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The post office is about to lay off 100,000 people - that is amazing to me

Posted: Dec 05, 2011

I just read an article yesterday on Huffington Post that because the Post Office is losing so much money they are gearing up to close hundreds of post offices around the country which will include up to 100,000 layoffs. I can't even wrap my mind around that number. Anyone who says we are not in a depression has their head in the sand.

darn.. was going to apply there - need a job

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Horrible mismanagement... - Reader

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Part of the reason for this is horrible decisions made by management.

A few years ago there was an expose out about the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS (maybe a billion, I can't remember) that the USPS had blown on POSH ESTATES (that's right -- tennis courts, heated indoor swimming pools, etc.) for their managers. It was outrageous and ridiculous by ANY measure.

Agree - pix

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Very true! Their managers would never make it in the business world.

It's another field that has been dessimated by - technology

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So sad - 100,000 people is a LOT of people from one industry. How will our country ever get its millions back to work?

It won't. - Reader

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That's not in the plan.

America and the West in general are being taken down; China and the East in general are being built up.

The has been the plan for decades by the so-called "elites," who have written about it extensively.

yes, I think it is time to move to - china

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cant take it anymore.

ARTICLE: More Americans Go Abroad for Jobs - Reader

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Interesting article here.

The MT manager at a hospital I used to work for moved to China a couple of years ago.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45567659

Same thing happen in Russia/USSR - sm

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Elite taking over.

In my (very rural) area (sm) - Mushroom

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there are many small community post offices that are basically within a stone's throw of one another; I can't really understand why they are all still open at this point! Hate to see people lose their jobs, but...

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