While most businesses and individuals were adapting to electronic commerce the USPS kept sticking to the Pony Express method and continually raising their rates at the same time.
What did they think was going to happen?
“What did they think was going to happen? “
It doesn’t matter what the business picture is. It’s not a business it’s a method of dispensing benefits to workers. It can’t be done away with and the workers know it. But, I suspect at some point the postmaster general will be a ceremonial office and the post office will exist in name only. It will not be capable of delivering anything except advertising and franking letters from Congress. There will be darned few employees.