Save the post office

I guess the feds are still trying to close smaller post offices in Albany including the one on Delaware Avenue where one clerk of a certain age (she's headed soon to a granddaughter's wedding in Alaska) was pleasantly and efficiently dealing with a steady stream of lunchtime customers today (but it's closed from 1 to 2). I'd driven there from Pearl Street, where I dropped off a friend who works at one of the South End drug clinics, and a couple of blocks up Second Avenue I saw a man get out of the car in front of me and start punching and wrestling with a man on the sidewalk. I drove on, like any suburbanite. Delaware Avenue is a less rough neighborhood, somewhere between struggling and reviving, and the line at the post office was multiracial. It would be nice if the federal government didn't go out of its way to sabotage the place.

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[Brian]

Everyone wants thinks like the Post Office and Amtrak to be "run like a business" but when business-logic is applied to "their" part of it, people balk.