X marks the putt actually sounds like a great idea. Having no protrusions on the ground (like a coin marker) would allow for easier play throughs

Not a single penny of taxpayer dollars?" More like $100 million PER YEAR. That's what the US Government pays the USPS to mail voter materials to blind/disabled and overseas Americans. A needed service? Yes, but a private (i.e., efficient) organization could do it for a LOT less.

Yes, the mandate to pre-fund the USPS's retirement system has led to its financial woes, but to solve them it is borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury Department. Guess who loses if they can't pay it back?

Finally, if the USPS is bleeding red ink ($5.5 billion loss last year alone) why is it spending millions exhibiting (empty booths) at trade shows?

Just another drop in the bucket? Maybe. But if you plug enough leaks a bucket will hold its own water.

Hmmmm, the USPS was profitable until the past 10 years or so? I wonder what changed? Oh, I remember now ! That's when George W (not Obama) signed legislation to make USPS the ONLY gov't agency to OVERLY PRE-fund its retirement system. Coincidental? Nah.

Curious what pure, unadulterated government efficiency in practice, if not in theory, looks like? Then the following chart of USPS operating profits, pardon, losses over the past decade should be sufficient. The punchline: having generated revenues of nearly $700 billion in the past 40 quarters, the USPS has been bleeding red ink more or less consistently since 2006, and has now generated just over $47 billion in operating losses over the past ten years.

For general information for those that are not aware, the USPS is a government agency only in the fact of being controlled by the government. For example, congress gets to determine ow much a stamp can cost, when people can be hired, etc. The taxpayer does not pay a single penny to the postal service, except for when they use the service to ship something. It is a not for profit, self containing organization. So, if there isnt a problem with the footwedge people making thier product and having a booth, why shouldn't the postal service? its not your money, your time, or your anything. Well, it is your miguided uninformed thoughts regarding something you know nothing of, but hey, its America isnt it?

Wait til your hero reads all your mail.

All very amusing except the USPS booth, which is epidemic in all government levels!

Yes Obama may have been robbing Peter to pay Paul (or maybe just using it for a pallet of cash to Iran) who knows, but I bet it isn't reducing your personal retirement account value, is it?

The postage stamp IS a tax paid to fund the USPS.

Like most US golf accessories not needed. That which may be good doesn't justify postage let alone cost.