ForestEthics Executive Director Todd Paglia (pictured left) has a piece up on the Huffington Post about the US Postal Service’s massive summer sale for junk mailers who mail out more junk mail than they did last summer, and the contrasting first-class postage increase for the rest of us. Here’s the clincher:
As for the Postal Service itself, there has to be a better way. The USPS has a $15 billion line of taxpayer-backed credit, which it has been using at a worrisome clip. In fact, the U.S. Government Accountability Office predicts that its credit line could be maxed out by the end of 2010. As with the millions of wasteful credit card offers the USPS delivers every day, the bill will have finally come due, and the USPS’s spending spree will have gotten us no closer to a functional and just postal system.
Read the whole thing. It makes a strong case for reform in a segment of government that we rarely consider.
