First off, you don't want any competition. Then you want a government subsidy. Then you want us to go beat up on someone else you think might be getting better service than you ~ none of which you pay for.
The Post Office in this country is financed through USER FEES, the very essence of the sort of thing Ronaldus Magnus proposed. And it's time for you to get cracking emptying your pockets ~ I want my money, and make it snappy.
I have no problem with the Post Office except when people that work there say that their benefits and salary are not due to the government. They do perform a service, it is just a shame that they can’t do it at a profit.
I blame much of that on the unions. Without them, they just might make a viable enterprise (as it really should be). The unions demand way too much in both pay and restrictions to the working environment. That has to change in the future or the Post Office can and should go extinct.
As to the current environment, haven’t used the post office in years thanks to UPS and FedEX and the Internet. If it were my choice, I would eliminate them entirely and same many billions.