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TIL that between 1970 and 1997 so many post office workers snapped and killed their coworkers that a new slang term "going postal" became a new slang term for becoming exceptionally angry
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Here rent on a one bedroom is $1100-1300. A 3 bedroom would be pushing $2000 a month.

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$22 is good in parts of the country. Where I live the walmart greeter makes $19/hr for comparison.

Working at McDonalds makes $18/hr.

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Seems like we are on the same page. It should get governmental support as it's a service not a for profit enterprise. And it's required for our country to run.

Did you know that Ben Franklin insisted on building out the post office PRIOR to the first election because he know that having a safe a secure delivery service was critical to having a working election?

It's been around longer than the US has been a country.

It also handles 40% of all mail on the entire planet annually.

You can send a letter for the same cost to your next door neighbor or to someone in Hawaii or a remote village in Alaska.

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That's exactly my point. The post office is a service, just like the military but people always say it loses money. Yeah, it's a service, it's not supposed to make a profit. At the same time no one expects the military to make a profit and are fine giving them a hundreds of billions annually.

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The post office is a service. Services cost money. Do you also say that the military hemorrhages money?

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I worked there last year, it's utter garbage and the same issues still exist. If they made changes I can't imagine how bad it was before.

Having worked for the post office for 3 months I fully understand why

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