<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><strong style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Greg Palast | Brains Lost in Mail – Postal Bank Bunkum</span></strong><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"> </span><br style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"><img src="http://www.readersupportednews.org/images/stories/article_imgs10/012026-usps-non-bank-services-030914.jpg" alt="Screen shot from the pdf, " providing="" non-bank="" financial="" services="" for="" the="" underserved"="" office="" of="" inspector="" general="" usps="" website.="" (illustration:="" usps)"="" style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"> </span><br style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic;">Greg Palast, Reader Supported News</span><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"> </span><br style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 14pt;">Palast writes: "Since my first report in this investigation, I have had to resign a column – and endure several thousand tweets by enraged Liberals – simply for trying to expose the Postal Service's whacky scheme to transform itself into a criminal loan-sharking operation tied to a shady escort service."</span><span style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: medium;"> </span></body></html>