Everyone reading this blog knows this reality.
A new world of high technology is making the post office obsolete. A large portion of our population now communicates via email. Even Seniors, the over age 65 group, are using email services as their primary communications tool. I tutor computer use at a Senior Center one day a week. Every one of those seniors wants to learn how to use email and the internet.
Soon Newsweek, Time, and all of our newspapers will be part of the past if they do not change to an internet version. Those old commentators appearing on talk shows are wrong when they say newspapers and magazines will survive in printed form. Newsweek has gone to an essay format in an effort to save itself. Jon Fine of BusinessWeek forecast the end of magazines and newspapers well over two years ago. Advertising revenues for all of these publications has seen a significant decline. The growing advertising venue will be your ads and coupons on your cell phone.
The U.S. Postal Service is about to give an enterprising company a large retail distribution system when it closes about 700 facilities. Congressmen will be trying to stop the clock and retain those operations. If they are successful it will prove that the Federal government cannot manage its existing affairs let alone increase its involvement in health care services.
Health care aside think about the possibilities for the use of 700 strategically located facilities through out the country. Perhaps UPS or Federal Express will step in to take over these locations. If not, these facilities are an opportunity for 99¢ Stores or some other chain.
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The same is happening over here in the UK. Post Offices are shutting left, right and centre because people are not using them as much and email is so convenient. Our postal service keeps suffering from strikes which makes it even less attractive for people to send letters or parcels with them. It’s self perpetuating.