Current Event Blog Post 12/11/11

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson

The cartoon was drawn by Lisa Benson who started drawing cartoons in 1990 for a local monthly publication called, "The Senior Advocate." The mailman holding a bag of first class mail on top of the snail represents how the U.S. Postal Service is starting to cutback on the speed of delivery. Instead of first class mail taking 1 day to deliver it will start to take 2-3 days. The other mailman represents how the U.S. Postal Service is going to start losing customers because of the slower delivery time. The cartoonist uses satire because she is comparing the speed of first class mail to the pace of a snail which we all know is not fast at all. The issue that the cartoon deals with is the cutting back of the U.S. Postal Service because of the declining revenues that it is facing. More people are now using email instead of sending letters in order to communicate with each other. The cartoon's message is that first class mail will no longer be as reliable as it was before. The cartoonist's point of view is that we can't let the U.S. Postal Service slow down delivery times because it will end up damaging the government corporation even more in the long run.