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Disgusted, wants answers on Postal Service changes

Barb: From Diane L. Schabo, Iron Mountain – Remember years ago, the Postal Service’s motto was “Through Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail”. Back then, it was unheard of for our mail not to be delivered. Working for the post office was a good job and many stood in line to apply. Not the case any longer. I want to give a big shout-out to the men and women who are our mail carriers. They deserve our praise and a raise. Sadly, they are at the beck and call of the postal bureaucrats and those are the people who make me angry. “We need to streamline the Postal Service,” they say. ...

Are we in a productivity boom?

The U.S. economy has been marked this year by the paradox of a rising stock market but a slowing labor market. Could the explanation be a productivity boom, led in part by artificial intelligence? That seems possible given Wednesday’s report that the economy grew a robust 4.3% in the third quarter. The report, delayed by the government shutdown, came in well above most forecasts. Consumer confidence is down in surveys, but you wouldn’t know it from the healthy 2.4 percentage-point contribution to third quarter GDP. Health care, prescription drugs and international travel were ...

‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’

[Note: This editorial originally appeared under the headline, "Is There a Santa Claus?" in the New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It was written by Francis P. Church, though published uncredited at the time.] Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in the Sun, it is so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not ...