The Belmont Post Office closed recently announced in May it would be closing, and another post office in our neighborhood is one of eight in the Dallas area the U.S. Postal Service is considering for closure.
The post office at 502 N. Haskell is one of 2,700 nationwide and 200 in Texas that the postal service could close as part of an effort to address business losses totaling $8 billion last year. Eight billion dollars. In one year.
If the USPS doesn’t fix its money woes, guess who gets to pick up the bill?
Check out this Washington Post editorial regarding the postal reform bill now before Congress, which starts off by saying “no one seems to notice how bad the crisis is”, and then breaks the really bad news: “Facing a deficit of $8 billion this year, the Postal Service will default on its obligations by October and leave taxpayers footing the bill unless serious changes are made.”
