To be honest it doesn’t bother me at all that usps contracts with ups and fedex. they must see some benefit in doing so to get their express and priority mail packages to where they need to go.
If it would be about the same time and less cost I wouldn’t mind how they shipped them just as long as they got there.
My earlier point is they go out of their way to say they aren’t government, and say they’re self sustaining, yet have billions of dollars of debt they say if Congress doesn’t fix it for them...it kind of deflates their prior claims. If you run up a 5.5 billion debt and then beg Congress to save you from it, you’re not self sustaining.
Maybe your local newspaper guy said it was a private company, but it's never been a private company.
The fact the federal government is stealing money from USPS is the real issue here. They need to stop doing that ~ and give back what they stole.
Frankly, this has been going on long enough that it's probably worth doing a criminal investigation of OPM and start hauling some of the staff people out of there and putting them on trial.
A more deserving bunch never existed.
Did you know when Postal Headquarters burned a few decades back it burned out PERSONNEL and the LAW DEPARTMENT.
People cheered! You can imagine how they'd feel if OPM and DOJ were both busted down and their cadre of useless drone personnel specialists and lawyers were sent off to prison where they belong.
Woweee!!