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They won't receive mail the day after it was sent if i was sent in an overnight standard area, d.c. to northern virginia could take additional day. for people outside d.c., here's a map, it is going to take an extra day to go across the river. congressman chaffetz says if this is a sign of things to come, maybe it is time to privatize the postal service. >> we don't appropriate money to them, they have to sell stamps to generate revenue we want to continue that you don't cut service, limit the days of service, slow down that service, if you want to sell more stamps. they also want to raise rat...

Personnel and overhead. approximately 75% of what we spend in the city of houston goes to our employees, and they provide essential services. so if you cut spending in a city, you cut people. and that in turn affects the local economy and there's a feedback loop that you don't want to get into it. >> mayor nutter, there's a feedback loop that some -- you don't have any control over in some cases. i mean, this has sort of been handed to you guys. here you are on the ground as a mayor of a big american city and a recession has really limited your choices. you've got a lot of bad choices, basical...

As mayor parker said, when the bulk of your dollars are going to personnel, benefits, and the overhead of a major enterprise, when you cut people you do cut service. and so, somehow we have to further explain to the public and others the people who watch what we do, they just say, cut spending. okay. i mean, kind of like you want to say i wish i'd thought of that. we're cutting spending. we've cut back on people but that has negative impath on service and citizens come back and say, we don't want you to cut services. there is a disconnect out there. zblinting. >> this is all across america tha...

Class mail. what does that mean for your average viewer, they won't receive mail the day after it was sent, d.c. mail to virginia could take an additional day and people outside the d.c. area, a map it's going to take an extra day to go across the river and congressman chapin says if this is a sign of things to come, maybe it's time to privatize the postal service, one of the things i like about the postal service we don't appropriate main it them they've got to sell stamps to generate the revenue and we want to continue that. you don't cut service, limit days of service and slow down that ser...