Time to consider the practices of John H. Reagan, the Confederate Postmaster General. Reagan promoted efficiency in the office and reduced costs. He ran the only post office in history to turn a profit.
Alas for your theory, postmasters in the Confederate States didn't often get paid. After the conclusion of the war the Union kept them all on board and paid them everything they'd missed during the war.
Of course he could run things at a profit!~
40 posted on 05/10/2009 8:08:56 AM PDT by muawiyah