You've never mailed a letter or a package through USPS? They, meaning the legislature, should just scrap the postal Unions altogether. Union members never learn, no matter what Union it is. If you keep forcing companies, either public or private, to pay more and more for wages, pensions, vacations and sick pay every time a new contract comes open, sooner or later, you will have fewer and fewer Union members as the companies figure out how to cut their work forces and get around the Unions. Public Unions have cost the tax payers of this country millions upon millions of dollars for bloated pension schemes, gold plated medical and virtual immunity from a job, no matter how badly the job is done.
The USPS is so convenient and inexpensive that I’ve switched almost entirely to email, online billing, and the occasional fax.