Here's some change I'd be willing to believe in...

Of course I'll believe it when I see it.

A government agency cutting jobs and insurance?

The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its workforce by 20 percent and to withdraw from the federal health and retirement plans because it believes it could provide benefits at a lower cost.

The layoffs would be achieved in part by breaking labor agreements, a proposal that drew swift fire from postal unions. The plan would require congressional approval but, if successful, could be precedent-setting, with possible ripple effects throughout government. It would also deliver a major blow to the nation’s labor movement.

In a notice informing employees of its proposals — with the headline “Financial crisis calls for significant actions” — the Postal Service said, “We will be insolvent next month due to significant declines in mail volume and retiree health benefit pre-funding costs imposed by Congress.”

During the past four years, the service lost $20 billion, including $8.5 billion in fiscal 2010. Over that period, mail volume dropped by 20 percent.

Hey, USPS? Say hello to your fellows from the buggy whip industry while you languish in the unemployment line. And if you could take some of those junk mail printers with you when you go? That'd be cool, too.

Not that junk mail - or any other sort of mail - has been a big problem for me lately. But I have memories.