Damn. They're half right. The USPS isn't losing the money that you hear in the headlines. They're being robbed of much of that. USPS is a successful, and reasonably efficient example of a government run agency, only, they're only a quasi government run agency. For example, I can't think of any other government run agency that has invested heavily in automation, rightly or wrongly, and has actually shrunk the work force. Rightly or wrongly. This last round of closures has hurt the business, but the USPS will plod along and pretend that everything is skittles. This pretend parlor game of having the USPS run as an independent, free business, while being under the control of Congress, has indeed reaped some efficiency.
Unfortunately, they then stumble into the idiocy of "taxes too low and unfair competition with the private sector" as reasons for the money loss. It's utter ignorance of what they speak, and the necessity to regurgitate headlines, professorial puke, and what they read on twitter that leads to such un-insightful comments.
I work for the USPS. I have done so for over twenty years. When I first signed on, management was fond of saying that the USPS was the second largest employer on the face of planet earth, being beaten out by only the People's Liberation Army of Red China. It was horribly inefficient, and rife with waste, abuse, and outright fraud.
They no longer make this claim, but the waste, abuse, and outright fraud is still ongoing, largely because, like anything in government at any level you care to name, (local, state, or federal), there is absolutely zip-point squat, to the doodly power, by way of accountability. Government entities are very good at ducking accountability, it is what they spend most of their time actually doing, while the supposed 'public mission', what they were purportedly created for in the first place, rates a poor second, or even third. Since that is 'the true nature of the beast' things will not change...
the infowarrior