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Jennifer Graham

Mail fowl

If you want to save the Postal Service from bankruptcy, consider chicken

By Jennifer Graham

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  May 21, 2012

The US Postal Service cannot be described as “on the brink” of insolvency; it sailed over that cliff in 2006, when Congress decreed it must fund employee pensions and benefits 75 years in advance. Instead of accepting the sensible but politically inexpedient course the postmaster general believes would make his agency solvent by 2017, the Senate came up with its own plan: a quick-fix infusion of $11 billion to delay bankruptcy for a couple of years. There’s only one thing to do: Let’s all mail chickens.

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