[Opinionated Blowhard]

"Key USPS expenses continue to grow." The expenses include raises for unionized workers that will add almost $1.1 billion in costs this year.

Of course. You have a toxic brew of people migrating to electronic communication -- email and text -- for most day to day communication -- and a lumbering government bureaucracy whose goal is more so to protect its workers and let them live the good life rather than sustain its long term viability by changing and rationalizing costs. Amtrak is in the same boat.

[relictele]

The insane part is that UPS and FedEx have contracted with the USPS for ‘last mile’ delivery. ‘SmartPost?!?!?’ There’s nothing smart about it.

This is like going to dinner with Kathy Ireland then going to bed with Rhea Perlman.