The U.S. Postal Service is apparently losing a ton of money ($7 billion this year) and is reviewing about 3,200 of its 32,741 branches in the US for possible closure.

I know we communicate a lot more online than we used to, but I still think actual mail service is pretty important! Am I just a purist? Are we really outgrowing the need for post offices?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...ry?id=8248335&page=1

Sorry, Wolfie. That's gotta be rough for your mom with all the cutbacks. I think euterpe42's point about lack of Internet access is a really good one-- what the hell are you supposed to do if you can't pay bills online and they close the post offices around you?

And agreed, reading magazines online is just not the same. I have two magazine subscriptions, and I also want to get a print newspaper subscription-- try to support print media and the post office at the same time.

Sigh, my mom's a mail carrier. It's getting bad. They never higher anyone new and they are giving out almost no over-time anymore. Also, in my state, they are closing about 90 smaller post offices. Then of course all the talk of 5 day delivery.

The mail service will go eventually, but I think that it will not happen for a while. As everyone else has already said, not everyone has the internet; plus a lot of people like catalogues and magazines.

I would be sad if I had to look at Cat Fancy online.

Although I agree that the death of snail mail is a sad thing, email and other online communications are quickly replacing it and therefore decreasing the revenues for the postal service--at least for most people. The really sad part about the death of snail mail is not how it will inconvenience people who have easy internet access and frequently use computers, but those who cannot afford the technology needed to communicate online. If the traditional postal service closes, those people will have nowhere to go.

i definitely think that we still need the postal service, bills, people that don't have internet connection and magazines, but just my opinion i don't think we'll ever NOT going to need it there will always be a demand for it