, Congress motionless it should be a entirely self-supported supervision service. That's when postal rates proposed to keep going up.
Back then, service was once a day for 6 days a week, solely for business districts that got deliveries twice a day, solely for Saturday.
I do recollect when we proposed a first-class stamp was 4 cents and a gallon of gas was only 25 cents. Now a stamp is 43 cents and a gallon of gas is about $4, not considerably twice the acceleration rate of the stamp.
I moreover recollect a couple decades ago when we was still with the Postal Service a few conservative, similar to columnist George Will, came deliver with a outline to privatize the Postal Service, and a lot of politicians jumped on that bandwagon until the in isolation firm mentioned it would only be peaceful to do it in considerable race areas and not in states and districts with tiny populations since it would not be essential for them.
Even even though technology has unequivocally altered our world, we still wish to obviously read a actual journal or publication with my coffee in the sunrise and feel ample safer still paying my bills with checks in the mail.
I right away consternation if George Will will wish to spi! n the po stal service over to Halliburton, but let's wait for and see.
- John L. Thawley,
Santa Paula