Now it is up to us to be mature adults and change what we can and accept the impending doom otherwise.
Why on earth should any government agency need to advertise their services? Do we really need a federal agency to deliver junk mail and birthday cards?
The “fix” is to close down the whole operation in and orderly and efficient manner.
USPS is already the world's least expensive postal operator.
Now, first, to correctly inform everyone, IBD, much like the US Senate imagines that USPS consists mostly of thousands of small post offices ~ which it doesn't.
Worse, the Senate imagines those little post offices are the most important part ~ which they aren't.
The deal is the folks who SEND MAIL pay all the costs. The recipients get their service for free.
Those little post offices serve mostly as delivery units ~ EXPENSIVE delivery units in fact ~ fully manned with a postmaster and a relief clerk, or maybe even up to 5 clerks. There are about 28,000 small post offices, stations and branch post offices that are NOT NEEDED.
3,000 small facilities devoted solely to rural route service can handle all the delivery service presently provided by those 28,000 useless buildings with their 80,000 (app) unneeded employees.
With the modern mail sorting/reading equipment we have available today none of the people served by those 28,000 useless facilities will even need to change their addresses!
They can can be converted over to rural route delivery effortlessly and without disruption to their rural lives.
Next, get rid of door delivery. Why should an elite core of impudent snobs get delivery to the door when they should get it at the curb like the vast majority of Americans.
And of course the senate couldn’t vote to end Saturday delivery which is the easiest and most cost saving fix.
How hard could it be to let the Post Office quit delivering on Saturdays? If the Congress had done this 6 years ago when the Post Office first asked for it, the problem with PO closures would have gone away....but NO, the Senate votes to STUDY the feasability of no Saturday delivery for another 2 years.
The biggest problem with the Postal Service is that it is so heavily regulated by the Congress!!
Sen Rand Paul(R KY) put a rider on the bill which allows private mail boxes to receive other than USPS mail and packages. When this gets to the House I hope that revision is kept in.