[Graybeard58]

USPS must make the tough decisions any corporation is required to make in tough economic times. Hope it arrives at a commercially successful point. I wish USPS well.

I wish them well too, I may be one of the few here that thinks that sending a letter across country for 45¢ is a bargain.

They really haven't had to make those "tough decisions" you speak of, in the past. They are a government agency after all.

[Menehune56]

I wish them well too, I may be one of the few here that thinks that sending a letter across country for 45¢ is a bargain.

I do too. I think USPS's core problem is that they can't make critical business decisions without government approval so everything becomes a patronage issue.

[Gene Eric]

>> They are a government agency after all.

True, but its different from the other agencies in that its revenue is not based on taxation, but through commercial sales.

[KarlInOhio]

I may be one of the few here that thinks that sending a letter across country for 45¢ is a bargain.

Since it became an independent agency and had to survive on postage rather than tax money back in the 1970s, the first class postage increases have just about matched inflation. So in real cost since it was 13¢ in 1973 has stayed the same and the more than tripling in nominal cost is entirely from the Federal Reserve and Treasury destroying the value of the dollar.

[Silentgypsy]

I tend to agree with you. My family members have lived in many different countries but the USPS has been much more reliable than the service in other countries.

[Terry Mross]

You can mail a letter for 45 cents because they operate in the red. I’d like to know what the actual cost is per letter.