[dinodino]

Of course I realize that—you are making my point for me: they are an ANACHRONISM. Unfortunately, it seems the Post Office is becoming one as well.

How did the “private sector...let down USPS?” We do not exist as a life support system for the union leeches at the Post Office!

It’s time for a change, all right: time for the USPS to go away, or perhaps just shrink down to a small, niche delivery service.

[muawiyah]

It's still true that management gets the union it deserves. The unions at USPS are pretty tame, and, to a degree USPS management is fairly tame ~ actually timid.

Things I proposed (through PMG William F. Bolger) three decades ago are just now being adopted. You have to have disasters around there to get worthwhile decisions made.

They will save maybe 20% of the budget.

They could have been doing that all along ~