The postal service just needs to have their labor costs brought under reasonable control. That is where the problem is. When you pay thousands a month in benefits and your employees get a month and a half off in paid time away, you’re always going to bleed money.
The rest is fluff. Days of delivery, class of mail, etc is secondary to paying massive benefits and inflated wages. Let employees pay for any medical benefits in excess of emergency medical coverage. Cut vacation time to JUST two weeks a year and let employees pay and manage their own retirement.
The last modifier is making a retail letter go up to a dollar, so the postal service can pay back all the federal loans and bailouts. In other words, bring it out of the hands of unions and make it a business again.
I heard the other day that their system is so dysfunctional that there are postal “workers” in their 90’s who are still getting disability payments!
A senator had proposed legislation to halt this.