[triumphant values]

Taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for your comforts.

Does your town have parks, sidewalks, paved streets, libraries,benches to sit on, garbage cans on the corners?

The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one. There's a million and one unconstitutional things to be cut to right our fiscal ship before we go after the Post Office.

[KantianBurke]

“The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one.”

There is no constitutional guarantee that every citizen has a post office conveniently located around the corner. In case you don’t believe that, have a look:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

If the gentleman is perturbed about the nearest post office closing then he has a number of options available to him - he can switch his mail to online delivery, he can suck it up and go for a 10 mile drive (the horror!) or he can move to a community which has much greater mail traffic. I will not tolerate my tax dollars be blown on maintaining folks’ lifestyles.

[cripplecreek]

The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one.

I wouldn't say they were intended to be subsidized. More user funded and I'd be happy to pay as much as a dollar to send a letter but the government has price fixed them.

It would be pretty expensive for me since I already spend $5 or $10 per day on postage anyway but my costs would be my costs alone. It should also be noted that both UPS and FedEx deliver about 50% of what I get to the post office and the post office gets a fee for handling those packages.