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>> dana: the other thing they spend money on, you think it's easy to privatize the post office. maybe we don't need the usda to make the ads for us. college students are learning how to use a microwave. manual not being able to actually close saturday delivery for the post office, that that is what happened. >> eric: they are going on trips. >> dana: a huge conference. there is conference where there is golf. >> eric: $200 million here, somewhere. spend $2 million -- >> dana: $2 million, $220,000 to be spent on exhibit space. remember aig had a bail-out and there was a conference where they ha...

>> they are tone deaf to the actual reality on the ground and how this will be perceived and that is something that our executives whether in the regular federal government or the postal servicester to take note of that the public is watching and they are turned off by seeing waste of taxpayer dollars or in this case postal service dollars. >> attendees see it another way. >> relationships and network oing is very important. if they just sat in their offices in washington they wouldn't get the feel of what the mailers want and need out of the industry. because the industry is changing. technol...

For the u.s. postal service, as it makes drastic cuts in service. we are hearing the u.s. postal service is spending more than $2 million on a national postal forum in california. what's up with that? we go live to san francisco. hi, claudia. >> reporter: good morning, jamie. 4,000 people are attending the national postal forum here in san francisco. 400 are with the u.s. postal service, including the post master general, who will be making a presentation. did over the next four days, executives will be meeting with shippers and those in the direct mail industry. then, everyone gets to have a ...

Documents show the travel, $220,000 in exhibit space and other incidentals will cost the postal service 2.2 million dollars. attendees, including the post master general patrick donahue will enjoy live music and a banquet with the food from fisherman's warf. critics don't buy it and suggest that postal executives are out of touch. >> they're just tone deaf to the actual reality on the ground and how this will be perceived and that's something that our executives, and whether they're in the regular federal government or the postal service, has to take note of. that the public is watching and th...

Office in washington they wouldn't get the feel of what the mailers want and need in the industry because the industry's changing. technology is changing and the postal service is changing with it. >> reporter: again, the u.s. postal service spending more than 2 million dollars on exhibit space and travel expenses. that may not sound like a lot, but as one government watch dog group told me, the way you end up 16 billion dollars in debt you don't worry about a 2 million dollar expenditure. over time, harris, it all adds up. >> harris: indeed it does. thank you. and republican lawmakers steppin...