USPS wants to throw the Gus Yatron Postal Facility under the bus

Naming a post office is a big deal. That's' what Congress spends an awful lot of its working day doing. To achieve such an honor, you must be a fallen soldier, a brilliant statesman, a civic leader, Elvis Presley (no, they only constructed one on Elvis Presley Boulevard) or a career politician. So it was that our community beamed with  pride when Gus Yatron's name was affixed to the mail processing plant up there on North 13th Street.

Now the United states Postal Service wants to board it up.

The floundering agency released a new list of 250 facilities targeted for shutdown, and the list includes the building named after the beloved congressman who steered so much pork into his district until the district was carved away.

The postal srvice's belt-tighetning could mean the slicing of 35,000 jobs at a time when Obama is beating his head into the ground trying to convince a petulant Congress that job creation is a top priority. (Hey, maybe if the postmaster general and his well-bonused cronies didn't have to pay any taxes they could create some more jobs. Just a thought.)

The closings also will mean you can expect a first-class mailing to take two to three days instead of one to three days, which spells good news for Neflix -- slower turnaround, heh, heh -- though not its subscribers.

This will tank the economy.

Job will be sliced at the Gus Yatron Postal Facility, so your mail will get delivered faster

It says here that the Postal Service wants to eliminate 21 jobs at Reading's Gus Yatron Postal Facility, thus saving $884,000 a year. Those clerks won't actually lose their job; they'll be offered early retirement or get reassigned to other post offices, such as the one in Mount Penn where they'll eat up parking spaces used now by customers.

The result of this discombobulation, according to Donald Lutz, president of the American Postal Workers Union, is that a letter mailed from Reading will now be processed in India, although management insists turnaround won't be any longer.

These delays would not happen if it were the Michael A. O'Pake Postal Facility. O'Pake would personally deliver every envelope himself, especially the Netflix.