and i am not a ceo i am not a lawyer, i am just a small time fishing captain at fisherman's warf. for a person who has a one boat operation i can reach the masses on a daily basis i take people fishing and i get to take them out into the bay off the coast and share with them a lot of wonderful resources and i have to tell you that people don't look at san francisco as a world class fishing destination but i fished in three different continents and three countries but this is home. this is home base and there is nothing like seeing somebody catch a 20 to 30-pound king salmon and it is just amazing what we have just a half of a mile away and this proposal would allow not only this resource and treasure to be shared, but the rest of the world on an even better basis but for myself as a small businessman, this is big for me to have the opportunity at the airport to be able to actually advertise to the people and this proposal, for smaller guys like myself, it really helps us out. because, contrary to popular belief, it is the small businesses that keeps the city running and i am the o

master general patrick donahue will enjoy live music and a banquet with the food from fisherman's warfitics don't buy it and suggest that postal executives are out of touch. >> they're just tone deaf to the actual reality on the ground and how this will be perceived and that's something that our executives, and whether they're in the regular federal government or the postal service, has to take note of. that the public is watching and that they are turned off by seeing waste of taxpayer dollars or in this case, sosh service dollars. >> attendees see it another way. >> relationships and networking very important. if they just stand in their office in washington they wouldn't get the feel of what the mailers want and need in the industry because the industry's changing. technology is changing and the postal service is changing with it. >> reporter: again, the u.s. postal service spending more than 2 million dollars on exhibit space and travel expenses. that may not sound like a lot, but as one government watch dog group told me, the way you end up 16 billion dollars in debt you don't wor