It’s not a business.
It’s a constitutional function of the Federal government. It’s purposes are to facilitate important and private communications and to knit the nation together.
Of all the stupid and nefarious unconstitutional functions and programs that are bankrupting us and destroying our communities, this one should be left alone.
“It’s a constitutional function of the Federal government. It’s purposes are to facilitate important and private communications and to knit the nation together.”
Agree. However, that doesn’t mean that there can’t be change made to their model. There are still plenty of folks living in remote or rural areas that heavily depend on the USPS. however, no one has to have their mail delivered every day. I would start streamlining by eliminating Saturday deliveries. Then, would look at going to a Mon/Wed/Fri schedule. Additionally, USPS should look at making email print machines available to the elderly and none-email users for whatever reason. Ive seen these advertised on tv and require zero intervention in the receiving end other than keeping paper loaded and ink cartridges replaced as needed. There’s lots of things that can be done to meet our constitutional obligation without staying with the current obsolete and bankrupt model. Just saying....
Here is the Constitutional part:
Article 1, section 8: Congress shall have power to:
...Establish Post Offices and post Roads;
That’s it. The rest is graft and corruption. Lawyers building a monopoly, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
Now we have a useless behemoth government agency that provides nothing that is necessary.