This is a good decision. It would be a bad move to close rural post offices. We shouldn’t be making it harder for Americans to live in small towns and out in the country.
And of course, the Post Office is unprofitable. It’s not supposed to make money. It’s exactly like the Federal Highway System, which doesn’t make money either, and yet you don’t hear people proposing we shut down I-40.
And if you insist on profit, think about how the Post Office has paid off in ways you don’t think about. It’s one of the ways we grew to be the greatest economy the world has ever seen.
The Post Office is one of the few things that government should do.
Could it be run more efficiently? Sure. But that’s separate issue.
They need to close a lot of post offices in PA. We have more of them than Subways. They seem to have been geographically placed based on the horse and buggy era. Anyone with a car can easily drive to the main post office within a few minutes, but they’ll pass several “satellite” ones along the way that I really doubt need to be there.
I kind of like the Post Office. It doesn't seem like an extravagant spender to me. As I understand it the Post Office is not subsidized by taxpayers. And the price of a stamp has exactly followed inflation for many decades.
I would close the PO building, and make an arrangement to have part-time hours at the customer-service desk at the local supermarket. An intelligent post office would just hire one or two people who are already retired to work part time without benefits in the afternoons to accept packages and registered mail, and hold them in a secured area for the PO truck to pick up.