[C210N]

Heck, it’s one of the few things the national gov does that is actually contemplated by the Founders.

The founders were fine with creating the USPS and roads to get to them, not necessarily operating them.

A1S8: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

Websters on "establish":to found, institute, build, or bring into being

[Dr. Sivana]

The founders were fine with creating the USPS and roads to get to them, not necessarily operating them.

Agreed. But since they were government operated from before the Constitution's passage, that hardly makes them extra-Constitutional.

Whatever form the U.S. Postal Service takes, private carriers can still be subcontracted as they are today. Pass a law contemplating shrinkage, so that new hires don't get defined benefit retirement pensions, and that would help the long term health of a smaller, though admittedly not leaner, USPS.