Hey Folks,
Re: America's decline into a 3rd World S_ithole!!!???!!!
I am posting this in direct response to those of you who bother me with your stupidly insipid blather and quite simply are just blind and don't get it; i.e. you are oblivious to the obvious all around you!!
And, I note that: 90% of my detractors on this issue are from either the East or the West Coast of this former Christian, Constitutional Republic!!
I don't want to be sued: so, you will have to go to the website of The Nation to read the whole article, which is fairly long with many other prescient observations by this writer, and I very strongly recommend that you do!
And remember, they delete their stories in only twelve days; so, go subscribe to The Nation as they are one of the very few magazines left, and that publishes some pretty accurately written expose's too!
https://www.thenation.com/article/in-rural-america-the-postal-service-is-already-collapsing/
In Rural America, the Postal Service Is Already Collapsing
Cutbacks have created a labor shortage at smaller stations, and mail carriers are struggling to do their jobs.
"I watched from the back as Jessica steered her car down hilly, unpaved roads, keeping her pace even as hail began to fly through the car’s open windows. She’s one of four mail carriers for a small town a few miles from the Canadian border. The town, and the ones around it, have seen better days: The mills closed decades ago, and the county’s sole remaining factory has threatened multiple times to outsource jobs. Most of the retail in the area is gone too; at the closest mall, about a half an hour away, there are fewer than a dozen stores still open, and the next closest shopping center is a two-hour drive.
"This “retail apocalypse,” brought about by private equity and the rise of e-commerce, has in turn made Amazon even more essential for the people in Jessica’s area; for those who work long hours, have to watch their kids, or can’t spend a fortune on gas, driving two hours to buy a television or new clothes isn’t an option. They have no choice but to shop on the Internet, which means that the back of Jessica’s vehicle is filled with more packages than ever before. The packages would be hard enough on their own, since Jessica often has to get out and trudge through the snow to deliver them, but they’re not the worst of her worries: For upwards of a year, half the positions at Jessica’s postal station were vacant..... ...."
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