but nobody will be fired or laid off. over time, there will be fewer jobs available, and of course, this comes at a bad time when unemployment is a huge problem in the u.s., as you point out. the postmaster says through attrition, it has 300,000 workers leaving in the next decade, the postoffice will move towards a part-time work force and adjust wages to help keep the postoffice afloat. they have 200,000 fewer workers than it did ten years ago and said 300,000 more will leave in the next ten years, the postoffice also seeking changes in the law so it doesn t have to make prepayments to the postal workers retirement fund which has been a big drain on them, jon. jon: let s talk about home delivery and i guess especially saturday delivery. is that about to change? saturday is probably the one that will go by the way side and home delivery is likely to go from six days to five days but not right away. congress has to approve such a move by removing language in appropriations bills that
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that is not accurate. but at the same time, are you willing to take it off the table? because there s been some give in some of your recent comments and some indications that that might be negotiable. the white house never supported that. the treasury never supported the $50 billion privately financed bailout fund in the first place. well, first of all, the idea came from the republicans. my bill that i offered in november never had that in it. so it was a republican idea to insulate against taxpayer exposure. that any taxpayer money would be used during a winddown of a failed company. it s a prepayment. much as we do with the federal deposit insurance corporation with assessments on banks, should the bank fail, those dollars and those resources that are collected are prepayments so that we can handle the wind down of those banks intelligently. so that s what this is all about. now, candidly, there are other ways of doing this other than a prepayment fund. and the point is,xd whateve