
Post Office closings show lack of creative thinking in government
Creative thinking, risk-taking, looking down the line to think why losing a post office in a small community could really hurt . . . these are all the things that should have run through the mind of someone — anyone — in the White House or Congress when the idea of closing thousands of post offices around the country came up. It’s one of the last physical signs in your neighborhood of your government at work – and it could be a place where you do more than just write a letter. And what would it take to save them? A little imagination.