Yes and the post office and the military are the only required departments mandated by the constitution. Probably need a constitutional amendment to change it.
I hope they don’t mess up the Post Office.
I know a lot of people have complaints about it, but in my area it’s the most reliable of all the different shipping outfits.
Exactly.
Mandated in the Constitution.
The Post Office could be fixed using standard business practices.
Figure out which elements of the business make money and which are money losers.
Slash over-head.
Reduce service levels as needed.
Use mechanization and AI to streamline operations.
The Constitution requires its existence in some form—but it does not require a billion dollar a year loss.
Yes and the post office and the military are the only required departments mandated by the constitution. Probably need a constitutional amendment to change it.
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That is my understanding as well
One change the post could make that would save money - drop Saturday deliveries. Go five days a week.
We can probably privatize it.
But they may still need a subsidy from the federal government.
If you live in a cabin somewhere in Alaska, the Post Office will still deliver to you.
Where exactly?
The “power to establish post offices and post roads” says nothing about a federal postal service. Nor do the clauses about raising and maintaining armies and navies refer to standing forms of same.
Yup. That was the first thing I thought of.
“post office and the military are the only required departments mandated by the constitution”
“The Congress shall have power to....establish post-offices and post-roads”
Congress can “establish post-offices and post-roads”, but it didn’t have to, nor does it have to maintain them.
From what I have read one reason USPS is in the current financial situation is the mandate their financial liabilities be fully funded.
“required departments mandated by the constitution”
That would seem to make this a non starter. I’ll bet with a little creative thinking they can privatize much of the operation. The rats successfully used covid to ram mail voting through and of course the fraud that came with it. Something needs to be done to mitigate it.