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This letter to Senator Brown is in response to his newsletter regarding Post Office legislation;
Senator Brown,
I received your newsletter today outlining your efforts regarding the Postal Service. In your note I understood your efforts to be focused on saving 15k jobs by forcing the distribution centers in our major cities in Ohio to remain open. You also went on to outline how this would buy more time to "fix" a broken postal system.
We have both known for a long time that the postal system has been broken, or inefficient at best, yet the US Congress has done little to effect improvements on this valued service. Now I do not know from where the order of these closures are coming from but, your treatment of the postal service as a jobs program would seem to be getting in the way of proposed reforms.
I would respectfully suggest that you are on the wrong side of this issue Senator. Yes, your altruistic actions would seem compassionate on the surface to those 15k voters that might support you. However, you are condemning us all to suffer through continued funding of a bloated agency which runs billions of dollars in the red each and every year.
Please consider stepping away from this initiative and allow real and lasting free market solutions to come to bear and allow this albatross to be removed from the taxpayers neck. Like you, I do have compassion for those 15k, but only for those that provide valuable services to postal service customers, not so much for those that merely work the system.
Respectfully,
--Doug Cook
Bradford, OH
