brilliant move, usps!

[Danzig]

http://news.msn.com/us/us-postal-ser...dy-stamps-fate

The U.S. Postal Service is struggling financially, but was able to pay a marketing consultant more than half a million dollars to look at the future of stamps.
WASHINGTON — The financially strapped United States Postal Service is paying a futurist more than half a million dollars to assess the future of stamps as the agency struggles to raise revenues.

The Postal Service will pay Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, which describes itself as a futurist marketing consultancy, $565,769 to provide "analysis and recommendation on the future of stamps," according to documents acquired by Federal Times, which provides news for federal managers.



The Postal Service, which does not receive taxpayer funds, is under pressure to raise revenues or risk requiring a taxpayer bailout of nearly $50 billion by 2017. It lost $740 million in its third quarter that ended June 30, and $16 billion last year.