The USPS is a government agency ~ it is not a private entity. Everybody knows that.
“The USPS is a government agency ~ it is not a private entity. Everybody knows that.”
I understand that the USPS isn’t private in the traditional sense, but the Congress did pass legislation a few years ago that mandated that they “ run out of the till.”
I guess we should have known that that was just Congressional BS, because they have allowed the USPS to continue to collect what it needs to make ends meet from the taxpayers. Before responding, I took a look at what’s being said about the USPS and there are a lot of people who are saying that it should be completely privatized like the postal services in many of the European countries. There was a time when the USPS was really the only game in town, but now there are competitors who are taking the parcel business away, and a lot of us are not using the USPS to the extent that we once did. We now pay nearly all our bills through our bank electronically. And the time is not far off when we will get most of our bills through our computers ( which is also a good thing). Bulk mail should be outlawed. It just creates unnecessary trash, but as long as it’s there, it should pay the full rate for the crap it sends. There are now days when the only thing in the mailbox is stuff that I walk directly to the recycle bin. It’s all such a waste of resources, and some of those resources come from the USPS.