Post office: Mailmen can assess health of elderly to ease budget woes

Post office: Mailmen can assess health of elderly to ease budget woes | The American Mirror: "According to the Postal Service, your mailman can not only deliver your letters and packages, but can be a handy helper, too.
That’s the latest idea for the giant bureaucracy that’s bleeding money everyday.
A new report from the Inspector General proposes several ways for the financially struggling agency to help its budget situation.
Among them: turn letter carriers into handy helpers.
The IG outlines a plan “to have the mailman stop in to help the elderly, by assessing their health and even setting up their new TV,” WSB reports.
The IG wrote, “The postal service could coordinate and collaborate with wellness organizations to offer new and far-reaching services to older Americans nationwide.”
The report also proposes the postal service could deliver groceries and medications to the elderly.
...The Postal Service has had chronic budget problems for years.
According to the news station, the agency has lost $586 million dollars in the past three months alone.
Some aren’t buying the idea that the agency could branch out into such areas.
“They aren’t even, right now, able to deliver the mail effectively without losing money and yet they now are on this new kick where they’re looking at new businesses,” Leslie Paige with Citizens against Government Waste says..."