Darrell Issa's quest to privatize the U.S. Postal Service means you can go get your mail at the Post Office. No delivery for ordinary folks!
May 22, 2014

Via Liberaland:

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, headed by Congressman Darrell Issa, is pushing a proposal that wold result in millions of Americans no longer getting mail delivered daily to their homes. During the next decade 15 million addresses would receive mail at curbside or communal locations.

“I think it’s a lousy idea,” said Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts. He was joined by some other lawmakers in saying it wouldn’t work in urban areas where there’s no place on city streets to put banks of so-called “cluster boxes” that have compartments for multiple homes. Under...

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