Ah, crap:

The financially beleaguered Postal Service announced Tuesday that it would consider closing more than 3,600 of its 32,000 post offices...In communities that lose post offices, the Postal Service may outsource basic services, like selling stamps and shipping flat-rate packages, to local businesses like pharmacies and groceries...

The USPS spokesman in the New York Times story says “The Postal Service of the future will be smaller, leaner and more competitive." Just what we need! Teabaggy mailmen who'll hold our packages hostage until we pay an additional receipt fee or some shit like that. I can't wait to see what FedEx and UPS will do to their rates when the USPS eventually dies—buying over the internet will be a luxury that very few will be able to afford.