About 40 postal workers up in Sioux City will be standby workers and could sit idle for the next three plus years, but will still collect their salaries. The Des Moines Register reports that while that post office has been studied for closure for years, USPS officials and the postal workers union agreed to a four year contract. It will cost the postal service more than 1.7 million dollars a year to pay those not working. When you add in the benefits, its costing USPS nearly 3 million dollars a year. The postal service says the 40 stanbys will probably be moved to other post offices, so the money they're paid won't be wasted.
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