[Alberta's Child]

I'm not sure I agree with what you've posted there. Requiring people to pick up their own mail would not necessarily result in long lines at all. For one thing, lines at the post office are filled with people who need to interact directly with a postal employee (to buy stamps, get a package weighed, etc.) -- and that has nothing to do with whether a person is getting mail delivered to their home or to a P.O. box.

Post office facilities would certainly become outdated if the USPS were to stop delivering to individual homes and businesses. They would need to expand their P.O. box areas and build larger parking lots, for one thing. But a lot of the problems associated with this kind of operation could be offset by simply leaving the P.O. box area of a post office building open for longer hours (maybe even 24/7) with no on-site staff available for customer service outside normal business hours.

[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

So your recommendation is that I either (a) wait on a long-ass line just to get my mail, or (b) spend 70 bucks a year on a P.O. box just to get my mail?

It’d cost me less in taxes just to fund the damn post office.