[driftdiver]

The post office does a decent job despite being run by the govt. I prefer them for shipping packages as they are fast and cheap.

In this case there is a major biological attack serious enough to require distribution of medicine to everyone. You use an organization with zero medical training or experience to go house to house acting as a disease vector?

And then theres the idea of dispensing medicine to every person without any idea of their medical history, condition, or ability to properly dispense.

I would assume at this point actually taking the medicine is going to be mandated.

[Concho]

Or, this enables them to collect more information on citizens than they can now.

Also, I ask myself, what can this have to do with this Health care fiasco?

[wintertime]

The post office definitely has the infrastructure in place to reach nearly every citizen. Whether or not it is the postman delivering the medicines or not I think is a minor point.

Also...The postal people would likely know who is handicapped or living alone. So...I see them as a great resource.

We are talking about a catastrophic plague situation. For example, in Philadelphia during the 1917-18 flu epidemic there was literally a point where the bodies could not be collected. It was that bad. If we were to have an epidemic this serious whether or not someone was fully trained and certified to administer medicines would be a trivial concern.