One of the nasty things about the stock market is how it reacts to good and bad news. Give a hint that something may be bad for business, for example, and stock prices go down even before the news happens.
OK, we’re all creatures of our economic environment, so we have a tendency to do the same with news that promises the possibility of good fortune for our industry. The recent news regarding the U.S. Postal Service’s overpayment on its civil service retirement obligations and the appointment of a presidential commission on the USPS are two cases in point.
For the past several years, we’ve had to contemplate more than our fair share of challenges facing the postal service and mail-dependent businesses. So it’s only natural to hear our collective sigh of relief as the news from Washington about our postal system takes a positive turn. What we need to remember, though, is that this
