Boring headline hides real crisis at Postal Service
Sean Collins Walsh probably wasn’t too pleased by the headline his editors chose for his thorough report on the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service. “Many Seek to Revamp Post Office” is not likely to pull in a horde of readers. But the Postal Service is in a serious mess, and since it’s the second largest government owner of real estate (after the DoD) and employs more than 600,000 Americans, problems at the Post Office matter. Collins Walsh writes that prior to the debt ceiling crisis, “several members of Congress had another issue they wanted to focus on: an overhaul of the Postal Service.” The question is, will the service be cut, and employees cut, and a great American institution cut to the bone? Or will creative approaches come to the fore?