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Oh, the beer run. That time-honored tradition of hopping in the car and heading to the local liquor establishment to replenish your supply of alcohol. Could it soon be a thing of the past?

It just might, at least that is what U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is hoping for. He recently pitched the idea of allowing the U.S. Postal Service to deliver beer, wine and spirits to your doorstep. Donahoe claims the deliveries could raise as much as $50 million a year for the cash-strapped agency.

“There’s a lot of money to be made in shipping beer, wine and spirits,” Donahoe told the Associated Press. “We’d like to be in that business.”

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Postal Service Alcohol Delivery

(FILES)US Postal Service mail delivery trucks sit idle at the Manassas Post Office in Virginia on September 5, 2011.The US Postal Service unveiled September 15, 2011 a drastic downsizing scheme for the embattled public company, including cutting 35,000 jobs, as it seeks to avoid collapse amid a ‘new reality’ in the economy. ‘Faced with a massive nationwide infrastructure that is no longer financially sustainable,’ the USPS said it was proposing sweeping changes aimed at saving the organization.
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