“remote communities? How about shutting down some big union city post offices that already have too many?”
My experience is there is a huge discrepancy in the distribution of PO’s. In the Northeast one on every corner but in the south even in major cities there are few PO’s.
How about closing down the union shops and opening up more of these “contract” PO’s inside private businesses?
Look at the zip code maps (as usually there is one P.O. per zip code).
EVERY little podunk town in New England has one, but there are areas in places in the Midwest and South where 5 townships all share the post office of one little village in the middle.
My box is at a contract USPS outlet. They close an hour for lunch in the afternoon but they are actually open more total hours than the "regular" main PO. The only thing they can't do is passports.