Mailboxes? Sure. But post offices, actually staffed and so on? I don't see it.
I still think that sending a letter cross-country, for less than 50 cents, is pretty cheap.
In many cases it the only thing that allows a little town to still officially exist. I worked for the USPS as an environmental consultant few years back. Talking with some of the small office postmasters it became apparent for some of these small towns the PO is all they had left. As one PM told me, “They closed the school, the trains don’t stop here anymore and the interstate passed us by. The PO is all we have that still makes us a town”. It was kind of sad, but didn’t engender a good business model for the postal service.
I am certainly not a big fan of the USPS and would wholeheartedly call for common sense reform and cost trimming, but???
Gadzooks! Tell me, who is going to put the mail into your box if there is not a staff at the post office to do so?
Surely you misspoke above? You cannot be both that stupid and a long time resident of FR. The two are incompatible.