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The economy has been bad for a few years now, but there are a few unusual side effects to profit loss:
No Mail on Saturday?
The US Postal Service (USPS) would like to drop Saturday mail delivery days. Instead of mail arriving on the weekend day, the Service hopes to save money by restricting home delivery to only the five-day work week. Post offices would still be open on Saturdays, however.
Women going through the recession better than men
Reuters reported the jobless rate for men when, “the unemployment gender gap hit a post-war peak in August 2009,” was 11 percent; while it was a lower 8.3 percent for women. The authors of the study said most of the jobs lost during this time were in male-dominated industries, such as construction and manufacturing.
“That’s not what I paid for!” The reason behind downsizing products
Do the Tropicana orange juice bottles look different to you; even though you’re paying nearly the same? Because oil prices have been high and oil is used for making plastic, companies have already started decreasing the size of their products and condensing them into smaller bottles, while the prices remain close to what you would have paid for more ounces.
