Friday, March 6, 2009

Special delivery

CNN has this story about the U.S. Postal Service spending $1.2 million to buy an employee's home so he could transfer to a new job. The story goes on to tell about how often the USPS does this and how much it loses.

However, my thought is, what kind of postal employee has a $1.2 million, 8,400-square-foot home with an indoor swimming pool?

He was postmaster in Lexington, S.C., which recorded 9,793 residents in the 2000 census. It is a rapidly growing suburb of Columbia, but still ...

The employee is now customer service manager in Carrollton, Texas. In other words, we're not talking about someone at the top of the postal hierarchy.

I'm beginning to see why the USPS is having trouble staying afloat.

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