that message will be lost.. Back in the 90’s, I attended a meeting with the PMG and he said that they would not make it 20 years given the economic realities of the union contracts and the legacy retirement obligations. He was right.
The “junk mail” is what actually keeps the post office viable because most bills are paid online and that return mail (usually 1st class) has gone away. Take that “junk” away, and you got three day a week delivery with most of that money going to pay some 60 year old retiree’s Viagra and the people on the “disability” gravy train.
I don’t understand the problem, if you don’t want it, throw it out.
No, it is not rural post offices or rural delivery. They are not union, although the proposals to combine routes would result in routes big enough to require union carriers. If you want to see the hole down which most of the postal money is going, please go to the post office at 14th and L St NW in Washington DC and try to do something really complicated, like buy some stamps. Rude, incompetent, lazy and did I mention aggresively rude? That any small, functioning post office would be closed to keep these clowns in velvet is a great illustration of what’s wrong.