BTW, the postal service doesn’t get billions from taxpayers. They charge postage and fees for services to rate payers. Their job is to move the mail. Shopkeepers manufacture nothing.
The Post Office are asking for $6 billion in bailouts. I heard it on the radio yesterday.
There ARE other types of jobs besides manufacturing and sorting envelopes, you know. A software company doesn’t manufacture anything, but it creates IP and jobs and contributes to the economy. Your disparaging referral to anyone whom doesn’t sort envelopes as a “shopkeeper” is beyond bizarre.
Tell me, where are the USPS going to get this $6B, if not from the taxpayers? Personally, I would break up the USPS and auction off the pieces.