The US Postal Service is offering volunteer opportunities to suit almost anyone.
Washington, DC—Walk into your local post office (assuming you still have a local post office), and hanging on the bulletin board next to the FBI’s Most Wanted flier, you’re likely to read another piece of paper seeking volunteers to “help out 40 hours a week or so.”
In an effort to cut even more costs, the US Postal Service now is seeking people, “preferably former employees, but they don’t have to be,” said a spokesman, to do the sorting and delivering that used to cost millions of dollars in salaries and benefits, but could just as easily be done just as well by un-paid volunteers. Continue reading
