[ASA Vet]

That private company will not charge a flat $.37 for a 1 oz 1st Class letter.
They'll zone it and charge more for rural out of the way places.
USPS operates on the average cost within the entire delivery area.
From Guam to Puerto Rico for 37 cents.

The only monopoly is on 1st Class mail.
1st Class mail volume is dropping due to the internet.
All other mail is already open to any private company who thinks they can turn a profit.

At least (so far) no ones used the phony "tax money" argument.

[Kay Ludlow]

You're right about 1st class being the only protected monopoly for the Postal Service.

No private carrier is willing to deliver to every address in the country. When you get to the really remote (costly to get to) locations, the UPS and others take their packages to a post office near their air terminal and MAIL THEM!

USPS currently only receives subsidies (tax dollars) for non-profit mail, congressional mail and for the retirement costs of people who retired before Re-org (1972). Congress is in arrears in providing the subsidies for non-profit, yet they require the Postal Service to provide low rates to non-profit organizations (like the Nature Conservancy).

Since Postal service is one of the few things the founders thought the government ought to provide (to ensure it was available to all as a low-cost means of communicating), I'm inclined to think we ought to get rid of all the other agencies that are NOT constitutionally mandated, like the NEA, EPA, Dept of Education, etc.