Do we even need the USPS?
My mail would go down by at least 90% if requests from charities, politicians, and junk mail were excluded. Bills are important but could be managed with a credit card or check paid at time of service. Heck, take away the USPS legal mail monopoly and I’m sure someone else would deliver a bill.
Do USPS retirees deserve a pension? Yes.
Should USPS continue as a jobs program? No. I don’t think any self-respecting government employee wants to work a job out of charity. Their attitude should be “give me a real job, or let me go.”
“ My mail would go down by at least 90% if requests from charities, politicians, and junk mail were excluded”
Today I checked my mailbox for the first time in 4 days in a centrally located mail center. There were exactly 3 items worth anything out of at least 30 items. All the rest were advertisements, requests for campaign contributions or requests for charitable donations. I would like to know how much it costs to deliver each of these items. If it costs more than what the sender pays to mail it, the price needs to be increased or that class of mail should be treated like the penny and ended.
Taxpayers should not be subsidizing any of this annoying JUNK mail.