You just can’t make some things up.
The United States Postal Service is bleeding red ink like a baby seal in a tiger shark’s mouth (sorry, been watching a lot of the nature channel with the kids lately). And in an effort to save about a million smackeroos out of an expected$7 billion loss this year, post office honchos have decided to shift some work from over-burdened Las Vegas to Phoenix, where workers are spending a good chunk of their day twiddling their little unionized fingers.
Naturally, postal workers in Las Vegas have their tights in a twist over the proposal. So they wrote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) a letter begging him to intervene. And here’s the punchline, according to today’s Las Vegas Sun:
They hand-delivered the letter to Reid’s office “rather than risk it being delayed by the post office.”
Like I said, I couldn’t make this one up.
[...] UPDATE: Even the post office doesn’t trust mail to the post office. [...]