Comment by rayiner

Bullshit. As noted in the article, everything was fine (pay $1.50 for a money order and $0.50 for postage) until people pushed to get private contractors involved. You can say "government created the problem" but that's totally obtuse. Should people who commit armed robbery (like the man in the article) not be in jail? If they should be, someone has to take care of their logistical needs. The drumbeat since Reagan has been that private companies should handle the logistics, because government is inefficient. Well governments responded, and what we are seeing is that the svrice of the for-profit corporations dwarfs the inefficiency of government.