Regarding the allegation that USPS benefits from tax abatement, they are a large enough business that were the Constitution to be rewritten so they could be taxed, you'd have governments all over America falling down prostrate begging USPS to please come to their jurisdiction to do business, and here Mr. Mailman, no taxes!
That's what Michigan does with auto companies, what Tennessee does, what Ohio does, what Alabama does, what..... etc.
Let me say this about one more item ~ USPS does not benefit from any state revenue bonds ~ unlike the private sector!
One of the big differences between me and the former postal guys at CATO is that they were all "planners" and not a one of them was ever a "doer". I did real work and designed processes that were implemented. They mostly rehashed old numbers for a living.
One of their guys had a volume prediction factor that he'd run and reported for 30 years ~ one day I noticed that it had been wrong 99% of the time.
My own volume prediction system had, in contrast, always been correct, and I could run it backwards to predict volumes into the distant past.
I submitted my system as a beneficial employee suggestion. It didn't get accepted but they quit running his system. He then lost his job.
So, yeah CATO Institute, I know where you're coming from and YOU'RE WRONG, ALWAYS WRONG!
“Simply don’t have time to go through and deconstruct, and trash, each and every CATO allegation . . .”
Of course not! You’re retired...you’re BUSY.