From Newser: The War On Working People shifts to the Postal Front. What Americans use the postal service as opposed to the .001 who there tax cuts would effect

 

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 20, 2009 7:17 PM CDT

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(Newser) – Citing severe losses, the US Postal Service is slashing 1,400 jobs and offering early retirement to 150,000 workers, NPR reports. The post office will also shut down six district offices, but says delivery will not be affected. Hobbled by a 5.2 billion drop in mail volume in the first quarter this year, the post office lost $384 million—adding to $2.8 billion in losses last year.

Voluntary retirement will get little support from the postal workers' union, it said, if offers don't include severance pay. The postal service offered retirement without pay parachutes last year and attracted few takers. Over the past year, the post office has already made cuts, trimming 50 million work hours, freezing executive salaries, and halting construction on new offices.

Maybe all those political contributions by Fedex is starting to pay off,