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Article Title: 35% Think U.S. Government Should Consider Selling the Postal Service
Snippet of Article: "...The U.S. Postal Service has been plagued with financial problems for years, but fewer adults now believe the federal government should sell the Postal Service...."
Article Title: Federal employee union president slams contractors' motives
Snippet of Article: "...The GTI's ultimate goal, he said, is to remake government operations so they follow the model of private companies, which would mean "at will employment to replace the civil service, pay systems that differentiate by individual and reallocate salary dollars to the top at the expense of those in lower grades, and an ethos of fast and cheap and buyer beware."..."
Article Title: GOP platform takes aim at federal workforce
Snippet of Article: "... The plan also calls for a "dramatic restructuring" of the U.S. Postal Service.
"In light of the Postal Service's seriously underfunded pension system" — the agency defaulted on a $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund pension costs last month — "Congress should explore a greater role for private enterprise in appropriate aspects of the mail-processing system." ..."
