[roadcat]

Before UNIONS infected the Post Office Department stamps were 3 cents and post cards a penny. Mail was delivered twice a day in the major cities and the Post Office was solvent.

And until very recently they were the main money-making department of the federal government, funding other departments. Think of what else the government provides as a true service that makes money? None I can think of.

[muawiyah]

The old Post Office Department had employee associations of a local nature back in the days when it was headquartered out of Chicago ~ that's the 1880s.

The Postal Service as USPS has been unionized since day one ~ and postage wasn't 1cent or 3cent for a very long time before that agency was established.

How old are you? Are you still sitting out there on the front steps of the Philly main office?