Things Change

The United States Post Office is on the verge of closing 700 local outlets in a cost cutting measure. In the long run, it plans to limit deliveries to three of four times a week. So it goes.

This news goes hand in hand with the slow demise of the newspaper. As people have a wide variety of options in getting their personal news via e-mails and the amount of business which can be done online increases, so too with cable and satellite and the internet are our general news and views updates more readily available. Further, internet based news offers a greater variety of reporting and expression of viewpoints. To wit, we are exposed to the variety which is supposed to the spice of life, the grand diversity which is supposed to be our strength.

I do admit struggling with it. I miss a physical newspaper in he morning, and personal letters and cards through the mail have always been a treat. Yet time marches on, and any objective observer would have to admit that the direction we're headed is better than the funk we were in, especially with news items which were basically monopolized by a few. Faster, cheaper, better; the positive far outpaces the negative.

May as well embrace it. The world wide web isn't going away, and hey, less newsprint saves trees, right? It's a little sad that a bit of Americana is fading, but the future of communication appears bright from here. Things change. So long as there's no immorality or skullduggery involved, I can live with it.