Imagine, for instance, in an economy with 9.2% official unemployment, that the government decides to just shut down the US Post Office and lay everybody off from those middle class jobs?

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We blundered along something called Main Street, seeking the post office, until a passerby directed us to Warburton Avenue.

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While this may put off some fiscal realities, the blunt truth is that for the Post Office to survive, they need to innovate like the rest of us.

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Tax Day is upon us once again, where procrastinators stressfully rush through their returns to get them to the post office before closing time.

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"The result shows that a significant proportion of our staff do not wish to take strike action and would like to work with us in delivering our plans to bring the business into profit, " said Kevin Gilliland of the Post Office.

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