   September 19, 2013  USPS should invest in technology  “We
would like the Postal Service not to punish us just because they
are having problems elsewhere.”  So wrote Les Sittler of Fly
Creek in response to news that his local post office would be
cutting back its hours.   In the grand scheme of things, the
changes that will go into effect in Fly Creek (the service
window will be open four hours per day instead of eight) are not
earth-shattering, and amount to an inconvenience rather than a
catastrophe. But they are significant as part of a larger fabric
of changes the U.S. Postal Service is implementing throughout
the region, and the nation, as it struggles with plunging
revenues.   We get it. People rely on mail less and less as
electronic communications continue to improve. Today, the tax
forms, legal documents, personal communications and birthday
greetings that used to form a mainstay of the mail service have
largely migrated online. And companies such as FedEx and UPS
offer competitive shipping service