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U-N-I-O-N-S.

The Post Office should be bought up or somehow go into partnership — with no more taxpayer subsidies — with FedEx and UPS so that post offices can be used primarily as post box facilities for shipments.

Ship to a (former) post office box and your package stays nice, dry and secure until you are ready to pick it up. Many more locations and more convenient that FedEX pickup points.

Otherwise. Buh-bye.

They’d need to cut about 165 thousand positions assuming 50k per position. Interesting to see their former cut in the right ballpark.

The Post Office does not receive taxpayer subsidies and has not for some years. It used to be reimbursed for the cost of allowing Congress-people to frank their mail but that stopped along with the subsidies for allowing the blind to mail for free.
The problem with the USPS is Congress. First USPS asked to stop prepaying retirement funds when it was proved they had overpaid significantly. Congress let them stop paying $1.7B per year for that but made them set aside $3B to be used as Congress dictated. Then USPS asked that the 1971 Postal Reorganization. Act be rewritten to take technological changes into consideration. Congress responded by making them prepay the retirement health benefits for all their employees - in 10 years! The annual payment is $5.3B. This has been going on since 2007 with no help in sight. If Congress was trying to bankrupt USPS they could not have come up with a better plan.

Hmm. I once worked up an analysis of how many square miles of brand new parking lot would be needed if postal customers had to stop by once a week to get their mail.

it's a huge quantity. Plus, you'd need postal police patrols.

The savings aren't as great as you imagine.