here is a person that should be furloughed...

[Mike Mercury]

permanently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hs_9s31Je7Y

[Yerf Dog]

Not a government worker. :shrug:

[Loco Vette]

Not a government worker. :shrug:

:confused5:Postal Service?:confused5:

[Yerf Dog]

:confused5:Postal Service?:confused5:

Independent agency?

[marrepka]

Damn she's makin' the rounds today :dance:

[Mike Mercury]

Damn she's makin' the rounds today :dance:

dupe?

me?

again ???






:banghead:

[StaticCling]

sqjO6QG0oS8

[Loco Vette]

Independent agency?

Not entirely.

The United States Postal Service (http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/uspsabout.htm)

The Modern Postal Service: Agency or Business?
Until adoption of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S. Postal Service functioned as a regular, tax-supported, agency of the federal government.

According to the laws under which it now operates, the U.S. Postal Service is a semi-independent federal agency, mandated to be revenue-neutral. That is, it is supposed to break even, not make a profit.


Look, the USPS is an Agency!
The USPS is created as a government agency under Title 39, Section 101.1 of the United States Code which states, in part:


No, the USPS is a Business!
the Postal Service takes on some several very non-governmental attributes via the powers granted to it under Title 39, Section 401, which include:

•power to sue (and be sued) under its own name;
•power to adopt, amend and repeal its own regulations;
•power to "enter into and perform contracts, execute instruments, and determine the character of, and necessity for, its expenditures";
•power to buy, sell and lease private property; and,
•power to build, operate, lease and maintain buildings and facilities.

All of which are typical functions and powers of a private business. However, unlike other private businesses, the Postal Service is exempt from paying federal taxes

Methinks the taxpayers could still benefit from benching Lady Heffalumps